Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!rutgers!texbell!attctc!vector!telecom-gateway From: ckd%bu-pub.BU.EDU@bu-it.bu.edu (Christopher K Davis) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Phones in the Movies Message-ID: Date: 15 Nov 89 07:20:12 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 16 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 511, message 8 of 9 >>>>> On 11 Nov 89 20:13:08 GMT, ssc-vax!clark@beaver.cs.washington.edu >>>>> (Roger Clark Swann) said: Roger> I caught a couple of movies this past week on the local movie channel Roger> that are of interest to this group... Roger> The first one was Blade Runner with Harrison Ford. [...description Roger> of some sort of video-speakerphone deleted, except for...] The Roger> kicker was the placard that said "VID PHONE" with the BELL SYSTEM Roger> (TM) - the outline of a bell inside a circle. No AOS stuff here.... I seem to remember Arthur C. Clarke, or Stanley Kubrick, or someone (my brain-grep comes up with Clarke's _The Odyssey Files_ book on the making of 2010, but I'm not certain) saying that "the only thing that's out of date in _2001_ is the Bell System logo on the phone in the space station." [paraphrase].