Fifty years since first mobile phone call, inventor looks back ++ARCHIVE++

(3 Apr 2023)
WORLD MOBILE ANNIVERSARY
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
RESTRICTION SUMMARY
LENGTH: 6:35
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Beijing, China - 14 November 1996
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1. Man on cellphone
2. Man in car on cellphone
3. Man in front of car on cellphone
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Beirut, Lebanon - 8 December 1996
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4. Zoom out from mobile phone on man's belt
5. Man on phone waiting to get money out of bank
6. Various of people using mobile phones
7. Woman sitting in cafe using mobile phone
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: New York, US - 12 February 1997
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8. Close of man dialling number into cellphone
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Barcelona, Spain - 27 February 2023
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9. Setup shots, various of Martin (Marty) Cooper, 94-year-old mobile phone inventor, holding Motorola DynaTac 8000x and modern smartphone
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin (Marty) Cooper, 94-year-old cellphone inventor:
"At the very beginning, 50 years ago, when I conceived of the cellphone and we actually built one and made a phone call, I knew that someday everybody would have a cellphone. We joke that someday when you were born, you'd be assigned a telephone number, and if you didn't answer the phone, you would (have) died. So, it is gratifying to see that prediction come to fruition. But on the other hand, it's my judgment that we're just starting. The cellular industry is just learning how to do things like revolutionize education, revolutionize health care, change the whole concept of collaboration. So, this is just the beginning."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Washington, DC, USA - 24 May 1999
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11. Various of people talking on mobile phones
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Barcelona, Spain - 27 February 2023
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12. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin (Marty) Cooper, 94-year-old cellphone inventor:
"These were primitive times. There was no internet in 1973 believe it or not, there were no digital cameras, there were no large scale integrated circuits. And so, the unit that we built was put together with a massive number of individual parts. It weighed over a kilo, almost two and a half pounds, and had a battery life of 25 minutes of talking. The weight was not a problem you understand because you couldn't hold it up to your head for more than 20 minutes. So, these were primitive times."
13. Pan left to Fira Gran Via exterior, venue for MWC mobile fair
14. Close of Android banner
15. Close of Samsung banner
16. High shot of MWC show floor
17. Various of ZTE booth, smartphones on display
18. Various of Cooper speaking during interview
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin (Marty) Cooper, 94-year-old cellphone inventor:
"I'm not crazy about what a modern cellphone looks like. I think that the idea that you have to take a block of plastic like this and put it against your face and hold your hand up in an awkward position, it doesn't make any sense to me. So, I think we're just at the beginning of that, and that the cellphone is going to be distributed on your body at some point. It's going to be measuring your health at all times and looking for aberrations in that health."
20. Various of Honor booth, smartphones on display
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin (Marty) Cooper, 94-year-old cellphone inventor:
22. Cutaway of Cooper during interview
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin (Marty) Cooper, 94-year-old cellphone inventor:
24. Various of Cooper holding Motorola DynaTac 8000x

LEADIN:
It’s been 50 years since the first public call from a handheld portable telephone was made, on a New York City street on April 3, 1973.


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