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Tag Archives: USA
Cartoon communication
From ‘The Simpsons’.
Film & TV
This is from the 1984 film The Philadelphia Experiment.
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’.
New TV, Old film
The Americans: S1 E1, set in the 1980s.
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.
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.
The following is from a movie called Jeff, who lives at home, (2011):
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)…
TV
Here is a still from the first episode of the US remake of Being Human (2011+):
This one is from Episode 2 of Mayday (2013):
Art and the phone
New York City pay phones to take users back to 1993
The city pay phones are being used to promote a new art exhibit recounting the year 1993 in New York’s history…