A fantasy of kitchen planning and modernization. With Augusta Roeland and Rege Cordic. Produced by Haford Kerbawy. Producer: Handy (Jam) Organization Sponsor: U.S. Steel Company
I friggin' love Jam Handy industrial films. What a cool, slick, sweet peice of an America gone by. I know many of you will say 'Thank goodness they're gone too' but think on it. There was an innocent naivete' that is sadly lacking from every facet of our (post) modern lives. Maybe there were changes that needed to be made, but I think we threw out the baby with the bath water. Too bad.
I totally agree. Another element to this is that we interpret the 1950s through the radical lens of the 1960s and beyond. Radicalism does indeed throw the baby out with the bathwater. Sometimes quite ordinary or even positive old things have to be demonized in order to support the new views. The result is a distorted understanding of the old things and views.
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In our family of six, my father was a military man and was able to meet the financial needs of our family on the salary of an enlisted man. My mother was an extremely creative and intelligent woman who had technical training from MIT in arial photography and arial reconnaissance. Mom managed our household like it was a small business. She was an executive secretary and worked when she wanted to however mom chose to be home with us most of the time. Our house was beautifully decorated and the family well dressed because my mother shopped at thrift stores and estate sales. That didn't look like a bad life to me. I felt safe and loved.
I too was raised by a military enlisted man. Mom never worked but somehow we managed and I never was at a loss for anything. It was due to a loving traditional family which is nearly completely lost in todays liberal society. Kids with two Dads or Moms in the same house. Kids with split family's step moms dads and siblings......Its a mess.
I know 2 women who have NEVER let their husbands see them without makeup. One is gorgeous and doesn't need it, but is so insecure that he might be swayed by another woman if she doesn't always look her best. The other has such terrible skin that she's afraid he'll get scared and divorce her on the spot.
@@lilay1841 My point exactly! I've only ever worn makeup to major events, like weddings, or certain jobs where it was expected. Some men like the natural look. Others don't care. I was never focused on their perspective on the matter. I'm more concerned with staying clean and keeping my complexion healthy.
I can tell this is the 50s when it starts out like a horror movie and she’s just like, bemused by the fact her kitchen has been replaced with a black void and a disembodied voice.
My old apartment had one... Well it was actually the space where the dishwasher is suppose to go, but I don't believe in those things, so I placed a stool in that spot. I Loved it.
CL G 😂 don’t know about Hillary, but we get along just fine lol. We really love each other. 40 years👍. But I need some sleep! A wing would be awesome, frankly.
Twin beds were used for tv purposes. It wasn't proper to show people sleeping in the Same bed. --Also, with the normal shared bed, the Largest size they came in was Double/Full, unless you had more money then brains to afford a queen size.
@@ayfr. Wrong! My parents had a California King bed from the time they were married in 1948. And they had brains, but not a lot of money as newlyweds. My dad graduated from USC and started an accounting business specializing in taxes and my mother was an executive secretary/office manager for a propane company.
Most definitely! In the 1950s, ppl cared for one another, they respected one another, and the whole community took care of, not only each other, but the helpless amongst them! The helpless didnt expect handouts, they just wanted a job and some dignity. They werent mooches, they contributed to society in any way they could! Kids had both parents in the home and there was less stress and less emphasis on material things and more emphasis on families and being together and helping to make each other better! 2022....its a sad time to be alive! Totally opposite of all that!
It is funny, but really it was one way to let each other sleep because both the husband and wife normally had different times to wake. Notice they have two children so they don't have to worry about intimacy. Actually did you know that on the Brady Bunch it was the first time that a couple on tv had ever been seen sleeping in a large bed together instead of to separate beds. I've heard it was a break through in tv.
Do you know, the EXACT same thing happened to me! I couldn't sleep, went to the kitchen for milk and cookies, and the kitchen was gone! 😂😂😂 My kitchen had an office too, for planning meals, keeping records and ordering! Sadly, all gone now! Just a disembodied voice!
The music sounds ominous at first! Thought it was a horror movie. And what's with the shoe in her hand? Is she planning to throw it at her snoring husband? Lol
Kind of weird, but it was fun seeing hubby cracking open those old ice trays with the handle. 50s illustrations were so cool! The "do side" seems to be an old version of the kitchen island.
my old house had a kitchen made with steel cabinets. it was the strangest kitchen I have ever had. it felt more like a ship's galley or caravan cooking set-up than an ordinary domestic kitchen. fun to show friends but horrible to work in, Edie will soon want her old kitchen back (especially if the family keep coming into the new one!)
My parent's house was built in 1945 under the veteran's housing program. It had steel cabinets and a gas refrigerator (which was being pushed at a discount by the gas utility). They were fine when new, but I've seen some old ones that haven't aged gracefully. Once they start to rust it's very hard to make them respectable again.
The perfect two child family in 1957. Those metal cabinets were and are the bomb. They were made to last and if you can find some for sale they cost a fortune. Advertising convincing consumers they needed/deserved so many things... Those clothes were so beautiful.
It's NOT because of your height (which is normal). Although having cabinets aboue a fridge is useful, random objects (& cats, which can never resist climbing as high as possible) tend to get put on top of fridges IF there's no cabinets over them.
I would buy ANYTHING if it was in the vein of 50’s adverts. Need a tailor made kitchen when you’re own is as wide as you’re outstretched arms?! NO PROBLEM!
PC No My late father used to paint steel cabinets at St. Charles Steel Kitchens. He said they moved on a conveyor while he sprayed them and was like a calisthenic workout everyday. He worked there twelve years. He earned over $12/hr when he left in the early 60’s, a huge sum for the time.
I wondered that too until the end, when it said that the film was produced for United States Steel. The round "USS" logo was on the cover of that kitchen planning book. I have never seen steel cabinets in a kitchen even in older houses. Steel cabinets don't seem practical, they could get dented, scratched & rusted.
in 1957 I had yet to see a refrigerator look "built in" surrounded by cabinets, or an island (although I think my ma's friend Eva Pinto put one in about that time). They never tell her to get out a yard stick and measure the room. Many kitchens in our very middle class neighborhood were about 8 X 8'. Not much you COULD do.
" 'And a husband?' 'Why, of course!' " I love this slices of thick, cheesy Americana. I wonder what will be better remembered, now or then? Their not making films about living now...
and that is what I believed that life was like as a little girl of the 50’s. I now have close to that dream, but I learned along the way that the world is not like that.
Someone wise recently said that rather a view of the past these films are a vision of a future utopia and better world. A lot of wisdom and food for thought in that.
Women had such great lives. They gave it up for what? Abortions, divorce, having to work on top of taking care of the house, single motherhood with multiple baby daddies supported by the government, the ability to wear as little clothing as possible and call it "confidence"?
abortion is necessary, divorce is necessary, one persons salary cant maintain a salary anymore, and there are still elegant people in the world at least people who dress decently
november132 not all lives were like that. this was a fake picture that TV painted. I was there. However, you are correct. Women have been duped into believing that being a good wife and mom is an unhappy life. who cuts their baby out of their womb? that’s not the answer. but some of the improvements have been good ones. as a teen in the 60’s, i didn’t buy into women’s lib. they said, “Women can be anything they want to be.” I said, “i’ve always wanted to be a wife, mother, and homemaker.” they screamed, “Oh THAT’S NOT A WORTHY CAUSE.” Bull! it’s an honorable call. I have read some stories written by daughters of some of the women’s lib movement & they didn’t tell nice stories about what their mothers were like. Traditional family is still the best way to live.
What a ridiculous notion that people gave up something that was good. It is easy to be so silly and empty minded on RU-vid. And all of that from watching a damn fantasy commercial. Common sense, it wasn't so good as you think or the ppl involved wouldn't have changed it so drastically and so many wouldn't have changed. No one gave up real security to have abortion. I mean come the fuck on.
I just realized my kitchen doesn't have the workspace triangle. Also, just watched a GE film from the 30s where the lift top dishwasher didn't need pre-rinsing and the dishes supposedly were done in 5 minutes (mine takes 2 hours), plus the monitor top fridge was a whopping 7 cubic feet, while nowadays they're over 20! I like the old kitchens better.
mine has the workspace triangle. however, it is so small that two corners are back to back, I just turn around, the third corner is one sidestep away. it is efficient as hell for one person, once I got used to planning the sequence of prepping each part of a meal on the one surface available for that. however, its impossible to share the space with anyone else. teaching the kid to cook is a pain because there is no room for them to just hang about watching and being supervised as they assisted when they were little. now they are a grown up sized person and it's even harder to work together. sharing the cooking of a meal, or even having two people making separate quick breakfasts or tea and toast or coffee and cereal are just not possible. the previous owner wanted a 'formal dining room' so moved the entire kitchen into what was a pantry/laundry room. at least they moved the washing machine and dryer into what was a walk-in storage cupboard at the front of the house. I want to combine the tiny kitchen and biggish dining room into a glorious kitchen-diner. someday.
Terry Gross/Fresh Air did a show on the people who composed music for these films & musicals as entertainment for the steelworkers. Ice wanted to see/hear them forEVER!
I like how this disembodied voice thinks that walls just happen wherever you find convenient. Like the house must already have a kitchen and living room for the size of the house shown.
I feel a man would love this type of life, he works brings in the money and she raises the kids cooks cleans make sure everything is ok with every1 else. Seems back then there was no time for herself. And maybe that was all ok with both. Also she should should shut the light off for sleep 😂 I loved this. Thanks for sharing. I hope she got her kitchen
I grew up then and in modern homes once the kids were at least in kindergarten, mom had PLENTY of free time. The women in my subdivision ran major charities, were involved in League of Women Voters, one woman I know had a copper enameling kiln and sold and won awards for her artwork and jewelry. They had a much richer life than cutthroat jobs in a megacorp.
@@poetcomic1 How many children, though? One or two, yes, but when you have three or four or more it is a three ring circus. You have to get everything done while they are at school because they will need to be taken somewhere or supervised or kept on task with homework. My mother worked early to late. She had a 15 minute nap in the early afternoon and was back at it. My father worked long hours, too. The only weekday time they had together was sitting side by side in the evening, catching up on newspapers and magazines. In warmer weather they were outside working on their landscaping while the sun was still up. Plenty of free time? Hardly any.
On the contrary. Happiness peaked in the 50 for both, men and women.Back in the 50s women practically owned their neighborhood and were really smart. They knew how to keep a husband and a family together. They administered their husband's pay check and the house finances. They were subtle, elegant, clean, modest, restrained, feminine, moderated and exquisite. Have you taken a look at what people call "women" today? Loud, masculine, clown-like, unfaithful, woke, entitled and vulgar. They have copied only the vices of men...
"Produced for United States Steel" That's called a CLUE people (about why everything in that kitchen is made out of steel). This is a 13 minute long AD!
