Some Good Appliance Films on Amazon Prime Video

[philcobendixduo]

I discovered a couple of good films on Amazon Prime Video.
The one about kitchens has some films that are on YouTube and have been posted on this site.
The one about home appliances is a film from Westinghouse from 1952 for sales training and has many Hollywood stars voices as "the appliances".
VERY entertaining and detailed looks at all the Westinghouse appliances for 1952 including water heater, dehumidifier, refrigerators, ranges, dishwasher, garbage disposer and laundry twins.
If you have Amazon Prime membership, check them out.
There may be others that I haven't discovered yet.

 

[appliguy]

The Westinghouse one is available on youtube,

and it is called Ellis in Freedomland. Here is a link to the post I made about it last October. PAT COFFEY

Ellis in Freedomland

A 1952 Westinghouse Appliance film with an all star cast of voices acting as the voices of the various Westinghouse major appliances. https://www.filmpreservation.org/sponsored-films/screening-room/ellis-in-freedomland-1952#

www.automaticwasher.org

 

[tomturbomatic]

So tonight I decided to checkout some of the Prime videos and there was nothing I wanted to watch. Thank you for the link to the WH appliance film. I will watch that.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Thanks, Bill and Pat. I watched the Westinghouse film. I was proud to see that it was scanned from a print in the Library of Congress.

 

[golittlesport]

Tom, Lucille Ball is the voice of the Laundromat on the Ellis in Freedomland film!

On the I Love Lucy episode Never Do Business With Friends, where Ethel buys Lucy's old washing machine, I always imagined that Lucy got a new set of Westinghouse laundry twins -- although they never showed Lucy's new washer and dryer in her kitchen.

In some later episodes when the Ricardos moved to the country, you can see a late fifties Westy Laundromat off the kitchen in a few scenes. Later they had a Philco set.

 

[lotsosudz]

ACTUALLY....

There was at least one episode, where Lucy is unloading A Westinghouse Laundromat, While Talking to Ethel. If I remember right, Lucy is telling Ethel how wonderful they are. The laundry room door is near the Ricardo's kitchen door.
Hugs
David

 

[golittlesport]

Don't think I've seen that episode, and I thought I saw them all. (Although once in a while I'll see an unedited version and a new scene previously cut to make commercial time shows up.)

Maybe you are thinking of a Westinghouse commercial? I know Lucille Ball and gang did quite a few.

 

[frigilux]

Wow! “Ellis In Freedomland” really covered everything: racial stereotypes—both black and Native American, homophobia, and sexism. Quite an accomplishment for a two-hour film pitching appliances, lol. I watch a lot of films from the 1930s-40s, so am used to seeing outdated depictions.

Remember seeing Westy ranges with the deep well cooker; always thought that would be a great feature for stews, pot roasts, or deep-frying.

The post-war years must have been very exciting: stylish new cars, dishwashers, automatic washers and dryers, television. Transistors came into play around this time, as well. The world was changing and changing fast.

That closing sequence with the dancers was almost worthy of Busby Berkeley.