movies_creation
American Movie Archives (美國電影檔案)
- Title
- Century 21 Calling
- Year
- 1964
- Abstract
- Romp through the futuristic landscape of the Seattle World's Fair, centered in the Bell System pavilion.
- Notes
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Produced: Fairbanks (Jerry) Productions
Sponsor: American Telephone and Telegraph Co. (AT&T)
Run Time: 13:56
Audio/Visual: Sd, C - Keyword
- World's Fairs: Seattle, 1962;Communication: Telephone;Futurism;Communication: Telephone;Futurism
- Theme
- Kewl BellSys Stuff; Irrtating Trenchers.
- Review
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The Bell Sys stuff is pretty cool, the Electronic Central Office is just a bit frightening (is there ony one? if so, one transistor goes (glass tubes are NOT transistors) and there goes reliable phone svc!) DDD is nice (Finally! No operator!)
The Skinner box and deck of cards helix is slightly odd.
The worst thing is the scifi/horror sound at the beginning, and the 2 people in this buissiness are just ugly (read: Trenchers), the girl seems to be wearing a bathmar as a skirt and the dude looks like he's one of the Hardy Boys (UGH) and they rin around, killing time, and infamously attacking this (seemingly) bewildered Asian woman (I've heard of 'Please touch', but this is going too far!) and generally being irritating. They get their comeuppance later when this bad singing dude comes on and invades the space needle.
The rotary dial/touch tone comparison is nice, but I prefer the old ones.
-uniQ
(Reviewer: uniQ) - Location
- A/V room, 2/F