Sujet : 1930s-40s movies with fancy Regency phones?
De : lenona321 (at) *nospam* yahoo.com (Lenona)
Groupes : rec.arts.movies.past-filmsDate : 17. Jun 2025, 16:37:12
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I THINK those are the movies I saw them in, most often...
How many such movies can you name?
What's odd is that when I looked up Regency phones in eBay, they mostly
seem to be post-1960. (They could be reproductions, of course.)
Googling with "Hollywood" or "movies" didn't help.
For those who don't know, they tended to be white, sometimes with gold
trim, and J-shaped.
Like these:
https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=8900ff206bef6d47&rlz=1CAKDDB_enUS1167&udm=2&fbs=AIIjpHxU7SXXniUZfeShr2fp4giZ1Y6MJ25_tmWITc7uy4KIeioyp3OhN11EY0n5qfq-zEMZldv_eRjZ2XLYc5GnVnMEIxC4WQfoNDH7FwchyAayyjBoEAUjp5qAp9Bs219rFMoN-xgggwTpQAOJ75-XXNJQX3_GGwqxv-TDJWt8rveuSdeEIcwdQ8JyXTbmd7pYsu9rc3uJmI8eVwgY1RlWM0bxyDuKow&q=regency+phone&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiH3tGM4viNAxVojokEHa_TMt4QtKgLegQIHRAB&biw=1366&bih=633&dpr=1Does anyone know when that particular receiver-shape was invented?
(If anyone's interested, the first "candlestick" desk set was invented
in the 1890s; it was far more convenient for people who needed to sit
while making calls. But it wasn't until 1920 that phones with dials
became available, and it was probably another 8 years before the
earpiece and the mouthpiece were no longer separate, and so, even the
everyday phones in many 1930s movies still look remarkably modern -
relatively speaking.)