Comments for "How to dial a rotary telephone (vintage howto)" Video at VideoSift.com

By swampgirl

swampgirl (http://swampgirl.videosift.com) — Fri, 02 May 2008 21:55:22 -0700

Curious, I was was going to tag this for my 30s playlist, but based on the models shown here http://www.arctos.com/dial/ could this be the late 20s?

By arvana

arvana (http://arvana.videosift.com) — Fri, 02 May 2008 22:38:50 -0700

I was wondering that when submitting it -- though I didn't go to the level of effort that you have to figure it out. It does look like the 1927 model, but it still could be the 30s by the time this particular exchange adopted them. I thought another clue might be the number of digits in the phone numbers they are using, but that also varied by exchange apparently: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_number#History

So I guess I'll tag it as both 20s and 30s until someone comes up with a more definitive answer!

By 8772

8772 (http://www.videosift.com/member/8772) — Mon, 05 May 2008 00:12:15 -0700

is it just me or is the door the woman comes out of absolutely massive?

By ant

ant (http://www.videosift.com/member/ant) — Mon, 05 May 2008 00:49:07 -0700

Dial tone sounds different.