Assignment for Penny - 1951

[@Jakjonsun78]

I can't quite put my finger on it, but I'm starting to think this General Electric sponsored program is trying to get me to buy something.

[@jadedavis822]

Brian Monroe 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@omadjourney]

What electrical appliances have you got in your house already...I'm pretty sure it worked 😂😂😂.

[@Existentialnausea]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ellarae7575]

😂😆😂

[@eileenweeks1815]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@jamesryan6008]

Wow, an academy Award winning cinematographer ( W Howard Greene, 1935,) photogrphed this short.

[@sodality3970]

I love these films ! Truly the good old days !

[@653j521]

Because they are an ad in story form, that makes the McCarthy era good?

[@Gitanarosa]

Good days for some

[@kungfumind.]

You're entirely out of touch from reality. Enjoy!

[@toastnjam7384]

We had a freezer like that back in the 60s/70s. My dad delivered frozen foods to schools and other institutions and would occasionally bring back some frozen items. I assumed they were unwanted extras and that's the story I'm sticking with.

[@nunya2954]

If not, he was a thief.

[@deniseherud]

Girl, dump that wandering dog and move on. The food professor seemed a better match. There should b a sequel to this 😂

[@MiserysFence]

"This is my vacation!" says the man wearing a suit and tie in his own home.

[@---John---]

People didn't dress like slobs back then.

[@marcse7en]

@@---John--- So, do YOU wear a suit and tie in your own home? It's a pity we don't have TIME TRAVEL, then you go back to 1951, seeing as you think it's so WONDERFUL? 😂

[@GaryRoseCO]

they're not married, so I assume he was dressed for the date

[@maryvee61]

My dad only wore dress pants and a long sleeved dress shirt 60s through to the 70s and into the 80s. The first time he bought jeans was the mid 1980s lol just the way it was.

[@rubylady7126]

My father had a laboring job doing sanding on automobile paint jobs, but at home he Always wore slacks with either a golf shirt (he liked that they still has collars) or a button up shirt. The man didn't own jeans or t-shirts, EVER. He was born in 1943, died recently at age 74. Always combed his hair before leaving the house or his car. They had a standard of appearance back then that most adhered to. It was seen as being socially responsible.

[@2cool4u61]

Watching this in 2023, penny’s outfits were amazing and modern, her dresses and even her belt chain in 18:38 ❤👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼 the houses were so modern as well with those cabinetry, specially that farmhouse. The guy was a comic too, I liked how he tried to get his girl jealous by flirting with the other girls such a “50s” way of doing things. They should make more videos like this for us modern people that show off home economics and healthy living.

[@augustcanyon3438]

Women should dress like that again instead of looking like back alley rejects

[@2cool4u61]

@@augustcanyon3438 I agrees 100 percent! 💯

[@Laranikkilara]

Im sure GE has a freezer that will fit Mr. Davis

[@mercycunningham2813]

Let's see. They advertise something. But what? Husbandsized freezers?

[@kissedbysun2517]

Too funny, I'm actually shopping for a chest freezer. I'm sold!

[@RocknRollDina]

me too

[@julieking4304]

harder to clean out than the uprite

[@catherineannelockman3805]

Hate our upright...we have both...chest freezer is much more efficient as far as space goes...no comparison between the two...

[@xlaurenstephens8937]

CLOSE THE LID!!

[@Tambryl]

LOL, thank you, I thought I was the only one.

[@mysecondemailatl]

yeah the little girl left it wide open but I guess she was too short to do it.

[@95blahblahhaha]

So she gets a husband who cheats with his eyes "maybe", a box freezer, a ring he found in his pocket not even in a box. Boy what a lucky girl!

[@momof2momof2]

I loved the drawings

[@laney3182]

This is a nice escape from the deteriorating world around us.

[@tijuanaamatullah8945]

Absolutely...just watching one after the other....bring me baaaaack to a place I've never been.

[@martinconstruction5846]

This is the beginning of the deteriorating world. Teaching people to rely on conveniences of electricity and forgetting over time how to can food ect. Adding monthly bills which will tie them to debt and keep people having to work and overtime wife and husband will need to work to afford more convenient comforts and monthly expenses. Or maybe I’m crazy 😜

[@653j521]

@@martinconstruction5846 Yes, you are crazy.

[@kesmarn]

This comment was written two years ago, but Laney3 certainly saw what was coming.

[@lydiabridges3552]

We could put old Bob in the freezer.

[@lukehauser1182]

Hard-hitting investigative journalism! 4:55

[@bunnyfoofoo9695]

Good grief! Hand that Mr Davis his walking papers.

[@marva2170]

Ewww I agree

[@Sharon-pb7so]

Good old Mike is a bit of a dog.

[@currybase]

Mr. Davis has quite the wandering eye. 😆

[@timothyhh]

He's such an unashamed cad!

[@kenbob1071]

Looks like Tom got a few icy stares and the cold shoulder from Penny. Guess all that freezer research finally paid off.

[@granolagirl4972]

This comment is underappreciated lol!

[@TracieSmithpomeranian]

Today, people are returning to 'old fashioned canning'.

[@rubylady7126]

Yup, and diminishing the Vitamin C in everything 😳

[@jend8759]

The best part of this video is the comment section.

[@653j521]

Or the most vulgar and sick.

[@atom_gray]

is this a commercial for freezers, or couples therapy? creep factor: off the chart.

[@vickycamarena4697]

ok, what they forget to mention is the freezer burn. Those pies didn't even have any wrapping around them. The freezer is great, but you have to use it wisely. You can't just put shit in there and expect it to be perfect coming out after a few months. The drama'infomercial was entertaining.

[@tammylapworth8743]

Yes they had a bad habit of stocking fridges and freezers with uncovered and unwrapped food in the 50s, I see it time and time again in these commercials, they had no idea how to store things properly or how to prevent cross infection it seems.

[@scratchdog2216]

16:58 How does she prepare all that frozen food in 1/2 hour? I'll have to watch the oven video I guess.

[@livelifeincolour]

I was wondering... Even if it's already cooked, can she just stick it in the oven like a frozen pizza???

[@fromthesidelines]

Robert Shayne is "Dr. Houston". Later in 1951, he began to film the first season of "THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN" (as "Inspector Henderson").

[@ivettesantana4319]

I am amazed at how modern it that cabinetry for a farmhouse.

[@LBBEE-xl8qj]

If this was filmed today there would be various love triangles, violence involving abuse/guns/stalking, virus mutation, and at least one police intervention as well as nudity and language with a NC-17 rating.

[@653j521]

That's in the posts below the video.

[@luisreyes1963]

At it will only be available on HBO Max. 😞

[@needles1987]

Mike spends too much time with other women.

[@cherkas009]

I need to get one of those and save $40 a year

[@kdescossa]

That’s quite the short skirt on a 50’s from girl 😂

[@goombabear]

I don't think that marriage will last. The man is always looking at other women and the woman is too bossy.

[@needles1987]

Divorce laws were different back then. Divorces weren't as easy to get back then as they are today.

[@cherkas009]

At least he didn’t bend the knee with the proposal

[@GaryRoseCO]

@@needles1987 I don't think they are married, since he had to pick her up

[@goombabear]

@@needles1987 People went to Reno, Nevada for divorces.

[@goombabear]

@@GaryRoseCO No. I never implied that they were married, but he proposed in the end.

[@jennyhohmann4384]

Mr. Davis is so busy two-timing that he never gets any work done.

[@jeffpaton9673]

And now he's chopped up and in the freezer. It's that easy eh..

[@ranjapi693]

Regarding the instable electricity nowadays, I'm all for canning.

[@RobertJarecki]

​@@ranjapi693 Most home freezers will keep stuff safely frozen for 48 hours. There are temperature sensors available that will record temperature data for longer than that. I use a plastic container of ice cubes. If the cubes melt, everything in the freezer probably warmed up, too. You are right about the electricity, though. Windstorms shut down my power for almost 48 hours about 6 months ago. No cubes melted but I did get a few of those temperature data recorders for the refrigerator and the freezer.

[@Mouserjan0222]

except frozen berries get ice crystals, get mushy and taste gross but we won't mention that. They haden't invented smoothies yet

[@goombabear]

Adding sugar makes strawberries mushy anyway. Not much different.

[@mikezylstra7514]

Turns it into a sort of compost (I mean compote).

[@653j521]

You don't have the right recipe. My mother's freezer jam tasted like the strawberries came right out of the garden. No kidding. Best ever.

[@dietrevich]

This should have been called "American infidelity 101"

[@pagamenews]

My own mother must have been brainwashed by this sort of film. She would go out and buy fresh meats and then FREEZE it. Nothing was served unless it was FROZEN first. I don't know about you, but fresh meats and vegetables have a much better taste (in my opinion).

[@cherkas009]

Meets are always previously frozen anyways

[@NachaBeez]

jim cherkas That’s not true, but also- things that are frozen for shipping to stores are flash frozen, so the ice crystals are much smaller. Home freezing is slower and alters texture much more.

[@catherineannelockman3805]

​@cherkas009 meats are not frozen when they are cut from a hanging cow or pig...they are fresh...

[@randallbargar348]

I think the actor playing the professor is the same who played Inspector Henderson on the TV Superman.

[@jessiemedina5935]

That lady with the little girl with icecream.comes from the movie "its a state fair".

[@mariekatherine5238]

The laboratory looks like the setting for a cheesy monster movie.

[@GaryRoseCO]

I know he thinks he's funny, but he knows he was making her jealous and frustrating her regarding having no respect for her time, and bring seemingly unhelpful.

[@livelifeincolour]

And what was the point of making sketches of the girls/women and showing them to her?!

[@RobertJarecki]

​@@livelifeincolour The point of making the sketches of the girls was: *_making her jealous and frustrating her_*

[@LaMonatrod]

The sofa in the back wall 1:54 and the chair were used in the first episode of I Love Lucy.

[@bovnycccoperalover3579]

Davis is played by Arthur Franz who was a character actor during the '50s and '60s. In 1953, he was in "Invaders from Mars", A cult science fiction movie. I found it pretty scary.

[@marcse7en]

What about the dreaded FREEZER DEFROSTING? Mine took TWO HOURS of chipping away at ROCK HARD ICE! 👎😂

[@monkeynumbernine]

FYI: Easy and fast way to defrost the freezer- Open the door and put a fan in front of it... don't forget to have a couple of towels to absorb the water. 😃

[@maunster3414]

Mike is a drip.

[@kdescossa]

How,is,she going to defrost those thick steaks in time for dinner? 18:59

[@RobertJarecki]

Put them in a pot of cold tap water and change the water when it gets cold.

[@archaicamusement3871]

So she gets a freezer and a husband at once. 🙄 Lucky girl

[@over50andfantabulous59]

Kitchen products then. Electric cars now.

[@ivettesantana4319]

What a sweet ending!!

[@kenbob1071]

The farm wife looks like she's in her 50's, but has a very young daughter. Freezer food must make you very fertile as well.

[@hrachouhi87]

😂😂😂

[@agrendae]

Maybe because living in a farm one gets weather worn and looks older before ones time. Or maybe that little girl came along after the daughter spent time with every Tom, Dick and Harry that stopped by but mom took the little one in to preserve family reputation. ..sigh...ok I need to go do something constructive...

[@bunnyfoofoo9695]

@@agrendae nothing like a juicy backstory..........lol....

[@mikezylstra7514]

That older "sister" had that "younger sister" in the 10th grade after a romp in the hayloft. That's not that old bag's kid. But, shhh! don't tell the little girl.

[@rfjohns1]

I'd guess acting Mom and her Daughter

[@franceslarina5508]

Just a note, the copyright at the beginning says 1950 (MCML), not 1951(MCMLI).

[@653j521]

OH NO!

[@spazmobot]

I wouldn't be able to stand that guy after the 2nd chick, there'd be violence.

[@billoddiea]

Husband is a cad

[@raquelal2066]

The little girl looks like her granddaughter

[@tonyaelem1674]

Probably married late or adopted the little girl. And to play a real wife and mother of FIVE and looks like she's from a rural area, family comes 1st mom's vanity comes last especially in those days

[@mikezylstra7514]

She is (but shhh...she thinks she's the big sister's sister, not her daughter product of a romp in the hayloft)

[@jeslovesjesus]

I’m laughing so hard at these comments 😂😂🤣🤣

[@user-wc7mo9uo9o]

Great promo movie for GE!

[@AnnaJuist]

Wow...Those freezers are as cold as her shoulders...LOL

[@emilletich]

Glad to see the woman is more professional than the man. Still don't get why she'd marry him.

[@emilletich]

I didn't think he was a goofball, but a rude pervert.

[@hankaustin7091]

sometimes rude perverts can be fun... just sayin'........

[@emilletich]

...or nominees for the SCOTUS. 🙄

[@hankaustin7091]

.....Or Keith Ellison

[@emilletich]

Keith Ellison can be voted out, SCOTUS cannot.

[@Spillers72]

Sort of like the first infomercial.

[@narphizoid]

Is Penny played by Noel Neill?

[@cindybonem494]

Dump Mike!

[@mariasilviatesi]

First : find a job, second, let the husband, third... Open happily a Campbell soup in a normal simple kitchen.

[@Pandabaire3540]

if only i got so much pride and gratification from my electric freezer.

[@nunya2954]

Why don't you? You certainly should, appliances to save time for a cook have never been more plentiful. Without freezers, just like the one illustration showed, if the refrigerator was empty, not only would you have nothing to prepare, but you would also need to make a grocery run, then come back and cook. (Or just buy some sandwich meat for that meal and cook the next day). We should be grateful for any tiny thing that eases our burdens

[@rubylady7126]

I think that if we were raised in the 30's and early 40's, we would understand and appreciate the true convenience of modern appliances. Since we were born and raise with it, it's the standard of living we've come to Expect, not envy. 😊

[@ranjapi693]

I am learning canning whatever is possible to be canned. I dont wanna rely on unstable electricity or too expensive electricity, a freezer needs to be constantly on, canning only requires energy once. Meat needs to be defreezed, which takes time.. but a freezer is a good thing still.

[@RobertJarecki]

A freezer runs until the temperature goes down and then turns off. Cycles on and off. Glad to hear you are learning canning. If you are in the USA, I hope you have found a recent edition of the Ball Blue Book of canning and a good pressure canner. There are also some good books from the USDA. I grew up learning canning. We canned 200 quarts of green beans one weekend and 75 quarts of peaches a different weekend. Also have canned salmon, chicken and beef. I don't do as much canning anymore so only have about 450 jars but I do still get compliments on my dill pickles!

[@currybase]

It seems many of these families as shown in these older videos has "surprise pregnancies"

[@653j521]

A lot of women today wait to have children, but both earlier and later pregnancies in most eras were normal, especially on farms where you needed all the help you could get before so much was automated. My sister's husband was the eldest of 12. My mother wasn't on a farm so only had six, spread over 20 years, the last two at 38 and 45.

[@catherinesinclair7727]

She should dump that guy

[@SgtKenway]

So most women who started watching this apparently didn’t FINISH it 😆

[@spazmobot]

I did watch it til the end. Call me a cynic, but I dont buy he was talking to those chicks about their freezers, lol...

[@653j521]

@@spazmobot Trying to get back at her, because she trapped him into this.

[@nunya2954]

@@spazmobot Not every man is a wanderer. If there is no trust, why bother? But many of you do, and then STAY in the relationship wasting your time worrying about infidelity or just being jealous.

[@spazmobot]

You're absolutely right, and I don't assume all are.

[@kenbob1071]

The farmer's daughter puts the Va-Va in the Voom!

[@sofiabravo1994]

Ken Bob she’s beautiful

[@needles1987]

She's a babe.

[@friendofdorothy9376]

All of them were knockouts. Wonderful figures too.

[@LucaSitan]

Back when electrical appliances came with romance and even marriage 😅

[@omadjourney]

Wow...Mr Davis is certainly the blueprint lol,has all his bases covered 😂.

[@Hugatree1]

Let me assure anyone who didn't actually grow up in the 50's/60's this is all bullshit. No one ever actually behaved this way. 😂😂😂😂

[@lindaallen9409]

Glad to know I wasn't the only one that didn't grow up not having a leave it to beaver kind of family lol.

[@goombabear]

It's 2021 and my family is exactly like this. My husband and I have a 1950s family. We have a great marriage and children. I wear dresses, do my hair, and wear a little makeup. We've never done drugs or have a police record. Our home is organized and clean. Our children help with chores. On Sunday we go to church to worship Jesus. I would never marry a heal like that boyfriend, my husband is devoted husband and affectionate father. He is the primary provider for our family. We have several degrees to homeschool our children and we work from home.

[@flobrez2470]

Yeah I grew up in the 70s and nobody I knew was like the Brady Bunch 🙄 My mom actually hated that show and others like it. She said it put ideas into kids heads that something was wrong with them if their families weren’t exactly like that. I prefer the Partridge family anyway. She didn’t seem to have a problem with that one as the mother was single no boyfriend or husband.

[@mikezylstra7514]

Yes but the saturated wall colors are very 1950.

[@donnapowell5291]

I,grew,up,in50,60,and i,grew,up,poor,but happy,we,didn.t,.have,a,freezer,or,ref,didn,t,have,,much,meat,only,frest,meat,sometimes,

[@loanicastillo3327]

In the meanwhile most things do well at room temperature...

[@sherry866]

Alright, Alright So he isn't a SCUMBAG after all !!! LOL

[@SarahAnnBellham]

This is from 70 years ago. There's something about freezer food that's gross. Even store-bought frozen food in the freezer for too long is nasty.

[@tammylapworth8743]

That boyfriend of hers sure has a roving eye, can’t imagine he would remain faithful for life. Take a pass lady, save yourself future grief.

[@須貝友和-n8q]

これはアメリカのドラマかな🤔

[@RobertJarecki]

This isn't a drama. It's a film to encourage people of that time to buy appliances. The romances that make it look like a drama were included to make it look like a story.

[@caseylou-jd4bu]

That girl should run

[@td3993]

It's too bad that whoever projected these to digital video had a yoyo in their speed governor.

[@devinisdead4061]

TF is wrong with this dude?

[@Copeandseethe822]

Vintage sponsored content

[@jamesdugan3079]

Annie Oakley.

[@ivettesantana4319]

He whoopped yall lol!

[@learningjourney3041]

wwow i've learned alot

[@augustcanyon3438]

Mike could do better.

[@jessiemedina5935]

What a snob

[@CrazyCoon100]

Umm 😐 This totally makes me NOT want to be a housewife. Wtheck 😂😂 Freezer = stuck in the kitchen talking about drudgery. I’m good.

[@luisreyes1963]

My aunt has an upright freezer where she keeps her meats & frozen foods just to keep her refrigerator uncluttered. 🌡️