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Originally Posted by Launch window
Cops never have caller-ID, they always need some elaborate set of boxes and wires in order to trace a bad guy.
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Well of course back in the days when that particular cliche became part of movie lore (1930s/40s/50s/60s/etc) they did not have it.
This of course opens up a whole new avenue in this thread:
What about those movies where the technology is not harmony with real life development.
By that I mean where the heroes or villains have some pieces of technology which is clearly more advanced that would have been available at the time the story was set. Whilst at the same time there were continuing to exploit or be frustrated by a technology which at the time the story was set was already obsolete and replaced by something better.
I think of all those movies made from the 60s through to the 80s in which there is some form of AI (something we don't have) but where people are still using analog gauges and monochrome CRT displays (things that are already on their way to the antique shops). Even in the 1960s people could see that something like the flat panel LCD would be coming along in future - which is why Kubrick had mock-ups of such things in 2001 (one of the reasons 2001 has aged better than nearly all of its contemporaries).