Telephones in Media

Telephone Productions

• Collection of over 250 videos produced by or about the Bell System
• More interesting videos about telephony (may or may not be included in first link)
• GTE Deadly Crossing
• More in the playlists section on the Copper Files page

Telephone Hobbyists

• Ben’s Collection and Sundry
• Vintage Telephones
• Telco Steve
• A1 Telephone

Music

• Breaking Up Is Hard On You — parody of “Breaking Up Is Hard To Do” about Bell System Divestiture

Documentaries & Interviews

• Long Distance Warrior — 56 min. documentary about the conflict between MCI and Ma Bell
• Genius on Hold — 2013 documentary
• Hang Up — 14 min. documentary about public telephones
• Mojave Mirage — 27 min. film about a phone booth in the middle of the Mojave Desert
• Interview with the man who made the Mojave Phone Booth famous
• Dead Ringer (2016, NYC)

TV

• The Twlight Zone S01E01 – Where Is Everybody?
• Video Link 1 (includes opening title, but frozen frame in phonebooth)
• Video Link 2

In Film

Telephones have played instrumental roles in film for over 100 years. Here are a few (thriller and horror and crime) films that employ the use of the telephone:

• Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
• Dial M For Murder (1954)
• The Night Holds Terror (1955) — good call trace sequence (SxS), operators' room
• I Saw What You Did (1965)
• I Saw What You Did (1988)
• BUtterfield8 (1960)
• The Slender Thread (1965) — call trace sequence
• Black Christmas (1974) — call trace sequences (SxS)
• Three Days of Condor (1975) — call trace scene
• All The President's Men (1976) — 66-blocks in PBX room
• Physco (1960)
• Halloween (1978)
• Halloween 2 (1981)
• When A Stranger Calls (1979)
• When A Stranger Calls (2006)
• Phone Booth (2002)
• Mojave Phone Booth (2006)
• Cellular (2004)
• Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)