We Learn About The Telephone by Jerry Fairbanks, Inc American Telephone And Telegraph Co Tells the history of communications, from smoke signals to telephones
Hands free will be next. Voice commanding our TV, Alexa, wristwatches, and new voice activated devices, etc to make calls for us. Just an improvement on what we can already do. Alexa/Google technology is going to spread everywhere. That's what's next. We're going to get even lazier. Amazing that that's even possible.
I grew up in a small farming community. We actually had an operator, like Mayberry, lol. As teenagers, we swore she was listening to us. I have a smartphone, but also still have a landline, with my ugly old green rotary phone. You just can't kill those damn things.
This answered my question about what people did if they had a question before they had the internet... Apparently they made up whatever the answer they thought was right
Awesome video! Antiques are my #1 hobby. I still have a landline and a rotary-dial is hooked up to it. I also have a typewriter, record player (I'm quite proud of my record collection) & a huge TV from the 70's that's built into a wooden console, sits flat on the ground, and comes up to my waist. I have an original Nintendo hooked up to it, as well as my Roku--best of both worlds😀
LOL. I never knew half of this. We learn something new every day. I think my Mum worked for an exchange when she first started working but I think it was just a business one. It would be interesting to try but I'm glad it's simpler now, though Rotary phones are cool. Funny thing is I live in Australia and where in the US the ring is one single ring ours are split in half each time. I used to read books of people answering the phone on the fourth ring and got so confused because for us it sounds like 8 rings (each one half as long as the US ones). It took ages for me to work it out. I've always wondered why they are different.
I hooked a rotary phone up just to see if they would still work, yes it still works. Idk if it’s because we have wiring that was installed in the 70’s? Hmm I just wondered.
Cathy Ortiz mine works fine, I was just curious. It’s at my moms house she built in 1975. I live in now. It has the old phone jacks in the master bedroom
Grew up in a house that had a rotary dial phone in the 70's. An installer from the phone company replaced it with a touch-tone model in the early 80's.
rocknroller 77 ....me too 😊! Didn’t the phones initially have the capability to be rotary or touch tone when they first rolled out the touch tone? I seem to recall that we could switch between the two, by a switch on the phone?
1965- "What did people do before telephone was invented?"
2019- " What did people do before the internet?"
2001- "What did people do before the smartphone was invented? "
Hunt and get drunk
Wrote letters. Lol
"It's for you!"
Haven't heard that in awhile. LOL
I love it! I've lived through the rotary dial, the touch tone dial, the cell phone dial, the internet dial... who knows what's next!
Hands free will be next. Voice commanding our TV, Alexa, wristwatches, and new voice activated devices, etc to make calls for us. Just an improvement on what we can already do. Alexa/Google technology is going to spread everywhere. That's what's next. We're going to get even lazier. Amazing that that's even possible.
@@s.c.7362 Wall-E. Or Idiocracy, whichever comes first.
I grew up in a small farming community. We actually had an operator, like Mayberry, lol. As teenagers, we swore she was listening to us. I have a smartphone, but also still have a landline, with my ugly old green rotary phone. You just can't kill those damn things.
I remember watching this when it first came out!!! when I was little!!! 😁 Old memories!!
Thanks for uploading!!
I remember in grade school watching a film about phone etiquette.
*it's funny to watch this video on smartphone :D*
Ya. Tell me about it.
Wow!!!😱
I just watched this on my smart phone and didn't even think 🤔 about that.
I actually watched this video on a phone. You blew my mind.
This answered my question about what people did if they had a question before they had the internet...
Apparently they made up whatever the answer they thought was right
A lot of people do the same thing today; one is about to be impeached.
Ankle Donna Do you “really” think so?
Awesome video! Antiques are my #1 hobby. I still have a landline and a rotary-dial is hooked up to it. I also have a typewriter, record player (I'm quite proud of my record collection) & a huge TV from the 70's that's built into a wooden console, sits flat on the ground, and comes up to my waist. I have an original Nintendo hooked up to it, as well as my Roku--best of both worlds😀
The voices in the cartoons were done my Mel Blanc (Bugs Bunny, et al).
Americans are the best teachers in the world! So lovely and instructive this was.
LOL remember those long distance rates 😓
People complain, but I can remember how much phone service cost in the 70’s, and our bills today are less or the same.
An interesting short film about Telephone communications.
4:34 I love the jump cut
Guys your not gonna believe this but in the future you'll have one of these in your pocket and its wireless
Duckie is the best character
FYI...1965. Ma bell doing away with 8 party lines in rural areas. Still using some 4 party lines tho. Those phs still work fine as landlines today.
LOL. I never knew half of this. We learn something new every day. I think my Mum worked for an exchange when she first started working but I think it was just a business one. It would be interesting to try but I'm glad it's simpler now, though Rotary phones are cool.
Funny thing is I live in Australia and where in the US the ring is one single ring ours are split in half each time. I used to read books of people answering the phone on the fourth ring and got so confused because for us it sounds like 8 rings (each one half as long as the US ones). It took ages for me to work it out. I've always wondered why they are different.
Loved it🌺
I recognize Pamela Ferdin She looks like such a baby here.
It's Richard Webb, TV's Captain Midnight, as the police sargeant in this film about the telephone. There is a black operator in this film.
1:12 What did people do before text messages were invented? How’d they get messages to each other in a hurry?”
So cute. So old
I hooked a rotary phone up just to see if they would still work, yes it still works. Idk if it’s because we have wiring that was installed in the 70’s? Hmm
I just wondered.
Dixie Rose 56 have you tried talking through it?
Cathy Ortiz that would be interesting if they could...
Cathy Ortiz mine works fine, I was just curious. It’s at my moms house she built in 1975. I live in now. It has the old phone jacks in the master bedroom
The ringmaster sounds like Bugs Bunny (Mel Blanc).
I wonder how many people watching this video have actually ever used a rotary telephone?
My family had a rotary phone until 1979.
Grew up in a house that had a rotary dial phone in the 70's. An installer from the phone company replaced it with a touch-tone model in the early 80's.
Me 🙋🏼♀️
Didnt get a touch tone phone until the early 90s. Love rotary phones
rocknroller 77 ....me too 😊! Didn’t the phones initially have the capability to be rotary or touch tone when they first rolled out the touch tone? I seem to recall that we could switch between the two, by a switch on the phone?
Do I hear Mel Blanc?
I think so, too.
And Stan Freeberg (the elephants) I think. Sounds like Pete Puma.
Wow. What did we do before horses?
B&W Version
You have any idea what the signal delay to the moon is?!
Why are “Prints by Technicolor” yet film is in black and white? 🤔
Beacuse the prints were made by technicolor.
Good video to show millennials who've never seen a rotary phone. Or any landline.
Iol. I'm a millennial and grew up with a landline. You must mean Gen Z.
Mr. Man wants to advance so he reverted to sending messages again
Question who did sergeant voice was it bugs bunny voice actor?
The squirrel should be calling a dog
People still scream into their phones instead of just talking in a normal voice.
You can see the color version here: ruclips.net/video/0jGYf5cXA80/видео.html
I know what makes an ocean wave wave
20 years later phone sex was invented.
50 years later we need something else as telemarketers make phones annoying trash
I gonna buy a duck!
That uncle was sexy! Lol
Omg it's Bugs Bunny.
5:38 SpongeBob music
SVT Rapport theme music from 1966-2001
Where are all the women in the family listed in the phone book?
19:58 I see we are normalizing something here. Very subtle.