1936 - In this animated film, Betty Boop is overwhelmed when a bunch of her patients all start crying at once in an animal hospital.
1940 - In this Frank Capra documentary, British civilians work in war plants and the RAF plans an attack on the Luftwaffe (narrated by Walter Huston in 1943).
collection of retro and old mobile telephones with eyes on the screens
collection of retro and old mobile telephones with code and glitch on the screens
collection of retro and old mobile telephones with mannequindoll head on the screens. not a real person
1954 - In this animated film, private eye Popeye traces a phone call from a scared woman.
Close-up of smartphone in person's hand. Unrecognizable individual eating apple and messaging online. Social media and wireless communication. Cinema 4k ProRes HQ.
1928 - In this animated film, a telephone explains what it and a microphone have in common.
1940 - In this animated film, a bear employed at a stone age employee strips out of his fur to give it to a cold guest.
1937 - Thomas Dewey pores over evidence in the Lucky Luciano case.
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1965 - New Yorkers drive over the Hudson during a blackout, cops direct traffic, and those stranded in the city help each other while being put up in hotel lobbies.
1928 - In this animated film, a film strip invites a telephone and journalists to a movie theater he's wiring for sound.
1928 - In this animated film, Felix the Cat calls the police and pulls a policeman through the phone to come help him fight a shadow monster, only to realize it is a baby making hand shadows.
collection of retro and old mobile telephones with code numbers on the screens
1940 - In this animated film, a ventriloquist performer and a gorilla check in at a stone age hotel.
Mom and son are sitting on a bench in the city. Mother drinks coffee from a paper cup, son plays video games on the phone. Relaxation after work and study
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USA - 1914 - In this silent comedy, a store clerk gets yelled at for calling his girlfriend at work.
WASHINGTON DC - 1970 - A CIA agent works out of the National Military Command Center.
USA - 1942 - In this crime movie, a gangster makes a call from a phone booth about getting revenge on some detectives.
collection of retro and old mobile telephones with code and data numbers on the screens
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1921 - In this silent film, a spinster tells her niece's fiance that the young woman has been flirting with other men on the telephone and we see her engage in such a call.
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retro mobile telephones with glitching heart on the screen
retro mobile telephones collection with incoming message on screen
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1918 - Telephone girls set to embark for Europe with the US Army walk through a park towards the docks in Hoboken.
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USA - 1915 - In this silent comedy, a man calls his secretary to come sit on his lap and then calls his wife to tell her he's having beautiful thoughts.
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DALLAS - 1959 - Johnnie's mother enters the Women's Building at Fair Park as he looks for her son. Johnny uses a telephone alongside adults and children.
Portrait of a young woman enjoying her morning coffee and working from home
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CANADA - 1947 - Canada produces a commemorative stamp honoring Alexander Graham Bell, and many phones inspired by his initial invention are displayed.
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USA - 1931 - In this comedy, a woman eavesdrops on a farmer calling home to say what a killing he made selling the farm's eggs.
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UNITED STATES - 1958 - Animation shows a man talking on the phone before the phone is dropped. A doctor rings a doorbell before finding a man with an injured finger.
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CANADA - 1927 - Blind women work as typists, transcribe braille, and operate a telephone switchboard at the Canadian National Institute for the Blind.
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USA - 1915 - In this silent comedy, a man flirts with two female employees in his office and then calls his wife to tell her he's having beautiful thoughts.
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Iconic Red Telephone Booths And Mailbox In Port Stanley Capital Of Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
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PACIFIC OCEAN - 1970 - NASA astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise call their families after the Apollo 13 recovery.
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USA - 1917 - In this silent comedy, a butler gets a phone call about women being trapped in the building's elevator.
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1958 - Staff and guests at a hotel in Vienna, Austria communicate with a devices that's partway between walkie-talkies and portable phones.
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OTTAWA - 1927 - Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King makes the first telephone call from Canada to England, calling Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin.
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1940s - A Hollywood executive takes phone calls in his office.
Pay Phone Coin Return
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USA - 1932 - In this comedy, an Arabian princess calls a horse thief to do a job for her.
Side view close-up of smiling confident African American woman talking on the phone looking out the window in home office. Portrait of positive motivated businesswoman discussing job in the morning.
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UNITED KINGDOM - 1914 - In this silent comedy, police officers lock Daisy Doodad in a cell. Daisy's husband calls a friend to rescue her.
retro and old mobile telephones collection with incoming message on screen
USA - 1967 - LSD Rescue is an organization that takes calls to drug addicts in need, while others hooked on LSD may end up in the morgue.
dolly 1940s woman news reporter getting the story on the phone
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1962 - In this animated film, a man and bird fight instead of dancing together on stage.