Appliances On The Big Screen: Part Six

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Saw 'Latter Days' this weekend and am glad to report a couple of scenes take place in the laundry room of an apt. complex. Looked like GE's to me, but it seemed like the logo was altered or something. Anyone seen this?

Potential Vintage App. Alert: Brokeback Mountain, set in the Western states in the 1960's. Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal play cowboys who have wives/families, but are also CLOSER THAN BROTHERS. Put it all together and I predict at least one scene with laundry appliances in it.

Any other appliance-spotting films out there?
 
I watched "To Wong Foo..." last week and spotted a late-60's perforated-tub GE, and there's a black-face BD Kenmore (paired with a vintage dryer; I thought it was a center-dial 'Tag) in "Man of the House". In "The Hot Chick" you can see one of the last old-style GE sets.

There was also *something* I saw recently that I forgot to post about as well. There was a vintage laundry machine of course, but can't quite put my finger on what it was or the title! OY!

Definitely a ton of movies that still have vintage appliances in them, that's for sure!
 
Was watching the FOOD NETOWRK...

They recently did a tribute to Julia Child, which featured clips from the earliest episodes of "The French Chef" in B/W
I remember reading somewhere where she cut a deal with Frigidaire to furnish her TV kitchen. In the background of a clip from the middle 60's were a Fridgdaire washer & Dryer, couldn't guess the year, maybe 64-65-66? I just thought how odd Julia Child would have a washer and dryer on her set...
well, she was pretty messy...
 
I watched the trailer for Brokeback Mountain. Looks very sad and very romantic. Has it opened? Has anyone seen it?

I don't want to go until I hear about the ending! I understand it's heartbreaking and if it is, I don't want to watch!

veg
 
Didn't Julia Child use a Vita-Mix 3600 blender in one of her cooking show episodes?Saw it mentioned on the Vita-Mix website-they didn't show pictures of it.also she mentioned it in one of her cookbooks.Have a few of her cookbooks.
 
She had a few...

Blenders I mean... on the old B/W shows, she used a GE, the old low profile type. Later shows were an Osterizer Classic VIII, and in one episode a Sunbeam.
 
Speaking of Julia, does anyone remember Dione Lucas? She had a cooking show in the '50s that Food Network (back when it was TV Food Network) used to rerun. Apparently the sponsor was Caloric, because she was always telling you to "preheat your Caloric gas oven to 375 degrees..."
 
petek---How cool that Brokeback was filmed near you! Did you troll the set at all during filming? A friend of mine in Seattle was a crewmember for the movie 'Singles' and I hung out while they were filming shots outside the apt. building. Of course, this was about 150 years ago, but it's still a fond memory.

veg-o-matic---Brokeback opens the first week in December. It's playing at Landmark Cinemas first. I, for one, can't wait. Saw the trailer when I went to see 'The Constant Gardener' and fell in love. Just read that the film won the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival, too.

Great cinematic appliance-spotting, everyone! I'll have to check out the aforementioned films and look for those vintage machines...
 

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