Videophones From The Future Past

This wonderful experience of seeing and talking to a distant person has been the original super-science dream back from Victorian times, transformed into more refined science fiction visions in the 1920s, and finally fleshed out into working prototypes in the 1930s.
Further in the 1950s we've seen 'videophones' appearing in every near-future movie and scifi story, and even presented to government officials as the ultimate way of communication. Today any kid, or grandma with access to a smartphone can freely talk themselves into oblivion. But the videophone we have is totally different from the 'videophones of the future past.'