Two peppy , Aryan teenagers learn how tomorrow ’s communication engineering science will help us live happily ever after in “ Century 21 Calling , ” a Bell Telephone promo film shot at the Seattle World ’s bazaar in 1964 . After disembarking the monorail , the kids pass through the fairground , gawking at foreigners and passing up the peepshow ( add up Elvis and essentially this is the plot of his 1963 movie , “ It Happened At The World ’s funfair ” ) .
The United States Science Exhibit is chock - full of elephantine rotating molecules and trained pigeon . Finally , the youngster jump line at the Bell Telephone pavilion and we learn about the Bell Boy , a brick - sized beeper for “ doctors , salesman , deliverymen ” ( you know , important people ) , as well as a slew of other phone services that are portray as making biography easy for housewives : autodialing , call wait , and league calling — all of which hail to pass , but not for another 15 or 20 years . Cell telephone set technology is peculiarly absent . Who wins the dialing race between blade - novel push button and old - fashioned orbitual model phones?Clickover to the Prelinger Archives to find out !
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