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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

Disappeared Phone Booths

I was surprised to find that this video contains a shoutout to the Payphone Project. Who knew? Look for it…

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.

12 years ago

US West Payphone Commercial, 1993

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

12 years ago

Not Just For Dancing

"Danskins are for breaking dates late, making late dates and calling collect."

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

Mutant Payphone Keypad

Here is something you don't see every day, and which you probably would not notice even if you did see…

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…

12 years ago