We finished off the 2nd series of Extant on holiday in Cyprus. There was a scene with a decrepit phone box that was part of a high tech security system:
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Post-apocalyptic phone box
Even after the zombie hoards have taken over the phone box continues to be relevant – as seen in this episode of Z Nation…
Nightime viewing
Here I like the use of the phone to reflect the woman making the call
New TV show set in older times
Aquarius (2016)
Agent Carter (2015)
The same phone being dusted for fingerprints later in the show
Recent tv
SPOILER ALERT (Wayward Pines) further down the page…
More spy action…
The Game
The Game
Even in the far distant future, on a ruined earth, phones are still working…
Wayward Pines
Apocalyptic scene
Here is a scene from ‘The day after tomorrow‘ (2004) with a phone in the New York Library being in use to its very end…
More tv
Fish Mooney, Gotham
And this one, when a favourite character of mine lies dying while the phone rings in the foreground…
Person of Interest
Followed in the next series with a flashback to the past and a ‘phreaker’ in action (for more details on phreaking -the manipulation of phone call routing – click here)…
Person of Interest
False history
So this phone box never existed but in another reality (thanks to Phillip K. Dick and ‘The Man in the High Castle’)…
Classic film
I am happy to add one of the most iconic films of all time to my blog. I hadn’t realised there was a phone box in the games room of the Overlook Hotel.
The Shining
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