1970s AT&T BELL LABS PICTUREPHONE PROMO FILM VIDEOPHONE SERVICE TWO WAY TELEVISION PHONE XD12724
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This is a 1970’s era, color film that exhibits face to face video terminals. It is a film about the evolution of communication. The purpose is to show a new technology - Picturephone Service. The film opens with rustic drums being played with sticks. In a silent film, a man talks on a telephone, :26. Woman and man are using the telephone in a silent film, :31. A fast montage of old telephone images flashes on the screen, :35. Main title: Face to Face. A man sits at a computer terminal, 1:21. A video terminal, 1:28. “Picture phone” service, 1:30. Two men talk on the picture phone, 1:40. Man dials phone, 2:05. Men start a new video call, 2:18. Men talk in the office after the video call, 2:55. The picture phone displays sales charts, 3:20. Herbert Hoover photo, 3:44. Television images, 4:06. Camera picture tube images flash by, the birth of video telephone is born, 4:26. NY World’s Fair 1964, the video phone system is introduced, 4:48. Bell Labs improves on the picture tube, 5:00. Fashion designers use the picture phone to discuss designs and models, 5:20. The police use the picture phone to try and identify a suspect in a crime, 5:51. Two women use the picture phone from their homes, 6:20. A grandfather talks to his granddaughter on the picture phone, 6:42. Husband and wife use the picture phone, 7:00. Boyfriend and girlfriend fight over the picture phone, 7:20. Directed and produced by Leo Trachtenberg. Cameraman, Robert Strovink, editor, Beth Emerson. A Harvest Films Production. AT&T. Picture-Phone Service is the wave of the future.
AT&T's Bell Labs conducted extensive research and development of videophones, eventually leading to public demonstrations of its trademarked Picturephone product and service in the 1960s. Its large Manhattan experimental laboratory devoted years of technical research during the 1930s, led by Dr. Herbert Ives along with his team of more than 200 scientists, engineers and technicians. During the mid-1950s, its laboratory work had produced another early test prototype capable of transmitting still images every two seconds over regular analog PSTN telephone lines.The images were captured by the Picturephone's compact Vidicon camera and then transferred to a storage tube or magnetic drum for transmission over regular phone lines at two-second intervals to the receiving unit, which displayed them on a small cathode-ray television tube. The more advanced Picturephone Mod I's early promotion included public evaluation displays at Disneyland and the 1964 New York World's Fair, with the first transcontinental videocall between the two venues made on April 20, 1964. The first Picturephone 'Mod I' (Model No. 1) demonstration units used small oval housings on swivel stands, intended to stand on desks. Similar AT&T Picturephone units were also featured at the Telephone Pavilion (also called the "Bell Telephone Pavilion") at Expo 67, an International World's Fair held in Montreal, Canada in 1967. Demonstration units were available at the fairs for the public to test, with fairgoers permitted to make videophone calls to volunteer recipients at other locations. The United States would not see its first public videophone booths until 1964, when AT&T installed their earliest commercial videophone units, the Picturephone "Mod I", in booths that were set up in New York's Grand Central Terminal, Washington D.C., and Chicago. Its system was the result of decades of research and development at Bell Labs, its principal supplier, Western Electric, plus other researchers working under contract to the Bell Labs. However the use of reservation time slots and their cost of US$16 (Washington, D.C. to New York) to $27 (New York to Chicago) (equivalent to $118 to $200 in 2012 dollars) for a three-minute call at the public videophone booths greatly limited their appeal resulting in their closure by 1968.
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At one time, I owned two AT&T Picturephones. Donated one to the Early Television Foundation in Hilliard Ohio and sold the other. I should have kept it. But, without service, I got tired of dusting it.
@DiscoMatty79
3 жыл бұрын
Did you use one to call the other?
Bell was showing off the picture phone at the 1964 New York World's Fair. I remember seeing it when I was 9. It took a long time for people to see any value in the concept.
@DTD110865
4 жыл бұрын
If I recall, they also had them at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair.
@rsprockets7846
Жыл бұрын
was on it on class trip from nyc to dc
3:02 LOL the amount of time it takes him to find each number
It's the ZOOM of the 1970's!
@Guitarist888
Жыл бұрын
FaceTime actually.
@lockerutube
6 ай бұрын
02134
the narrator for this film is longtime NBC staff announcer Bill Wolfe, best known as the voice of the soap opera, "Another World"...
I went the NY World Fair back in the '60s. Now, we carry pictaphones in our pockets.
I predict this contraption will change the way people have meetings. One day we may even be able to work from home. Just remember to wear your suit and tie.
Imagine all the "high-tech" stuff we have today that got invented decades ago, "forgotten" and then reinvented and became a "technological revolution" so it can be sold at a overinflated price.
@MeowStationOrignal
4 жыл бұрын
Facts I found out that the first patient for a vape came out in 1963.
@ZoruaZorroark
4 жыл бұрын
makes me wonder what tech invented today that will become economically viable in 20-50 years from now
@LiLi-or2gm
4 жыл бұрын
Brian M. B. Pedersen You're kidding, right? Today, you can get a smart phone for $200 that does things that would have cost millions in the 70's! Nothing was "forgotten", either. All that work was carefully documented, and refined over the years. A good case in point is the work of Claude Shannon at Bell labs whose theory of information developed in the 49's, lays at the very foundation of modern telecommunications.
@bmbpdk
4 жыл бұрын
@@LiLi-or2gm Mass production reduces prices and with the insane overconsumption in the world even billion dollar items becomes household items. Once half the world was made out of wood now injection moulding of plastic parts and aluminium made furnitures, electronics and even cars relatively dirt cheap. But it was also back then when you bought a product that was meant to last a lifetime, not just a few years and where you actually admired the craftmanship, experience and knowledge that went into a product, now it seems no one cares, as long as the product last until the next version comes out, wich it usually does every year or so.
@seanc.5310
4 жыл бұрын
Li Li thank you
Bell's mistake IMO was marketing to mostly business when politically back then it was probably easier to subsidize with government grants and market it towards home usage until eventually it would have turned a profit. The '70s/'80s as we knew it would have been different probably if these videophones in mass were available.
Thanks for video!
Dow Jones at 834.68. We've come a long way.
That was some crazy music, zaney.
@satanofficial3902
4 жыл бұрын
Perky hepcatness.
That video quality looked in the 1970s looked better than 1992 atnt video phone? Why
@parrotgenie5099
3 жыл бұрын
It likely was faked and yes had the ATT videophone 2500 from 1992 and was only 10 fps.
everything great happened in the 60's
Groovy.
After watching this whole video. My biggest take away: That was DEFINITELY Mr Jenkins 😂😂 I think he's scared if he snitches to the copers. Jenkins is coming after him 😂😂
Hold it... you're going to get an injection mold running by the end of the month???
@matthewhall6288
4 жыл бұрын
And why would they even consider expensive aluminum when plastic would do just as well? Somebody needs to get fired.
@LiLi-or2gm
4 жыл бұрын
Matthew Hall Good point! If it's so simple that a mold can be made that quickly, why even consider anything else? Audiences weren't as sophisticated as they are now- the producers never imagined that people watching their commercial would be so discriminating! 🤓
The 1970s are as far back from the 2020s as the 2070s are forward from the 2020s.
@rsprockets7846
Жыл бұрын
i aint gonna be here
What is this Wizardry?! Ha, as if talking face to face via screen will be a thing. This pure fantasy.
in 1970 that technology already existed? I didn't know it
@diana8259
4 жыл бұрын
@Todd Orton kzread.info/dash/bejne/gqqZuNmKmLHUoZs.html 1920- 2020 evolution of the television. .
@TheEarthHistorysConfusing
4 жыл бұрын
They had fax machines in 1850. ;)
@kirstyprosser22
3 жыл бұрын
Imagine crypto in 50 years, if that was video calling and remote desktoping 50s years ago.
@diana8259
3 жыл бұрын
@@kirstyprosser22 In Nazi Germany in the 30s until 1944 they had video calls but they were very expensive and you had to go to a post office and they have TV. Before the UK'bbc The '36 Olympics were broadcast on 6 screens in Berlin so that people who could not enter to the stadium I could see the event,.. love the story contemp.
So the internet. They created the internet. Nice.
Why werent these popular?
@erpepotemf9648
2 жыл бұрын
El servicio era muy caro
@audiodood
2 жыл бұрын
They were prohibitively expensive mainly
Originally released in 1969.
Wow I wonder what else was invented back then that they recreated at an affordable price
"The trouble with her is she's a little too short and fat". Rwowr! I see that people would make catty comments and body shame in an alternate 1970's facetime call.
@MrHmg55
4 жыл бұрын
But Nancy's going to be a happy girl tonight!
@K-Effect
4 жыл бұрын
Just give that short, fat bitch her hat
Does anyone have any info on the music in the beginning on the main title? It's in a lot of films/commercials from that time.
@Richardpasquinucci
Ай бұрын
I think its british production music
@adco99
Ай бұрын
@@Richardpasquinucci I actually found it - it's "The Truth About Wanda" by Manfred Mann :)
"NO NO DARLING, the trouble with her IS THAT SHE'S A LITTLE TOO SHORT AND FAT." But I think this hat will help.
No thank you i prefer to stay with smart phones of this era.. back then for them its like a facetime style but on that era. now a days facetime exist but no one use it that much
Coulda for some great 1-900 numbers...
The irony for today haha
@LiLi-or2gm
4 жыл бұрын
Jack McRoberts I was thinking the exact same thing.
Oh that technology of being able to talk to others via video will never take off the ground. ROFL 😜😅😂🤣 But seriously. When they talked about Face-to-Face, did anyone else wonder if Apply got their idea for "Face-Time" from those commercials?
I wonder if Betty's recipe tasted better with strawberries instead of blueberries
@jeshkam
Жыл бұрын
The berry's a berry.
@adamkondracki3201
7 ай бұрын
I'm more concerned about that one guy not wanting to admit to the cops about identifying Mr. Jenkins 😅
Porn industry probably watched these developments with keen interest at the time.
Not much more advance than now lol
witchcraft.
these are prototypes. It will never catch on...
@paulcheek5711
4 жыл бұрын
@Nuts McGillicuddy i use it all the time, love it. U R living in the early 1900's
Fake
Imagine all the "high-tech" stuff we have today that got invented decades ago, "forgotten" and then reinvented and became a "technological revolution" so it can be sold at a overinflated price.
@itsmr.thomas
2 жыл бұрын
I imagine the vast majority of technology is like that. Sometimes some inventions aren't financially feasible at the time so they get scrapped until the future.
@harpfully
Жыл бұрын
You have it totally backwards. This stuff was far more expensive back then (which is why it didn't take off).
@TheRealBatabii
11 ай бұрын
You literally copied this comment word for word from Brian M. B. Pedersen