videophone theme
A phone system with a video link is featured in such a manner that it is made clear it is still a technology to be developed in the future.
Examples
Captain Kirk and his crew conferred in such a way in tos2x26 "Assignment: Earth".
27 total · 27 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) | minor | Heywood Floyd spoke with his young daughter over video phone at the space port. |
| movie: Battle of the Worlds (1961) | minor | Professor Benson communicate with government officials over a video phone system. |
| movie: City Beneath the Sea (1971) | minor | Michael spoke to the president over a videophone. |
| movie: Colossus The Forbin Project (1970) | minor | The scientists and politicians communicated over bulky and stationary video phones. |
| movie: CyberTracker (1994) | minor | People communicated over somewhat bulky videophones in a manner that emphasized the novelty of the devices. |
| movie: Dimension 5 (1966) | minor | Justin Power used a television-like device to communicate with other Espionage, Inc. members. |
| movie: Hardware (1990) | minor | Mo spoke with Shades over just such a device, albeit a bulky one. |
| movie: High Treason (1929) | minor | people communicated via video phone devices |
| movie: Just Imagine (1930) | minor | people used video phones to communicate in 1980 New York |
| movie: Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (1996) | minor | A man spoke to a woman who was presumably his wife over a video payphone. Dr. Cori Platt spoke to the corporate tycoon Jonathan Walker via a videophone in her car. |