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Telephone For Help! (1968)
🕑 Added 2021-12-06 15:12:53 +0000 UTCThis very worn and faded 16mm print is still a classic example of the kind of films I saw in school way back when. "I've fallen and I can't get up!!!" It's kids to the rescue - at home, on the ball field, everywhere... and lots of cool neato shots of the fire station and police dispatch switchboards. Looks like a lot of fun! Enjoy!
Comments
Philip Stephens
I hope you all paused the video and had a discussion at all the appropriate points 🙂
Matt Wietlispach
Well, I think the big cities in the US may have implemented 911 in 1968, but I lived in rural America for several years in 1993 and the small towns still didn't have 911. Actually, on the phone bill, one fee was the "911 - Fund" to help the phone company pay for 911, which was a total ripoff. The rural telephone networks were the last to be updated with modern switch gear. The exchanges were still full of electromechanical relays you could actually hear "click" when it translated the touch tones to pulses. In suburban Chicago, there were never any delays and 911 was working probably since the late 60s. I found old phones from the 60s and saw that some municipalities sent stickers that had police and fire station numbers on them for residents to stick to their phone. But it's pretty unforgivable that in 1993 the town still had no 911 service. I don't know if they even have it today! Cell phones kind changed everything.
David Peaker
This made me wonder when 911 was first used in the USA, I was surprised to find it wasn't until 1968. Whereas our UK 999 started in 1938!
