Many of us recall the image of the operator in an old movie, frantically plugging a spaghetti junction of wires into seemingly random sockets, all the while talking into a cumbersome headset. Whether we were watching a tense war-time drama or a farcical comedy, the main impression was the same. Telephone communication, vital as it was, was totally in the hands of switchboard operators.





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Written by businessavante
4841 days ago

Having just received "Get Smart" DVDs ('65-'70) for Christmas I'd say we still have a lot of catching-up to do. The 100+ phones in the show are of course ridiculous, but Max had some phones - including a tiny receiver - that make today's crop look pathetic by comparison. Literally anything was converted into a phone (not just the shoe phone everyone remembers), including a fire hydrant that squirted water on the Chief (Ed Platt) when he opened it. The cuffs of a jacket on a hanger, the ham sandwich speaker/potato chip mic phone, and "the old camera as a phone/phone as a camera bit" are but a few. (Even w/all that great technology, they never got the "Cone of Silence" to work properly - 'missed it by THAT MUCH!)

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