" DINNER AT 6 " 1946 WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC APPLIANCE OVENS & RANGE PROMOTIONAL FILM 68484

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This color educational film is about the new Westinghouse Electric Ovens and Ranges versus the "old" gas kitchen appliances. This was made by Roland Reed productions circa 1946 and directed by Frank Strayer, a Hollywood veteran who produced many films from the 1920s into the 1950s.
Opening: A Roland Reed Production, other credits cut off (:07-:14). A woman, Mrs. B. talks with no one visible at her table. She's called on it by the narrator. The woman chats with the narrator. She then goes into the kitchen, she presents the food she'll be serving. She holds a porterhouse steak. Broccoli, carrots, potatoes, rolls. She has everything ready to go. The doorbell rings, she isn't ready to serve food yet. Mrs. B opens the door for Uncle Eflow, a rich uncle, and his nurse. The uncle almost topples over. He sits. Henry comes downstairs and shakes his uncle's hand, he then introduces Gracie, his niece. They move to the living room. The uncle lays down. He is allergic to flowers and asks that they be removed. He then points at a painting of flowers which is turned around. They all chat (:15-5:52). Mrs. B returns to the kitchen. She breaks her gas powered oven's door due to the backfire from Gracie's boyfriend's loud hotrod. Now the oven is broken. Mrs. B. is going to go to the boyfriend's house to use his mother's, Mrs. Smith's oven. The uncle must be fed on time at 6pm or he'll be angry and probable won't give money to Gracie to go to college (5:53-7:50). Mrs. B is at Mrs. Smith's house (along with Gracie and her boyfriend). They eat donuts first. Pie that was made in the new oven is shown to Mrs. B. The oven is opened and shown. The features for the oven are shown (7:51-9:54). Mrs. Smith and Mrs. B. start to put food into the oven. Food is inside the oven and the seal to the oven is shown. The features for the oven are explained. A broiling pan is taken out and the steak will be placed on it. The steak is placed on the oven's top rack. The timer is set. A warming compartment drawer. The two women chat in the kitchen. Mrs. B hands rolls to Mrs. Smith and she puts them in the oven. Meat is put into a frying pan on top of the stove (9:55-14:29). A different color for each heat on the stove top is shown and explained. The uncle is laying on the couch as Gracie and the others chat. Mrs. B. and Mrs. Smith open the storage drawer and remove some pots and pans. Broccoli is placed into pots. Controls are turned onto high (14:30-17:47). The Uncle sits with the nurse and Henry. Henry blocks the nurse from going in the kitchen. The timer goes off and Mrs. Smith opens the oven, they check the steak. They put it back in and restart the timer. The chicken is checked in the pot as it fries. Uncle drinks water as the others watch. Mrs. Smith and Mrs. B get foil ready. Gracie and her boyfriend return and the food is taken out of the oven. The carrots are shown cooked. The broccoli is shown with steam coming off it. The potatoes and rolls are presented (17:48-22:37). Mrs. B exits her kitchen and says dinner is ready. The family sits at the table, having eaten. They all talk. Mrs. B talks with the narrator (22:38-24:10). Mrs. Smith prepares the chocolate topping while Mrs. B bursts into her kitchen again. What can be cooked is explained to Mrs. B. Mrs. Smith hands cupcakes over to Mrs. B. who rushes over to her house and serves cupcakes. The uncle eats a hot cupcake with chocolate topping. He smiles and the family is happy. Mrs. B. cries as the uncle compliments her (24:11-26:42). Henry fixes the old oven door for Mrs. B. who wants a new range. Henry and Mrs. B discuss (26:43-27:59). End credits followed by Mrs. B showing different oven ranges (28:00-29:01).
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[@kck9742]

A lot of people in the comments are asking why Mrs. Smith didn't close her oven door all the way -- because when you broil in older-model ovens, you left the door open a bit to prevent overheating and fire. I guess a lot of younger people don't know this because broiling isn't really something many people do anymore. Not sure why, it's a great way to do meat and fish.

[@zvezdoblyat]

Every time I use my broiler the oven and the food ends up smelling like burnt plastic. Is it because of not leaving the door open do you think??

[@zvezdoblyat]

And no, I'm not leaving it in there for too long, in fact I usually end up taking the food out before properly browned because of the smell

[@buckeyedav1]

Glad you answered that I have never "broiled" anything in my ovens ever. I had to laugh at that gigantic steak haven't seen one that big in over 20 years. Anna In Ohio

[@marylousherman5471]

People would rather use their grill these days....

[@terrylynn9984]

Even today when you broil you need to leave the oven door open. Gen Xer here....that part has never changed

[@annier6]

I absolustely couldn't believe she was making cupcakes out of a box and not from scratch! But my favorite line was, “They say don’t ever peek or lift the lid until your vegetables are cooked so the vitamins don’t escape into the air.”

[@mikezylstra7514]

They were still talking like that 10 years later.

[@jacoleneiu3856]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 wasn't that hilarious? Vitamins escape...

[@terrylynn9984]

When those boxed desserts came out the women were ecstatic, and made their lives so much easier too. Even my grandma, a farmers wife who could bake from scratch loved how it made her life easier to use a boxed mix once and awhile.

[@annier6]

@@terrylynn9984 I was a little kid in the 50's and my grandmother never used anything boxed but I remember my mom giving in to using a boxed mix for Angel Food Cake!

[@sky.the.infinite]

I even heard that growing up and believed it for the longest time!

[@alistermycroft7898]

If there's anything from the 40's that needs to make a comeback,it's definitely this oven.

[@sky.the.infinite]

Definitely, agreed!

[@vandelayofficial492]

and Westinghouse! lol

[@straightpipediesel]

@@vandelayofficial492 The appliances became White-Westinghouse, which was then was taken over by Electrolux. You can buy them today in the US mostly under the Frigidaire brand.

[@debbieflaherty1975]

I am obsessed with vintage stoves!!

[@quagmiredavis4117]

​​​@@debbieflaherty1975 I inherited a family home she installed Hotpoint stove Water heater refrigerator 1950 i have her original invoice $ 362 .54 for all 3 kitchen Items .. plus one Fedders window air conditioner used as back up if central ac dies Everything spotless works perfect im not changing anything just rewire when I rewired the house im with you on vintage appliances on refrigerators 99% of time Give good cleaning on coils in back 70 years of dust and my hotpoint will freeze All 6 original hotpoint ice trays 45 min .. thankfully I have plenty of spare parts just incase .. plus our family cabin has a wood stove and 1938 Magic Chef gas stove .😊 ** Biden idiots hate gas stoves ** typical communist bullshit 😅😊

[@jeanleonard6566]

This was so fun to watch. They don't make stoves like they used to. Today's stoves and appliances don't seem to last very long anymore. I have 1947 Magic Chef that is still going strong after 75 years! I'd like to see a modern stove do that!

[@namelessone3339]

I have a 1963 Westinghouse Terrace Top Stove in YELLOW!

[@terrylynn9984]

My stove is from 1995 made in Canada a General Electric too, Electric stove to boot. Now 27 years old , pry it from My dead and dying hands lol

[@PCHGWHS]

Proper English and no cursing! Love this ....

[@MrSloika]

Refrigerators and washing machines were much better in those days as well.

[@debbieflaherty1975]

Nor does anything else.

[@moniquem783]

A porterhouse steak from what? A woolly mammoth? It’s enormous!

[@jacoleneiu3856]

🤣🤣🤣 exactly.. I was like wow..

[@wolfshanze5980]

Yaba Daba Doo!

[@moniquem783]

@@wolfshanze5980 😂😂😂

[@bonniegaither3994]

Right!?!

[@MrSloika]

Quality meat was cheap in those days. Hell, when I was a boy in the 70s, I used to get steak sandwiches for lunch made with dry aged beef. Today dry aged beef costs $30+ a pound.

[@amierichan1428]

My grandmother's career was as a cooking instructor, teaching people how to use their new electric ranges, and writing booklets of "oven meals" recipes. Eventually she even had her own local cooking show on TV. Born in 1898, she had grown up with the old coal stoves. I grew up on the wonders of cooking electrically, no one in my family ever had a gas range in those days.

[@Lifeislikeabox1]

are her shows on youtube

[@amierichan1428]

@@Lifeislikeabox1 Not as far as we can tell. I finally found the current owner of the station (in Maine) who had no idea if there were any cinotapes, where they might be. But he did have some photos of her on the show, which was nice to see.

[@jacoleneiu3856]

@@amierichan1428 very interesting story. My family is from Maine too. Last month ,I discovered that a monument dedicated to the Civil War soldiers has my great,great great grandfather name at the top in South Paris.

[@amierichan1428]

@@jacoleneiu3856 Wow! Very cool, but have been really exciting for your family to discover that! You never know what will turn up. What part of Maine do they come from?

[@amierichan1428]

Funny enough, she was born in Berlin, N.H., which is considered to be the home of the contemporary casserole. Very fitting, as for Home Economists of her time, that was a pretty standard dish. (I mean the meal dish, not the crockery dish.)

[@OofusTwillip]

08:14 - "Well, you know how WATER is." Said to the Wicked Witch of the West.

[@crystalyj30]

I didn't put that together!🤣😂🤣

[@jillsmith633]

Yes, was surprised no one else got it in the comments!

[@jorgieg1]

I just love these mid century films! There’s something comforting about the way we used to live. This was a really good film, thank you!!!

[@joshuacrazone]

i want to go back to this

[@charlietu]

Agreed!! @@joshuacrazone These days, sadly, women do not know how to keep a good home or make a quality homemade meal.

[@samthunders3611]

@@charlietu Nice ..tell your family that andit Won't kill you to help out. Buy a Westinghouse for your family too Gee Wiz!

[@brandielambright460]

@@joshuacrazone Me, too!

[@User-cb4jm]

Everyone of all ages finds comfort in the era they grew up in. We view it with rose tinted glasses, obviously what was shown on TV in the 50s was heavily censored that makes it appear that life was cheerfully rosy all the time.

[@stanf7862]

I am diggin the lighted knobs.

[@mariesantosPMD]

This movie never gets old...A true delight for a vintage lover like me :)

[@missmerrily4830]

Such a sophisticated range for its time and yet people apparently believed that vitamins 'escaped into the air' if you didn't cover pots during cooking! So funny! 🤣

[@mariekatherine5238]

Open the lid and inhale!

[@KischteBier]

They told this to keep people from constantly checking. As today the best way is to tell people BS.

[@shannondore]

I just laughed every time she said that. Losing the vitamins in the air? What?!😆🤣

[@billziemniak578]

My grandmother had one of these and I inherited it and cooked on it until 1974 when it finally gave up the ghost. I haven't had a decent meal since LOL

[@aaf1568]

Lucky you

[@anniekirts6621]

Sir, you have lived. I salute you.

[@bobbykiriakidis9753]

Probably all for the best. Those old appliances burned down many homes back in the day.

[@washkoskat]

Love ❤️ it

[@albear972]

That is such a friggin' cool stove with the built-in pot and pop-up burner! I'm not a fan of electric stoves by any means, but this one is so dangged cool!

[@maxmichaelhatling]

Plus the Non LED colored lights😁

[@javaking1000]

My 1980's gas stove doesn't do anything except heat. Hell, I'm grateful it has electronic ignition. That 1950's stove was way ahead!

[@jacquelynking2184]

I KNOW! Makes me wish they still made these like this!!

[@Kat-fw9se]

We had one up until the late 1970s and it also was a Westinghouse. They really worked great!

[@karenkrasz7078]

Same. I typically don't like electric stoves...but this thing is AWESOME. I want that drop-down, fryer-steamer thingie. What a great feature!

[@missyandjoey]

I do believe the husband was in my fav movie It’s a Wonderful Life. He sat on the porch reading the paper with his pipe and yelled at George Bailey “ try kissing her instead of talking to her death!!” “Ahhhh youth is wasted on the wrong people!!!”

[@MrDch1975]

He also played the in on The Andy Griffith show. He was the mayor

[@tomservo56954]

"I'll give her a kiss that will put hair back on your head!"

[@jeffnlisa]

I THOUGHT that was him!!

[@cathyfromcanada637]

Thank you, knew he was familiar.

[@MsTimelady71]

He also played the judge in Christmas in Connecticut. This film had A list actors.

[@Earcandy73]

My 1956 Hotpoint is very similar! Two ovens, a deep well cooker and an automatic griddle. It looks and works as good as new!

[@mariekatherine5238]

Keep it clean and in good condition, it’ll last forever!

[@Rick1959]

Wow!! They must have dropped a bundle making this movie!! The actors...IN COLOR!!! :-) And I'll bet that food tastes better than the stuff we eat today!

[@irocksixx]

It had actually been in color since 1902, but it was not common. Andy Griffith wasn't even in color till the late 60's, probably when technology became cheaper.

[@mikezylstra7514]

That beef was marbled. You can't get marbled beef or pork anymore (everything has to be low fat, even if it cooks like wood and serves like goat meat) But I've never seen soo many morbidly obese people and fat dumpy 20-somethings in my 72 years - EVER.

[@MrSloika]

@@irocksixx Up until 1970 most TV sets sold in the US were black and white models. People didn't buy color TVs (which were expensive) because most programming was in black and white, and TV networks didn't produce shows in color because of the low number of color TVs in people's homes. When watching old TV shows you may notice the announcer saying some like 'In living color!" That was to remind the people who had black and white TVs that were missing out on the party and encourage them to scrap their black and white sets and replace them with new color sets.

[@dw3403]

@@MrSloika technacolor. Lets not forget to mention there was no cable and we used rabbit ears or roof antennas. We were darned lucky to see the whole show.

[@MrSloika]

@@dw3403 Depends where you lived. I grew up in North Jersey, just across the River from NYC. We had a roof antenna and could easily pick up all the NYC TV channels without a problem.

[@momof2momof2]

What a surprise to see Margret Hamilton ! And I recognize the Dad too. Such a funny little film

[@sarahsiskin6780]

I love these old advertisements

[@jayviescas7703]

The nurse played by Margaret Hamilton, who also played the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz, was well worth the 30 minutes of this ancient Westinghouse commercial.

[@lisaangelo3220]

"I'll get you my pretties"....OMG she's creeping me out, I'm clicking off just cuz of her!!!

[@whatsupdoc84]

Jay Viescas yes! I jumped on the comments to see if I was the only one who noticed.

[@candacerain1]

I was just about to say!! Neat!!

[@amandastewart9358]

I noticed this too. SO cool!!!

[@mcc6002]

“That pelican of a woman” referencing her nose.

[@I_know_it_I_sew_it_I_grow_it]

When Mrs Bundy starts hearing voices, and the Wicked Witch of the West, turns up, you know there is trouble in Kansas.

[@Chahlie]

The controls on the stove! Oh my, I would surely pay extra for that :)

[@jacoleneiu3856]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@kesmarn]

They got me with the range of colors from blue to red hot.

[@paulalarsen7697]

What a delightful infomercial. I wish they were this good now.

[@ridgecrestvarietyshow7324]

Hey y'all, keep in mind that a home economics major from a state university mid century has morphed into present day registered dieticians/nutritionists..both fields requiring mucho math and science. Not to mention a double major with education to become a HE teacher. Most universities today offer degrees in both. And for the record...every box cake, muffin mix, frozen pizza, or frozen dinner you pop into the micro had its humble beginnings in a kitchen lab with a dietician at the helm...just saying😊

[@mikezylstra7514]

oh pahleez! Mucho math? cups & teaspoons are simple fractions - 5th grade stuff in my day.

[@me-xx2gl]

However, while in a rehab (nursing home) they did not understand lactose intolerant. Cream everything. 3 different dieticians. A salad was a lump of iceberg in a suace cup.

[@jamesreynolds5776]

Do any schools still have home ec classes today? Would be a big help 👍

[@chrismorrison3375]

I don't eat anything that goes in a microwave. I don't even own a microwave. Those foods and the microwave gives nothing but cancer

[@halloweenhaunt3121]

The word everyone misspells is dietitian…it’s not spelled like mortician, magician, statistician, etc.

[@timothybrown7779]

So cool.. too bad companies don’t take this much pride in manufacturing these days.

[@slim-oneslim8014]

Because it's all made in some slave labor country.

[@toddmiller1753]

The Flintstones are going to miss their steak!

[@veronicavatter6436]

That thing is enormous!

[@patrickmcmillan2431]

The Westinghouse range gets all the credit and Mrs. Smith is left out in the cold!! Mrs. Bundy owes her neighbor a home cooked meal

[@rockoyouthman]

Ok I want that stove. Why can’t we make anything good anymore. I swear, if it doesn’t have a computer, we’ve forgotten how to make it

[@Barbe]

You and me both.

[@rockaroundtheclock1561]

Why did they discontinue this oven!

[@amandashare1281]

I totally agree with you!

[@candacerain1]

@@rockaroundtheclock1561 it would be so neat to research why it was discontinued!

[@toddsmith1617]

Hardly anyone eats at home anymore.

[@BELCAN57]

I was half expecting Uncle Efflo to say he was broke at the end of the film.

[@kck9742]

That would have been perfect!

[@TheBobbybbc]

And was forced to come to them to seek financial assistance lol

[@kesmarn]

@@TheBobbybbc With plans for him and Margaret Hamilton to move in with the family for their golden years.

[@UpDownMichelle]

BRING BACK THE DEEP WELL COOKER!!

[@WorkaholicB1]

i'm guessing too many people complained because food would stick and was hard to clean out.

[@kathleenaltherr6836]

It goes to show you that new and improved is not always an improvement. The boy's mom is an actress who played the housekeeper for Gene Tierney's character in the movie Laura.

[@653j521]

They assembled a really good cast for an advertisement.

[@tomservo56954]

That's Ellen Corby? Even in LAURA I recognized her as Grandma Walton...I don't feel that here.

[@CornbreadOracle]

@@tomservo56954 no, its Dorothy Adams. That’s who played the maid in Laura.

[@sistersamich2075]

WHAT I JUST SAW THAT MOVIE LAST MONTH

[@robotrix]

THANK YOU! Now if I can just remember who the main actress is.

[@joycebricker3814]

My father went to an action bought a Maytag stove. The lady selling it told him she bought it the same year her son was born 1946. It had that deep well those great places to store pans. It didn’t fit in his house. It did in mine. It weighed a ton. I loved it. You had to light the gas oven no pilot light. One day the part that regulated the temperature broke. I spent a year looking for parts, using a microwave, electric skillet crock pot.. finally I broke down had to buy a new one. “Will you dispose of my old stove.?” They assured me they would. I told them send more than one person. The two they sent nearly died getting it out.

[@chrismorrison3375]

Yeah, my parents loved old stoves. My aunt gave a 1952 maytag white stove to my mom. They had to bring six big guys, all cousins of mine, to lift it on to the truck. We used to lived in an upstairs apartment so, my dad got a man who had the knowledge of taking these type stoves apart and put them back together. After we moved and my dad passed away suddenly we just left the stove there. We ended up buying a new stove.

[@theblissfullone]

'Controlled heat' ... a big perk for women having used/grown up with wood stove ovens ... like my Mother. ❤🌷

[@mariekatherine5238]

You get very good at guesstimating, so it’s not a problem for we oldsters!

[@theblissfullone]

@@mariekatherine5238 Well said. 🙂

[@keepitforreally4501]

I was born in 1960 and my grandmother’s kitchen had the same layout, but her stove was a little bit more modern the kitchen was yellow and I sure miss that kitchen🌹😎

[@memedavis4228]

Thank you for the time capsule. It was a joy to watch !

[@julieannemichelle]

I like the light feature!!! So extremely cool!!!!!😊

[@maha77]

Why is this essentially a 30 minute commercial so entertaining?

[@robotrix]

Think they used to show these at Home Shows (do they still have those?) and if you're asking people to stand and watch your 30 minute commercials you better give them something worth 👀 ❤

[@brianmiller2365]

Great film! Oh, why can’t the world still be like this??? I have a 1947 Gibson Kook-All range that belonged to my grandmother.

[@653j521]

Pull yourself back into reality. It never was like this. This is a fictional family promoting an oven.

[@washkoskat]

I know. It was all so simple. And the mother crying at the end

[@cindycarr3460]

I remember watching this kind of commercials when I was young. They were great

[@headrushindi]

Wow Margaret Hamilton the worlds most iconic Wicked Witch from OZ and an all star cast ., what an antique gem this is .They certainly built appliances back then . And the creative commercials were a hoot. An entire short film just to sell you an oven.

[@ianng5098]

This is life, people communicating, co-existing and carring for each other. Of course there were bad things as well but there were so much more good things.

[@653j521]

I guess you didn't get closer to your family and friends during the pandemic.

[@mikezylstra7514]

bad things? well, polio was still going around

[@cryan4041]

There are quite a few actors in this film that were studio-trained during Hollywood's Golden Era. Margaret Hamilton is easily the best known. Dorothy Adams, probably best known for her role as Bessie in the 1944 film noir classic Laura, is the owner of the new Westinghouse range. Mrs. Bundy is familiar, but I can't place her at the moment. Her husband, Henry, however, is played by Dick Elliot. His voice is unmistakable, and he must have made over 100 films. They are really good actors, which doesn't usually happen in industrial/educational films. Thank you! This was really fun to watch. I wish real life looked like this.

[@randenebates]

I'm pretty sure the mom is Dorothy Vaughan, whom I loved in The Maganificent Ambersons: "You'll know something pretty quick! Please to leave my house!" but I can't find the cast listed on this short.

[@marcse7en]

Uncle Eflow's nurse is played by the wonderful MARGARET HAMILTON (1902 - 1985), who famously played ALMIRA GULCH and the WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST in "THE WIZARD OF OZ" (1939). In stark contrast to her most famous role, in real life, Hamilton loved children! This is one of the BEST things I've seen on KZbin for ages! It's like a cross between a SOAP, a COMEDY and a COMMERCIAL! Surprisingly entertaining! It's funny how cantankerous old Uncle Eflow is not only ALLERGIC to the flowers, but to the FLOWER PAINTING TOO! 😂😂😂 Margaret Hamilton is fearsomely wonderful as Uncle Eflow's nurse! Great stuff! 👍 SCORE: 9/10

[@nancy4366]

Oooh I thought so! I thought so!!!

[@annabelgrace1267]

She did not have children, but loved them..

[@RuhNay]

I was looking for this comment! Surprised no one else noticed her!

[@marcse7en]

@@RuhNay Margaret Hamilton was a wonderful actress! The Wicked Witch Of The West will live on forever! 🤣

[@blondiebxl]

Impressive that Mrs. B knows that Uncle Eflow likes broccoli, even f she hasn't seen him for over 10 years. That's a fact to remember!

[@653j521]

Not a lot of people are mad for broccoli so it stuck in her mind.

[@Mogeclub]

Nice commercial! Our neighbours had a big Westinghouse fridge in the 50s/60s. Was quite special here in The Netherlands.

[@christhompson3750]

I had one of those stoves. We bought it used. I loved that stove, it had a warming drawer, the drop down burner with the pot and a large storage drawer too. It was a monster but I loved it.

[@mikem919]

Nice to see the wicked witch of the west in this film.....

[@NipkowDisk]

Margaret Hamilton- one of a kind, for sure.

[@michaelmccarthy4615]

Nurse Spindle is priceless

[@richardgray8593]

Worse than Nurse Ratchet

[@thisisnotcharles]

...and Mayor Pike

[@usmale4915]

@@thisisnotcharles as played by Dick Elliott!

[@crazy808ish]

gosh this is a dream of a stove right there.

[@collinsje5]

Golly gee, YES!

[@annettevillain4352]

"I don't know how I'll ever thank you" how about doing the damn dishes, she used every pot & pan in the kitchen for you.

[@rockoyouthman]

Annette Jac , best comment I’ve ever read on KZbin! Lol

[@michelewestover9330]

Annette Jac I was thinking the same thing!!!!😂😂

[@mrsalshehhi4171]

lols

[@anniekirts6621]

Excellent point. And now, it's time to introduce: the Westinghouse Dishwasher....

[@anniekirts6621]

PS Annette: your Best Friend is beautiful...

[@JudgeJulieLit]

"Miss Spindle" ... perfect name for a mal spinster. And perfect casting of Margaret ("Wicked Witch of the West") Hamilton as an antagonist of any stove not Westinghouse, as when the old stove door blows off and she says (another allusion to the Oz film), "sounds like it hit your house!"

[@JudgeJulieLit]

And then later, when she asks, "can't I get a drink of water?" The dad replies, "well, you know how water is!" Another veiled comic allusion to The Wizard of Oz film, wherein the Witch of the West was "liquidated" by a toss of water.

[@anniekirts6621]

@@JudgeJulieLit yes-yes! Good catch

[@jacoleneiu3856]

@@JudgeJulieLit 🤣🤣🤣

[@georgiannmaloney6594]

I would love to have that range

[@goldenboy5500]

OMG it Margaret Hamilton " the wicked witch of the west" I'm melting melting

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

Hi Peri... would LOVE to see more of these types of videos, love them!

[@usmale4915]

I agree! These films are fun, entertaining and informative! Just keep them coming!

[@alphawoolf5981]

A genuinely funny, well-acted film. Well, the beginning anyway. All for a commercial about something we all take for granted nowadays. Fascinating.

[@phyllisstein1837]

OMG, it's Almira Gulch

[@dominicmartinelli5762]

I'm pretty certain this film dates from 1951. The featured Westinghouse range was also promoted in print ads from that year and is identical to the one in the movie.

[@bdh70]

This was identical to the range on I Love Lucy, which premiered in 1951, so I would say you are correct. The fridge was the same as one on Lucy as well, though she had a couple of different refrigerators on the show.

[@fromthesidelines]

In 1951, Roland Reed was producing industrial films at the same time he was branching out into TV production. He was producing Stu Erwin's "TROUBLE WITH FATHER" and "THE BEULAH SHOW"....and the following year, "MY LITTLE MARGIE", and "ROCKY JONES, SPACE RANGER" {which wouldn't be widely seen on TV until 1954}.

[@robertknight4672]

@@bdh70 I think Westinghouse was one of I Love Lucy sponsors.

[@JudgeJulieLit]

Although it may be that Westinghouse made a model in 1946 that they did not update through 1952. "Planned obsolescence" was not yet a thing.

[@emilymayer5500]

@@JudgeJulieLit Thank goodness! When I bought my circa 1895 Victorian cottage, it had a late 1940s/early 1950s Magic Chef cookstove in the kitchen. I fought tooth and nail with my husband to keep it; he wanted to throw it away and I wanted to keep it. My mother outvoted him, and after we cleaned it up, what a great idea HE had to keep it. It's still here...he isn't. He's my ex for a reason, LOL!

[@scratchdog2216]

Uncle Eflow won't be getting a spongebath from Nurse West. I can't imagine he's disappointed. Funny show. Thanx.

[@mikezylstra7514]

At his age he'll take a sponge bath from anybody who'll give him one.

[@debbienye6002]

The house we bought in Portland, OR in 1991, had a range like the 1946 one. We used it until 2002, when we remodeled. The oven temp could never be regulated, though, so we had to learn how to set it. We knew it was old, but I am now guessing it was from the mid 40's!

[@amandashare1281]

I really want that cooker!

[@Mary20457]

What a huge steak! She left the oven door ajar the whole time after saying what a tight seal it made.

[@anniekirts6621]

LOL

[@kathleenpalmisano3591]

Mary M. Electric stove door needs to be left slightly open when broiling.

[@yana1955]

That was necessary in those older style ovens.

[@lindaeasley5606]

During my grandmother's time ,the ice blockless refrigerator was the wonder invention

[@waldo1967]

I was looking for this one on Thanksgiving 2023. Found it one day later.🤗

[@richardgray8593]

Oh, dear. What if that wonderful Westinghouse range had not been available to save the day? Oh, dear.

[@joyniklas8887]

Poor Gracie would have ended up a spinster!

[@Copeandseethe822]

I've always been a fan of my glass top range but this stove is friggin cool

[@mikezylstra7514]

I hate glass tops. Calrods are better if you have to have electric.

[@PointyTailofSatan]

Sadly, their kitchen electrical wiring was not rated for such a load. The kitchen caught fire, and everybody died. But the new range survived, so that's good.

[@travisbell1732]

PointyTailofSatan LOL best comment ever! I see a closing shot of Gracie’s lifeless hand holding a college application with a beauty shot of the oven in the background.

[@maxpenn6374]

You and Travis Bell get my award for the *best* funny/snarky remarks of all☮

[@Barbe]

HURR HURR! U ACHIEVED KOMEDY!

[@marloflanagan7421]

Damn, I want this stove!

[@JESUSISLORDforevermore888]

5/10/2020: The ( nurse ) woman from the WIZARD of OZ; she played the bad witch. Henry played the mayor from The Andy Griffith Show.

[@pinkshabbyroses101]

I loved this! I want the stove and that lovely mom to cook for me:):)

[@todd5334-p7w]

My Grandmother had the recessed bean pot on her stove.. It was awesome.

[@sunnyblueskies6505]

Ah. The days when Made in America was for everything we owned. 🇺🇸

[@jackhollandthe3800]

How come we can't have a stove like that these days that DOESN'T fall apart.

[@destubae3271]

Profit margins combined with pricier regulations + companies learned they can make money off of broken products. Probably also has something to do with the surge of service related industries replacing manufacturing in the US-- gotta give those people something to do

[@ebgbjo2025]

Because they found out when they sell good quality stoves, people aren't purchasing them as often. Its why we have made in China junk that needs repaired & replaced within 5yrs.

[@eily_b]

Because they are made in China and have built in planned obsolescence...

[@ecthelion222]

It’s intriguing in a weird way. I like all history recent or old so this just amuses me how long they made promos back then. I’ve seen so many clips like this that have a whole backstory around them. It shows you how hard they pressed their products. Now we get 30 second to two minute ads. It’s usually the former though.

[@eily_b]

When we bought our first super expensive Siemens microwave in the mid 80s, we went to a showroom with a demonstration where they cooked for two hours and showed us everything that was possible with that microwave. We ended up buying it, it had no spinning plate and features like cooking with 720W and then automatically changing to 360W to continue etc. I worked just fine until my Mom moved out of our old house in 2018. That's more than 32 years.

[@nickidon7262]

This is a commercial? More like a mini movie and it's hillarious, I like the old uncle😂.

[@lcfanyc]

I must've watched it a dozen times already!

[@washkoskat]

Me too. Love it

[@BankruptMonkey]

I wonder if they stopped making built in pots in stoves because they were hard to clean. I still love the feature though.

[@dothatch5147]

The pot came out and we washed in the sink with all the dishes. I wish they still had that feature.

[@BankruptMonkey]

@@dothatch5147 I asked my grandma about it later and she said they stopped the built in pot once the slow cooker became popular and they could sell two devices instead of only one.

[@karenkrasz7078]

@@BankruptMonkey Oh what a shame! I LOVE that feature shown. I want a stove with one of those built in fryer/steamer pots

[@BankruptMonkey]

@@karenkrasz7078 It is a shame how many cool appliance features these old reels show that aren't available in normal off the shelf appliances today. My oven doesn't have that, but it does have a steam reservoir so that instead of just baking it can also steam bake, that's a cool feature I'm glad newer ovens have and it makes me feel less bummed about the cool old features we've lost.

[@karenkrasz7078]

@@BankruptMonkey I haven't looked or shopped ovens or stoves in many years. I'll have to take a look at what is out there. Perhaps there are some interesting features I don't know about. (which would be a nice surprise--for once!)

[@kitgin4504]

Take me back to this day beautiful days

[@marctronixx]

my favorite periscope opening at the start of the video.

[@hannaht6588]

I cannot stop watching these !!! Honestly want one so bad tho 😅

[@Farawaysoclose]

wish we had a time machine,I will buy that cooker,cool

[@BigBlu_896]

almost 100 years later and im sold

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

HUH?? what's "almost a hundred years later"? This was made right after WWII.. that wasn't 100 years ago....

[@michaelmccarthy4615]

That pelican of a nurse. Good thing she didn't say vulture That name was already taken by the greedy relatives

[@JudgeJulieLit]

Per William Delaney | Certified Educator at eNotes, "In Shakespeare's time it was commonly believed that pelicans fed their young on their own blood," generously but foolishly while the parent pelicans were still alive. So Shakespeare's King Lear calls his two ingrate daughters, to whom he has in his lifetime granted his entire estate, but then they make him homeless, "pelican daughters." You are right, in this Westinghouse film Gracie's mother (herself scheming to draw money "blood" from her old kinsman) Freudian slip projects her own "pelican" aim onto the kinsman's nurse, who may or may not aim to usurp his kin's "right" first to do so.

[@sallyyotz3995]

Dang, I think I'd like one of those stoves, lol.

[@rapman5363]

For God’s sake you’ll never get anything cooked if you keep opening and closing the damn oven door!!

[@tarpleyk9352]

🤭😅😅😅😅..that's cute

[@JunaidWolf3]

@@tarpleyk9352 the house exploded cus they didn’t stop opening and closing the damn oven door

[@warsaw28]

She never shut the door the whole time the food was in it.

[@billgreen1861]

@@warsaw28 you don't close the door when broiling, you keep it slightly open. The rest of the food in the oven only needed warming.

[@warsaw28]

@@billgreen1861 Oh. I’ve never broiled. Not even sure mine can broil lol

[@patriciagiles5833]

That stove is awesome even by today's standards

[@georgevavoulis4758]

Love these old documentaries

[@nebbindog6126]

I have a Westinghouse cookbook featuring "Betty Furness", 1954. The advise on how to please your husband is hilarious!

[@mikezylstra7514]

You chicks oughta start reading up on that. Nulliparity is a significant risk factor for breast cancer.

[@ebgbjo2025]

What is the name of the cookbook? Thanks!

[@robertabray-enhus3198]

I love these films! ❤ Margaret Hamilton wasn’t an attractive woman. But she was a wonderful actress and was also a teacher. I remember when she was on Mr Rogers one day. They were wonderful together

[@willg4802]

Wicked Witch of the Westinghouse commercial

[@childoffenrir5892]

My grandfather caught me eating the leafy buds off of the broccoli in his fridge when I was 4. I didn't want the baked goods in his fridge. He then caught and used the brussel sprouts stock as a switch when I snuck out to eat the buds and I didn't stop till the brussel sprouts where gone. I might have been 5 then but it was worth it.

[@chrismorrison3375]

So, you were abused

[@childoffenrir5892]

No. He was teaching me what I was doing was wrong. Big difference.

[@chefdingo]

Now I've heard it all, vitamins can vaporize into the air 🤣🤣🤣

[@sleddy01]

Is that what a porterhouse looked like? That cow must have been 10 ft tall.

[@pbcanal1]

And very cold as that steak was stiff as a board.

[@davidcampbell1899]

It was a Fred Flintstone size steak! That steak today in 2020 would cost you about $200.00

[@annettevillain4352]

😁😁 That comment gave me a good laugh!

[@boris2342]

Fred Flintstone would be happy

[@jblyon2]

@@davidcampbell1899 And she's going to ruin it under the broiler

[@danielthoman7324]

Back when I was kid in early and mid 50's most of the housewifes had a Tappan gas stove. More affluent people next door had electric stove.

[@beckers68]

I need that oven! Especially that back burner that turns into a fryer and steamer! I wonder why they don't do that now? We have to have different applainces taking up room on our counters instead.

[@ladylaura8038]

That nurse of his is a real witch!! 😉. I love these looks into Americana.

[@dannyphilemon4962]

Our 1958 General Electric stove is the best appliance we own we’ll never sell it

[@sky.the.infinite]

No one’s said anything about “the Wicked Witch of the West” the lovely Margret Hamilton playing Uncle Eflow’s nurse! (Also, LOVE this stove/range!)

[@johnstancliff7328]

Love it! too bad they don't make them anymore!

[@heatherr0420]

I find Old films like this soothing

[@jhlfsc]

The two level speed cooker deep frying feature seems like such a good idea. I can't imagine why they don't offer that anymore??

[@chrismorrison3375]

Too many fires

[@jhlfsc]

@@chrismorrison3375 Oh no kidding? I guess somehow the oil could slip down into the oven and burn? Otherwise I'm not sure how it would be any different than a fire caused by frying on top of the stove??

[@eily_b]

Fire hazard

[@deborahbaker4770]

This Stove is nicer then the one’s we have now ‼️

[@kdescossa]

I love Gracie’s outfit, so,trim and elegant.