Category Archives: Media

Film and TV

From a strange but lovely film from 2003 called ‘The Big Empty’.

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The IT Crowd finale (2013)…

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Cartoon communication

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From ‘The Simpsons’.

Film & TV

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This is from the 1984 film The Philadelphia Experiment.

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What is a spy story without a phone box? Here’s a scene from a recent tv movie version, set pre-WWI, of ‘The 39 Steps’.

TV

From Derren Brown’s ‘Trick of the Mind’ series, here is the result of one of his mind tricks played out in a phone box at South Bank, London:

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New TV, Old film

The Americans, S1E1

The Americans: S1 E1, set in the 1980s.

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The Americans: S1 E4. Spies and phones go together. This is just one of a number of examples in the series.

The Boys from Brazil (1978)

The Boys from Brazil: 1978.

Police Box

I’m not sure why it’s taken me so long to include the classic police box/TARDIS on the blog. Here is a garden shed variety…

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Film

Marathon Man (1976)

Marathon Man: 1976.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: 2011 remake.

Film

This one is from a short film (1990) called ‘12.01pm‘. It was the precursor to ‘Groundhog Day’, but with a bleaker ending. I like the bubble-like design of this public phone.

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The following is from a movie called Jeff, who lives at home, (2011):

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TV

From the mini-series Spies of Warsaw (2013, set 1930s), staring man of the moment David Tennant…

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TV

Although the cell phone is a major player in high tech world of Person of Interest, the landline still has a use (2013, S1 E23)…

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