An industrial film by Jerry Fairbanks about proper use of a telephone system in your office. To license footage from this film for commercial use visit: www.travelfilmarchive.com.
Truly enjoyed watching. Sure is so different today. So much of polite manners are gone. Respect and courtesy has gone. I am having my teenage kids watch this. Again thank you.
This is one of my favorite AT&T films. The correct title is A MANNER OF SPEAKING and in fact, as with most of the Jerry Fairbanks films made for AT&T, this one was in Technicolor. Years late a revised version was made using multi cultural actors.
What a wonderful and entertaining, company training film. Thank you for finding it and uploading it to RUclips. Sadly, ALL RUclips Employees need Courtesy Videos ASAP!
That's an all-star cast!! I very well remember having to dial the phone slowly so the number would ring through correctly---and I'm so glad those days are in the long ago past!
This film is from 1959, not 1957. (The office calendars show Friday, April 24, 1959) One of the cars shown at the start is a 1958 Chevrolet. The film was released in 1960.
That classic suspense music@ 10:11; leading to the overly dramatic climax. Lol. All of this conflict could have easily being resolved if Mr. Burton had personally made the call to mr. Jackson oppose to calling the telephone company after the initial issue was brought to his attention. Which would have saved time,money & it would have displayed to the client that you truly value their business . Just my 2 cents
@3:05__(the version that was replaced) - Mr Burton: *Miss Manning!! My car broke down!!* Miss Manning: *YEAHHH??? WELL, SOUNDS **_PERSONAL_** TO ME!!! (SLAMMM!!!)* 😂
Their future is to be one within the phone. In which conversation is no longer needed. Everybody can already predict what you are going to say so why bother talking? You won’t even have to think where to live, who to work for, what to buy, what to eat, who your friends are, who to marry and who to have sex with. It’s all in your phone for tomorrow so you don’t have to think anymore, just live is all that’s required.
I beg to differ. I posit that expected (note I did not say courteous, nor correct) etiquette has changed, as everything must. It seems to be rendered obsolete, and largely dismissed.
I watched a lot of vintage instructional vids during covid lockdown. Revisiting in 2024 because it's oddly comforting.
Why did I find myself wishing this had become a television series?
Out of boredom? 😅
I have worked in offices for over 30 years and ran busy modern day switchboards and that lady from the telephone company is absolutely correct.
This is worth every 26 minutes. Classic. By the way, the guy , Mr. Burton is character actor Fred Clark. (Sunset Blvd, How to marry a Millionaire)
Yo7 recognized him, too.
Funny guy, that Fred Clark. He was also in the movie White Heat & the TV sitcom The Double Life Of Henry Phyfe.
Isn’t it so wonderful that the technology we now have prevents messes like this?
Truly enjoyed watching. Sure is so different today. So much of polite manners are gone. Respect and courtesy has gone. I am having my teenage kids watch this. Again thank you.
@6:20__Another version of "Mrs. Wiggins" from the Carol Burnett show.
Why did it end abruptly? I wanted to see the credits and actor's names at the end of this entertaining clip from 1957.
The actor playing Mr. Blackburn also played Hector B. Poole's boss, Mr. Bagby, in the Twilight Zone episode "A Penny for Your Thoughts."
He also played a swindler on an episode of The Andy Griffith Show
He was Dan Tobin.
This is one of my favorite AT&T films. The correct title is A MANNER OF SPEAKING and in fact, as with most of the Jerry Fairbanks films made for AT&T, this one was in Technicolor. Years late a revised version was made using multi cultural actors.
This is a regular parade of 50s character actors.
What a wonderful and entertaining, company training film.
Thank you for finding it and uploading it to RUclips.
Sadly, ALL RUclips Employees need Courtesy Videos ASAP!
That's an all-star cast!!
I very well remember having to dial the phone slowly so the number would ring through correctly---and I'm so glad those days are in the long ago past!
This film is from 1959, not 1957. (The office calendars show Friday, April 24, 1959) One of the cars shown at the start is a 1958 Chevrolet. The film was released in 1960.
@ D Hall: Very observing.., I like that.
I think the black car (closer to the camara filming) at the start is actually a Ford Fairlane 1957..
Too bad they don’t train people like this today!
"Joe Peters in the art department" is the eternal Richard Erdman (1925-2019)
He was in an episode of The Twilight Zone, A Kind Of Stopwatch.
Oh, those beautiful Jaguar sedans...when it rains they stop working...Lucas electronics! So why doesn't the UK make cars anymore?
The wall calendar at 24:25 show Friday, April 24 which would be 1959.
The big calendar in the Art Department shows the same date.
The Hooterville Telephone Company .... " ervice Is Our Mott "
Most of these guys guested on Perry Mason (among others), but major PM nexus
That classic suspense music@ 10:11; leading to the overly dramatic climax. Lol. All of this conflict could have easily being resolved if Mr. Burton had personally made the call to mr. Jackson oppose to calling the telephone company after the initial issue was brought to his attention. Which would have saved time,money & it would have displayed to the client that you truly value their business . Just my 2 cents
@3:05__(the version that was replaced) - Mr Burton: *Miss Manning!! My car broke down!!*
Miss Manning: *YEAHHH??? WELL, SOUNDS **_PERSONAL_** TO ME!!! (SLAMMM!!!)* 😂
It's Eleanor Audley! (Laddy Tremaine)
Well, If the Fred Clark character had been driving a Buick instead of a pretentious Jaguar this could all have been avoided.
Hey Freddy Clark. I was a telemarketer. I really like this video.
If only they had put Eleanor Audley in charge, none of this would have happened!
Oliver Wendell Douglas
It’s not raining 40 ft away😸
Btw…Clark was ww2 bomber squad
Isn't that Eleanor Audley as Mr. Jackson's secretary?
Yes that is her indeed, the original film, however is in Technicolor
These ads are getting out of control!
How many B actors can you count
Things like this are no better in 2024. It's kinda funny for us who have seen B/W tv n color tv growing up. Gotta laugh at something.
I'd sooner punch that truck driver's lights out before I let him ding the bumpers on that very expensive Jaguar.
The kids these days could take a lesson on this
Their future is to be one within the phone. In which conversation is no longer needed. Everybody can already predict what you are going to say so why bother talking? You won’t even have to think where to live, who to work for, what to buy, what to eat, who your friends are, who to marry and who to have sex with. It’s all in your phone for tomorrow so you don’t have to think anymore, just live is all that’s required.
it`s hard to be nice when people are stealing from you
Fred Clark made a little poker money with this side job. Musta got fired by paramount. Savvy? 😺
What concerns me is that Mr Jackson’s desk telephone is bigger than his receptionist’s telephone
@Max Ravnaas: The receptionist actually sits in front of a PBX switchboard, typical of small offices and hotels of that era.
Wow? Good bye! Now of days it's f@#k off! My how times have changed? Since 1957.
Episode of lastdays
Courteous common sense telephone usage. Something that is foreign to cell phone users.
I beg to differ.
I posit that expected (note I did not say courteous, nor correct) etiquette has changed, as everything must. It seems to be rendered obsolete, and largely dismissed.
Nothing but commercial after commercial after commercial after commercial. Thumbs down, resoundingly!
I HATE COMMERCIALS.