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The Dial Comes To Town
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A 1940 Bell Telephone educational short teaching customers how to use their new dial phones and why the change was happening. It is a period piece about rolling out a new technology to ordinary people.
Cited as a charming example of the effort once made to teach the public a new technology, in threads about phones and teaching seniors.
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