Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: paul@attunix.att.com (Paul Krzyzanowski) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Phones in the Movies Message-ID: Date: 19 Nov 89 01:51:51 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Bell Telephone Labs Lines: 14 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 520, message 10 of 12 In article , ckd%bu-pub.BU.EDU@ bu-it.bu.edu (Christopher K Davis) writes: > 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 that's out of date in _2001_ is the Bell System logo on the phone in 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]. Incidentally, the Bell System Picturephone in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey was designed with the help of John R. Pierce of Bell Laboratories, who designed the Telstar satellite. It looks rather formidable; there seem to be two keypads and a whole slew of instructions below the screen (16 bullet items!).