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Video Phone

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118 feature instances
112 referencing feature instances

Video Phone	type	FeatureClass
Video Phone	label	Video Phone
Video Phone	page	VideoPhone
Video Phone	comment	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.
Video Phone	fetched	2024-03-04T17:45:16Z
Video Phone	parsed	2024-03-04T17:45:16Z
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Video Phone	isPartOf	DBTropes
Video Phone / int_15c6ea11	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_15c6ea11	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_15c6ea11	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_15c6ea11	featureConfidence	1.0
Wonder Woman (1942) (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_15c6ea11
Video Phone / int_16712475	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_16712475	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_16712475	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_16712475	featureConfidence	1.0
The Jetsons	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_16712475
Video Phone / int_179e4fcf	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_179e4fcf	comment	"The Mayors": Terminus has public visiphones, which High Priest (Ambassador) Poly Verisof uses to schedule an appointment with Mayor Hardin.
Video Phone / int_179e4fcf	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_179e4fcf	featureConfidence	1.0
The Mayors	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_179e4fcf
Video Phone / int_1c2eb60a	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_1c2eb60a	comment	"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.
Video Phone / int_1c2eb60a	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_1c2eb60a	featureConfidence	1.0
it's such a beautiful day	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_1c2eb60a
Video Phone / int_1c34acd2	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_1c34acd2	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_1c34acd2	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_1c34acd2	featureConfidence	1.0
Rocketship Voyager (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_1c34acd2
Video Phone / int_1e1f03c7	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_1e1f03c7	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_1e1f03c7	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_1e1f03c7	featureConfidence	1.0
Pee-wee's Playhouse	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_1e1f03c7
Video Phone / int_217caad	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_217caad	comment	Leif & Thorn has spelltech which includes magic Skype.
Video Phone / int_217caad	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_217caad	featureConfidence	1.0
Leif & Thorn (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_217caad
Video Phone / int_219a8958	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_219a8958	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_219a8958	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_219a8958	featureConfidence	1.0
Myst IV: Revelation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_219a8958
Video Phone / int_222c2051	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_222c2051	comment	General Beckman's interchanges with the Chuck team mostly happen through one of these, as do liaisons between the 'Castle' and various field operatives.
Video Phone / int_222c2051	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_222c2051	featureConfidence	1.0
Chuck	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_222c2051
Video Phone / int_261c8d3f	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_261c8d3f	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_261c8d3f	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_261c8d3f	featureConfidence	1.0
The Simpsons	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_261c8d3f
Video Phone / int_2626a56b	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_2626a56b	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_2626a56b	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_2626a56b	featureConfidence	1.0
Isaac Asimov's Robots (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_2626a56b
Video Phone / int_28ccdd97	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_28ccdd97	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_28ccdd97	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_28ccdd97	featureConfidence	1.0
Blake and Mortimer (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_28ccdd97
Video Phone / int_2d311a08	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_2d311a08	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_2d311a08	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_2d311a08	featureConfidence	1.0
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987)	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_2d311a08
Video Phone / int_2dec4b1c	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_2dec4b1c	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_2dec4b1c	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_2dec4b1c	featureConfidence	1.0
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_2dec4b1c
Video Phone / int_31313512	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_31313512	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_31313512	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_31313512	featureConfidence	1.0
ANNO: Mutationem (Video Game)	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_31313512
Video Phone / int_31a48e8e	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_31a48e8e	comment	The Outer Limits (1963) episode "The Duplicate Man" has video phones with rotary dials.
Video Phone / int_31a48e8e	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_31a48e8e	featureConfidence	1.0
The Outer Limits (1963)	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_31a48e8e
Video Phone / int_31a48eed	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_31a48eed	comment	The Outer Limits (1995): In "The Haven", Caleb Vance has a video cell phone.
Video Phone / int_31a48eed	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_31a48eed	featureConfidence	1.0
The Outer Limits (1995)	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_31a48eed
Video Phone / int_33dd1d90	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_33dd1d90	comment	Half-Life 2 features several Video Phone calls, notably between Alyx and her father. Extra points for touching the screen to emphasize the separation.
Video Phone / int_33dd1d90	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_33dd1d90	featureConfidence	1.0
Half-Life 2 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_33dd1d90
Video Phone / int_389ea38f	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_389ea38f	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_389ea38f	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_389ea38f	featureConfidence	1.0
The Complete Adventures of Lucky Starr	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_389ea38f
Video Phone / int_38f92b53	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_38f92b53	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_38f92b53	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_38f92b53	featureConfidence	1.0
Lucky Starr and the Moons of Jupiter	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_38f92b53
Video Phone / int_3a1209bd	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_3a1209bd	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_3a1209bd	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_3a1209bd	featureConfidence	1.0
The Journal Entries	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_3a1209bd
Video Phone / int_3b34143f	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_3b34143f	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_3b34143f	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_3b34143f	featureConfidence	1.0
Harry Potter	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_3b34143f
Video Phone / int_3d8baf13	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_3d8baf13	comment	In RoboCop 3, video phones appear in use by the citizens of old Detroit in the near-future world.
Video Phone / int_3d8baf13	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_3d8baf13	featureConfidence	1.0
RoboCop 3	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_3d8baf13
Video Phone / int_3f4a104b	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_3f4a104b	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_3f4a104b	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_3f4a104b	featureConfidence	1.0
Dilbert (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_3f4a104b
Video Phone / int_3f5f4ea2	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_3f5f4ea2	comment	Austin Powers has one in his car. Very helpful for Basil Exposition to talk to him.
Video Phone / int_3f5f4ea2	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_3f5f4ea2	featureConfidence	1.0
Austin Powers	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_3f5f4ea2
Video Phone / int_41d55d7a	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_41d55d7a	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_41d55d7a	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_41d55d7a	featureConfidence	1.0
Total Recall (1990)	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_41d55d7a
Video Phone / int_43583895	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_43583895	comment	Seemed commonplace in Robocop The Series.
Video Phone / int_43583895	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_43583895	featureConfidence	1.0
RobocopTheSeries	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_43583895
Video Phone / int_43a9c333	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_43a9c333	comment	Cowboy Bebop's in-universe equivalent to the cell phone uses video feeds on both ends of a call.
Video Phone / int_43a9c333	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_43a9c333	featureConfidence	1.0
Cowboy Bebop	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_43a9c333
Video Phone / int_45854dfc	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_45854dfc	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_45854dfc	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_45854dfc	featureConfidence	1.0
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_45854dfc
Video Phone / int_46dacb10	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_46dacb10	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_46dacb10	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_46dacb10	featureConfidence	1.0
Richie Rich (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_46dacb10
Video Phone / int_48cf61a6	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_48cf61a6	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_48cf61a6	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_48cf61a6	featureConfidence	1.0
Superfriends	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_48cf61a6
Video Phone / int_49aad22d	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_49aad22d	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_49aad22d	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_49aad22d	featureConfidence	1.0
Let My People Grow! (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_49aad22d
Video Phone / int_4f45c7fa	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_4f45c7fa	comment	In The Day the World Broke, this is your means of contact with Julius and Bud while inside the Earth's core.
Video Phone / int_4f45c7fa	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_4f45c7fa	featureConfidence	1.0
The Day the World Broke (Video Game)	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_4f45c7fa
Video Phone / int_4f6620a5	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_4f6620a5	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_4f6620a5	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_4f6620a5	featureConfidence	1.0
Earth: Final Conflict	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_4f6620a5
Video Phone / int_5047c4e3	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_5047c4e3	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_5047c4e3	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_5047c4e3	featureConfidence	1.0
C.O.P.S. (1988)	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_5047c4e3
Video Phone / int_504f427f	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_504f427f	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_504f427f	featureApplicability	1.0
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Sonic Underground	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_504f427f
Video Phone / int_53a0bd32	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_53a0bd32	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_53a0bd32	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Twilight Zone (1959)	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_53a0bd32
Video Phone / int_53a0bd8b	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_53a0bd8b	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_53a0bd8b	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Twilight Zone (1985)	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_53a0bd8b
Video Phone / int_55101334	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_55101334	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_55101334	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_55101334	featureConfidence	1.0
The Night Mayor	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_55101334
Video Phone / int_57500d5a	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_57500d5a	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_57500d5a	featureApplicability	1.0
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Supergirl Adventures Girl Of Steel (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_57500d5a
Video Phone / int_5c783167	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_5c783167	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_5c783167	featureApplicability	1.0
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Affectionate Parody	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_5c783167
Video Phone / int_5eae8d3c	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_5eae8d3c	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_5eae8d3c	featureApplicability	1.0
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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	1.0
Video Phone / int_5fec5efd	featureConfidence	1.0
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	1.0
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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	1.0
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
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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.
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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	1.0
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	1.0
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	1.0
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.
Video Phone / int_8df5521b	featureApplicability	1.0
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	1.0
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	1.0
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	1.0
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	1.0
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	1.0
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	1.0
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).
Video Phone / int_bdc321e2	featureApplicability	1.0
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	1.0
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	1.0
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.
Video Phone / int_c3a1c8f8	featureApplicability	1.0
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UFO (1970)	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_c3a1c8f8
Video Phone / int_c43df4d8	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_c43df4d8	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_c43df4d8	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_c43df4d8	featureConfidence	1.0
Doctor Who	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_c43df4d8
Video Phone / int_c6482e0b	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_c6482e0b	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_c6482e0b	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_c6482e0b	featureConfidence	1.0
Journey into Space (Radio)	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_c6482e0b
Video Phone / int_c72021c5	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_c72021c5	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_c72021c5	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_c72021c5	featureConfidence	1.0
Deus Ex (Video Game)	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_c72021c5
Video Phone / int_c75ae76b	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_c75ae76b	comment	Dick Tracy has a "2-Way Wrist TV" that carries the same function and used to communicate with police headquarters.
Video Phone / int_c75ae76b	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_c75ae76b	featureConfidence	1.0
Dick Tracy (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_c75ae76b
Video Phone / int_c9b98f4e	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_c9b98f4e	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_c9b98f4e	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_c9b98f4e	featureConfidence	1.0
Empath: The Luckiest Smurf / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_c9b98f4e
Video Phone / int_cd95b8df	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_cd95b8df	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_cd95b8df	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_cd95b8df	featureConfidence	1.0
Dead Space (Franchise)	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_cd95b8df
Video Phone / int_d0f995a5	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_d0f995a5	comment	Moonbase 3: A commonly used technology on both the moonbases and Earth in the series' version of 2003.
Video Phone / int_d0f995a5	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_d0f995a5	featureConfidence	1.0
Moonbase 3	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_d0f995a5
Video Phone / int_d390d6f9	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_d390d6f9	comment	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:
Video Phone / int_d390d6f9	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_d390d6f9	featureConfidence	1.0
Marvel 2099 (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_d390d6f9
Video Phone / int_d434979d	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_d434979d	comment	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).
Video Phone / int_d434979d	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_d434979d	featureConfidence	1.0
Infinite Jest	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_d434979d
Video Phone / int_d54b59cc	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_d54b59cc	comment	They appear in Demolition Man. John Spartan gets a wrong number from a topless chick.
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Video Phone / int_d54b59cc	featureConfidence	1.0
Demolition Man	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_d54b59cc
Video Phone / int_d5ddd6c1	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	These show up almost everywhere a regular phone would in PokÃ©mon: The Series.
Video Phone / int_d5ddd6c1	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_d5ddd6c1	featureConfidence	1.0
PokÃ©mon: The Series	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_d5ddd6c1
Video Phone / int_d6c9c0a4	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_d6c9c0a4	comment	Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex One of the problems of this trope is averted in the episode "Â¥â‚¬$". 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.
Video Phone / int_d6c9c0a4	featureApplicability	-1.0
Video Phone / int_d6c9c0a4	featureConfidence	1.0
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_d6c9c0a4
Video Phone / int_dc414e1c	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_dc414e1c	comment	In 1968 story arc The Leper from Krypton, Supergirl talks to the Kandorians via video-link, using a real bulky monitor.
Video Phone / int_dc414e1c	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_dc414e1c	featureConfidence	1.0
The Leper from Krypton (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_dc414e1c
Video Phone / int_dd352852	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_dd352852	comment	These are common in Noon Universe by Strugatsky Brothers. In some occasions characters use them without turning on video option.
Video Phone / int_dd352852	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_dd352852	featureConfidence	1.0
Noon Universe	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_dd352852
Video Phone / int_df7f5776	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_df7f5776	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_df7f5776	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_df7f5776	featureConfidence	1.0
Casino Royale (1967)	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_df7f5776
Video Phone / int_dfd9503c	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_dfd9503c	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_dfd9503c	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_dfd9503c	featureConfidence	1.0
Galley Slave	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_dfd9503c
Video Phone / int_e8054edf	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_e8054edf	comment	Raumpatrouille made use of video phones a lot. You could also disable the video function if you wanted to.
Video Phone / int_e8054edf	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_e8054edf	featureConfidence	1.0
Raumpatrouille	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_e8054edf
Video Phone / int_e885c808	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_e885c808	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_e885c808	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_e885c808	featureConfidence	1.0
Spaceballs	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_e885c808
Video Phone / int_ed991bd1	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_ed991bd1	comment	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).
Video Phone / int_ed991bd1	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_ed991bd1	featureConfidence	1.0
Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_ed991bd1
Video Phone / int_eeb76a8e	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_eeb76a8e	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_eeb76a8e	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_eeb76a8e	featureConfidence	1.0
Total Distortion (Video Game)	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_eeb76a8e
Video Phone / int_ef076a36	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_ef076a36	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_ef076a36	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_ef076a36	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek: Voyager	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_ef076a36
Video Phone / int_ef8a0d36	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_ef8a0d36	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_ef8a0d36	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_ef8a0d36	featureConfidence	1.0
Far Out There (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_ef8a0d36
Video Phone / int_efe1e0d1	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_efe1e0d1	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_efe1e0d1	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_efe1e0d1	featureConfidence	1.0
Project Moonbase	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_efe1e0d1
Video Phone / int_f502a38a	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_f502a38a	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_f502a38a	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_f502a38a	featureConfidence	1.0
The Smurfs (1981)	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_f502a38a
Video Phone / int_f6c05e8e	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_f6c05e8e	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_f6c05e8e	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_f6c05e8e	featureConfidence	1.0
Friends	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_f6c05e8e
Video Phone / int_f8b33a79	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_f8b33a79	comment	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).
Video Phone / int_f8b33a79	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_f8b33a79	featureConfidence	1.0
The Naked Sun	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_f8b33a79
Video Phone / int_fcacaa36	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_fcacaa36	comment	The Man in the High Castle: Particularly in season 3, high-ranking characters frequently communicate with each other through black and white video phones.
Video Phone / int_fcacaa36	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_fcacaa36	featureConfidence	1.0
The Man in the High Castle	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_fcacaa36
Video Phone / int_fed59573	type	Video Phone
Video Phone / int_fed59573	comment	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.
Video Phone / int_fed59573	featureApplicability	1.0
Video Phone / int_fed59573	featureConfidence	1.0
The Osterman Weekend	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_fed59573

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Video Phone	processingCategory2	Futuristic Tech Index
Video Phone	processingCategory2	Older Than Television
Video Phone	processingCategory2	Phone Tropes
Video Phone	processingCategory2	Speculative Fiction Tropes
Cowboy Bebop / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Doraemon / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Neon Genesis Evangelion / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
PokÃ©mon: The Series / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Robotech / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Archie Comics (Comic Book) / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Let My People Grow! (Comic Book) / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Supergirl Adventures Girl Of Steel (Comic Book) / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
The Leper from Krypton (Comic Book) / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Wonder Woman (Charles Moulton) (Comic Book) / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Dick Tracy (Comic Strip) / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Dilbert (Comic Strip) / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Cardcaptor Rad / Fan Fic / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Airplane II: The Sequel / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Aliens / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
All the Troubles of the World / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Austin Powers / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Back to the Future Part II / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Batman Forever / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Blade Runner / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Casino Royale (1967) / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Colossus: The Forbin Project / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Demolition Man / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Johnny Mnemonic / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Laid to Rest / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Metropolis / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Minority Report / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Modern Times / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Aliens / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Moon / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
RoboCop 3 / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Robot Monster / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Runaway / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Starship Troopers / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
The 6th Day / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
The Crazies (1973) / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
The Lawnmower Man / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
The Osterman Weekend / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
The Star Wars Holiday Special / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
The Swarm / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
The Swarm (1978) / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
These Are the Damned / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Total Recall (1990) / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
2001: A Space Odyssey / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Under the Silver Lake / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Until the End of the World / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
World on a Wire / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
World Without Sun / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Alice, Girl from the Future / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Galley Slave / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Giants Series / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
I'm in Marsport Without Hilda / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Infinite Jest / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
it's such a beautiful day / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Life Unlimited	seeAlso	Video Phone
Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Mother Earth / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
S-F: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Seven Days in May / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
The Imaginary / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
The Mayors / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
The Night Mayor / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
The Stars, Like Dust / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
VIDEOPhone	sameAs	Video Phone
Videophone	sameAs	Video Phone
Doraemon (Manga) / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
PokÃ©mon World Tour: United (Podcast) / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Koragasa Renewal (Roleplay) / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Chuck / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Hallo Spencer / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Knight Rider / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Pee-wee's Playhouse / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
The Man in the High Castle / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
The Outer Limits (1963) / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Thunderbirds / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Tomes And Talismans / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Total Recall 2070 / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
UFO / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
UFO (1970) / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Upload / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
War of the Worlds (1988) / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Warehouse 13 / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
ANNO: Mutationem (Video Game) / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Another Code (Video Game) / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Dead Space (Video Game) / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Dead Space (Video Game) / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Five Dates (Video Game) / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Half-Life 2 (Video Game) / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Myst IV: Revelation (Video Game) / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel (Video Game) / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
The Watchers (Web Animation) / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Dynamo Dream (Web Video) / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Internet Dating and Me (Web Video) / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Girls Next Door (Webcomic) / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Ladies Book Club (Webcomic) / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Leif & Thorn (Webcomic) / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Roommates (Webcomic) / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
C.O.P.S. (1988) / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Clue Club / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
DuckTales (1987) / int_b32d4d58	type	Video Phone
Inspector Gadget / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Superfriends / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
The Jetsons / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
The Smurfs (1981) / int_b434558	type	Video Phone
Max Headroom / int_b434558	type	Video Phone

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