{"id":11395,"date":"2012-05-10T03:26:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T02:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=11395"},"modified":"2026-03-18T11:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T11:01:18","slug":"the-telephone-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/05\/10\/the-telephone-box\/","title":{"rendered":"The Telephone Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1H1_p6B4Ugo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/telephonebox.jpg\" alt=\"telephonebox.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ah, <em>The Telephone Box<\/em>, or <em>La Cabina<\/em>, to give Antonio Mercero&#8217;s half-hour film its original Spanish title. Made in 1972, I saw what was probably the first UK TV screening sometime around 1980, and for years afterwards was asking people whether they ever saw that film about the guy stuck in a phone box. Eventually I got in on tape following another TV screening and would foist it on anyone who hadn&#8217;t seen it. Thom at <a href=\"http:\/\/thombeau.blogspot.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Form is Void<\/a> linked to a YouTube copy a while back, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/brooligan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stephen Gallagher<\/a> reminded me of it a few hours ago, so <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1H1_p6B4Ugo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here it is<\/a>, one of those simple but memorable dramas in which a small problem escalates into a nightmare.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/08\/02\/les-temps-morts-by-rene-laloux\/\">Les Temps Morts by Ren\u00e9 Laloux<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, The Telephone Box, or La Cabina, to give Antonio Mercero&#8217;s half-hour film its original Spanish title. Made in 1972, I saw what was probably the first UK TV screening sometime around 1980, and for years afterwards was asking people whether they ever saw that film about the guy stuck in a phone box. Eventually &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/05\/10\/the-telephone-box\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Telephone Box&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[3675,5367,895],"class_list":["post-11395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-horror","tag-antonio-mercero","tag-form-is-void","tag-rene-laloux"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2XN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}