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Pelo Telefone (Donga)
A Desert Span, Building Trunk Telephone Lines (AT&T)
The Tele Skater Girls
Phone Pioneers Talk Telephone
The World's Switchboard!
Introduction to the Dial Telephone (AT&T)
Jean Arthur in Easy Living
The Voice of the City (Operators)
Operator! 1938 video profiling operators.
The Voder - Homer Dudley (Bell Labs) 1939
A Modern Aladdin's Lamp, About Vacuum Tubes (Western Electric)
Pennsylvania 6-5000 (Glenn Miller & His Orchestra)
Modern Caravans (Laying cross-country cable)
Newfoundland Long Lines, a WWII Film (U.S. Army / AT&T)
War and the Telephone (AT&T)
Television and The Telephone, Microwave Broadcasting
Telephone Courtesy
Its a Wonderful Life phone call
A Million Times a Day
Western Electric Mobile Telephone Service video
Movie Theater Newsreel (AT&T)
Crystal Clear
Bottle of Magic (The Vacuum Tube)
Sorry, Wrong Number
Instructional film for operators
Cable to Cuba, Laying Undersea Cable (AT&T)
Telephone Blues (Sonny Terry)
The Step-By-Step Switch
Lucy Gossips on the Phone
Claude Shannon demonstrates "Theseus" Machine Learning @ Bell Labs (High Quality)
The Transistor (Bell System)
Dia M For Murder phone scene
Now You Can Dial
Dialing the Nation (AT&T)
The Bell Solar Battery
Is Your Phone Tapped?
A Surreal Look at Telephone Switching
Submarine Cable Systems Development
Queen Calls Edinburgh
Cable to the Continent, the Second Transatlantic Telephone Cable
Modern Telephone
The Far Sound, a History of Long Distance Communications (AT&T)
MATTER WAVES & PHYSICS BELL LABS FILM w/ ALAN HOLDEN & LESTER GERMER SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS 19534
Astronaut Scott Carpenter talks to JFK
JFK calls Eisenhower about the Cuban Missile Crisis
JFK calls Eisenhower as the missile crisis ends
JFK calls Truman about ending the missile crisis
JFK on integrating the University of Mississippi
Beechwood 4-5789 (The Marvelettes)
Don't Hang Up (The Orlons)
JFK angry call about furniture
LBJ talks to J. Edgar Hoover after JFK assassination
LBJ calls Jackie Kennedy: You give me strength
LBJ pressures Richard Russell to serve on the Warren Commission
LBJ and Gerald Ford on the Warren Commission
LBJ and Katharine Graham
JFK and RFK phone call (Bay of Pigs review)
JFK calls Sen. Mansfield about the Test Ban Treaty
JFK and Robert McNamara on defense matters
Lonesome 7-7203 (Hawkshaw Hawkins)
TV Telephone
LBJ orders pants from Haggar Slacks
LBJ and McNamara on the Gulf of Tonkin
LBJ and Senator Russell on Civil Rights and Vietnam
LBJ calls Robert F. Kennedy
LBJ and Senator Russell on doubts about Vietnam
Dr. Strangelove Phone Call with Russian President
Electronic Switching System Debut (Bell System)
Genesis of the Transistor (Bell Labs)
LBJ calls Adam Clayton Powell
LBJ calls Martin Luther King Jr. on voting rights
Get Smart Shoe Phone
LBJ and George Wallace on the Selma march
Answering the Batphone
LBJ and Eisenhower on Vietnam
634-5789 (Wilson Pickett)
842-3089 Call My Name (Etta James)
The Astonishing, Unfailing Bell System
LBJ and Mayor Richard Daley
LBJ confronts Nixon about Anna Chennault / Vietnam peace talks
LBJ-Nixon post-election call
Under London Trunk Telephone
Wichita Lineman (Glen Campbell)
Nixon calls Armstrong/Aldrin on the moon
Pollution (Western Electric)
Lily Tomlin makes calls on Laugh In ('One Ringy Dingy')
Moon Orbit Communications, Apollo 8 (AT&T)
Debut of the First Picturephone (AT&T)
London Telephone Exchange
Nixon and Reagan: "Those monkeys" call about the UN
Nixon and Kissinger on the China initiative (early planning)
Nixon and Kissinger on Laos & China
Nixon and Mitchell pick Rehnquist for Supreme Court
Nixon and Mitchell on a woman on the Supreme Court
LBJ-Nixon Christmas Day call
Bless The Telephone (Labi Siffre)
All Kinds of People (AT&T)
Nixon and Kissinger on the opening to China
Nixon and Kissinger: "Kick the s*it out of North Vietnam"
Nixon calls Mark Felt (Deep Throat) after Wallace shooting
Operator (Jim Croce)
Reagan calls Nixon supporting him during Watergate
Nixon breaks down over Watergate firings (Bill Rogers)
Drunk Nixon calls Haldeman over Watergate
Nixon calls Pat Nixon: Vietnam War ends
Ring Ring (ABBA)
Careers: Service Representative (AT&T)
Careers: Line Worker (AT&T)
Careers: Toll Operator (AT&T)
The Engineer (AT&T)
Carol Burnett: Phone Operator
Rikki Don't Lose That Number (Steely Dan)
President Ford speaks to Apollo-Soyuz astronauts
Lilly Tomlin (Ernestine) on The Cher Show
Operator (Manhattan Transfer)
Taxi Driver phone call scene
A 1976 interview with former Bell Labs scientist John R. Pierce
Single Sideband, Microwave Transmission (AT&T)
Design Line Promo (AT&T)
Lightwave (AT&T)
Telephone Line (Electric Light Orchestra)
Telephone Man (Meri Wilson)
High Anxiety phone scene
Telephone Office Planning and Engineering System (Bell Labs)
Advanced Mobile Phone Service (AMPS)
The Copper Trail (AT&T)
Good-Bye, Central
Phone Phreak Captain Crunch — Rare 1978 Interview
Hanging on the Telephone (Blondie)
5.7.0.5. (City Boy)
Interview with Nobel Laureates Robert Wilson and Arno Penzias - AT&T Archives
Tour of AT&T's Network Operations Center (AT&T)
How Pacific Bell Prepared for West Coast Earthquakes
Person of Interest - Finch Phone Phreaking scene
Switchboard Susan (Nick Lowe)
London Calling (The Clash)
6060-842 (The B-52s)
Inventing the Negative Feedback Amplifier (AT&T)
We Make Telephones (Western Electric)
Call Me (Blondie)
AT&T Archives: Invention of the First Electric Computer
Neighbors prank call scene
867-5309/Jenny (Tommy Tutone)
UNIX: Making Computers Easier To Use (Bell Labs)
ET phones home
777-9311 (The Time)
Viewtron Introduction, Viewdata Corporation (AT&T)
Reagan calls Margaret Thatcher to apologize
SNL: Lilly Tomlin does a Ma Bell house call
WarGames (1983) — Payphone soda-tab hack scene
WarGames (1983) — War Dialing scene
Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair) (Sheena Easton)
1983 Telephone Strike
Speedy Cutover Service, SXS to ESS (AT&T)
How to Install Modular Jacks by Yourself (AT&T)
Reagan calls Space Shuttle Discovery astronauts (STS-41D)
I Just Called to Say I Love You (Stevie Wonder)
Mr. Telephone Man (New Edition)
Operator (Midnight Star)
Nightmare on Elm Street
Designing, Building and Testing the Trimline Phone (AT&T)
Reagan calls Nellie Gray and the March for Life rally
After Hours phone call scene
Don't Lose My Number (Phil Collins)
Sex Over The Phone (Village People)
Ferris Bueller prank call
Calling America (Electric Light Orchestra)
Wall Street "wake-up call"
Telephone Call From Istanbul (Tom Waits)
Inventing the Laser (Bell Labs)
100th Anniversary of the Payphone
Callin' Baton Rouge (New Grass Revival)
The Simpsons: Jacques Strap Prank Call
The Simpsons: Al Coholic Prank Call
The Simpsons: Oliver Clothesoff Prank Call
The Simpsons: Seymour Butz Prank Call
The Simpsons: Mike Rotch Prank Call
Calling Elvis (Dire Straits)
The Simpsons: Hugh Jazz Prank Call
The Simpsons: Bea O Problem Prank Call
The Simpsons: Amanda Hugginkiss Prank Call
The Simpsons: Ivana Tinkle Prank Call
Sneakers (1992) — Whistler phone-hacking scene
The Jerky Boys: Who the hell is Frank Rizzo?
Star 69 (R.E.M.)
Seinfeld: Kramer Becomes The Moviefone Man
Pierre Brassard pranks Queen Elizabeth II
Homer Simpson makes calls (Robodialer episode)
Scream
Jerry Maguire "Show me the money"
Swingers phone call scene
Phony Calls ("Weird Al" Yankovic)
Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand (Primitive Radio Gods)
The Secret History of Hacking (Discovery Channel doc)
Phil Lapsley: History of Phone Phreaking 1960–80 (The Last HOPE 2008)
Phil Lapsley: Cats and Mice — The Next HOPE 2010
Captain Crunch — A Historical Look at Phreaking (HITB 2012)
Unboxing Steve Wozniak's Blue Box (Henry Ford Museum)
Steve Wozniak Phreaks Out On The History Of Hacking
LBJ pressures Gerald Ford on Foreign Aid
Wozniak Meets Steve Jobs: Blue Box Free Calls Worldwide
Kevin Mitnick: Hacking from Solitary Confinement
A Call From Joybubbles (Joe Engressia)
Original Blue Box demonstration
2600? How Phreaking Really Worked
2015 Distinguished Alumni Academia and Government Elizabeth Bailey
Larson Collection interview with Arthur L. Schawlow
Communications Satellites Documentary - AT&T Archives
LEE LECTURE: CHU, Steven, “A random walk into laser cooling, optical trapping and beyond” - 04/25/23
Charles H. Townes (Conversations with History)
Exciting Number Sequences
Esther Conwell - 2009 National Medal of Science
E.A.T.: Experiments in Art & Technology,1960-2001
AT&T Archives: Dr. Walter Brattain on Semiconductor Physics
An evening with Phil Anderson (2008)
AT&T Archives: The Physical Chemistry of Polymers
Oral History of Robert "Bob" Kahn Part 1
Charles Townes - Nobel Laureate Lecture at MIT 2001
Laser Cooling - From Atomic Clocks to Watching Biomolecules with Steven Chu
Vannevar Bush Dean's Medal Lecture: Richard H. Frenkiel, E63
Convolutional Network Demo from 1989
Estill World VoiceSymposium 2013 Osamu Fujimura Honor
Encouraging the next generation of Black scientists | William Massey | TEDxCarnegieLake
Crystallographers in Conference 1965: L.H. Germer
2020 Mildred S. Dresselhaus Lecture: Evelyn Hu, Harvard University
deeplearning.ai's Heroes of Deep Learning: Yann LeCun
Photovoltaic effect discovered by Russell Ohl in 1940.
Louis Brus Nobel Prize Address on Quantum Dots
William Shockley Interview, 1969
Space Weather Journal Origins Interview with Lou Lanzerotti
Communications Milestone: Charged Coupled Devices (with Bonus Edition Introduction) - AT&T Archives
William Massey: The Legacy of the Black Scientific Renaissance in the 70's 80's and 90's
Bell Labs' Research (Prof Brian Kernighan) - Computerphile
AT&T Archives: The Bell Solar Battery (Bonus Edition)
IAS Distinguished Lecture: Prof Evelyn Hu (13 Jun 2014)
12 Hamming, Learning to Learn: Error-Correcting Codes, 21 April 1995
Discovery of "p--n Junction"
AT&T Archives: The Inventors of the Transistor Discuss Their Success
Part 1: Laurie Spiegel Bell Labs Interview 1984
Discovering the Cosmic Microwave Backgroundwith Robert Wilson | CfA
Drs. Simon Sze & Dawon Kahng: Flash Memory Pioneers | AASF Pioneer Medal Ceremony
Nobel Prize lecture: Louis Brus, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023
The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences: The First Hundred Years Part 1
FPS Prize Session: Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson
Kahn and Cerf on why the ARPANET was built
Marcus Weldon interviews Yann LeCun about his career
ISCA Medal Talk by Bishnu S. Atal - Part 2
Amos Joel 2012 Induction Video
ISCA Medal Talk by Bishnu S. Atal - Part 1
Failed Visions and Unexpected Adaptations
"C" Programming Language: Brian Kernighan - Computerphile
31 Hamming, Learning to Learn: You and Your Research, 6 June 1995
Oral History of Robert "Bob" Kahn Part 2
2009 Nobel Prize lecture by George E. Smith in physics
Tech Icons: Robert Wilson
Round Table Discussion about the Life and Science of Philip W. Anderson
Symposium E.A.T. : "Historiciser" (partie 1) avec Billy Klüver et Hans Ulrich Obrist
Innovation and New Jersey: Robert Lucky TEDxNavesink2013
Willard Boyle - Nova Scotia's Science Hall of Fame 2003
UCLA Distinguished Lecturer Series - Robert W. Lucky, Bellcore, April 1994
Shirley A Jackson
Shirley Ann Jackson - 2014 National Medal of Science
PN junction and space charge discovered by Russell Ohl.
ECE DLS Lecture - Richard Frenkiel
Part 2: Laurie Spiegel Bell Labs Interview 1984
Coaxial! How was the first telephone network built?
A Number Sequence with Everything - Numberphile
Charles H. Townes' moment of discovery, Nobel Prize in Physics 1964
UNIX Special: Profs Kernighan & Brailsford - Computerphile
Laurie Spiegel - Waveshaper TV Ep.6 (Part 1 of 3: Bell Labs)
On Representing Acoustics of Speech for Speech Processing – Bishnu Atal (UW) - 2009
Quantum Technologies: Up-ending the ABCDE’s - Evelyn Hu
VODER (1939) - Early Speech Synthesizer
The Design of C++ , lecture by Bjarne Stroustrup
Nyquist - the amazing 1928 BREAKTHROUGH which showed every communication channel has a capacity
Bicycle Built For Two, 1961 | Max V. Mathews
A Public Lecture Celebrating Claude E. Shannon - Sergio Verdu
VCF East: Ken Thompson interviewed by Brian Kernighan
The Shannon Limit - Bell Labs - Future Impossible
The Genesis of the Transistor, with Bonus Introduction - AT&T Archives
Arno Penzias: The Sound of Creation | CUNY Laureates
Speaker Series: Marian Croak
Oral History: Ken Thompson on Co-creating Unix, C’s Origins, and the Go Programming Language
Spark of Genius: The Story of John Bardeen
Creator of C++: Bell Labs, Negative Overhead Abstraction, Mistakes | Bjarne Stroustrup
Change for the Greater Good: The Marian Croak Story
Arno Penzias, Nobel Prize in Physics 1978: Interview recorded in 2004
Pushing the Limits of Technology: The Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie Story
2026 NCWIT Pioneer in Tech Award Celebration: Marian Croak
Learning about how the universe was born: The story of the Horn Antenna
Max Matthews on MUSIC I - the beginning of computer music - Bell Labs
Interview with Arno Penzias, tape 1
Max Matthews, presiding over Bicycle Built for Two
A Legacy of Transcendence and Technology: The James West Story
Marian Croak’s Hall of Fame Induction
AT&T Archives: The UNIX Operating System
C++20: C++ at 40 - Bjarne Stroustrup - CppCon 2019
UNIX memoir, in first person - Ken Thompson
Claude Shannon - Father of the Information Age
Tech Icons: Claude Shannon