Anachronisms
Aug. 13th, 2011 06:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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machupicchu and I saw a movie that had a fair amount of it set in the late 60's/early 70's. The sheets on the bed were chocolate brown. I called wtf. Maybe it was just my house and my friends in college and the people I knew, but no one - absolutely no one - had sheets that were anything but white. Maybe there was a bit of embroidery on the hems of pillow cases but I remember the first time I bought colored sheets and it was at least the 80's and they were pale blue.
But today, in The Help, set in the 60's, the writer - making $80 a week - kept talking on the phone to an editor in New York from Mississippi. Once from a maid's house. Er. Doubtful. In the 60's Long Distance telephone calls were still a BFD. And I'll betcha those maids did not have phones. But even if they did, one would not have picked up the phone, in a house not her own, and call someone long distance.
In the 60's we still have Person-to-Person and Station-to-Station. Person-to-Person was way more expensive but you didn't pay a cent until you were actually talking to the person you were calling. Station-to-Station was still expensive but charges started the minute someone answered. All Long Distance required an operator to complete the call.
It is possible that the writer may have talked to a potential editor on a long distance call but not that likely and certainly not as often as in the movie. It was jarring.
I couldn't spot much else out of context. They did do a good job.
machupicchu and I saw a movie that had a fair amount of it set in the late 60's/early 70's. The sheets on the bed were chocolate brown. I called wtf. Maybe it was just my house and my friends in college and the people I knew, but no one - absolutely no one - had sheets that were anything but white. Maybe there was a bit of embroidery on the hems of pillow cases but I remember the first time I bought colored sheets and it was at least the 80's and they were pale blue. But today, in The Help, set in the 60's, the writer - making $80 a week - kept talking on the phone to an editor in New York from Mississippi. Once from a maid's house. Er. Doubtful. In the 60's Long Distance telephone calls were still a BFD. And I'll betcha those maids did not have phones. But even if they did, one would not have picked up the phone, in a house not her own, and call someone long distance.
In the 60's we still have Person-to-Person and Station-to-Station. Person-to-Person was way more expensive but you didn't pay a cent until you were actually talking to the person you were calling. Station-to-Station was still expensive but charges started the minute someone answered. All Long Distance required an operator to complete the call.
It is possible that the writer may have talked to a potential editor on a long distance call but not that likely and certainly not as often as in the movie. It was jarring.
I couldn't spot much else out of context. They did do a good job.
