(22 Jul 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Williamstown, Vermont – 16 July 2025
1. UPSOUND (English) Patrick Schlott, Founder, RandTel:
“Oh, I see, that’s the line.”
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Patrick Schlott, Founder, RandTel:
“The phone thing kind of came along by accident. I found an old piece of phone equipment in the garage.”
3. Close up of Schlott working on pay phone
4. Wide of Schlott working on pay phone
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Patrick Schlott, Founder, RandTel:
“Partially inspired by other projects that were doing exactly the same thing, putting pay phones out in public spaces and making them free.”
6. UPSOUND: Schlott dialing pay phone
7. UPSOUND: Phone ringing
8. Wide of Schlott working on phone in his workshop
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9. SOUNDBITE (English) Patrick Schlott, Founder, RandTel:
“But it was also driven by living in rural Vermont for a period of time and knowing that, wow, we have no cell service out here and the community could really benefit from something like this.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tunbridge, Vermont – 16 July 2025
10. Exterior of North Tunbridge General Store
11. UPSOUND (English) Mike Gross, owner, North Tunbridge General Store:
“Okay, $8.78’s the total. Out of ten.”
12. Close up of cat on counter at general store
13. Store owner Mike Gross waiting on a customer
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Williamstown, Vermont – 16 July 2025
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14. SOUNDBITE (English) Patrick Schlott, Founder, RandTel:
“The first phone was installed at the North Tunbridge General Store.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tunbridge, Vermont – 16 July 2025
15. Pay phone outside general store
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Williamstown, Vermont – 16 July 2025
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16. SOUNDBITE (English) Patrick Schlott, Founder, RandTel:
“There’s no cost to the host at all. I pay for the phone lines.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tunbridge, Vermont – 16 July 2025
17. Medium of pay phone outside general store
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18. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Gross, owner, North Tunbridge General Store:
“Everyone’s pretty surprised, and they’re like, is that a real payphone? Does that really work? And I’m like, yeah, but it doesn’t cost any money now.”
19. Close up of phone sign outside general store
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20. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Gross, owner, North Tunbridge General Store:
“We have had people use it that, that broke down. It’s a great thing because, you know, service is so spotty in Vermont.”
21. Close up of pay phone at general store
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22. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Gross, owner, North Tunbridge General Store:
“Back in the day, you put your dime in, and you could call pretty much from any town. But now, it’s all cell phones, no pay phones. And if you don’t have service, you can’t make an emergency call. It’s great. Everybody loves it.”
23. Close up of pay phone at general store
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24. SOUNDBITE (English) Hannah McClain, Tunbridge resident:
“I have 16-year-old twins, and we brought them here right after they installed it and I said, do you know what this is? Do you know what a dial tone is? And so, we talked about it. They thought it was quite interesting. Quite a novelty.”
25. McClain and daughters talking with store owner and buying snacks at North Tunbridge General Store
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26. SOUNDBITE (English) Hannah McClain, Tunbridge resident:
“It does make me feel safer if the kids are out, that if they had an emergency up this way that they could stop and use this. I think these are a great service.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Williamstown, Vermont – 16 July 2025
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