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Video Phone
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An extremely common trope found in any stories told in future or high-tech settings (and, to a lesser extent, spy and espionage stories), a Video Phone (sometimes also referred to as a VidPhone) is a telecommunications device that functions exactly like a telephone but distinctly comes with a video screen which allows for the individuals on both ends of the call (and the audience) to see each other. In some depictions, such a device may make use of an ordinary telephone receiver in order to speak to and hear the person on the other end, but most often characters usually just talk to the screen. Like Flying Cars, Ray Guns, and, of course, Jet Packs, this is one of the most frequently observed tropes in depictions of The Future and originally popularized in the Raygun Gothic era of Science Fiction, but where most of these ubiquitous genre tropes remain absent from our reality, the Video Phone has been publicly available in one form or another since 1936; the German government ran public videophone booths prior to WWII, though these early trial services were disrupted by the war. AT&T opened the first public videophone booth in the US in 1964. Despite this constant attention and the relative simplicity of the technology involved (Alexander Graham Bell himself talked about the possibility), lack of consumer interest kept it from going anywhere; the honest truth was that it seemed that despite all the sci-fi attention it received, the public didn't really want videophones, at least not at any significant price (apparently, those who wanted to see video phones in common use didn't bother to consider the fact that having the other person not being able to see your facial expression or any rude gesture you might feel like showing is arguably one of the more useful features of a regular phone). They only became broadly successful in the modern era once they became a secondary feature of mainstream computer technology, and even then, many argued that they would remain little more than a novelty outside of the porn business and people in long-distance relationships. It wasn't until the late 2000s that video-conferencing eventually found its market niche in business communications, thanks in part to the rise of tele-commuting which made managers develop a need to see their telecommuting subordinates face to face, and in part because even the most expensive multi-thousand-dollar videoconferencing hardware is cheaper for global megacorporations than extracting their executives from all over the world and flying them into a single place, with lots of newcoming companies such as Zoom, Bluejeans or Ringcentral as well as products from existing companies like Cisco Webex, Microsoft Skype for Business or IBM Sametime offering this form of communication. The COVID Pandemic of 2020 made use of this technology much more widespread, because it suddenly became a necessity for business, education, entertainment, and maintaining social contact. Their main relation to Zeerust is in a meta reasoning — when somebody wrote the movie before 2008 or so, a video-phone even in the future would be considered an impossible pinnacle of technology but in fact has become common in its use. Compare: Comm Links, for another Sci-Fi phone equivalent. For a breakdown on how such devices tend to operate in fiction, see Hollywood Web Cam. For embarrassing snafus related with this technology, see Video Call Fail. Note: Given this trope's increased existence in Real Life, please refrain from listing work examples that use existing technologies in contemporary, early-21st-century settings. If a work example of a Video Phone is based on an existing consumer product, please only list the product as a real-life example, if it's not listed there already. |
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Wonder Woman (1942): While the way the Amazons' Mental Radio worked was inconsistent, the lunchbox-sized, phone-like device always included a small screen and was fairly transportable. | |
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Frequently seen in The Jetsons, fitting the show's Raygun Gothic aesthetic. The drawbacks are sometimes used for laughs such as the women having morning masks which are supposed to be quickly put on in case of calls coming in before they have made themselves up. | |
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"The Mayors": Terminus has public visiphones, which High Priest (Ambassador) Poly Verisof uses to schedule an appointment with Mayor Hardin. | |
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"It's Such a Beautiful Day": Most places appear to be equipped with "visiphones", devices with a manual dial. Mrs Hanshaw uses one for contacting her neighbors, the school, and Dr Sloane. They're used to see the person you're talking to. | |
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Rocketship Voyager. The blank metal faceplate of an android converts to a photophone so Overlooker Zet can talk Voyager's crew, making it an android phone. | |
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Pee-wee Herman's Picturephone on Pee-wee's Playhouse played with the idea of "two cans on a string" found on old-fashioned playhouses/treehouses by depicting the receiver as a tin can on a telephone cord. Amusingly, in Pee-Wee's world, everyone has a Picturephone. | |
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Leif & Thorn has spelltech which includes magic Skype. | |
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In Myst IV: Revelation, Atrus' Crystal Viewer allows one to see and hear Ages remotely using crystals. This trope comes into play when the player briefly contacts Atrus in the Age of Rime, where he is simultaneously using another viewer there to reach you during an electromagnetic storm. | |
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General Beckman's interchanges with the Chuck team mostly happen through one of these, as do liaisons between the 'Castle' and various field operatives. | |
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One episode of The Simpsons taking place in the future, "Lisa's Wedding", showcases a conversation between Lisa and Marge using a "picture phone". Marge keeps forgetting that Lisa can see her over the phone, and her body language makes it more obvious when she's lying. | |
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Isaac Asimov's Robots: Combined with Hologram, the Tri-D provides real-time communication in mid-air. During The Summation, a conference call has three windows up to speak with all of the involved parties. | |
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The Blake and Mortimer adventure "The Time Trap" depicts a dystopian far future in which communication takes place via camera-equipped wrist phones, for those who can afford them anyway. | |
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The title protagonists of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) have "turtle communicators", which resemble flip-top cellphones, only shaped like a turtle shell, and containing a video screen and camera. | |
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In Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, a video phone appears in a dream sequence, depicting a future where the title characters continue their argument with each other from their high school reunion into old age. | |
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ANNO: Mutationem: Video Phone calls are displayed as the image of both caller and receiver appear on the screen to the sides and are only audible to the ones being contacted. | |
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The Outer Limits (1963) episode "The Duplicate Man" has video phones with rotary dials. | |
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The Outer Limits (1995): In "The Haven", Caleb Vance has a video cell phone. | |
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Half-Life 2 features several Video Phone calls, notably between Alyx and her father. Extra points for touching the screen to emphasize the separation. | |
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The Complete Adventures of Lucky Starr: Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury: Lucky and Bigman are assigned a room with a "Talkie", two-way communication device which includes video and a "receiving plate" (rather than calling it a video camera). Lucky Starr and the Moons of Jupiter: Lucky's ship, the Shooting Starr, is equipped with a visiplate that allows for two-way video communication. |
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Lucky Starr and the Moons of Jupiter: Lucky's ship, the Shooting Starr, is equipped with a visiplate that allows for two-way video communication. | |
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The Journal Entries has a form commonly used for communicating between organics and androids of organic appearance (and Ken has a standing directive that the AIs managing his end are to put a noticeable image degradation in so that the image isn't uncomfortably real for him). Fixed AIs (for ships, buildings, regions, etc.) usually either just talk as a voice out of the air (most commonly the sky or ceiling, as most organics tend to look upward when speaking to AIs) or use a holographic projection (of the sort of body they would like if they were an organic) as a point of reference. | |
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The Harry Potter series has a magical equivalent of this in the Floo network of fireplaces. If your fireplace is on the Floo network, you can stick your head in the fire, and your head will appear in a different Floo fireplace, allowing you to see and talk to the person on the other end. You can even get a piece of toast from the other end to eat while talking. | |
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In RoboCop 3, video phones appear in use by the citizens of old Detroit in the near-future world. | |
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Dilbert: One strip involves Dilbert being the first person in the city to own a videophone. He then sits next to the phone, waiting for someone else to buy one so he can call them. | |
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Austin Powers has one in his car. Very helpful for Basil Exposition to talk to him. | |
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These are used in the original Total Recall a lot. In the movie, talking to someone on Mars was as easy as phoning them up on Earth. In fact, Cohaagen (when on Mars) uses his vid phone to call Richter (on Earth) without any technical difficulties. Until Richter pulls the Fake Static trick, blaming sunspot interference. | |
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Seemed commonplace in Robocop The Series. | |
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Cowboy Bebop's in-universe equivalent to the cell phone uses video feeds on both ends of a call. | |
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In Starship Troopers, Johnny Rico is talking to his parents in Buenos Aires via Video Phone when the Bug asteroid hits the city.. This call is also sponsored by AT&T. | |
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A Richie Rich comic book story from the late 20th century had Richie contact his girlfriend Gloria Glad through a video phone on a camping trip she was on with her father. Being the sneaky fellow that he is, he also projects a video of himself speaking to Gloria through the ray of a flashlight. | |
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The Superfriends' TroubAlert has video communications technology that national leaders and even their enemies, the Legion of Doom, have made use of to contact them. | |
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In 1973 story Let My People Grow!, Superman communicates with the Kandorians via videoconference, using devices which are bulky and clunky by 21st century Earth standards, even though Kryptonian technology is supposed to be clearly superior. | |
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In The Day the World Broke, this is your means of contact with Julius and Bud while inside the Earth's core. | |
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Everyone in Earth: Final Conflict has a Global, a cellphone-sized device with an ejectable touchscreen that allows face-to-face video chats. It is also a GPS and has several other functions. Pretty much a modern smartphone. | |
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In C.O.P.S. (1988), videophones are the norm to the point that even public phone booths have screens; they are, after all, fighting crime in a future time. And yes, cell phones pretty much don't exist. | |
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A Sonic Underground fan-made reboot has every home, business and government building use futuristic video phones akin to the Picture Phone from Pee-wee's Playhouse but with the sci-fi appearance and viewscreens one can expect from the former's Mobius. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1959): In "The Trade-Ins", the New Life Corporation receptionist tells Mr. Vance that there is a call for him on the video phone. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1985): In "To See the Invisible Man", Mitchell Chaplin calls MedEm over a video phone in order to receive medical assistance after being hit by a car. The nurse immediately hangs up when she sees the invisibility implant on Mitchell's forehead. In "The Cold Equations", Captain Thomas Barton communicates with Commander Delhart and the Ship's Records clerk over a video phone. Marilyn Lee Cross later uses it to talk to her brother Gerry. In "The Mind of Simon Foster", the title character uses one to talk to a counselor at the unemployment agency several times, including twice for job interviews. |
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The Night Mayor: When Susan's agent calls her at the beginning of this 1989 book, his face appears in a window on her computer screen. | |
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Supergirl Adventures Girl Of Steel: Kara uses a video phone (featuring a bulky control panel as well as a huge monochrome green-tinted monitor despite her civilization being highly advanced) to have a videoconference with her friend Pala, who is on another planet. | |
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The imagizers in "Bride of Chaotica!", an Affectionate Parody of Flash Gordon, use the same activation sound effect as the video phones in that series. | |
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The Crazies (1973): A video link is set up with the President of the United States so he can, if required, authorize the use of nuclear weapons to contain the virus. As the President spends the entire conversation sitting with his back to the camera, one wonders why George Romero didn't just have him talking over a telephone speaker. | |
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The Crazies (1973) | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_5eae8d3c | |
Video Phone / int_5fec5efd | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_5fec5efd | comment |
This Island Earth: The protagonists get sent the components of an "interocitor" which they assemble as a secret test of their intelligence. On being assembled the interocitor turns out to be this trope when Exeter speaks to them live. As they are in The '50s a live high-resolution color TV image is regarded as incredible (and otherworldly, as it turns out) technology. | |
Video Phone / int_5fec5efd | featureApplicability |
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Video Phone / int_5fec5efd | featureConfidence |
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This Island Earth | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_5fec5efd | |
Video Phone / int_607f6b7 | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_607f6b7 | comment |
Inspector Gadget: Penny could use her watch as one of these to communicate with her dog, Brain, who had a phone hidden in his collar. | |
Video Phone / int_607f6b7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Video Phone / int_607f6b7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Inspector Gadget | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_607f6b7 | |
Video Phone / int_60e46d26 | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_60e46d26 | comment |
MAD once did an article showing pulldown backdrops - a glamorous resort one at a fleabag motel to con clients, a sickroom backdrop at the ballpark for calling your boss, an office one at the bar for calling your wife, and so on... | |
Video Phone / int_60e46d26 | featureApplicability |
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Video Phone / int_60e46d26 | featureConfidence |
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MAD (Magazine) | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_60e46d26 | |
Video Phone / int_61028f2 | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_61028f2 | comment |
Johnny Mnemonic opens with the main character making a call on a video phone that also doubles as a television and an alarm clock, all of which can be operated by remote control. Another such phone shows up in the back of a future taxi cab, and the Street Preacher has one hidden in his Bible (or whatever Holy Book equivalent he has). Video phone screens are also branded with AT&T's company logo, AT&T having tried to develop such technology since the 1960s. | |
Video Phone / int_61028f2 | featureApplicability |
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Video Phone / int_61028f2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Johnny Mnemonic | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_61028f2 | |
Video Phone / int_64160bc1 | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_64160bc1 | comment |
In Rocket Saves the Day, Bella and her sister Ella use one to communicate between Rocket's hometown and Letter Land. It somehow allows Rocket to see what's going in town from Letter Land, despite actually being a Tin-Can Telephone. | |
Video Phone / int_64160bc1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Video Phone / int_64160bc1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rocket Saves the Day | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_64160bc1 | |
Video Phone / int_644bed84 | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_644bed84 | comment |
All of the Pelemots of Pelemar in Through the Dragon's Eye have one. Gorwen's detaches from his scales, while Boris's is in his cap. This enables the search party in Widge to keep in contact with the Veetacore House to see how things are getting on. Unfortunately, due to the Veetacore exploding and the increased distance between the characters, the Video Phones are prone to static and interference, before they stop working entirely. | |
Video Phone / int_644bed84 | featureApplicability |
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Video Phone / int_644bed84 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Through the Dragon's Eye | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_644bed84 | |
Video Phone / int_694ab80 | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_694ab80 | comment |
Batman Beyond: Future Gotham has plenty of video technology that's shared all over the city with callers seeing each other on the other end. | |
Video Phone / int_694ab80 | featureApplicability |
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Video Phone / int_694ab80 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Batman Beyond | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_694ab80 | |
Video Phone / int_69fa7496 | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_69fa7496 | comment |
Disney Ducks Comic Universe: A story had Donald and Daisy in the late 20th century trying out a video phone invented by Gyro Gearloose. One of the things Donald discovered while using the phone was that he could spy on Daisy putting on her makeup and doing her morning exercises without her knowing about it. That, and the expense of using such a phone, were among the reasons that Donald and Daisy gave up on using it. | |
Video Phone / int_69fa7496 | featureApplicability |
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Video Phone / int_69fa7496 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Disney Ducks Comic Universe (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_69fa7496 | |
Video Phone / int_6e3e8a | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_6e3e8a | comment |
Ro-Man in Robot Monster uses a video linkup to make contact with the last surviving enclave of humans on Earth, as well as Great Guidance on the planet Ro-Man. | |
Video Phone / int_6e3e8a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Video Phone / int_6e3e8a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Robot Monster | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_6e3e8a | |
Video Phone / int_72c7235 | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_72c7235 | comment |
In The Star Wars Holiday Special, Chewbacca's family uses one of these hidden in some kind of dresser to contact the other characters associated with the Rebel Alliance—Luke and R2-D2, Leia and C-3PO, etc.—to ask about Chewie and Han Solo's whereabouts. In a separate instance, Chewie's wife, Mala, contacts Art Carney with a device that doubles as a television which Carney's character refers to as a "wall screen." | |
Video Phone / int_72c7235 | featureApplicability |
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Video Phone / int_72c7235 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Star Wars Holiday Special | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_72c7235 | |
Video Phone / int_7385bc4d | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_7385bc4d | comment |
Doraemon: One episode features one of these using the house's television. The video feed was also (obviously) one-way. | |
Video Phone / int_7385bc4d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Video Phone / int_7385bc4d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Doraemon (Manga) | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_7385bc4d | |
Video Phone / int_73cee9a9 | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_73cee9a9 | comment |
Seven Days in May: The White House and Pentagon use video teleconferencing in their 20 Minutes into the Future world. | |
Video Phone / int_73cee9a9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Video Phone / int_73cee9a9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Seven Days in May | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_73cee9a9 | |
Video Phone / int_76e67d86 | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_76e67d86 | comment |
The Stars, Like Dust: The novel (written in 1951, and set thousands of years into the future) opens with the protagonist, Biron Farrill, receiving a visiphone call. (The phone doesn't work, as Farrill is the victim of an elaborate plot which evidently included sabotaging the visiphone in his college dorm room—Farrill can both hear and see the caller, but the person on the other end of the line can neither see nor hear Farrill.) | |
Video Phone / int_76e67d86 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Video Phone / int_76e67d86 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Stars, Like Dust | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_76e67d86 | |
Video Phone / int_791f9a4a | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_791f9a4a | comment |
Commonly used in the original Bubblegum Crisis. Most notably, they had video payphones. | |
Video Phone / int_791f9a4a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Video Phone / int_791f9a4a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bubblegum Crisis | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_791f9a4a | |
Video Phone / int_7a7a1a86 | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_7a7a1a86 | comment |
Aliens: Burke leaves My Card in case Ripley changes her mind about going on the mission to find out what happened to the colony on LV426. After her next Catapult Nightmare, Ripley sticks the card in her videophone where it automatically connects her to a sleepy Burke. | |
Video Phone / int_7a7a1a86 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Video Phone / int_7a7a1a86 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Aliens | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_7a7a1a86 | |
Video Phone / int_7dad3a85 | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_7dad3a85 | comment |
Total Recall 2070: Ubiquitous in the future setting, usually with the detectives communicating with each other this way while they each go off on separate assignments. | |
Video Phone / int_7dad3a85 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Video Phone / int_7dad3a85 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Total Recall 2070 | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_7dad3a85 | |
Video Phone / int_81692f99 | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_81692f99 | comment |
In the various Star Trek series, the characters communicate with visual communication links as often as they use audio only. The main difference is that in the Original Series, the crew itself typically communicates with each other with a visual element only when there is something that one of the respondents should see, such as the mysterious probe in "The Corbomite Maneuver." | |
Video Phone / int_81692f99 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Video Phone / int_81692f99 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Star Trek (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_81692f99 | |
Video Phone / int_819b8c9e | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_819b8c9e | comment |
Warehouse 13 has a very Diesel Punk version, made by and named after Philo Farnsworth, one of the inventors of TV. | |
Video Phone / int_819b8c9e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Video Phone / int_819b8c9e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Warehouse 13 | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_819b8c9e | |
Video Phone / int_8df0f9c3 | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_8df0f9c3 | comment |
These Are the Damned: The nine children who the British government keep in an underground facility express their unhappiness over the fact that Bernard and their other teachers only talk to them via a wallscreen instead of face-to-face because the children are a radioactive Walking Wasteland. | |
Video Phone / int_8df0f9c3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Video Phone / int_8df0f9c3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
These Are the Damned | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_8df0f9c3 | |
Video Phone / int_8df5521b | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_8df5521b | comment |
Superman: In 1973 story Let My People Grow!, Superman communicates with the Kandorians via videoconference, using devices which are bulky and clunky by 21st century Earth standards, even though Kryptonian technology is supposed to be clearly superior. In 1968 story arc The Leper from Krypton, Supergirl talks to the Kandorians via video-link, using a real bulky monitor. |
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Video Phone / int_8df5521b | featureApplicability |
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Video Phone / int_8df5521b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Superman (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_8df5521b | |
Video Phone / int_8e8ed866 | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_8e8ed866 | comment |
In Knight Rider, KITT is equipped with one. KI3T can use the windshield to project a multipart videoconference, to a similar effect. | |
Video Phone / int_8e8ed866 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Video Phone / int_8e8ed866 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Knight Rider | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_8e8ed866 | |
Video Phone / int_909ca4b1 | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_909ca4b1 | comment |
In ReBoot, this is how most calls are made, either by opening a vidwindow or over a device like Glitch's or Dot's organizer, which includes a 'communicator' among its functions. Voice-only communication is uncommon, but does happen occasionally. | |
Video Phone / int_909ca4b1 | featureApplicability |
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Video Phone / int_909ca4b1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
ReBoot | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_909ca4b1 | |
Video Phone / int_94e5d71 | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_94e5d71 | comment |
Video phones are used in the 1980s version of Gigantor, The New Adventures Of Gigantor. It's set in the 21st century. | |
Video Phone / int_94e5d71 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Video Phone / int_94e5d71 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Gigantor | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_94e5d71 | |
Video Phone / int_972de37b | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_972de37b | comment |
The Alice, Girl from the Future series sees all characters use these—and only these—phones. | |
Video Phone / int_972de37b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Video Phone / int_972de37b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Alice, Girl from the Future | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_972de37b | |
Video Phone / int_995158f0 | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_995158f0 | comment |
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm has "holo-phones", owned by all but the most destitute characters. | |
Video Phone / int_995158f0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Video Phone / int_995158f0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_995158f0 | |
Video Phone / int_9a9d635 | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_9a9d635 | comment |
"The Imaginary": The telecasters on the desks of the Humanoid Aliens allow for planetary communication at least. | |
Video Phone / int_9a9d635 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Video Phone / int_9a9d635 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Imaginary | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_9a9d635 | |
Video Phone / int_9b530c26 | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_9b530c26 | comment |
Archie Comics: In an alternate future story, Veronica gets one installed, only to switch back to normal phones because her friends called while she was doing face masks or when she'd just gotten up. | |
Video Phone / int_9b530c26 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Video Phone / int_9b530c26 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Archie Comics (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_9b530c26 | |
Video Phone / int_9b7e31d | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_9b7e31d | comment |
Thunderbirds: The most prominent use was the family portraits in the lounge area, which could switch from a static image that appeared to be a photograph to a live video feed (how Brains solved the problem of screen burn-in is a mystery for the ages), but occasionally commercial units about the size of a payphone showed up. Also, in Day of Disaster, Brains makes a video call from his watchnote which causes the authorities to assume he's crazy, because they don't have smartwatches in 2065. The reboot, Thunderbirds Are Go, upgraded to holographic displays. | |
Video Phone / int_9b7e31d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Video Phone / int_9b7e31d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Thunderbirds | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_9b7e31d | |
Video Phone / int_9d1e23be | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_9d1e23be | comment |
All the Troubles of the World. Chairman Gulliman and officer Hammond both have small boxes at their desks that can connect at the push of a button to convey video and sound between their offices. | |
Video Phone / int_9d1e23be | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Video Phone / int_9d1e23be | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
All the Troubles of the World | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_9d1e23be | |
Video Phone / int_9e99fedb | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_9e99fedb | comment |
Video phone booths appear in the futuristic Los Angeles of The Lawnmower Man 2: Jobe's War. | |
Video Phone / int_9e99fedb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Video Phone / int_9e99fedb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Lawnmower Man | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_9e99fedb | |
Video Phone / int_a183d57f | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_a183d57f | comment |
Videophone technology is available in Futurama; the main characters often also use cellular phones which resemble more modern phones but with built-in video. | |
Video Phone / int_a183d57f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Video Phone / int_a183d57f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Futurama | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_a183d57f | |
Video Phone / int_a4a6b86a | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_a4a6b86a | comment |
In Code Geass, the royals and military officials use these, complete with a large, fancy-framed screen in the palace for the Viceroy to video-chat with the Emperor on. Notably, the normal characters, like the students, are never seen using them, just voice phones. | |
Video Phone / int_a4a6b86a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Video Phone / int_a4a6b86a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Code Geass | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_a4a6b86a | |
Video Phone / int_a65d40ad | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_a65d40ad | comment |
These are ubiquitous in the Moreau Series | |
Video Phone / int_a65d40ad | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Video Phone / int_a65d40ad | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Moreau Series | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_a65d40ad | |
Video Phone / int_a78fff6d | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_a78fff6d | comment |
The SeaQuest DSV is equipped with visual telecoms with a variety of connection methods, and judging by the range of people they contact across all three seasons, video communications are about as commonplace as they ended up becoming in real life in the same time frame. | |
Video Phone / int_a78fff6d | featureApplicability |
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Video Phone / int_a78fff6d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
SeaQuest DSV | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_a78fff6d | |
Video Phone / int_aac06a76 | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_aac06a76 | comment |
Barbarella: After the famous Title Sequence involving the heroine doing a zero-G striptease, the President of Earth calls on the Subspace Ansible and Barbarella answers the call while still naked. She offers to put something on but he tells her not to bother as he has an urgent matter of state to discuss. Yeah, right. | |
Video Phone / int_aac06a76 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Video Phone / int_aac06a76 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Barbarella | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_aac06a76 | |
Video Phone / int_aba7ffb9 | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_aba7ffb9 | comment |
In The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel games, the characters use their ARCUS units, which let them cast Magic from Technology, as phones. Cold Steel III introduces the "Round of Seven" app, which lets the members of the old Class VII communicate with each other, complete with video phone. Later on, they begin communicating with other characters that have ARCUS by video phone as well. | |
Video Phone / int_aba7ffb9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Video Phone / int_aba7ffb9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_aba7ffb9 | |
Video Phone / int_ac7f7bc2 | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_ac7f7bc2 | comment |
Atari Force, published in the early 1980s, depicts a near-future world where video phones would be in use, even in the universe of New Earth where the series' second team would have their adventures. | |
Video Phone / int_ac7f7bc2 | featureApplicability |
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Video Phone / int_ac7f7bc2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Atari Force (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_ac7f7bc2 | |
Video Phone / int_ae3eb4b8 | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_ae3eb4b8 | comment |
Max Headroom featured many video phone conversations. | |
Video Phone / int_ae3eb4b8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Video Phone / int_ae3eb4b8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Max Headroom | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_ae3eb4b8 | |
Video Phone / int_af1c7f1a | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_af1c7f1a | comment |
"Mother Earth": Certain walls have a community-wave, which is a wall that provides such a high-definition picture that looks like you could reach out and physically touch the person you're in contact with. The people of the Outer Worlds prefer to conduct all of their business via community-wave and only meet in-person if they must. | |
Video Phone / int_af1c7f1a | featureApplicability |
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Video Phone / int_af1c7f1a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Mother Earth | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_af1c7f1a | |
Video Phone / int_b0cf0ed6 | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_b0cf0ed6 | comment |
Danger Mouse has a video communication wall in his pillar box headquarters. He also has one in his car. | |
Video Phone / int_b0cf0ed6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Video Phone / int_b0cf0ed6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Danger Mouse | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_b0cf0ed6 | |
Video Phone / int_b0ec45b8 | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_b0ec45b8 | comment |
Seen in Metropolis which, made in 1927, is a likely candidate for being the Ur-Example. | |
Video Phone / int_b0ec45b8 | featureApplicability |
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Video Phone / int_b0ec45b8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Metropolis | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_b0ec45b8 | |
Video Phone / int_b24f49ab | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_b24f49ab | comment |
Back to the Future Part II: The Future McFly household's video phone is connected to the television set. Personal information about the individual on the other end of the line is scrolled through on screen, including name, age, occupation, home address, spouse, children, and assorted hobbies and preferences. Video calling is also sponsored by AT&T. According to the novelization, Marty's daughter Marlena had special video glasses that also acted as a phone. | |
Video Phone / int_b24f49ab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Video Phone / int_b24f49ab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Back to the Future Part II | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_b24f49ab | |
Video Phone / int_b3788a5d | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_b3788a5d | comment |
The American version of The Challenge showed one of these when one of the contestants was talking to someone at his job. The machine did not look like a '2022' video call (The year this was first aired) but more like the machine booth in 2001: A Space Odyssey. | |
Video Phone / int_b3788a5d | featureApplicability |
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Video Phone / int_b3788a5d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
2001: A Space Odyssey | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_b3788a5d | |
Video Phone / int_bdc321e2 | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_bdc321e2 | comment |
Made sporadic appearances in the second season of War of the Worlds (1988). | |
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Video Phone / int_bdc321e2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
War of the Worlds (1988) | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_bdc321e2 | |
Video Phone / int_be92a76c | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_be92a76c | comment |
"I'm in Marsport Without Hilda": Max uses a video booth, which is a public video phone box that costs more than sending a spacegram. He gets in contact with an old ex-girlfriend because he has a few days away from his wife and wants to relive old memories. | |
Video Phone / int_be92a76c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Video Phone / int_be92a76c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
I'm in Marsport Without Hilda | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_be92a76c | |
Video Phone / int_c18bfdae | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_c18bfdae | comment |
In Blade Runner, Deckard has a vidphone in his car, which he uses to call Sebastian's residence, only for his call to be answered by Pris. He also uses a public vidphone at Taffey Lewis' bar to place a call to Rachael, which is hilarious because a) public telephones barely exist anymore, let alone vidphones and b) it costs $1.25 for a call that barely lasts one minute. | |
Video Phone / int_c18bfdae | featureApplicability |
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Video Phone / int_c18bfdae | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Blade Runner | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_c18bfdae | |
Video Phone / int_c2297a9c | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_c2297a9c | comment |
Commonplace in Judge Dredd and its Spin-Off stories where they're frequently called VidPhones. Models vary, sometimes having mic stands, ordinary phone receivers, or no visible microphones or speakers at all. | |
Video Phone / int_c2297a9c | featureApplicability |
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Video Phone / int_c2297a9c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Judge Dredd (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Video Phone / int_c2297a9c | |
Video Phone / int_c3a1c8f8 | type |
Video Phone | |
Video Phone / int_c3a1c8f8 | comment |
UFO (1970): Multiple examples in the episode "The Dalotek Affair". Commander Straker is called on one of these by Blake, the president of the Dalotek corporation. Commander Straker talks to Colonel Foster on the Moon using one. The Dalotek base on the Moon uses one when Blake calls them. SHADO operatives communicate through one between their Earth HQ and their moonbase. "The Responsibility Seat" has another Moon-Earth conversation, this time between Colonel Foster and Colonel Freeman. |
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Video Phone / int_c3a1c8f8 | featureApplicability |
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These were one of the few indications that most of the early-1970s Doctor Who UNIT stories were meant to be 20 Minutes into the Future. | |
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Journey into Space: In The World in Peril, the control rooms of the asteroid ships are equipped with one way vision phones which are used for surveillance as well as communication. In The Return from Mars, the crew's living quarters in Talia is equipped with a video phone operated by an artificial intelligence. |
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Holographic video phones exist throughout the Deus Ex series and seem to be as common as a house phone by the last (chronological) game, Deus Ex: Invisible War. | |
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Dick Tracy has a "2-Way Wrist TV" that carries the same function and used to communicate with police headquarters. | |
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In the Empath: The Luckiest Smurf story "Smurfette's Evil Mirror", Smurfette's Magic Mirror compact (see The Smurfs (1981) entry in Western Animation below) becomes the basis for Handy developing the portable telesmurf for his fellow Smurfs, allowing them to communicate with each other via a magical video phone. | |
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In Dead Space, Isaac has an ultra-hi-tech video phone with a projected holographic screen as part of the RIG suit's Comm Link. While the transmission is monochrome blue in Dead Space, the more advanced systems is Dead Space 2 are in full-color. Fun fact: the videophone's camera location is not Hand Waved like one would expect with a holographic Video Phone. In all communications, it's either on the wrist of the characters, or, more frequently, embedded into one of the nearby walls. Which means that the RIG is constantly on-line with the station/ship that Isaac is on. | |
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Moonbase 3: A commonly used technology on both the moonbases and Earth in the series' version of 2003. | |
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Marvel 2099 takes it to the next stage with the holo-phone. The first issue of Spider-Man 2099 opens with Miguel checking his messages: | |
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Mocked in a passage in Infinite Jest which describes how widespread videophone use made people increasingly concerned about their physical appearance, leading to most people wearing elaborate masks whenever they used the phone (and, later, just switching back to normal phones). | |
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They appear in Demolition Man. John Spartan gets a wrong number from a topless chick. | |
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These show up almost everywhere a regular phone would in Pokémon: The Series. | |
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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex One of the problems of this trope is averted in the episode "¥€$". Aramaki is talking via wallscreen to a contact. Although the screen shows the man in military uniform, he's actually in a bathrobe cutting his toenails. Everyone in Section 9 is apparently capable of doing this without even needing a phone or video screen, thanks to their cyberbrains allowing them to send and receive wireless signals, but usually it's just limited to showing the head of the person they're talking to in their Augmented Reality vision. |
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In 1968 story arc The Leper from Krypton, Supergirl talks to the Kandorians via video-link, using a real bulky monitor. | |
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These are common in Noon Universe by Strugatsky Brothers. In some occasions characters use them without turning on video option. | |
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In Casino Royale (1967), Sir James Bond calls Vesper on the video Shoe Phone while she's getting dressed. She indignantly covers the camera until she hears Bond signing off, only to remove her hand to see Bond looking downwards expectantly. | |
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Galley Slave: Ninheimer was called by Speidell, who was displayed on a "visiplate" (shortened as "'plate"), when he first he heard of EZ-27's corrections. | |
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Raumpatrouille made use of video phones a lot. You could also disable the video function if you wanted to. | |
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Spaceballs: Also when President Skroob is in the toilet and the mirror in front of him suddenly turns into a wallscreen. He is not amused, especially when his female Number Two tricks him into exposing himself while giving the Spaceball salute. |
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Spaceballs | hasFeature |
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Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury: Lucky and Bigman are assigned a room with a "Talkie", two-way communication device which includes video and a "receiving plate" (rather than calling it a video camera). | |
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Players have a handheld one in Total Distortion, called the "DataBrick", which folds out into three screens. It is used to talk to multiple people back on Earth, upload music videos to buyers, and purchase items from various online stores. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager: B'Elanna Torres has one in her sonic shower for no logical reason, and is understandably annoyed when the Emergency Medical Hologram calls her there in the episode "Drone". This trope saves Neelix's life in "Investigations". Jonas is sneaking up behind Neelix with a laser welder, when the EMH happens to make a call. As the EMH can see everything in the room, Jonas quickly stops what he's doing. The imagizers in "Bride of Chaotica!", an Affectionate Parody of Flash Gordon, use the same activation sound effect as the video phones in that series. |
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Far Out There features video phones capable of communicating across vast interstellar distances. However, the technology doesn't seem to be quite as commonplace as other sci-fi settings. Only a few quarters on board The Exposition come equipped with their own private video phone, most passengers have to use the public phones. Further evidence suggests that most homes or ships only have one. | |
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Project Moonbase: The female President of the United States speaks to the brave astronauts who've just landed on the moon via a hole in the wall. | |
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In The Smurfs (1981) episodes "The Smurfette" and "Smurfette Unmade", Smurfette and Gargamel use Magic Mirrors in this particular fashion when Smurfette was an "un-Smurf". Smurfette had hers hidden in a compact, making it look like a flip-top cell phone. | |
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Friends: Monica's season three boyfriend Pete Becker has videophones in his office and home. As the show is from the late 1990s, when this technology wasn't widely available, it's a way of establishing just how rich Pete is thanks to his software company. | |
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The Naked Sun: In a scene set on an Earth colony planet, Detective Baley interviews a female witness by videophone. She casually steps out of the shower to take the call, oblivious to his embarrassment: when this is pointed out to her she explains that she wouldn't dream of doing such a thing were he with her in person, but her society distinguishes between seeing (being physically present) and viewing (by phone). | |
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The Man in the High Castle: Particularly in season 3, high-ranking characters frequently communicate with each other through black and white video phones. | |
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Played with in The Osterman Weekend. A Coincidental Broadcast (actually a video feed) on the illicit use of Swiss bank accounts appears on television as part of the Mind Screw tactics being used against an alleged ring of traitors. At one point, the CIA agent in charge uses the video feed to speak directly to the protagonist (who is working for him), only to have an Oh, Crap! moment when the link won't turn off when someone else enters the room. The CIA man then pretends he's an anchorman giving a news report. | |
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