This very worn and faded 16mm print is still a classic example of the kind of films I saw in school way back when. "I've fallen and I can't get up!!!" It's kids to the rescue - at home, on the ball field, everywhere... and lots of cool neato shots of the fire station and police dispatch switchboards. Looks like a lot of fun! Enjoy!
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Guess if you didn't have any pocket change, you were just screwed? By the time I came up, you could dial 0 or 911 without having to put money in a pay phone.
All these people are likely a bit smarter than people these days calling for help. And the operators are also more likely to be helpful. The technology is great these days, but I have to wonder if the response times are any better..
Things don't look for Bobby's Aunt. Both kids don't seem to have ever used a phone before. This is the world before 911… or touch tone. By the time the apparatus got to Joyce's place– the mom with the fire hose– must've gotten into the garage where… what happened now? She succumbed to the smoke is my guess.
My mother was a telephone operator when people had to jiggle the hang-up flipper and the operator answered it. Later I worked on a switchboard that had the long cables with plugs on the end and labeled sockets to plug into.
MY! you HAVE been busy lately! Thanks Fran. your work is appreciated. and your films are now preserved for all time. I have been a long time fan of the Prelinger Archive.. and of you 🙂
LOL everything is just simply 9 1 1 today (the US)
We lived in a small town for 2 years in the late 80s, their emergency number was 788-8888 (try dialing that quickly on a rotary… yeesh)
Is dialing zero for an opetator still even a thing today?
dial 0 for emergencies? this must have been made in January because google says "The first call to 911 was placed in February of 1968"
and it costs money for emergency calls? how many people died because no one had change, or not enough of it?
Good stuff.
Everything was manual.
My mom worked at a telephone company as an operator for awhile and she was bad about leaving the keys in the ignition at work.
My dad used to tell this story about an escaped juvenile delinquent that stole his newly purchased 1964 two door hardtop Chevrolet Malibu from her work. The boy got over 400 miles away before he was captured. Dad had to charter a small plane to go get the car and drive it back. I love seeing all those classic cars in these films.
There were some monster's on the road back then!
I watch reruns of one Adam 12 just to look at the cars.
Also to watch the culture and police interactions with citizens back then.
Good film, thanks again!
In Uk even before WWII we had one number to call a special operator to put us through to police, ambulance,fire and coast guard good old 999 which is also used in countries connected to UK. We can also dial 911 and 112 nowadays.
Today's Automatic Number Identification (non-blockable Caller ID), computerized location map display and keyboard entry dispatching has made a quantum leap forward in emergency services.
Loved it, especially the old radios and consoles.
However… Never send a child back into a burning building to call for help. HAHA we've come so far.
I remember from those days that we also had local phone numbers for police, ambulance and fire brigade that were pn the back side of the telephone directory and also often on stickers that you could stick on your phone…
Only later we got a unified emergency number 0611 later changed to 112.
We had the simple 999 number in the UK since 1937. 911 was being rolled out around at the time of this film. Both numbers are pretty much used worldwide now and mobile (cell) phones automatically recognise them and will connect to the nearest available network (regardless of your subscription).