Here I like the use of the phone to reflect the woman making the call
Tag Archives: USA
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’)…
New uses for a phone box
I like the creativity that phone boxes can bring out in scriptwriters.
In Person of Interest (Season 3 Episode 1) we find a new use for the phone box – ring a specific number and the back panels opens to become the door to a dodgy strip joint, frequented by sailors and cops…
Then in Episode 5 a phone box is being used to stash some cassettes…
Iconic London
This shot was used to set the scene in London, in an episode of ‘Bones’ from season 4:
More phones on the screen
Cold Weather (2010)
The Blacklist
Spooks (season 1)
Seven days in May (1964)
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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