I just watched a couple of Max Fleischer animated/live action shorts concerning the telephone as authorized by AT&T. The first is called That Little Big Fellow-which isn't listed on IMDb-which depicts one man trying to call another and having trouble because of the improper way he's doing the calling before calming down and slowing his stance. It's up to the animated character called Current to go through all the photographed wires to convey just what words-as depicted on screen as this is silent-are being said. Quite educational and entertaining, even today. Then there's this one I'm reviewing here which depicts another man having trouble getting his voice through the receiver and can't hear what the other person on the other line is saying. So he dreams in animated form all the troubles his telephone is experiencing because of his owner's abuse. My favorite part is when this owner has trouble remembering the order the telephone number is supposed to go as he tells the operator and instead of getting a Mr. Lyons, he gets a zookeeper who's trying to control a lion! (This zookeeper is drawn in the unfortunate black caricature of the time with likewise dialect printed on the balloon but if one knows about this and recognizes the way times were then, then one forgives this one incident.) Another very entertaining Max Fleischer short. As for ratings, That Little Big Fellow gets a 7, see above for this one.