{"id":3008,"date":"2017-07-23T17:53:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T21:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themuseumoftelephony.wordpress.com\/?p=3008"},"modified":"2025-09-11T22:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T03:25:13","slug":"vintage-video-atts-production-of-consumer-telephones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/vintage-video-atts-production-of-consumer-telephones\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Video: AT&#038;T&#8217;s Production of Consumer Telephones"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Designing, Building and Testing the AT&amp;T Trimline Phone - AT&amp;T Archives\" width=\"636\" height=\"477\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SbGZP4LcsaI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>This is one of my favorite classic AT&amp;T video of designing, testing and producing AT&amp;T telephones post Divestiture. I don&#8217;t recall posting this before, but this is kinda cool.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s strange is most corporate video moved from film to video such as Betacam, but AT&amp;T was still on film till the end of the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s modern world of consumerizaton means disposing things in shorter time because plastics and printed boards are similar to a Michael Kors bag, because technology is a fashion. We have to replace it to be &#8220;secure&#8221; to be on &#8220;the latest and greatest&#8221; because the latter will always enable strong &#8220;security&#8221; &#8211; in the sales and innovation units of course!<a href=\"https:\/\/themuseumoftelephony.wordpress.com\/features\/rants\/prokop-nerdtel-user\/\"> Nortel types tend to vintage shame.<\/a> I find it unprofessional for people to vintage shame. \u00a0I do not agree with things of this nature. I also don&#8217;t have a problem if a phone is old as I am, if it works, why are we shaming people?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of my favorite classic AT&amp;T video of designing, testing and producing AT&amp;T telephones post Divestiture. I don&#8217;t recall posting this before, but this is kinda cool. What&#8217;s strange is most corporate video moved from film to video&hellip;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/vintage-video-atts-production-of-consumer-telephones\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[38,39,158,984],"class_list":["post-3008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-1980s","tag-1980s-video","tag-att","tag-vintage-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7321,"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions\/7321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickford.net\/telephony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}