File talk:Actor portraying Alexander Graham Bell in an AT&T promotional film (1926).jpg

  This is NOT Alexander Graham Bell. Do not use this photograph.

It is a still photograph from an early AT&T promotional film shot in the early 1920s showing an actor playing Bell speaking into a replica of an 1877 telephone.

Please delete this photo or indicate that it is NOT Bell.

--Edwin S. Grosvenor, author of Alexander Graham Bell: The Life and Times of the Inventor of the Telephone.

Well this is embarrassing. See AT&T promotional film linked on right hand side of this page; http://www.corp.att.com/history/ The actor in it is clearly the same man shown here. --Escape Orbit (talk) 19:52, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

Hello! I am attempting to track down this film, do you have any further information on it that would be helpful in my search? That link takes you to a modern AT&T site. It would mean a lot if you could give me ANYTHING further I could go off of to find this film. Babyaceinspace (talk) 23:34, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

Update: the movie frame image has been removed from some WP articles, and on the one remaining article its caption has been revised to note the use of an actor.

Since the movie photo has achieved almost an almost iconic status, one suggestion would be to ask its copyright owner to license the image under the dual CC3.0/GFDL license. Once obtained the article captions would note the use of the actor's image. An alternate resolution would be to find a very similar photo of Bell talking into one of his early phones. Perhaps Edwin Grosvenor's staff could assist. Best: HarryZilber 16:23, 22 June 2011 (UTC)