Plane Talk (1965)

★★★★★ · Plane Pillow Talk? · Spuzz · 2004-02-23

I love this film, as it shows the up-to-the minute details of plane travel circa 1965. We see many plane companies not flying anymore, eg, Eastern, Western etc. and we also get to see many airport stylings of the time. Essentially, this film follows a man who is flying from Chicago to Los Angeles. When he gets to the airport, the counter person INSTANTLY knows, without checking the ticket the guy's name AND where he's going, now if that's not customer service, I don't know what is. He gets an earlier flight home, and he makes a call on a rotary pay phone which looks like a darn relic now. The…

★★★★★ · 60's high technology at it's best! · TheHOODLUM · 2004-06-22

If you want to know what the state of the art electronic systems were like in the 60's then this film is a muct see. The use of analog and electromechanical devices is shown in many scenes. Footage inside a central office even have the sounds of the equipment working, most noticable, the marker on a crossbar telephone switch. The footage of the airplanes is great too.

★★★ · Rock and Doris..for real??? · Steve Carras · 2009-04-13

Interesting use of Rock and Doris..yeah, not then.. the usual Fairbanks's use of the familiar stock production music, the first of which was on early Hanna-Barbera shorts, is there. Narrator and Fairbanks regular Larry Thor was on a particularly funny "Gilligan's Island" episode aorund this time as a radio announcer [in the episode where Gilligan finds a space camera.]

★★★ · Phone talk · Steve Nordby · 2003-10-03

A 1965 AT+T film about the wonders of the Jet age and how the telephone is what makes it all work. Push button phones, credit card calls, tel-a-dex, reservation systems... Nice shots of the high technology of the 1960's that seem... hmmm "quaint". I would have rated this a notch higher if the film were not so extremely discolored (and dusty).