I started at the good ole GPO in 1975 too as an Operator, (Northwich Cheshire).. yes good old days I loved my job and carried on with BT. I am still friends with my 1st engineer boyfriend...he is 71 I am 65...we had fun in the (re)(Peter) station😉.. as I say as that is his name. Nothing like working on cords..computers didn't do it for me,but tech moves on..fantastic streams..I am engrossed watching..very clever mechanicals... .you engineers certainly knew your stuff that's for sure !
I vote no, having to dial my own call, next thing I'll be asked to scan my own groceries and bag them myself. I don't know anybody's phone number now. I just ask Google to call and it rings, just like the operator that only knows how to say collect or person-to-person, a strange thing still available with unlimited calling everywhere now the pay phones are gone everyone carries their own little personal tracker.
Well now I know why our touch tone phones in the 80s/90s had the pulse/tone button... Because at least some exchanges still had mechanical machines relying on those pulses. That's pretty crazy!
9:20 "This machinery will work 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, clattering on year after year until new electrical discoveries replace it." They got that prediction right.
Such modern science! I noticed - maybe for the film sensitivity - that they must have used a lot of face foundation and powder on the guys, as non of them had a 5 o'clock shadow. No hint of whiskers.
I wonder how many people watch the intro and dont realise thats not cgi, or a film set, its two real sky divers 20,000ft up, falling to earth holding a flag. legends just for doing that, and the producers of the day were legends for asking them!
Was this the year TV-AM used their own short sample of "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" to go into the adverts? Ann & Nick - the best couple on the TV-AM sofa. Nobody ever got close to replicating the warmth and friendliness of the pair....even if Nick loved taking the mickey out of Wincey Willis!!
BTW. there were dial candlestick phones in some cities of the US even before talkie movies. Yep! Mid-1927: go to ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-740J5kyXM9U.html and enjoy!
Pretty sure I watched this, or one of the christmases - Paul McCartney was there; and Philpott-Smith who usually did the weather was playing piano and they all sang Carols. It was pretty cheerful - for a bunch of people who should have been at home with their families In the lead-up to XMAS, Anne and Nick (I used to actually like them) kept on showing us excerpts from "The Snowman" - perhaps on the year it came out. A much classier time...although I'm not sure I thought so by 1986
I wish there was time machine around to go back to the 1980s I miss the 1980s so much still do to this day and always will much much better now I hate today life
This is certainly from Christmas Day 1985, I checked the TV Times from Christmas 1985, and from the line up Anne and Nick state here is what is printed for Christmas Day 1985 in the TV Times. They do however say TV-am came on the air at 6.15am for Cartoon Time, wall to wall cartoons until the proper programme started at 7.00am.
This seems to me to have been pre-recorded probably in the afternoon of probably 23rd December and then played out by TV AM on Christmas morning. There would have been a handful of staff in the TV AM centre, with news presenter and technical staff, but the Anne and Nick parts, interviews etc were all pre-recorded. None of them would want to spend Christmas morning in Camden dock.
Fact of the matter 911 was a New millennium Project Northwoods attack orchestrated by PNFAC/Pentagon neocons. If you believe a jet can magically disappear into the steel frames of a building and a tank of jet fuel can then melt steel ,you are stupid as fuck. Which the majority of Americans are.
