Payphones Past

In Movies and on TV

“La Cabina” (1972)

"La Cabina" ("The Telephone Box") is a short Spanish film from 1972 directed by Antonio Mercero and starring José Luis…

12 years ago

Short Film: The Last Phone Booth.

Creepy dealings inside a phone booth in Adirondack, New York. The film stars Dan Rebeiz and Caleb Rosenberg.

12 years ago

Abbott & Costello: ALexander 4444 (Payphone Sketch)

Funny sketch from Abbott and Costello, posted to Youtube by Kovacs Corner.

12 years ago

Operation Pay Phone (A CNN iReport)

This series of reports from CNN's iReport is from 2010, but it loses nothing for being a few years old.

12 years ago

Casino Queen Hits A Payphone Jackpot (Commercial)

The small but satisfying thrill of getting a quarter back from a payphone segues in to the more volcanic thrill…

12 years ago

Life With Luigi – The Phone Booth (1952)

Luigi Bosco installs a phone booth in his antique shop to drum up business, but attracts nothing more than a…

12 years ago

British Telecom Public Telephone Commercial, 1988

This 1988 commercial from British Telecom depicts an era of public telephony that has nearly disappeared.

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US West Payphone Commercial, 1993

US West set up a (fake) payphone spy cam in this 1993 television commercial.

12 years ago

Inspector Clouseau on the Button Phone

Lots of amusing phone booth payphonery in this excerpt from the 1968 film "Inspector Clouseau", starring Alan Arkin.

12 years ago

“THE PHONE BOOTH (scene)”, by Maria Rogel.

"THE PHONE BOOTH (SCENE)" belongs to the collective line of BESOMELO(d)P, "footage-in-progress and site specific interventions, for a Contemporary Melodramatization…

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