On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:44 AM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Hank Fung <[email protected]> wrote: > >> You can try to look through Celebrities with Phones: >> http://www.phonelosers.org/cwp/ - and go through there. Hasn't been >> updated in a long time but interesting. >> > > That helped a little. > > I see Courtney Coz on a corded phone in 1994's "Ace Ventura: Pet > Detective". I see Drew Barrymore in 1996's "Scream" in two phone-photos, > one corded, the other (apparently) cordless. I see Fran Drescher as "The > Nanny" with a corded phone, but undated, so could be anywhere from > 1993-1999. I see Rene Z. in 1996's Jerry McGuire with a corded phone. > > I am going to tentatively concluded that corded phones were used most > often in movies/TV through around 1996, which is when I see the first > cordless appearance. It may have been a few more years before they were > ubiquitous. >
This doesn't necessarily answer the question, but I did remember Jaime Weinman of MacLeans musing about this. http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/11/01/delayed-by-storm-stop-signed-fearless-freep/ Seinfeld is given as the example of a show where a lot of their plots wouldn't work today because of them. Looking it up on Wikipedia, they say "The Bottle Deposit" from 1996 was the first episode where one of the main characters uses a cell phone. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bottle_Deposit -- Wesley McGee http://www.ambivi.com http://sterlingnorth.vox.com http://drawing-a-blank.tumblr.com Twitter: @westwit G+: http://plus.google.com/113413697748381364954 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/wesleymcgee -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
