Century 21 Calling - Bell Labs promo film

[CrandMackerel]

3:31 She seems awfully excited about that DNA.

I'm ust sayin'....

[Jwend392]

2:14 "Great, gifts from Germany? Braunschweiger, cars with heaters that don't work, and identification papers."

[teenonator]

The burlesque show at 2:48 was emceed by Totie Fields...a risque puppet show called "Poupees de Paris" also appeared

[Nedspodos]

My brother actually has this. 11:14

[Nedspodos]

@Nedspodos He has a special thermostat that is connected to a home brain center that is called CONTROL 4. In which he can control all his media, TVs, lights and thermostats. He can dial from his cell phone to change his thermostat.

[thechairman123]

Did she really have to molest the asian lady?

[kraorh]

A young Mike Nelson!

[savemyplaylist]

america used to be so clean and kick so much ass. Now it's just tired and worn out like some sloppy whore.

[hormelinc]

Aren't the kids holding hands too much? Brothers and Sisters are not supposed to be so close, especially at the end!!! No Hotel Rooms Allowed! :)

[cactus337]

@hormelinc he was totally hittin' that.

[scruffziller]

It was a happier time becasue the future looked so glamorous and our hoping and imagination made us smile in the longing for the wonderous. Now that we have all this stuff now, its like ehhhh........ :(

[nickelindimer]

@scruffziller Yesterday's future (The Present) wouldn't be so bad if the culture reflected the advancing technology better... Like it did in the '80s!

[fubsfubs]

Tell you what watch this then play through Fallout 3 to see where it all went wrong LOL

[BradiKal61]

Wasn't this later re-titled, as "The sickeningly perky kids who got way too excited about everything"?

[QuantumStranger]

They Invented call waiting. Yay!!

[ignoblius]

That pigeon at 4:10 is smarter than 80% of the people who post comments on YouTube.

[Maryjus]

Triode

[Maryjus]

Triode

[radiorob1]

What was that at 12:00? Is that an actual electronic component, or just some gizmo made by the prop dept.?

[scruffziller]

A network of diodes.

[freesandwich]

LOL the kid tried to go to a peepshow

[Ginyu]

In 1990 I had a lame pager that didn't have a display so you had to know who was calling you lol,was way behind the times even then.

[Ichkovitch]

This looks great; I can't wait for 1962.

[MikeSorice]

I know! It looks like it's gonna be great in 1962! It's just so future-ey and awesome-ful! Whoopie!

[theprophet20]

I was there once, I mean in the year 1962, never to return, alas...

[luridplanet]

At the exhibit, you had the opportunity to experience listen to what a 1910 phone sounded like - sort of like modern cell phone. God that makes me laugh!

[mumicimo]

cool! thanx for the flashback!!

[grecomic]

Sounds like a title for an instructional film for realtors!

[luridplanet]

Very nostalgic to me. I went into the Bell Labs exhibit at the Seattle World's Fair.

[austinitesince1979]

look honey, it's a phone! let's cut in line so we can see the pigeon operator!

[lakewalker11]

Actually, most of the featres here---beepers, call waiting, call forwarding, speed dialing---are still in use to one degree or another. So, the old Bell System really was on the threshold of the future back then...Was this filmed at Expo in Montreal? The Seattle World's Fair?

[weirdovideos]

Seattle.

[norhetoric1]

@weirdovideos You are right, The only thing that stopped them from introducing them was misguided FCC regulators

[samaytara]

wow this is amazing!

cell phones would blow these peoples minds. thank you for the video!