Hey Gen-whatever! The opening of this film, minus the bad acting and dumb dialogue, is how kids existed together back then. On our own, doing what we felt like doing. It was glorious.
How I remember my 70s childhood. Thank you for this adorable upload. 70s and 80s - the last of the innocent era. - I'm 55. I miss the rotary phone and calling to hear the time and temperature. Taking the phone off the hook so no one could bother you. Making collect calls and putting a dime or a quarter in a pay phone. We need to keep this history alive, corny to people or not. Very much appreciate this video today. Happy Holidays.
My mom also thought that if you left the phone “on the hook” but kept the dial turned past its normal resting position by sticking a pencil in it or similar, that also would keep it from ringing. She was wrong. 🙂 P. S. The expression “on/off the hook” comes from much older phones than the ones in this video, where the part you talked into actually hung off a hook when it wasn’t in use. You can see those sometimes in really really old movies.
My grandma made me one! It was red, white and blue! I knew immediately that I couldn't wear that thing! It embarrassed me to no end. The folks took pictures of me in it, because it was a gift from Grandma. 😂
This is my generation in the seventies as a kid..I worked for a South Western Bell contractor back in the eighties and can remember those connectors and still have my lineman's test equipment and some of those Scotch Lock connectors that are still inside my tool kits.
I worked in St Louis Missouri from 1996 to 2016 as a Southwestern Bell installer repairman I love my job it was wonderful working outside in all weather conditions and inside of homes and businesses also climbing telephone poles working a loft it was awesome Great pay I was payed $36.56 per hour regular time, plus time and a half for overtime of course we got double time had great medical benefits supported my family great memories
I haven't seen this since 1978!! Our coolest classmate shouted "EXXXXX!!!" (short for excellent) every time the kids traveled through the light-tunnel and the rest of the class started saying it too "EXXXX!!!" "EXXXX!!!" "EXXXX!!!" until our teacher told us to shush 😄 The kid who answered the phone wrong "WHO'S THIS?!" is permanently burned into my memory 😅 So many memories!
Oh. My. God. I KNEW I'd seen this before. They showed it to us in elementary school, circa 1979. I remember that red headed kid picking up the phone and yelling "WHO IS THIS!" 🤣🤣🤣
Remember when you had to dial a number with lots of eights, nines and zeroes and you'd think "damn, this shit's gonna take FOREVER." brrrrnnngg....tick,tick,tick,tick, tick......
W O W . . . I thought I must have _dreamed_ this short! I saw this in 3rd grade Social Studies class. No one else I know remembers this LOL! Love the psychedelic animation... The people dressed like a "Q" & "Z" definitely stands out in my memory! Thanks for posting my childhood!!
I saw this in elementary school not long after it first came out - 1975ish. I had recurring dreams and nightmares about being in that tinfoil tunnel and the tunnel of light they all fly through. I’d find myself walking alone down the tinfoil tunnel and I’d come to rooms with strange furnishings. There’d be a little girl in one room who had her back to me, and when she turned around, she’d morph into a monster. My third-grade brain was freaked out by this. I remember trying to figure out what movie this was once I was an adult, but it took until I finally found this movie on UA-cam maybe 12-14 years ago. It’s just as freaky as I remembered!
Yeah. Media. I detest media, the utter and demonstrable and completely disposable film and TV especially. Call me later life media expert but from its darkest side and in the day of "Pizzagate. This short, to this most contemptuous -- let me say I had the help of people I have never met but have looked at and read enough materials enough to now, in older age, because of putting to use far more of my spiritual side into looking at this -- the television, film, made for TV, game shows, years of Gilligan's Island that was broadcast all over the world. For years. Then re-runs. For years. On a global population. This infomercial that actually was NOT that beyond the "Rx," a brand name but invoked as someone's viewpoint and not to subject at hand. I am very clued in to covert media messaging. I will tell anybody. It is as dirty as anyone can imagine in terms of blood, blood, blood like 60's British Dracula horror films that were absolutely and utterly Satanic. These two stars were gentlemen about their craft. 70's, films became -- I think too real in terms of ritual human sacrifice. The Blonde woman body was in this scene that went on for, IMHO, WAY beyond what any living actress of her fair qualities as in olden days --- I mean, c'mon, man?
@@Dave Texas Of course it affected you... It was most likely MEANT TO. The Powers That Be have been at work on the PSYOPS for years... And I can guarantee you that THEY are nowhere near quitting yet. Stay tuned for the "Alien Invasion" near you...(Meaning that THEY are gonna be putting on a bunch of Shillitary Grade DRONE SHOWS across the country.) Cheers
Trivia: “Telly” is played by the actor Robert Bowers, who played Buster the coke-snorting jockey on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia in season 3 episode "The Gang Gets Whacked". He was also in Star Trek, Masters of the universe, and the curious case of Benjamin button
Never saw this. Too old. I must say Robert Towers is impressive. I mean, I am seriously impressed by this guy. Totally informative and utterly sane yet a corporate man all the same.
I didn't expect to find this on UA-cam! This is my second time seeing it. My first time was waaay back in Kindergarten. I also remember when the teacher stopped the projector at the beginning and asking us students what's the name of the movie. Some said, "Telephone." I thought I've read "Telezone." Then the teacher said, "No, it's 'Telezonia!'" That was one of the films I remember as well as "The Little Red Hen" - which was my first time hearing lines like '"Not I,' said the [whatever animal it was]" - and some cartoon with that rooster who claimed that he could make the sun rise and the farm animals laughed at him.
“The woman is a supervisor who helps them and makes sure the work is done properly”, oh brother, now I’ve heard everything. Good luck telephone land, you’re gonna need it!
Thank you SO MUCH for posting this! I’ve been looking for it for years, but I never thought I’d actually see it again. I saw this about 20 times at pre-school in 1978. When we could demonstrate a pretend call correctly we got our own Telezonia citizen card. We must’ve been part of a funded program because I remember all of us had to do it. I remembered the letters and the knock-off Sid & Marty Krofft vibe. Really delighted to see this again after all this time. Thanks!!!
I was thinking, how many drugs I'd have to be on, to really enjoy this film. I worked in a telephone office on an Air Force Base. Yep, one of my jobs was a telephone installer.
SO COOL.... Love it! This a historical Futurist document now, landline phones are being phased out. Love the Doctor Who type tunnel effects. Great piece!
@@2degucitas Figure it out but when they can’t spell or use the wrong words they blame it on autocorrect and call everyone grammar police for pointing out their mistakes then complain no one understands them 😂
I never saw this. I was 11 years old back then and my Dad worked at Bell Telephone. It then became AT&T then later broke into “Baby Bells” 🔔 This is where you get Verizon and AT&T and Bell Atlantic etc. The AT&T building Downtown is Vacant now and the old Bell Telephone building is still there too. Great Times for the Phone Co. back then. When Cellphones came out it killed the Pay Phones. We have a Pay Phone Lamp from AT&T Dad bought it imma keep it!
1972 here. I never saw this. I would remember for sure. We watched The Letter People in elementary school and I am still vexed by Letter V and the violet velvet vest.
It's weird that this was made for my age group, phones were self explanatory back then. I found out the hard way that playing Yankee Doodle Dandy on the push buttons called Hawaii. I still love rotary dials and hope to buy a rotary cell phone from the lady who makes them, if she stull does. My favorite phone was my yellow rotary Decora(?) doughnut shaped Western Electric phone. I want another one. 19:20--I love the rotary song!
Am I the only one disturbed by the exclamation point's dot positioning while he's thrusting and singing? Born in '71 and I've never seen this before. The film I remember the most in school was the Red Balloon. I think that was the only reel they had. We seemed to watch that one all of the time.
I was born in 1971 as well and remember watching the Red Balloon in class. It made me cry. Must have been a requirement for teachers to show the Red Balloon in the 70’s
Roy Stuart! He plays the letter Q. He was one of the corporals on Gomer Pyle. I wondered if that might be him. He’s so much livelier here than he ever got to be playing the bland corporal.
Anyone think the same as I, when in the tunnel on the way to Telezonia, the kids said “l’m flying!”? So seventies..Lol! ( and the music). How advanced with that one big computer 😄. Really loved the question lady and operator ladie’s songs, and other characters. Nice instructional.
I'm cracked up by how intimidated these kids are by the thought of using the phone. I'm just slightly younger than the kids in this film and I remember my mom trying to teach me how to dial 911 in the event of an emergency. I was pretty intimidated then too (age 4 or 5).
This film was made in 1974. The 911 number was only approved federally in 1973 ... even though some places in the US had adopted it in 1968. I am not surprised at all that there was no mention of 911 in this film.
Oh, the ptsd induced flashbacks of my fucking father slamming the "Trimline" on the wall in the kitchen in 1974! It was the only phone in the house, and if someone or something pissed him off, which was often, he'd have at it.
Sadly, two generations have grown up without knowing the release of tension and satisfaction of slamming down a hearty robust acrylic receiver. Especially one that just stole your quarter 😂
You just solved a mystery for me. I have a slimline phone aversion I had no reason to have. Just thought it was an odd quirk. It’s all the times I heard that thing slammed down over the years and the screaming marches that followed. Strange realization. Thanks, I guess?
It would be nice if we still had wired phones instead of unhealthy toxic wireless cell phones. That Bell phone company logo makes me want one of the chevy shorty repair vans they used way back in the hazy day.
This single bit of detail brought me back to my childhood. I went back in time to my days in elementary school. Kids wore their grandma's knitted creations with pride.
@@jliscorpio It was a common thing up until the 1980s for moms and grandmoms to make clothes. Mine both had boxes of patterns for this and mom still has a full, professional factory sewing machine at home. That said, I’m not sure about your assessment, it may just be a sweat issue as one of the collars is bowed and not just measured incorrectly. Who knows?
I don't know. My mother bought mine at Foley's or Sears. They were popular at the time and mass produced. I think they wear some similar in the early episodes of That '70s Show.
He's like, Queer Steve or something. He gives me very queer vibes, especially with his voice and face? Not sure why that is. But the haircut is very old school Steve Burns...sort of. The budget for this is WONDERFUL though. You don't see many 16mm educational films with this much effort and budget while being fun and colorful for kids. I wonder if there's a master film copy of this out there, with its full colors, and full audio quality potential... One can dream. For the 70s this is a huge delight!
Also back when so many phones were "rented" from Ma Bell and even when most people owned one they had bought, others still were paying for the same old rotary dial phone after 15-20 years...
@Sadler2010 I actually purchased an item called DialGizmo that allows my old Western Electric 500 to work with my Spectrum VOIP. Even my daughters use it occasionally over their iPhones sometimes to call friends.
Ah, still love those old phones, they made talking ergonomically comfortable from your ear to your mouth , not like the flat planks we press on our faces today.
I was in early grade school in this year. We used to go to the school cafeteria to watch movies on the projector. I don’t remember this one at all. I’m sure if I did see it I would have remembered it. I remember many of the films but just bits and pieces. Some of the movies were very weird like this one. I remember a film of the story of Hansel and Gretel. The witch in the story would always say, “Never mind! Never mind! Never mind!” The kids would all repeat that because it was so predictable. If anyone remembers that movie let me know.
I am way too sober for this!
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I'm way too high for this
you have to be to get through it 🥃
lol
@@renesagahon4477 I'll try. LOL
"We'll telephone instead of running!"
Brilliant.
"Time is of the essence; We must travel by land!"
@@Pinky-lg3lz There's a slower way to travel??
Ok, maybe by sea... 😃
Hey Gen-whatever! The opening of this film, minus the bad acting and dumb dialogue, is how kids existed together back then. On our own, doing what we felt like doing. It was glorious.
I learned a lot here, I am ready for the telephone! Bring it on!
Are you sure? Cuz if you screw it up, phone cops will be right there.
Well too bad, we don't have 'em any more! Hahahah!!
It's saphonic.
This definitely qualifies as, "That's just how it was back then," and, "You just had to be there."
Yep. This is classic 1970s. It's as tacky as the 1970s gets.
In typical '70s fashion, the most precocious kid had to have that Alfred E. Neuman look.
How I remember my 70s childhood. Thank you for this adorable upload. 70s and 80s - the last of the innocent era. - I'm 55. I miss the rotary phone and calling to hear the time and temperature. Taking the phone off the hook so no one could bother you. Making collect calls and putting a dime or a quarter in a pay phone. We need to keep this history alive, corny to people or not. Very much appreciate this video today. Happy Holidays.
Same here. Remember dialing 76?
My mom also thought that if you left the phone “on the hook” but kept the dial turned past its normal resting position by sticking a pencil in it or similar, that also would keep it from ringing. She was wrong. 🙂
P. S. The expression “on/off the hook” comes from much older phones than the ones in this video, where the part you talked into actually hung off a hook when it wasn’t in use. You can see those sometimes in really really old movies.
always great when a new Boards of Canada album comes out.
Underrated comment!!! Hahaha 🤣🤣🤣
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I used to have a crocheted vest just like hers when I was a kid in the 70's. They were so popular 😂
My grandma made me one! It was red, white and blue! I knew immediately that I couldn't wear that thing! It embarrassed me to no end. The folks took pictures of me in it, because it was a gift from Grandma. 😂
I'll bet you thought you were the bees knees with that on. Imagine trying to explain this conversation to younger yourself.
Yep. I doubt any kid today wears homemade clothes.
I was wondering why the kid was wearing a large crocheted trivet! Glad I was born in 74 and missed that.
They're back in fashion! I want to make myself one. Mind, I crochet as though I had hooks for hands.
I saw this in 1st grade roughly 81 or 80. I never saw it again but i have had many dreams about it. Than boom its on my youtube feed. Taken right back
Esto es lo que se llamaria sueños premonitorios sabias que esto iba pasar
Then
This is my generation in the seventies as a kid..I worked for a South Western Bell contractor back in the eighties and can remember those connectors and still have my lineman's test equipment and some of those Scotch Lock connectors that are still inside my tool kits.
My mom worked for bell Atlantic
I worked in St Louis Missouri from 1996 to 2016 as a Southwestern Bell installer repairman I love my job it was wonderful working outside in all weather conditions and inside of homes and businesses also climbing telephone poles working a loft it was awesome Great pay I was payed $36.56 per hour regular time, plus time and a half for overtime of course we got double time had great medical benefits supported my family great memories
Fabulous 70s pre-teen telephone acid trip sing along, and yes that croquet strap sweater made my day! 👏
How cool is this sweater, I need one!
I have been looking for this for years!! I remembered seeing it in 1st grade back in 1975, but no one else remembered it.
I'd love to see the bloopers and out-takes from this production.
I can only imagine 😂
I haven't seen this since 1978!! Our coolest classmate shouted "EXXXXX!!!" (short for excellent) every time the kids traveled through the light-tunnel and the rest of the class started saying it too "EXXXX!!!" "EXXXX!!!" "EXXXX!!!" until our teacher told us to shush 😄 The kid who answered the phone wrong "WHO'S THIS?!" is permanently burned into my memory 😅 So many memories!
" The woman is the supervisor." 😂 Good one!
It IS a fantasy land, after all…
DEI hires even back then? lol
Funny shit, no doubt
The woman is your Mother in Law!
Oh. My. God. I KNEW I'd seen this before. They showed it to us in elementary school, circa 1979. I remember that red headed kid picking up the phone and yelling "WHO IS THIS!" 🤣🤣🤣
Damn gingers!
@@DavidLS1not sure if you know this, but being a bully isn't cool when you grow up
@@Michael-zj3cn Being a bully is never cool.
@@DavidLS1it's way cooler than getting bullied. But ideally neither sure.
Remember when you had to dial a number with lots of eights, nines and zeroes and you'd think "damn, this shit's gonna take FOREVER." brrrrnnngg....tick,tick,tick,tick,
tick......
I saw Telly in a storm drain one time.
He asked me if I wanted to float.
The little telephone Elf reminds me of the head of scientology, Li'l Davey Miscavidge!
The costume looks like they were expecting a Dana to show up, but she wasn't available, so Davey had to do...
100%
😂😂😂😂
W O W . . .
I thought I must have _dreamed_ this short! I saw this in 3rd grade Social Studies
class. No one else I know remembers this LOL! Love the psychedelic animation...
The people dressed like a "Q" & "Z" definitely stands out in my memory!
Thanks for posting my childhood!!
I saw this in elementary school not long after it first came out - 1975ish. I had recurring dreams and nightmares about being in that tinfoil tunnel and the tunnel of light they all fly through. I’d find myself walking alone down the tinfoil tunnel and I’d come to rooms with strange furnishings. There’d be a little girl in one room who had her back to me, and when she turned around, she’d morph into a monster.
My third-grade brain was freaked out by this. I remember trying to figure out what movie this was once I was an adult, but it took until I finally found this movie on UA-cam maybe 12-14 years ago. It’s just as freaky as I remembered!
My classmates by 1981 in the 6th grade complained that we saw this every year since the 1st grade in 1975
Yeah. Media. I detest media, the utter and demonstrable and completely disposable film and TV especially. Call me later life media expert but from its darkest side and in the day of "Pizzagate. This short, to this most contemptuous -- let me say I had the help of people I have never met but have looked at and read enough materials enough to now, in older age, because of putting to use far more of my spiritual side into looking at this -- the television, film, made for TV, game shows, years of Gilligan's Island that was broadcast all over the world. For years. Then re-runs. For years. On a global population. This infomercial that actually was NOT that beyond the "Rx," a brand name but invoked as someone's viewpoint and not to subject at hand. I am very clued in to covert media messaging. I will tell anybody. It is as dirty as anyone can imagine in terms of blood, blood, blood like 60's British Dracula horror films that were absolutely and utterly Satanic. These two stars were gentlemen about their craft. 70's, films became -- I think too real in terms of ritual human sacrifice. The Blonde woman body was in this scene that went on for, IMHO, WAY beyond what any living actress of her fair qualities as in olden days --- I mean, c'mon, man?
@@billkarmetsky4003are you ok?
@@Dave Texas
Of course it affected you... It was most likely MEANT TO.
The Powers That Be have been at work on the PSYOPS for years... And I can guarantee you that THEY are nowhere near quitting yet.
Stay tuned for the "Alien Invasion" near you...(Meaning that THEY are gonna be putting on a bunch of Shillitary Grade DRONE SHOWS across the country.)
Cheers
You ever see a doctor about that?
those actors were fully committed. definitely didn't phone it in
I see what you did there. 😅
Get off the stage! Boo!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Love the beautiful lady operators.The one with the hippy chick hairstyle that calls the fire dept
This will be completely lost on anyone who grew up without a landline phone in the home....
Captain Obvious reporting for duty🙄
@@tproudboomer5965 Relax dude.
...just like how to care for horses and hitch up a buggy is lost on you?
I'm very high and this is getting me even higher ...thank you AT&T
My dad worked many years in telezonia. I remember his stress when they had strikes.
This video melts my mind
Let’s all pause the video at the beginning when the phone rings, drop acid, and meet back here in 30 minutes to watch the rest. 😵💫😂😵💫😂😵💫😂
we're not all re7ard3d
That would be great! Especially if we were all on a party line so we could share our insights!
@@Aromatic.BleachWtf does “Resevenardthreed” mean?
K. I’m back!ready!
It would probably be a pleasant trip😊😜
Trivia: “Telly” is played by the actor Robert Bowers, who played Buster the coke-snorting jockey on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia in season 3 episode "The Gang Gets Whacked".
He was also in Star Trek, Masters of the universe, and the curious case of Benjamin button
Thank you! I love how he's both energetic and calming.
*Tom* Bowers
So he's really just a small man? I thought he was a 14 year old.
Of all the school educational films ive seen back in grade school in 1974 and in the 1970s in general,this one i never had. Now i have 50 years later.
Gawd, this needs a Rifftrax.
How has Rifftrax NOT done this?
Wow, you're not kidding. This could be a Rifftrax all-time classic.
Yess 😂
Isn't the telephone what Hitler used to start the Holocaust?
I started doing that instinctively while watching this wholesome but corny production! Sometimes it just can't be helped.
"It's a world of pure communication."
I got Wonka vibes too. Hello fellow Gemini!
That lil kid’s crocheted vest is FASHION
Wow very trippy stuff
Never saw this. Too old. I must say Robert Towers is impressive. I mean, I am seriously impressed by this guy. Totally informative and utterly sane yet a corporate man all the same.
I didn't expect to find this on UA-cam! This is my second time seeing it. My first time was waaay back in Kindergarten. I also remember when the teacher stopped the projector at the beginning and asking us students what's the name of the movie. Some said, "Telephone." I thought I've read "Telezone." Then the teacher said, "No, it's 'Telezonia!'" That was one of the films I remember as well as "The Little Red Hen" - which was my first time hearing lines like '"Not I,' said the [whatever animal it was]" - and some cartoon with that rooster who claimed that he could make the sun rise and the farm animals laughed at him.
Ha! Just the other day I commented,”not I said the chicken.”
I’m sure no-one got the reference.
Thank you BELL
Ma Bell got the ill communications
@@clumsiiiLOL!
Love the Vista Cruiser at the end!
yeoooo that question mark freaked me out ?!!!
I am FREAKING man! My BRAIN is SPLODING! My face is melting!
This is giving me a bad trip.
Fabulous new slit scan effects!
Slit scan??
@@Coincidence_Theorist It's the effect that starts at 3:45.
Very similar to the effect used in 2001 and the Doctor Who titles around this era. Cutting edge stuff for 1974.
"My God, it's full of stars"
@@tomgreen663 Kubrick and Trumbull were filming slit scan effects around 1967.
“The woman is a supervisor who helps them and makes sure the work is done properly”, oh brother, now I’ve heard everything. Good luck telephone land, you’re gonna need it!
"Look at da phone, it's like magiiic" if they only knew.. 😊🙄
Thank you SO MUCH for posting this! I’ve been looking for it for years, but I never thought I’d actually see it again.
I saw this about 20 times at pre-school in 1978. When we could demonstrate a pretend call correctly we got our own Telezonia citizen card. We must’ve been part of a funded program because I remember all of us had to do it.
I remembered the letters and the knock-off Sid & Marty Krofft vibe. Really delighted to see this again after all this time. Thanks!!!
Friday night prank night. Yup the phone sure was magic 😂😂😂
Damn sure was!!! And PRE CALLER I.D. ROCKED!😂
@dannyvestal299 🤣😂😂😂
The music and haircuts are from 1969
@@maxi-me it looked late 70s to me.🤣😂
Question Mark Girl is the stuff of kids' nightmares.
Wasn't she in the group that sang 96 tears?
Looks like Andrea Marcovicci.
I can’t remember when I craved a drink at 7:30 in the morning until I saw this🍸
I was thinking, how many drugs I'd have to be on, to really enjoy this film. I worked in a telephone office on an Air Force Base. Yep, one of my jobs was a telephone installer.
I hit of window pane acid would be great for this.
SO COOL....
Love it!
This a historical Futurist document now, landline phones are being phased out.
Love the Doctor Who type tunnel effects.
Great piece!
Now we hand them five radios and the internet in a single package the size of a pack of cards, no manual, and say, "good luck".
But, they figure it out fast
@@2degucitas
Figure it out but when they can’t spell or use the wrong words they blame it on autocorrect and call everyone grammar police for pointing out their mistakes then complain no one understands them 😂
I never saw this. I was 11 years old back then and my Dad worked at Bell Telephone.
It then became AT&T then later broke into “Baby Bells”
🔔
This is where you get Verizon and AT&T and Bell Atlantic etc.
The AT&T building Downtown is Vacant now and the old Bell Telephone building is still there too.
Great Times for the Phone Co. back then.
When Cellphones came out it killed the Pay Phones.
We have a Pay Phone Lamp from AT&T Dad bought it imma keep it!
I was 11 years old too in 1974. I’ve never seen this film either. The kids in it were old enough to know to use the telephone. LOL!
I was also 11 in 1974. I never saw this either till just now! I certainly would remember if I had.
Yeah, you'd have never dreamed back then that ANYTHING could possibly hurt the mighty Bell Telephone.
My dad worked for Southern Bell, he said he was miserable there.
1972 here. I never saw this. I would remember for sure. We watched The Letter People in elementary school and I am still vexed by Letter V and the violet velvet vest.
Jesus do you remember them too?
We had the folding cards in first grade.
Those characters fascinated me
It's weird that this was made for my age group, phones were self explanatory back then. I found out the hard way that playing Yankee Doodle Dandy on the push buttons called Hawaii. I still love rotary dials and hope to buy a rotary cell phone from the lady who makes them, if she stull does.
My favorite phone was my yellow rotary Decora(?) doughnut shaped Western Electric phone. I want another one.
19:20--I love the rotary song!
There's a rotary cell phone?
This brought back all my childhood dyslexia ptsd.
Am I the only one disturbed by the exclamation point's dot positioning while he's thrusting and singing?
Born in '71 and I've never seen this before. The film I remember the most in school was the Red Balloon. I think that was the only reel they had. We seemed to watch that one all of the time.
was there an ad in the 80s with a man in a heinz ketchup costume?
I was born in '66 and I remember seeing The Red Balloon all the time. Do you recall seeing something called No, No Pinocchio?
I was born in 1971 as well and remember watching the Red Balloon in class. It made me cry.
Must have been a requirement for teachers to show the Red Balloon in the 70’s
At one point, they stopped and I was quite upset.
Roy Stuart! He plays the letter Q. He was one of the corporals on Gomer Pyle. I wondered if that might be him. He’s so much livelier here than he ever got to be playing the bland corporal.
Corporal Boyle.
Brings back alot of memories - every city had their own PSA - always pretty Corney but very memorable....
*taking long drag on the bong pipe*🤯
oooh wooooow! remember seeing this in third grade
flashin back in.. thank you
This is so Das-Triadishe-Ballet-tier, I love it 😌✨️
The coinettes are gorgeous!
Look how wholesome those kids were. Even the ginger.
That overused word again
🤦🏾
@TayWoode For it is written: "Man shall not layeth with a ginger."
@@michaelwilson2340
The kids shoes were so wholesome
The telephone was the most wholesome thing I’ve ever seen
The buttons looked so wholesome
@@TayWoode So you're jealous? What you've lost and can never be again it seems.
@@michaelwilson2340Don’t knock it👨🏻❤️👨🏿
Add Paddle to the Sea and the AV list of my youth is complete.
Holy crap! I think I know exactly what you’re talking about.
I can recall Paddle To The Sea and The Red Balloon but not this one.
Anyone think the same as I, when in the tunnel on the way to Telezonia, the kids said “l’m flying!”? So seventies..Lol! ( and the music). How advanced with that one big computer 😄. Really loved the question lady and operator ladie’s songs, and other characters. Nice instructional.
I'm cracked up by how intimidated these kids are by the thought of using the phone. I'm just slightly younger than the kids in this film and I remember my mom trying to teach me how to dial 911 in the event of an emergency. I was pretty intimidated then too (age 4 or 5).
This film was made in 1974. The 911 number was only approved federally in 1973 ... even though some places in the US had adopted it in 1968. I am not surprised at all that there was no mention of 911 in this film.
Just thinking about the telephone puts me in a catatonic state.
We still dialed 0 into the 80s
Oh, the ptsd induced flashbacks of my fucking father slamming the "Trimline" on the wall in the kitchen in 1974! It was the only phone in the house, and if someone or something pissed him off, which was often, he'd have at it.
Sadly, two generations have grown up without knowing the release of tension and satisfaction of slamming down a hearty robust acrylic receiver. Especially one that just stole your quarter 😂
You just solved a mystery for me. I have a slimline phone aversion I had no reason to have. Just thought it was an odd quirk. It’s all the times I heard that thing slammed down over the years and the screaming marches that followed. Strange realization. Thanks, I guess?
Apparently the Bell System had some good S**t in the 70s
I had that Rotary Connection. Good stuff
@@greenvelvetBoy did that zoom right over your head.
Now, I'd actually have to try to find a phone book.
Try a police interrogation room
I got a call from Telezona, and they told me not to eat the brown acid.
Gotta love the 70s the days when you could macramé your own sweater vest. 😂
It would be nice if we still had wired phones instead of unhealthy toxic wireless cell phones. That Bell phone company logo makes me want one of the chevy shorty repair vans they used way back in the hazy day.
Nah, it's better to have a phone always with you for safety reasons. You can still have a landline at home if you want one, they aren't extinct.
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@@sharimeline3077 You're right. I still have one.
@@jacktorrance2633 My sister has one :)
These children are now almost 60 and their grndchildren teach them how to use phones now
NOBODY under the age of about 80 needs any help with modern smartphones. What are you smoking? 😂😂😂😂
I don’t remember taking shrooms
Probably because you forgot to call your local grocery story. Luckily the little tele-elf had some to share! There's always shroom for one more!
@@Robert08010 "There's always shroom for one more!" that's cute! Love it! 😆❤👍
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@@greenvelvet I hope they don't have a vendetta. That suddenly sounds like a threat.
That knitted vest the girl is wearing was made by someone's mom or grandma.
I think her checked shirt was too, the collar lays so poorly.
This single bit of detail brought me back to my childhood. I went back in time to my days in elementary school. Kids wore their grandma's knitted creations with pride.
@@jaxdaggerthegreatbetter than brand clothing. I love it
@@jliscorpio It was a common thing up until the 1980s for moms and grandmoms to make clothes. Mine both had boxes of patterns for this and mom still has a full, professional factory sewing machine at home. That said, I’m not sure about your assessment, it may just be a sweat issue as one of the collars is bowed and not just measured incorrectly. Who knows?
I don't know. My mother bought mine at Foley's or Sears. They were popular at the time and mass produced. I think they wear some similar in the early episodes of That '70s Show.
this was awesome! brought back the feeling I felt as a kid back in the 70's
i sure miss it! where is the aluminum foil tunnel that leads back to it? 😆
In a Universal Studios warehouse full of props and scenery
@@2degucitas LOL wish it were that easy 😀
They had no way of knowing the telephone would prove the undoing of society and the terminus of humanity as we know it. ☎️
❤❤❤❤❤❤ Life was so much better then .
"It's like magic!" Any technology beyond the observer's understanding could indeed seem like magic.
I’m gonna tell my kids this is Stranger Things. 😂
Okay. The touch tone phone was around this time. I have no words. 😂
15:26 John De Lancie is like, "This is the one we don't talk about."
Filmed in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles
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The telephone hero reminds me of a 1970’s version of the host from Blue’s Clues...
The whole film is very much from that genre. Way out in appearance, but light and wholesome in tone. It's a good mix for children's programming.
He's like, Queer Steve or something. He gives me very queer vibes, especially with his voice and face? Not sure why that is. But the haircut is very old school Steve Burns...sort of.
The budget for this is WONDERFUL though. You don't see many 16mm educational films with this much effort and budget while being fun and colorful for kids. I wonder if there's a master film copy of this out there, with its full colors, and full audio quality potential... One can dream. For the 70s this is a huge delight!
@@wigwagstudios2474he has great legs!
@@PhancyPants99 He's probably a dancer, lots of musical theater experience
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Reminds me of Lou Wagner, who played "J-5" - on "Lost In Space"'s "The Haunted Light-house" (1967).
Starring Little Edie as the question mark.
"This is a good costume for today"
I wonder if Johnny Depp got some inspiration for his Willy Wonka from Tele.
No idea why this was recommended to me but very glad it was, great film!
This reminds me more of the original Willy Wonka from the 70s.
I miss phone books! 🎶🎵🎶🎶Let Your Fingers Do The Walking Through The Yellow Pages🎶🎵🎶🎶🎶
I want a ménage with the pixie guide and question mark.
Get some help😂
Amazing breakthrough communication technology!
As happy as they are to answer the phone, you can tell it was long before the invention of extended warranties.
Also back when so many phones were "rented" from Ma Bell and even when most people owned one they had bought, others still were paying for the same old rotary dial phone after 15-20 years...
@Sadler2010 I actually purchased an item called DialGizmo that allows my old Western Electric 500 to work with my Spectrum VOIP. Even my daughters use it occasionally over their iPhones sometimes to call friends.
My mother had a lease system when she moved in to her house and never thought about anything changing. She leased that phone until the late 90s😂
It’s like a tech version of Wonkas factory crossed with an 80/90s Epcot attraction
When humans answered the operator line.
All those groovy kids are pushing 60 about now it they are still blessed to be in the land of the living...
They laughed at this in 1990. Today children would be puzzled.
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Kinda weird that I was one year old when this came out and now nobody has just a phone. Our phones do damn near everything. It's kinda mind blowing.
Music is giving off "In Search of" vibes. Tinfoil tunnel feels like they took queues from Sid and Mart Kroft.
"Hey mister, how do you access your apps on a rotary phone!!?"
Ah, still love those old phones, they made talking ergonomically comfortable from your ear to your mouth , not like the flat planks we press on our faces today.
I was in early grade school in this year. We used to go to the school cafeteria to watch movies on the projector. I don’t remember this one at all. I’m sure if I did see it I would have remembered it. I remember many of the films but just bits and pieces. Some of the movies were very weird like this one.
I remember a film of the story of Hansel and Gretel. The witch in the story would always say, “Never mind! Never mind! Never mind!” The kids would all repeat that because it was so predictable. If anyone remembers that movie let me know.
My sister worked at BELL TEL and when I was a kid we had tons of pens and other office stuff she would steal
I literally laughed. 😊
It’s a small world ! The barber shop listed in the yellow pages ,still at 4736 Hollywood blvd in 2024. Fifteen minutes from my home !
boy, we were really dumb back then.
amazing