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.
Click play or go to Link [YouTube].
Shannon
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!
Dan
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?
Jane
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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