General Electric "Build A Phone" 1984

commercial by Abel and Associates. I especially like the music which is a mish mash of Philip Glass and some lively metallic funk

[@sharonlawrence3095]

I was the actress in that commercial. It appeared during the Super Bowl. Would love to have a digital copy. I also was in one for the dishwasher but I can only find the shorter one called Son of Beep there is a longer one with three people in it. That also appeared in the Super Bowl.

[@gripsfingers]

Sharon Lawrence that's so cool!! How does it feel seeing yourself all these years later?

[@LINESTELECOMCORDEDTELEPHONES]

Great, happy to know that.. What's your age now ? Wishing you all the best

[@Nigel1993]

this ad is fucking beautiful

[@JennieLovedoll]

+Nigel Sullivan I like your comment. Besides, If you look at the GE logo really hard, it almost looks like 2 intertwining d👩👯👱s!!

[@TimeBaseCollector]

how are you going to call the Answer Center for help if your phone doesn't work HUH, GE?!?

[@LINESTELECOMCORDEDTELEPHONES]

*Happy to see such videos related to landline telephones.. We are in the field of landline telephones since 1996.. 💞 from INDIA 🇮🇳*

[@argentik82]

¡¡¡Qué tiempos para General Electric, para dominar el mundo!!!

[@DoctorFantasia]

I gotta get one of those phones.

[@JennieLovedoll]

When I was a child, I was afraid that the crystalline GE logo would trap me in a giant crystal like a fly encased in amber. Am I glad that I got over that fear.😲😵

[@JoshuaAndMom]

I love retro stuff

[@fideosfritos]

we use to have this phone in my house. It was remarkable...

[@italobambino43]

Yes, still a time when American companies offered a variety of useful items for the home, and some of it was still made here to. G-E still markets phones! I have a G-E answering center that is eleven years old now, it's design still looks cutting edge and works great, 32 number memory,speaker phone, hold, redial, talking alarm clock feature and a digital answering machine all included. I can even record a phone conversation, lol !

[@musicnerd72]

What gets me the most is the wife ducking under the phone cord... We did that same thing all the time back in the '80's.. We didn't know different back then.. It was normal. Long before cell phones! God I miss the old days!

[@mikekaraoke]

But cell/mobile phones came out in 1985, and in car phones 1983! So very confused.

[@musicnerd72]

@@mikekaraoke You're a little off with your timing.

[@mikekaraoke]

@@musicnerd72 What you mean lol??

[@musicnerd72]

@@mikekaraoke May have been around, but they didn't become popular till the 90s

[@mikekaraoke]

@@musicnerd72 If they never of became popular in the 80's, then they wouldn't be in pop culture from the 80's in TV documentaries/Radio interviews etc I remember the TV adverts as a kid, always mentioned on Teletext/Ceefax, posters on Buses/Trains, Music Videos etc I remember queueing for bloody ages with my dad outside Dixons to get his Motorola 8000X in the Summer of 1985! Would see people in the street with them, obviously nowhere near as many as now as even little kids have them but still! So I'm not a little off with the time frame at all. Even in the new TV series Gold that was about that bank Robbery it showed the car phone being used as it is in pop culture my uncle David had one of those in 1984. My uncle who worked dumping waste got the Nokia City-man in 1987! So again they were popular and also if they weren't companies like Vodafone, Nokia, BT etc would of gone out of bizz after a few months!

[@quakebox]

nice graphics, looks really good

[@daiamondorobotto9812]

Early Events Octennial Through the Ages in (1984) vs. Late Events Octennial Through the Ages in (1992)

[@aliensamuraipirate]

awsome graphics.

[@stormgirl09]

omg I think my parents had that clock radio phone at 0:57!

[@Oliver8bit]

crystalsculpture i want a dvd of this stuff!!!

[@dadsoldtapes]

im guessing that you can find another phone that's prolly what they are assuming you could do

[@haileyshannon7548]

That music sounds a little bit like Rush!

[@bitwize]

W.B. Brydon's voice?!

[@hyretech]

2 year warranty? My 2500 set (Western Electric) didn't NEED a warranty. Still going strong after 40 years.