Comments by "Ginny Jolly" (@ginnyjollykidd) on "Faking It: The Obviously Dubbed Telephone Ring" video.

  1. The phone rings also sound like little bits of the sound were cut out of each strike of the clapper on each bell. I had a Trimline, and the rings were much clearer, the tone much longer lasting between strikes. And it would be cool to have some better rings of these bells available for Foley art.
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  2. Why did you hit the zero first on the touchtone? Zero would only bring up the operator if you hit it first.
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  3. While other countries dial 1 to call into the US? That would explain advertised 10-digit numbers adding a 1 prefix to the phone number. In fact, before cell phones, in order to access an area code out of your LAN (LATA?), you had dial 1 + area code +7 digit number. I could call the next county over with a 7-digit number, but outside that county and a little bleed - over to similar surrounding residences (including the next state), I had to use the 10—digit number. In the next area code, 1+area code had to be used. That was a long - distance call.
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  4. Before cell phones, you could pay as much as 25¢ a minute for a long - distance call, but if you made one after 7:00 pm, the cost dropped to 10¢ a minute. Businesses in those days operated 9-5. Toll free numbers were a big deal because they didn't charge you for long distance. (Not sure if that holds for metered cell service.) It was lasso possible to make a collect call where you "reverse the charges." The operator would call the number and ask if the recipient would accept or not. Station - to - station or person - to - person collect calls were different, too. Station-to - station, anybody answering could accept. But if person - to - person, the specific person called had to come to the phone and accept the charges or the call wouldn't go through.
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  5. Old phone lore is fascinating!
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