Fun blast from the past, my dad worked for Bell Labs in the late 50s, he was a semiconductor physicist who eventually started his own high tech company in 1977, Datacube in Peabody Massachusetts
I loved the bit about all the phone receivers being slammed down with great force thousands of times 😂 Those things were truly built to withstand just about anything!
"And then there was that nice lady in long distance that was so clever in locating Mr. Smith in Springfield, helping confirm her suspicions of his hussy secretary Janet."
Well, just think of it this way… … Actually I don’t have any way to really make it seem like a good deal to have a landline in 2024. Maybe if there’s some dire emergency and you aren’t able to charge a cellphone for several days?
I've got a comment for you. I sit down to enjoy watching these old films and end up getting angry. I get angry because all I hear about at my Government job during meetings and reading our employee publications as well as our Union newsletter is, how oppressed women were in the past. Then I watch movies like these made in the 1940's and early 1950's, and I see more women working in technical, scientific, and engineering type jobs and wonder how all this "women are oppressed" crap got started? There are more women working in highly skilled jobs than there are men!
That wouldn't make any sense. In most of those scenes there were no men. The entire work force was female. Of course they would make less than their male supervisors as it should be.
This is one of the old films that leave people thinking that Bell is the only telephone business organization. That's not the case. There are plenty of non-Bell telephone companies in service, but they are not mentioned, known as independents. Of course, their lines are interconnected.
Wow, so awesome, we sure did amazing things, it is so bad that us as a nation have let our appointed members we vote for, especially now have let us down from years before until extremely overboard now, wake up all, let's being us back to American pride! !
Fun blast from the past, my dad worked for Bell Labs in the late 50s, he was a semiconductor physicist who eventually started his own high tech company in 1977, Datacube in Peabody Massachusetts
I loved the bit about all the phone receivers being slammed down with great force thousands of times 😂 Those things were truly built to withstand just about anything!
I love watching these old movie reels with the young ones and they have some great questions sometimes. Thank you !
What a detailed, informative film. Thank you.
Another fine film about the ancient technology of the telephone. ☎️
Good one, thank you.
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When we manufactured our own things.
"And then there was that nice lady in long distance that was so clever in locating Mr. Smith in Springfield, helping confirm her suspicions of his hussy secretary Janet."
I was thinking the same thing!🤣
We’ve lost the ability to manufacture many of the items in this film. 1950s America was an incredible place, scientifically and technologically
Oh, to return to those Halcyon days of the Bell System and the USA.🇺🇲
🎶We've come a long ways, baby.🎶
The "all American" portrait of a telephone handset, with metric measurements!
Mrs. Smith wants her telephone. Yet Mr. Me is forced by AT&T to have a phone I don't want because it comes with my cable and WiFi
Well, just think of it this way…
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Actually I don’t have any way to really make it seem like a good deal to have a landline in 2024. Maybe if there’s some dire emergency and you aren’t able to charge a cellphone for several days?
Yeah, in few years, when they're ready to replace Mrs. Smith's 302 w/ a 500 set. She'll be able to get a colored one, to match her decor!
Judging by this film, Mrs Smith had to wait at least 10 years for a colored set. The Bell System introduced colored sets around 1954.
15:59 my goodness is that fellow handsome or what? He could be a movie star
I've got a comment for you.
I sit down to enjoy watching these old films and end up getting angry. I get angry because all I hear about at my Government job during meetings and reading our employee publications as well as our Union newsletter is, how oppressed women were in the past.
Then I watch movies like these made in the 1940's and early 1950's, and I see more women working in technical, scientific, and engineering type jobs and wonder how all this "women are oppressed" crap got started?
There are more women working in highly skilled jobs than there are men!
Probably the "oppressed" part is that the women were making less money than their male counterparts. IMHO
That wouldn't make any sense. In most of those scenes there were no men. The entire work force was female. Of course they would make less than their male supervisors as it should be.
Fake news abc NBC msnbc liberal news media!
These dats..
Years ago, they'd rather he close townhome. And be a Mrs.
Too many men, arent around tools these days, unless in rural areas
What stadium appears in the first minute?
This is one of the old films that leave people thinking that Bell is the only telephone business organization. That's not the case. There are plenty of non-Bell telephone companies in service, but they are not mentioned, known as independents. Of course, their lines are interconnected.
because they're ALL on "The Bell System" guy, and these videos have mentioned the independent companies plenty
About 15 seconds in and they already interrupted it with an ad!
Phones had 2 digit central LETTERS with 5 digit numbers
It took me about 1½ mins before a commercial came smh😂😂😂
@@kathleenking47wtf are you talking about
I wonder how much it was to rent that phone along with that long distance?
3:25 oooohhhh!!!! F -bomb, Mrs Smith!!!
Wow, so awesome, we sure did amazing things, it is so bad that us as a nation have let our appointed members we vote for, especially now have let us down from years before until extremely overboard now, wake up all, let's being us back to American pride! !
You gotta crank up the volume. Can't hear for choot.
My car warranty has expired?
And today, do you think you get instruction like this? Hell no. You are lucky to get one page, in chinese (never english)...