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Subject: Movie Excerpt / Ringing Phones
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I just now thought of this movie excerpt: "Bells Are Ringing" (made in
1950s?  starring the late Judy Holliday) starts off with scenes of
several women rushing to answer a ringing phone only to have the
ringing stop just before they got to the phone.  The idea there was to
have an answering service to pick up the phone when you could not.

(This is a little spinoff of the discussion about charging after a
certain number of rings even if the call is not answered.)


[Moderator's Note: That was a wonderful movie, and one seldcom seen on
television these days.   PAT]