Old Bell educational film on how to use a dial phone. It’s pretty amusing and totally safe for work.
I have to dial my own phone? part one
I have to dial my own phone? part two
So why didn’t they have town meetings to teach us how to use our cell phones??? :mad:
If you need an instructional video on how to use your cell phone it’s too complicated. All you really need is a dialpad, send, and end.
You do know I was joking, right? Did you watch the videos?
Although it is sort of an interesting point.
The idea that we would go to town meetings, or that a company would have some sort of all-encompassing national campaign to teach us how to use a new product, is completely alien to us today, but apparently it was accepted as a matter of course back then.
Granted, all we’re seeing is the reactions of scripted actors in this video. I wonder if people really did attend these kinds of meetings and if these types of movies really were shown nationwide.
Obviously corporate money was spent to make this video. I wonder it this was to meet some FCC requirement? Maybe Bell figured that it was such a drastic change that people had to be somehow educated in it’s use.
Wow, I can’t wait until this comes to my town!
We don’t use the dial in my neighborhood, we still talk into the phone & say “dial ___”; of course, instead of lifting the earpiece, we start the sequence by pressing a button on the steering wheel. 
My cell phone is up to date!
Found it in one piece.
The wireless provider I work for holds a device workshop once a month in corporate owned stores. My store has one on the second Saturday of every month. All customers are welcome no matter the age of the phone. The workshop is free. We get around 20 customers each month. I don’t know why other wireless providers do not do the same.
I think I have an intergenerational crush on Miss White now. 
Yes, but do they have a giant cellphone with sound effects to teach you how to dial? 
Ma Bell made a ton of educational films like this. Not sure where they may have been shown - probably before movies instead of a cartoon and/or newsreel.
Used to be you’d pick up the phone and it was a party line and you’d ask the operator to dial further than just the local neighborhood. No dials. Direct dial, that is, without live operator assistance, was at one time a new thing.
Yep, and if you wanted privacy on your call you had to trick the eavesdroppers into running outside to look for the sky-writer!
My father used to love to tell about how his father (my grandfather) would say “I’m not sure if we should talk with all these danged rubberneckers on the line”, at which point you’d hear a bunch of clicks as all of the eavesdroppers hung up.