Payphones Past

In Movies and on TV

The Phone Booth Game from “Dirty Harry”

Phone booths and payphone enclosures form a key episode in Don Siegel's 1971 film "Dirty Harry," starring Clint Eastwood.

12 years ago

Bye Bye Now

"Bye Bye Now" is a short film documenting the faded role of public phone boxes in Ireland.

12 years ago

Carol Burnett Show: Phone Booth Skit

The Carol Burnett Show team just can't ignore the tantalizing sound of a ringing public telephone.

13 years ago

Alfred Hitchcock: Phone Booth Scene from “The Birds”

The Payphone Project steps through the famous phone booth scene from Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds"

13 years ago

Payphones and Pants, Pants and Payphones

It's a commercial for pants -- Dockers pants -- which contains some nice imagery of abandoned phone booths from around…

13 years ago

The Panic in Needle Park. Phone Booth. 1971.

Screengrab of a Volkswagen and a green Manhattan phone booth from the 1971 film "The Panic in Needle Park."

14 years ago

Rocky

"Rocky" using a payphone. From "The Rockford Files."

14 years ago

Phone Booth – Short Film

Geet Sharma's short film "Phone Booth" uses a malfunctioning payphone as a metaphor for corruption in India. The film is…

14 years ago

AT&T: 100th Anniversary of the Payphone (1989)

Awesome video from 1989, when AT&T celebrated the 100th anniversary of William Gray's public telephone. The text on Techchannel.ATT.com includes…

14 years ago