Bell Telephone - A Manner Of Speaking (1959)
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- It's Deja Vu all over again! In Living Technicolor! Yes, this gorgeous true IB Tech 16mm print from my personal collection is the original version of the later Bell Telephone film that I put up last year that had a full 1970's Television cast - and using virtually the same script! One technical note about the transfer, because this print is made up with the original 3-color Technicolor dye sublimation process it is a softer than a Kodachrome print, and the color balance and brightness do wonder all over the place. I did my best to counter these issues in post processing, but in truth these 16mm prints were made very fast, and without the kinds of attention that a 35mm theatrical print would have gotten being made with the same tedious process. Still, it is a gorgeous sight of candylike color to behold. As always I transferred this print with my own Telecine. Enjoy!
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Man, I got so invested in this I forgot I was watching an ad/instructional video and thought it was a movie. :B
Better characterization and pace in a public information film than the majority of 'modern' productions.
Reminds me of TV shows from that time...
I remember being taught "telephone manners" back in high school. A great bit of history. I recognize several of those "character actors" of the day.
that manners bit is absolutely priceless. all of 20 seconds or so to teach , makes this movie oddly poignant in retrospect
In my elementary school days, we had telephone courtesy with hands-on training from a Bell Telephone representative. It was so much fun. Then, on a field day, the class trekked over to the Central Office for a guided tour.
Things are more automated today, but the same principles still apply. However, I see the decline of courtesy and common sense when using a phone today.
The decor, clocks, furniture, all are marvelous reminders of those times....Also...the "yelling years".
"Yelling years"😅 My parents sure yelled at each other (and us) lot back then - but I thought it was just a dysfunctional family and not a period of history.
Great film. It should be restored and preserved and shown on television more often than it is now, which is never. And as Charles Gage had mentioned, there are many character actors from sitcoms and comedy films. Thanks Fran.
The colors are wonderful. This needs to be in somekind of media museum of great productions.
This was good. Directly relevant even now.
Love it how it's pouring rain in direct sunlight.
What a snapshot of late 50s technological and social times. That was an absolute blast!
the calendar says it's 4/20 - I'd say that's about right
Talk about an all star cast! (Of the day). Of course with "Mah Bell" footing the bill it should be. Fabulous resoration Fran!
Ma Bell could well afford to be footing the bill in those times, charging for mileage on the copper times the number of lines and probably all that rented equipment too.
Fran, I love that you share your film archive with us. Thanks!
Love that Technicolor! And how they turned Mr Jackson’s face angry-orange 😂
That’s Mr. Babbit - er, Babcock of the Knickerbocker Bank! Lol
15:26 wow, an analog powerpoint - and even without ridiculous cliparts and annoying transitions 🥰
This is the best TV show I've seen in ages
I find myself irrationally upset that this guy just keeps leaving his window down during a rain storm.
Funny, I thought my distress over it was completely rational. 🤣 More in the sense of distressing to think of or watch than actual distress, of course.
@@VeganAtheistWeirdo I figure it wasn't actually raining. Just rainmaker in-between the actors and the camera. With somebody above with a water hose to spray down onto the actor.
Imagine a telephone company to care enough to send a representative to help you out ahh the good old days
Beautiful colors & so many recognizable faces. 🙂
Miss Rodgers, the telephone company representative, had a very famous TV son with impeccable manners. 😂
FANTASTIC! That’s how excited I am! What a find.
Well, now. This was wonderful. Possibly my favorite so far. Thank you so much for sharing it!.
Thanks!
"May I tell him who is calling?" is something I forgot. I think mostly because by the time I was able to use the phone in the late 70s and it was only at home not in a business. It is also interesting to see how Ma-Bell was pushing for direct dial at that time. It was common for business people from the 20-40s to use the secretary to dial a call since a call setup would have taken minuets in the 'named exchange' and Plug board era. The 1A1 KSU was around but probably not suitable for this educational film as it's about courtesy and not technology.
Impressive. The effort on scripting, acting, filming, music. Getting the message through. Advertising done well!
Technicolor is an even bigger company today. They own the very large VFX studios that do many of the Commercial and film VFX we all enjoy today. They are world wide now.
They're just using the name - the original company no longer exists in any form.
Thanks Fran!
This obviously is an older version of that early 70s one with Pat Harrington.
Great film!
It's weird how I thought this seemed familiar, having watched the one from a year ago. It is amazing how older Technicolor looks sooo good compared to the single pass color system of the newer films that will forever be lost to magenta :P
The "Color by Fade" type print stocks were really only used up through the 70's, and by the early 80's the more color fast films were developed... but nothing compares to mid-century era IB Tech and Kodachrome prints.
I'm amazed how many people don't know how to exchange alphanumeric strings and will just blurt out the whole thing in one go or the receiver will just silently take it in with no confirmation.
WOW, THANK YOU.
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nice x-fer Frannie, gotta admit, if there was a channel with old corporate training films, I'd probably watch it- was that the same Dick Wessel that was in the Stooges "Fright Night"?
Lmao it’s Mr Babcock of the Knickerbocker Bank, he just left Mame Dennis’ house which is why he’s so pissy 🤣🤣🤣
best thumbnail of the year so far
holy cow .. profiling, social engineering, some sort of hand-tapped silver boxing, trunk access, 'callback functions', this movie has it all. not to mention a wry take on social 'norms' and expectations that literally wouldn't be allowed, even in a movie, today. imagine, 64 years ago and people had a sense of humor about our short sightedness. also the big conclusion is (spoiler) they successfully make a phone call and go to lunch. not that it isn't full of small tropes that probably should be re-examined, and could validly be seen as a bit assumptive or restrictive. surprisingly good color too
What we have today would have seem like magic to these guys.
What we have today would seem stupid to those guys.
@@FranLab - I meant technology-wise, there were HUGE improvements. Manners-wise, we have completely lost it. It's a shame.
They probably would have seen the increase in civil rights for us colored folks as not so good, I’m sure 😂
A Jaguar craps out in the rain, who would have thought?
Lucas, the prince of darkness.
There was a 1940s black and white version of this, then updated several times by Jerry Fairbanks productions, but this one with Fred Clark is the best. How would have life been if we had cell phones back in 1959?
I was waiting for Shirley Booth to pop up.
When did the finger stop on the phone start having the spring action?
I think it was the Westen Electric Trimline series introduced in 1965.
that was only used on the smaller diameter dials, such as the Trimline series(1965).
The standard diameter dials never used the spring mounting-the dial(finger) stop was solidly screwed to the dial housing.
Well acted and produced.
"Color by FRAN" 😊
Fess up Fran! When Jackson looses his temper at 13:03 you used a little artistic license with the color correction!
I did not. As I say in the description the dye sublimation process (which is essentially a kind of offset printing) tends to throw the color balance all over the place and you get that watery modeling of the layers.
@@FranLab Well the shift of color balance his face to way too red at in that scene is a comical coincidence then...
@@franklittle8124 I thought the same thing!
I feel fairly certain the effect was present in the original, deliberately
Ahh, Fred Clark you saw him a lot in old sixties television shows.
Barbara Eiler is AWFULLY good in this film - her best ever! :)
Somehow that was entertaining.
Do you have or have a link to the film with those 2 roommates who are office telephone operators for 2 different companies and show how there days went with one being loosing a sale and the other winning a sale. The video also shows a rotary switchboard and the other company shows a touch tone switchboard. I had a link to the video but it was taken down (these need to be stored on the Internet archive).
Thanks
The late, great character actor Howard Smith from the TV sitcom ’Hazel’ and as the blustering boss in ‘The Twilight Zone,’ series 1, episode 30 ‘A Stop at Willoughby’ - “…THIS IS A PUSH, PUSH, PUSH BUSINESS!”
A remake of the previous one? Seems like mostly the same cast and pointers, but a different film
Fella at 21:07 I've seen in many things, but The Twilight Zone episode After Hours always comes to mind
The next chapter should've been "How NOT to Use Your Outdoor Voice When Placing a Call Indoors" :)
The phones in this film are Western Electric 564 key phones on an old plug board PBX.
2:58 - The car-owner is a spitting image of CNBC's Jim Cramer ( "Mad Money")
Apparently, the concept of rolling your window back up when leaving your vehicle in pouring rain, had not been invented yet. 🤔
Push push push Wilson!
Note the desk lamp at 7:25.
Good thing there were lots of women with nothing better to do than answer phones.
2:49 how many of you thought for an instance he was taking a phone out of his pocket before realizing it must have been a coin?
I’m surprised that MST3K never riffed on this one!
All analog, no cordless or cellular and none of that caller ID rubbish, those were the times...
12:36 20:21 Big Clive non-awkward moments :)
Watch your eyes, the light is coming back.
I guess steering wheels didn't work back then.
ahh back in the day when you could push another car and not hurt your car at all
A true classic, shows the times back then with an all-white cast, older WASP looking men in position of power, women as secretaries (except for the phone company rep). Don't make them like that anymore and for good reason!
nice intro Fran - won't you play us more g'tar??? please....please...
2023: Guy approaches man in truck. Man in truck shoots guy in the face. Isn't charged under "Stand Your Ground Law".
Telephone courtesy........ HEY BUDDY GO CRAM ROCKS !!!!!!!!