Faboo 1927 silent film short instructing the residents of Fresno on what to do after the impending cut-over of the local phone system to (gasp!) dial phones. Includes instructions on such memorable subjects as:
- Looking up numbers in the phone book.
- What’s a dial tone.
- How to dial the phone (something our kids may need help with, too).
- How you shouldn’t dial the “dash” in the phone number.
- How you should have the receiver off the hook before you begin to dial.
- What a busy signal sounds like and what you should do if you get one.
It was like the Internet of the 1920s!
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