Alan King pulls out one of those toy phones, the kind that jingle when you dial a number, and begins dialing. The ringing sound catches the other driver's attention. It struck me as very funny.
BTW, let me know if you want to sell that phone you used. That's a beaut!
It weighs, seemingly, about 20 pounds.
Once a very long time ago, I had seen a photograph of Henry R. Luce, before he met Clare Booth Luce, sitting at his desk at Time magazine, taken about the time Fortune was founded, which would've been circa 1930. I noticed the telephone, and decided I wished to have one like it, although obviously it wouldn't do me any good.
I figured it would be a long, fruitless search, and that all I'd ever find was some replica, priced in the hundreds of bucks.
I lived in Lincoln at the time, and there was a business that refurbished old telephones--Burden's Supply Center--and I decided to check it out one time.
There were lots and lots of old telephones there, available for sale, and there was my model, for five bucks. I dunno if Burden's still does this (they've become rather more famous since then, as Burden's Outdoors Outfitters, or something like that), but at the time, the late 1970s, early 1980s, they sold a lot of refurbished telephones, although for practical use, not as antiquities.
That’s a Western Electric model 202 desk set, made from 1930 to 1937. They’re relatively common, and there are always some for sale on eBay. You also need what they called a “subset”, which was a box containing the ringer and other components necessary for actual operation.
http://www.telephonearchive.com/phones/we/we202.html