Payphones Past

In Movies and on TV

Anguilla: Payphone On A Tree Stump

Jim Hannum shares this photo of a payphone on the Caribbean island of Anguilla. It is somewhat unusually located on…

8 years ago

The Payphone Project on “CBS Sunday Morning”

The Payphone Project get about a minute of air time on CBS Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley. Reviews all seem…

8 years ago

Hill Street Blues: The World Is Full Of Payphones

Another installment in a potentially endless series of pictures and video clips featuring public pay telephones from when they were…

9 years ago

A Payphone Scene From “Taxi”, Season 1, Episode 1 (1978)

The first ever episode of "Taxi" (1978) revolves around a magical payphone that allows for free calls anywhere in the…

9 years ago

Pay Phone Strangulation is Real. Very Real.

Talk about phone booth fighting. This Associated Press story from 1984 makes a common payphone sound like a savage murderer.

9 years ago

“Cabine of the Dead”, by Vincent Templement

"Cabine of the Dead" from French director Vincent Templement is good old-fashioned zombie phone booth fun to start your week.

9 years ago

Payphones of “The Man in the High Castle”

Payphones make frequent appearances in TMITHC, a fantasy/science fiction series which explores the hypothetical reality of what North America might…

9 years ago

New York Public Telephones: There’s Nothing More New York

Once in a while in my research a charming cultural relic surfaces, such as this peppy New York Telephone commercial…

10 years ago

“The Payphone Millionaire” – A Short Film With a Seasonal Message.

This seasonally tinctured film from IYOBOSA STUDIOS tells the story of "Laura from the Bronx", who answers a ringing payphone…

10 years ago

“Hang Up”, a Payphone Documentary, Is Public

"Hang Up", the New York City payphone documentary to which I contributed, is now viewable on the public Internet for the…

10 years ago