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How to use a telephone.

By Excellent in Video Clips on May 16, 2007 at 9:02 am


This is a wonderful bit of communications history. It is an instructional film designed to teach those in the Fresno, California area how to use a wonderful new service, a telephone that you could dial yourself.

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  1. Ruby on Rails guy
    May 16th, 2007 at 9:10 am

    Nice video...

  2. Shannon
    May 16th, 2007 at 2:09 pm

    This is so charming. But also a bit sad because as of May 28, 1927, a bunch of telephone operators lost their jobs in Fresno!

  3. Dan
    May 16th, 2007 at 10:46 pm

    It's also very sad because I can callenge you to obtain such usefull information about any product nowadays.

    This film really went through how to use the newfangled phone in every which way. Have you seen a computer or software manual anywhere near as complete?

  4. Jane
    May 16th, 2007 at 11:28 pm

    That was wonderful! I am suddenly nostalgic to be at my parents' house, *dialing* the phone to call my best friend, with the neighbour kid listening in, because we had a party line...

    Now we don't even have a "land line", and I expect my phone to also do a dozen other tasks.

    So much change!

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