1972 Whirlpool TV Commercials - 16mm Film

[cadman]

This week we have some fun vintage Whirlpool TV spots covering everything from washers to window A/Cs. This dates from around 1972 and had a terrible magenta-shift; I did what I could to try and pull a little color out.

 

[Chetlaham]

This is my favorite Whirlpool Commercial starting at 20:14-

 

[circlew]

I remember seeing some of them when I was in high school. Saw several familiar faces in these that I recognized from seeing in TV shows, but don't remember their names.

The ranges shown appear to have been WCI Kelvinator, as Whirlpool didn't have a range factory at that time. Some Kenmore models also were sourced from them for several years.

Too bad the color is so off, but I could still tell some of the appliances were Harvest Gold, and some Coppertone. I'm sure the color film used served the purpose, as the ads were only meant to run for a short time. Can't expect them to have used Technicolor. Even by the time I graduated HS in 1974, some of the Eastmancolor films we got into the AV department that were from the mid 1960s were already showing color shift. Even Hollywood studios have issues with that film process, but have the resources to deal with it.

 

[vacbear58]

Thank you for sharing another great video

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Thank you for the video Corey...

Enough to make me want to make all of my appliances all-Whirlpool...

Whirlpool was what made that toll-free number known as the Cool-Line...

 

[DADoES]

Judd Hirsch in the frost-free refrigerator commercials?

Signed: Goofy Glenn

 

[circlew]

Judd Hirsch in the frost-free refrigerator commercials?

Signed: Goofy Glenn

Looks like him to me. He didn't appear in any movies or TV shows until 1971, so he was probably just starting out acting then. The lady with short reddish hair in a couple of them looks like someone who was on Bewitched occasionally.

 

[supersuds]

Yes that's Judd. But what did they mean, the first "true" frost free refrigerator-freezer? I thought Westinghouse had them years before that.

 

[Mueller Climatrol]

Andrea Martin from SCTV for the Whirlpool 18 LB. Washer at 2:07. Not sure if the voice over was saying Whirlpool Bopper or Whopper.

 

[jamiel]

Yes that's Judd. But what did they mean, the first "true" frost free refrigerator-freezer? I thought Westinghouse had them years before that.

Maybe they meant blower in both refrigerator and freezer?

 

[jrap330]

Andrea Martin from SCTV for the Whirlpool 18 LB. Washer at 2:07. Not sure if the voice over was saying Whirlpool Bopper or Whopper.

Penny Marshall for Head and Shoulders which at the same time she was in The Odd Couple

 

[combo52]

First frost, free refrigerators

The 1952 Westinghouse was probably the first US refrigerator freezer that you did not have to manually defrost.

It counted how many times you opened and closed the door and would initiate a defrost heater that would melt the visible frost in the freezer compartment and allow the water to drain to a pan underneath the unit where it would evaporate, the system had a couple disadvantages one you still saw the frost packages could still freeze together. It was also not a 0° freezer.

Several companies whirlpool and Frigidaire introduced completely frost free 0° freezer models where you never saw the frost and never had to defrost in 1958, I think GE did it by 1959 and about everybody else introduced their models within the next couple years.

Whirlpool is claiming here that they did it first, but I think it was probably pretty pretty close to when Frigidaire did it.