Modern Telephone (1959)

London & Camberley, Surrey.
C/U shot of a green telephone and an ashtray. Telephone is ringing persistently. M/S of a man on top of a ladder hanging up wallpaper. He turns around annoyed. Cut to a C/U of the phone again. Reverse to a man dropping wallpaper, getting off the ladder and going to answer the phone. He answers but no one is there any more. Man puts the phone down angrily.
High angle M/S of a man operating extremely complex looking device with the telephone incorporated into it. There are wires everywhere and there are two light bulbs on the top. Dr Simpson, Cambridge doctor, has invented a device which can record a voice so people can leave a message when he is outside his surgery.
C/U shot of the face of Dr. Simpson working on his invention. C/U shot of the two flushing light bulbs (one is white and the other is painted red). M/S of Dr Simpson taking his stethoscope and leaving the machine. M/S of a woman (Mrs Beryl Norfolk) with one hand wrapped up in white bandage. Succession of shots shows Mrs Norfolk leaving a message and the way the message being recorded on the other side.
There is a factory in Camberley, Surrey, where this basic principle has been further developed. C/U shot of masses of wires on a large board. C/U shot of different wires underneath the board. C/U shot of woman's face as she works on the board. M/S of a room full of women working on making answering machines. C/U shot of woman's hands soldering wires. Several shots of answering machine being made, tested and used in the office of Mr Peter Cadbury, Chairman of a well known ticket agency.
Note: People featured in this film are: Dr Simpson, Beryl Norfolk, Arlene Bengley, Vivienne Attwall, Lilly Mounder (sp?), Nigel Marsden, Pamela Penfold, Peter Cadbury.
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[@tankman4254]

“How can all this wiring fit in that box” Me with my cell phone

[@Imthesoulofthes]

@@whackowafer4765 AND the CPU.

[@SouravBagchigoogleplus]

@@Imthesoulofthes CPU is nothing but millions of Transistors and lots of Copper wire.

[@max5gb]

Now how to App download Android Apk. robot voice tech system ... i'm deaf real i can't call them all yes like i wait automatic system loud voice tech notes ...

[@skeols]

@@SouravBagchigoogleplus billions...

[@bigredc222]

@@whackowafer4765 And getting smaller, they are testing components of microchips that are 1/2000 of a human hair.

[@ThatGuy-ou4ev]

ah, a time when a phone call was something to be excited about.

[@Shadow__X]

The excitement was about the answering machine, not the telephone itself

[@garfieldbutswagger4967]

@@Shadow__X You're right and wrong. I'm pretty sure one would purchase said phone thinking it's not possible but then when they actually hear another voice they'd be surprised by the technology of their time

[@isaacolivecrona6114]

Why not just send a text or an email?

[@kenankalamujic6677]

And calling someone to prank them

[@adamsaint2890]

That homebrew answering machine is probably the most "British eccentric genius" thing I've ever seen. Utterly brilliant.

[@wsketchy]

@Adolf Hitler Shut up, you're literally Hitler!

[@woden20]

Wallace and Gromit.

[@baronmeduse]

@will triumph First British, then stolen and made cheaper (and more reliable).

[@888ssss]

ive still got one and i use it all the time.

[@Name-vp3ds]

It litterally looks like its made of meccano

[@MarcosGarcia-kx4rb]

"For tomorrow is the robot age" just how amazing it is to think what the concept of "Robot" was back in the 50s -60s

[@cristiantoma1500]

Robot is drawn from an old Church Slavonic word, robota, for “servitude,” “forced labor” or “drudgery.” The word, which also has cognates in German, Russian, Polish and Czech, was a product of the central European system of serfdom by which a tenant’s rent was paid for in forced labor or service.

[@mikitz]

Welcome to the cyber age by watching old films online where people actually still had jobs that weren't stolen away by the AI. I bet the elderly didn't have this in mind when thinking of the concept of a robot back then. Well, they're retired, so they obviously don't care.

[@antonemilit2178]

Young lady soldering without an extraction hood - Madness!

[@oskarpetersen962]

can you imagine the headache at the end of the day?

[@dieseldragon6756]

*I* solder without an extraction hood and never have any problems. I also live near where this was recorded. Perhaps it's just something in the air?... 🌬🙃

[@pml682]

Deliciously outdated in every aspect! Lovely!

[@peggyfranzen6159]

Updated in every way.A zero or a 1 - is still the same.

[@MrMaxitaple]

Well in My country people are still living like that

[@Tr3yM34]

yet still quality

[@peggyfranzen6159]

No.

[@bobcostas6272]

I would prefer this

[@alanprophett9936]

Can't wait for this to come out, the trailer looks so good!

[@Netlogic.]

I can only imagine the health problem those women had breathing lead fumes all day for decades

[@glede2097]

Its not lead its tin

[@Netlogic.]

@@glede2097 it's leaded solder

[@janosnagyj.9540]

Well most of the visible fumes are rosin, but still, this was the same thing I thought of when I saw that scene with the lady soldering covered by that big cloud of smoke...

[@Mister47]

In the 50s women worked in tech interesting

[@harshu6674]

Ya because earlier women were oppressed. But now due to constant screaming by feminists all over the internet while sitting in the couch and putting false rape allegations on anyone, women are finally getting lifted up in the society.

[@Tr3yM34]

@@mfx1 yeah that sounds like a made up accusation there bud, mabye think about how after the war more women occupied jobs that men used to have

[@mfx1]

@@Tr3yM34 Yes they had more jobs because of the was but they still weren't tested equally.

[@tandem976]

Because Men Were In War.

[@firenado4295]

@@tandem976 nope the gpo prefered women in their production lines as they were better at the job. they were more productive than men where and paid thus. and dont say "Oh iT wAs BcAusE oF tHE wAr" because the gpo had been employing women in the 30s as telephone operators and production technicians.

[@redsquirrelftw]

I love this sort of stuff, it has an odd nostalgic feel to it even though it's way before my time. Sometimes I wish I was born in that era. Now days any time I have an idea it already exists lol.

[@igorovcharov7424]

Maybe because you are stupid? ;-))

[@seradginasuioloer8727]

@@igorovcharov7424 , you are the one

[@igorovcharov7424]

@@seradginasuioloer8727 Not the ability to connect to the information field unambiguously characterizes a person as superficial. Such people are usually called stupid. Аny more questions?

[@mozart7074]

@@igorovcharov7424 stupid is rude word. Stupid is like an expression of mad about something bad happened because the cause of the lack of knowledge of someone or something. Like war it could be prevented, but it happened. I think the right word for you to use is, "I disagree".

[@adamsaminu7787]

Maybe bcos u are nuts, born in that era of hardship?

[@DofTF]

Look how micro electronics have changed our lives in a relatively short time.

[@ralphlouismendoza1977]

what a marvelous robot 🤖

[@dieseldragon6756]

Depending on ones interpretation of „Robot“... 🚥🇿🇦😉

[@SH00T_TH3PUMP]

That invention in the beginning, legitimately looks like it was built out of a Gilbert Erector set.

[@sillykanji]

Pretty sure it was lmao.

[@89nekkoinu]

that was pretty ambitious move saying it "one small box"

[@Cynthia_Cantrell]

I was small... compared to other boxes of electronics of the day!

[@costernocht]

That green telephone is so beautiful!

[@rodrigom8907]

Imagine that guy playing the tape and: Good day Sir. We have a new internet plan to you. 50gb for 9,99+.

[@mbvideoselection]

Internet Service Providings... To cost you less cash money!

[@heung1gong2yan4]

that doctor who invented that message machine could be a scientist too 😂

[@silvernoob1603]

i love how the women are just breathing in those soldering fumes......ahh the good old days

[@shekhar81]

How can you love that ? Weirdo

[@sagardahiya6138]

@@shekhar81 r/woosh

[@DigitalBhangari]

"That by the way is an oscilloscope" those are still the star of the show

[@Catonzo]

Charming in a way. However I get so antsy when I see the soldering stations and those fumes just going straight into the workers face like that. Nothing like a good, healthy fume of leaded solder to brighten up ones day!

[@jassenjj]

I immediately thought that too... + a few thoughts on why they use overheated soldering irons in what is supposed to be a factory with standardized equipment :)

[@SAHILKHAN-lu8oq]

@@jassenjj I think at those times "temperature regulated" soldering stations were not available..🤷‍♂️ And now a days temperature regulated soldering iron is very cheap because of availability of cheap micros(STM32, Atmega all series etc)

[@brys555]

​@@SAHILKHAN-lu8oq Actually 1959 is the year in which Weller introduced the magnastat technology.

[@djfromage]

I thought that too, a good healthy dose of lead and rosin flux fumes. 😷

[@ralphmadera4366]

And nowadays with all the achievements and accomplishments we got people it is not content and without the soldering fumes we are dropping like flies, life is a cycle.

[@qpwoeiruty108]

1:33 imagine working every day and breathing this air

[@raymondk2202]

my thoughts. doing a solder every day once or twice without a good extractor hood okay, but this.... Their soldering all day long with the fumes straight over their face. This is for sure giving u lung problems already on the short term, yet alone the long term... and back then with leaded solder...

[@ToolDroid]

That doesn't smell good

[@deyaboy8456]

They would end like this : 😳

[@ketse89]

@@raymondk2202 Generally speaking today's lead free solder flux is worse than one used in leaded solder. Btw, you're not inhaling lead or any other metal if you breath lead solder's flux fumes.

[@janosnagyj.9540]

@@ToolDroid wrong, rosin fumes are actually quite pleasant :)

[@jasonmillers6941]

“For tomorrow is the robot age!” Such enthusiasm. Most, including the narrator could have never imagined their jobs would be completely taken over by AI.

[@janegerrard1073]

It was all worth it to stop him putting up that hideous wallpaper

[@rubelahmad8898]

old is gold 👌👌👌👌👌👌👌

[@Trund27]

Love this!!!

[@Thegamercat420]

Funny I am watching this on my smartphone. Someone called but I just ignored it and checked my voicemail.

[@ambrusnemes4847]

I love the smell of the flux, but... poor girls. They inhaled these toxic steam for years

[@johnrigler8858]

"I'm sorry, but the phone company you have reached is not a working phone company! Please hang up, and do not try again!"

[@stanislavzucovec8218]

A friend of mine has an old USSR radio. 1956 year. Produced in a limited series for Stalin's anniversary for VDNH in Moscow. Circulation ~ 6000 pieces. Semi-digital. Remote control. Adjustment of tuning and volume with servos. )

[@alexandre210613]

Have you got a picture of it ?

[@mbvideoselection]

I remember my uncle having a Latvian Rigonda Sinfonia II radiogram in the 70s which was made in the 60s. That had motorised autotuning. I was always mesmerized by it.

[@woodwaker1]

I was born in 1950 and still live in this era

[@gautamk381]

You Must Have Used This Phone..

[@woodwaker1]

@@gautamk381 Ours were black

[@gautamk381]

@@woodwaker1 I haven't even seen that thing..

[@usefortouch]

Imagine 50 years from now people would be laughing at our smart phones.

[@Tuffpaddy03]

Either that or fumbling around in a dystopian wasteland wishing they had something as advanced as a cigarette lighter or a decent pocket knife

[@ncs8730]

Сомнительно. Скачок от стационарного аппарата к мобильнику произошел за счет минимизации полупроводников. Что еще тут возможно? Запихать аппарат связи в зубную пломбу? Чипирование? Телепатия все равно не будет изобретена.

[@njorogefred150]

When there are no Wars, Us Humans can Achieve everything nice.

[@CatsAreAmazing8187]

Lmfaooo, the Vietnam war was going on

[@PurpleLover101]

Wars actually promote a lot of innovation in the technological field

[@sheikhAbdelrahman]

Technicians inhale great amount of soldering fumes!

[@rickhill6]

This music kinda make hug my wife from the back while she is cooking , and i don't even married.

[@C00LX100]

your english makes it even funnier

[@HolyFreakinDragonSlayer]

Your English is frightfully bad 😂

[@diahro1188]

Hello iam underwater plz help me

[@evgeni661]

You don't even English either

[@heyyo162]

then how is she your wife, if youre unmarried?

[@xalexander1996]

That’s how it was before the audio messaging went mainstream

[@peggyfranzen6159]

So? Anyone hear- knows " OHM'S law?

[@DarkVoidIII]

@@peggyfranzen6159 I know resistance is useless if it's less than 1 ohm. I'll see myself out! :-P

[@papabits5721]

Mmmmm lead smoke , those were the days

[@brainndamage]

The smoke from soldering is from flux which is embedded in the core of the solder, which is usually rosin (solidified tree sap). It helps to clean the metals being soldered so the solder adheres properly. The lead in tin-lead solder isn't vaporized at all, or just in very tiny, trace amounts. Still, working in a factory all day breathing in soldering fumes is harmful, more from the smoke from the burning flux than from lead, though it does result in some lead exposure. Back in those days a person would get much more lead from the polluted air from leaded gasoline than from soldering.

[@thomas-ud1fs]

@@brainndamage when the first reply is a phd level answer

[@zoomzabba452]

still is in my room. i do vent out the window.

[@PaulMarriott]

0:12 30 years later and this would’ve been the start of a TV infomercial for answering machines 😆

[@gautamk381]

Me Watching This Video on The Most Advance Version of That Telephone. It feels awesome.

[@dieseldragon6756]

You're making me tempted to see if I can get this video playing on one of those answering machines... 🙃

[@gautamk381]

@@dieseldragon6756 It's been 3 years since i posted that comment. I have a different telephone now and it is 10 times faster than that one.

[@USSR_1970]

"ЛЮДИ БЫЛИ СВОБОДНЕЙ , КОГДА ТЕЛЕФОНЫ БЫЛИ НА ПРИВЯЗИ !"(с)

[@neodiy]

That girl voice is legendary ...most of the pre-recorded message today not much different from her tone of voice

[@ArdyFrans]

I addicted to the background music

[@lsmartino]

I absolutely loved this video!

[@fishy6320]

The camera quality is amazong consirdering this was recorded in1959

[@Rayn3rEx3]

the dude was a barber yesterday now his a wall designer👏👏

[@chaosminecraft3399]

Lovely how old things work. I have a Soundblaster in my keyboard for music.

[@valentin5831]

Broo if they could see our phones, their jaws would be on the floor for an entire month

[@bimalbarui]

I love this gem channel.

[@mrsujon3753]

Now a neno-meter chip can do everything. Can't Imagine what comes after 50 years, when we become old.

[@dieseldragon6756]

My prediction would be 50 picometer chips in packages the size of a current surface-mount resistor, devices about 1/10th the size of todays, and prices about 100x that of tomorrows... 😉

[@gagassurya19]

And now we have a fully computer in your hand

[@freeman10000]

I am definitely looking forwards to the future now.

[@kingpiccolo1nzl]

Now we walk around on cell phones stepping into buckets n sh*t! 🤣🤣🤣 Genius invention btw! 🍻

[@jonathahot]

OMG! I did not wanted this video. I needed it!

[@ConexSpot]

Very thorough and good video!

[@Kelloliver]

"Small box"

[@jupriqodri7716]

cant imagin how a huge Box looks like

[@MoisesCaster]

At that time everything that was smaller than a refrigerator was considered small.

[@dieseldragon6756]

It's a *very* small box by my standards... 😇 (Sound of heavily outdated 15kg lead-acid 19" homebrew laptop built around a 90s desktop chassis being lifted off the desk... 🙃)

[@guitarpro248]

Lol I'm watching a video from '59 about an answering machine the size of a toaster oven, on my phone that's the size of a pack and a half of cigarettes by one cigarette thick.

[@peace7439]

Loved it ❤️

[@rsc9520]

It's amazing!

[@atlascheethac7869]

O my God i love his voice

[@dr.akbarhossain5602]

Excellent

[@HolowatyVlogs]

Oh lord those solder fumes!

[@infiniteloops1879]

Pandemic made me watch all this old films about how life got easier and what is inside of all these new gadgets. I wonder what will be the next round.

[@its.Sarthak101]

It's so lovely to see the fast

[@maggs131]

🤔 yeah... the slow isn't very interesting

[@HackingDutchman]

It all feels like a Disney movie.

[@CTON2022]

bc Disney is one of the few film makers that has survived till today

[@megabojan1993]

For tomorrow is the robot age! 60 years later and we still don't have any robots :(

[@peggyfranzen6159]

No problem for me.

[@peggyfranzen6159]

" The President's Analyst"- is hilarious, anyone up for the honest question? Why not be a human being who can for him or herself speak! Algorithms, I knew that @ MT.Prospect high school( What a total fraud.Yes.) So, for some sobering news.Our country and government is going the same way of the Roman empire.Take a look @ your pennies.They are not made of copper, only a thin layer above white metal.Give Morgan, and friends- all citizens reply" No Kidding."

[@martinsmartins7506]

We have a lot of robots. "Ok google", "hey siri", "alexa". We can google anything in seconds. We can bring our computers to anywhere, with it inside our pockets. We are already in the future. For people from that time, this is more than enough to be really good.

[@gavincurtis]

You got your Twitter and your Windows 10. You don’t need no damn robots, especially those sentient ones that could be your friend like in those dystopian movies. ...I want my money back.

[@dereenaldoambun9158]

Well we do got robots but not those super advanced sentient one.

[@katiktv]

Woow..amazing

[@ilyhavik]

До чего техника дошла! =)

[@SuperSqueakyboy]

Amazing technology

[@Ansemrp]

The answer phone can answer back, but it mustn't be rude.

[@andyyorath2732]

Twitter was clearly beyond human imagination in those days!😂

[@dieseldragon6756]

I wonder how long it was before consumers demanded the ability to record their own answerphone greetings? 😇 (On these machines that could possibly have been achieved by swapping the greeting tape onto the message recording path.)

[@sergeybetke8214]

Super History!!!

[@EVALDAS88]

Better than smartphone

[@Chuncy566]

Much much better then cell phones

[@markharrisllb]

It’ll never catch on!

[@FongersBB65]

Like the use of Meccano 😎

[@dieseldragon6756]

1959: Made in Camberley, Surrey. 🇬🇧 2019: Made in Camberley Street, Shenzen. 🇨🇳😉 I wish this factory still existed, though. I live near Camberley and have disabilities that make participation in any _Service-led economy_ functionally impossible for me. But I have a lot of technological skill and can handle discrete components very well, so having a job putting these together would be right up my street... *And* would allow me to earn my _own_ income, not be forced into redundancy-through-disability! 👍 Say what you like about todays times; Personally, I think we've moved _backwards._ 😇

[@ToolDroid]

Pov: you're in the future and you're just holding it RN

[@ratius1979]

The robot answer phone. I want one 🥰

[@zamor_da]

This is genius.

[@Cascadia007]

My brains cant hold up this

[@indrazable]

wow.. the first guy who invented the Answering Machine 😳

[@ardamutlu7]

Wow! It’s very modern

[@peggyfranzen6159]

Yeah, like Edison, Einstein, and Swiss Miss.

[@re4796]

"Swiss Miss" lmao

[@strangworldworld911]

Oohh that time 😢

[@karthikshinde6739]

Good old days

[@azmrblack]

Wow, look at all the Rosin fume when she was soldering. I wonder how many of them had asthma or other breathing issues later on...

[@nightfury1591]

Advanced technology at that time.

[@idmmxx1871]

Un chip! Agotado en busca de semiconductores!!!!!!👓😂

[@nursiswanto3247]

This is very modern..

[@FayazAhmad-yl6sp]

Yes these were modren telephones in those days

[@vijithviswambharan775]

omg... we come here from a long way ahead

[@mylovemeera6230]

Ultra and ultra legend are watching to in 2021

[@RespawnRestricted]

the days before the transistor..and a PCB would have made work so easy with a simple PCB

[@sheramivictoria6855]

Who noticed the number of women working I am encouraged and happy

[@sarahlouise7163]

you’re actually surprised? 😆

[@sheramivictoria6855]

@@sarahlouise7163 thinking about the female to male ratio by 2020 and the way men treat women in these industries yass

[@googleuser7454]

It wasn't like today though thankfully they were employed. Women were employed to do routine jobs that were in line with women's work but not often given many opportunities to move up. While many men experienced the same thing, the difference is that for roles like engineer or anything "too technical" most women weren't even considered for those roles since society didn't think they could handle it

[@xn0gaming]

The man depicted in the video was just 25 at the time.

[@cyng6734]

*So this is when the first voicemail exists.*

[@georgesmith5201]

The era before the PCB was wild. 1:30 made me uncomfortable.

[@sajutalk]

This video watching any 2021 people's

[@shadowdream1098]

90s peoples has much patience

[@omidd.70]

پسر ببین علم چقدر پیشرفت کرده . من فقط بچه بودم یادم میاد نوار کاست های کوچک که تو تلفن میزاشتن مثلا همون جای منشی تلفنی بود صدا رو ضبط میکرد . فامیلمون داشت از اونا وقتی کاستشو عوض کرد اون کاست کوچیک رو داد به من . یعنی نوار کاست خیلی کوچولو بود . یادش بخیر تکنولوژی اون زمان میگفتن تلفن طرف نوار کاست میخوره . پسر پیر شدیم رفت

[@megastorog]

Золотое время инженерии, не то что нынешнее племя с одноразовыми поделками

[@votographindonesia850]

Literally Ads, but much much better

[@cheythompson740]

Imagine what the people of this era would think of our mobile devices

[@HistoryandFacts]

Why they don't use the voice recorder application, 😄