Thanks to Diggy64 in the comments section of 2020’s article “PRAYphones Gone From Midtown Manhattan” we now know that work of the immortal scratchiti artist PRAY made an appearance in 1984’s Brother From Another Planet and other films as well. Here is PRAY’s appearance from that film, at about 44:38. Look for more discussion of…
A website visitor directed me to this phone booth scene from the 1985 film Witness, starring Harrison Ford. Ford is seen using a payphone in a phone booth at WL Zimmerman’s store (now Lestz Wholesale) in Lancaster County, PA. What makes this scene different from most is that the phone booth was not a prop…
A random but interesting collection of phone booth scenes from some movies I've watched either recently or not-so-recently. "One Night in Miami", "Stranger Than Fiction", "Absence of Malice", and "Three Days of the Condor" all include payphone and phone booth scenes of varying levels of interest. I mostly look for the payphone goofs, though, like Redford dialing 911 and connecting to a CIA call center.
Looks like most of the payphones formerly found on the side streets of Fifth Avenue from Rockefeller Center down to 42nd Street are gone. I found a few stragglers but don't expect them to last much longer. Also visited a couple of Third Avenue phones.
How do you make a long distance call from a payphone dialing only 5 numbers and depositing only one coin? Only Hollywood knows. And also, a real-world payphone seen in a Macualey Culkin film, and a small mystery involving a car wash in "Breaking Bad".
Nice to see the Queensbridge payphones, among last working public telephones in Western Queens, get some screentime in this short video from @PiifJones. Look for them. The phones, that is.
What a great film. I did not see the phone booth scene coming but guess I should have.
A brief window into New York's payphone past in a 1-minute piece about a 30-second payphone at Penn Station. At least one remnant of the 30-second payphone survives today, not working, of course, and not at Penn Station.
I thought I caught a payphone goof in this short scene from the movie “American Psycho”, filmed in 1999. I noticed that the actor dials a number but it’s only 7 digits. I thought mandatory ten-digit dialing had been around a lot longer than it has. Turns out it was not made mandatory in the…
A couple of scenes from the 1970 film "Airport", showing how many phone booths there used to be at the Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport, where much of this movie was filmed.
In this brief payphone scene Frank Murphy, played by Roy Scheider, remotely accesses his answering machine messages in a way that was once mundane but today might look foreign to many.
I think this is the first time I've seen a payphone in a movie or on television that I recognized and had actually used. Vestiges of this payphone still remain on Broadway near Crescent Street in Astoria, Queens.
New York City payphones make a couple of appearances in this violent, obscenity-filled movie.
An interesting scene which must be among the most recently-released films showing payphones as real-world present day objects. And also, a payphone movie fail near the end of the film, when a "New York Telephone" branded phone appears in a way that would not have happened in 2013, when the film was made.
Salma Hayek makes a somewhat frenzied payphone call in this 1997 romantic comedy. In this brief scene I might have spotted a little payphone goof I bet no one else has ever noticed.
Calling 212-142-8538 won't get you anything useful, but why let that spoil the fun of "John Wick 2"?
A very brief appearance of a phone booth in this 1977 film captures a cultural ritual that used to be obnoxiously common: Waiting for the payphone hog to get off the phone.
Payphones make a couple of appearances in "The Glitter Dome". The second scene is more interesting for its demonstration of an element of bar and payphone culture that has pretty well completely vanished.
A mildly intriguing phone booth scene from an unremarkable movie had me asking more questions about payphones than about the storyline unfolding on the screen.
This scene doesn't seem like much but it does play a pretty important part in the overall plot of Hitchcock's film released in 1951.
The phone booth scene from "9½ Weeks" leaves viewers more with the idea of the phone booth, not its haunting visual image. But then Kim Basinger is a lot more interesting to look at than a phone booth.
Vestiges of payphone behavior from an earlier generation are seen in this set of excerpts from "Sorry Wrong Number", a 1948 noir-like thriller starring Barbara Stanwyck and Bert Lancaster.
Barbara Baxley makes a phone call in the 1960 film "The Savage Eye".
Not a particularly remarkable appearance of a payphone in "The Big Easy" from 1986.
I felt a little duped by this film. I stuck with this movie because I figured a serial killer flick from the 1960s had to have at least one payphone or phone booth scene. Here it is.
There is a distinct tongue motif in this film. Look for it at 2:50 & 2:57 in this clip.
I find no connection between the video and the lyrics of the song. Regardless, Chaka Khan's "Hello Happiness" is beautiful to see and to hear.
The movie, a comedy about phone sex, obscene phone calls, and pornography, contains a couple of interesting appearances of phone booths that do not include nudity. Here they are.