1936 WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC APPLIANCES PROMOTIONAL FILM "THE NEW FRONTIERS" XD13104
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This black & white educational film is about the electric appliances made by Westinghouse. This was made circa 1936.
Opening: the United States is shown. Men march onward. Slowly states form on the map as western expansion takes place over the country via images of steamboats, cowboys, settlers, wagons. Titles: Westinghouse presents THE NEW FRONTIERS, An epic of electrified America (:06-2:00). Factory exterior shot. Bridges. Pittsburgh, PA Westinghouse factory exterior shots. Chicago 1893, people stare off a bridge. A man checks his watch and puts on the lights. Power is new and exciting (2:01-3:22). A light, looks like a lighthouse light, goes around slowly. Close on a bulb. Movie being shot in Hollywood needs light. A dentist uses a small light to see inside a mouth. Light helps to magnify on a screen. Screen is broken into fifths - a sight meter in the center surrounded by 4 people doing various things (sewing, reading, working, etc) (3:23-4:47). Statue of Liberty illuminated by light. Washington monument. Tracking shot down a hallway passing doors that read 'research.' The tracking shot stops at a door that reads 'power and industry.' Drafting equipment. Boulder dam model. Machinery moves. A production aisle of electric equipment. Equipment moves at the camera. One of the generators for the Boulder Dam. Me look at a model. Electric parts are being moved (4:48-7:13). Women work on coils. Parts are welded. Downtown Los Angeles is shown. Parts of the generators are tested (7:14-8:06). Down the hall the tracking shot goes to a door that reads transportation. US Navy ships. Merchant marine ships. DIfferent city names are shown while an electric trolley bus drives (Columbus, Detroit, New Orleans, Toledo, etc). Tall skyscrapers. Interior of an elevator. Skyscraper shots. People take an escalator. Railroad trains. Pennsylvania railroad. Substation transformers. Oil circuit breakers. A fast train goes by. Washington, DC, a shot of the nation's capitol building (8:07-10:42). Down the hall the tracking shot goes to a door that reads communication. A title card reads 1916. Two hands hold pocket watches. An engineer works, Frank Conrad, at Westinghouse. Card reads 1920. An advertisement for a radio. November 2, 1920, election day, the day Warren G. Harding became president of the USA. Exterior factory shot. Radio towers. Interior radio station shots. Engineers work on the equipment. A radio is moving down the dial. Policemen ride in their car. Combat planes use radios as well. Planes take off in formation (10:43-14:32). Down the hall the tracking shot goes to a door that reads America's greatest industry - the home. Shots of various homes. Refrigerator interior. A housewife works in the kitchen. She turns on the stove. An iron is shown in stop motion. A thermostat is shown being made. Dishes are placed in a dishwasher. Various appliances (Fans, etc). Exterior of a factory (14:33-17:43). Tracking shot down the hallway past research door. Men do experiments. Levers are pulled. Microscopes are used. A welder works. An endurance test is performed on steel. Experiments with sand. Metals are tested over fire. Ultraviolet tests. Engineers at work. Lights are put up. The Tribune tower in Chicago. A man sits at a desk looking at the wall - a beach is on the wall followed by woods. Men work with drafting equipment (17:44-21:04). Men perform research. Interior of a factory. Transformer. Men march forward, dissolves into the USA map. Images superimposed over the map - trains, etc. Factory shots (21:05-21:50). End credits (21:51-21:56).
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And this video demonstrates so well, the reason why people loved America. Many companies like Westinghouse were pivotal in building America's infrastructure. But that America died, as we are living in a time, and were witnesses to the death of it all. Our grandparents and parents generation was when this country was at its best. Corruption and greed are what became of a once great country, now choking on itself.
Exactly. Our grandparents and great grandparents were sensible, reasonable and clear thinking people who believed in America. Now just look where we are at.
Westinghouse produced a very splendid advertising documentary for its time. Very well done with valuable content. What Westinghouse left out was the Boulder (Hoover [Black Canyon Project] Dam and the world's first Extra High Voltage transmission facilities which the company was a valuable and pioneering contributor. I had hoped to hear some boasting about that, but was missing. They did illustrate dry flashover testing of the bushings used on the first EHV autotransformers installed at Los Angeles Century Substation (Receiving Station B) in 1936. That was very interesting. I knew one of the people who was involved in testing those units in 1935 at their creation before shipping them out on a War Department Gun Carriage train car to Los Angeles for installation. Pretty amazing work by both Los Angeles Bureau of Power & Light (now L.A.D.W.P.) and Westinghouse.
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“Because Every House needs Westinghouse” Ad slogan from that era.
When my folks bought their first home in 1956, it came with Westinghouse appliances, refrigerator, stand-alone freezer, washing machine and dryer. I know my mom used that refrigerator and freezer well into the late '70s, early '80s.
If it weren't for Tesla, there'd be no Westinghouse. Westinghouse owes everything to Tesla
But Westinghouse believed in Tesla when all the other companies just laughed.
Tesla invented the sun.
@@quantumleap359-plus Westinghouse paid Tesla well
_Westinghouse owes everything to Tesla_
And he wasn't mentioned in this vid. So sad.
The beginning reminds me of the original Star Trek episode "The City on the Edge of Forever" from season 1, with history portrayed being played back in the center of a portal.
Television! I can proudly boast i've seen every single episode of Gilligan's Island more than once.
And i PITY the fool who can't.
KDKA,Pittsburgh of course still exists, with 3 stations KDKA-AM 1020,KDKA-FM 93.7 and KTDA-TV (2). 100 years with the SAME call letters!
"The Lightbulb Conspiracy" is a good movie that would dovetail nicely with this one.
My grandmother was born in 1900, she always referred to a lightbulb as a Mazda Lamp.Took me a while when I was a kid to figure it out.
Impressive! But I can top that! My paternal grandfather was born in 1884! That's 136 years ago! 👍
@@marcse7en My grandparents were born in 1876. Beat you! 👍👍👍👍👍👍
@@DataWaveTaGo So you're pretty old.
a trick: watch series on flixzone. Been using them for watching all kinds of movies lately.
@Rene Kohen Yup, I have been using flixzone} for since december myself :D
2:13 I have many relatives who worked in this actual plant for decades. (East Pittsburgh,PA)
Its probably abandoned now, like most of the power plants that ran back in the day. The conses is, if you couldn't convert to gas, you were dead.
@@stellarproductions8888 All of Westinghouse was broken up years ago. Outside of the Nuclear part, Westinghouse is just a "licenced" brand today.
@@stellarproductions8888 It's an "Industrial park" now, So not all "abandoned", Also Fun Fact: George Westinghouse was a pioneer of the natural gas industry. The employees of his air brake company in Wilmerding got free gas AND electricity in their homes!
Don Malkames, who photographed this short film, went on to become one of Hollywood's top cinematographers, as did his son, who followed in his footsteps. Between the two of them, they held several hundred patents for various camera, projector and film printer devices and improvements, many of which are still in use today.
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I'll have to check into getting a westinghouse in my house
I was always impressed that Westinghouse was so far ahead of the competion when it came to employing women and gave us good jobs!
Yes! I'm from Pittsburgh, Westinghouse only employed THE BEST, No matter man or woman, Black or white, You can be SURE! (H.J. Heinz, also.) A job at ANY Westinghouse plant was seen as a HUGE jump from any U.S. Steel plant. It's sad that the original Westinghouse is gone. My mother would kick my ass if she was alive and knew I have a G.E. fridge today.
I liked the mirror in the kitchen so the housewife can look good for her man when he came home .... from working to make products to make her life easier.. now that was a good system they had back then.
You can be sure if it's Westinghouse
That 1936 dishwasher probably had a lifespan of 20 years or more. A modern dishwasher may last five years if you are lucky.
Very cool, I enjoyed it.
Sadly, before my time, though.
It's amazing how much Tesla contributed to the World. This infomercial carefully didn't mention where AC came from.
This is NOT an "Infomercial" (Those would not even exist for another half century....) This is a film about the 50th anniv. of the COMPANY. Tesla worked for Westinghouse Electric, it WAS the COMPANY that made the generators (alternators) and transformers for the A.C. system. Every known history of Westinghouse give "props' to Tesla. If you want to know who SCREWED Tesla, It was NOT George Westinghouse, It was everyone's "electrical hero" .....Thomas Edison!
@Hansel Franzen Who is "them". Westinghouse PAID Tesla. Edison RIPPED OFF Tesla. Look it up.
AC was develop by Hippolyte Pixii in 1832
@@jamesslick4790 You are so right, in fact, Edison was ruthless and vile, he started a disinformation & Propaganda program against Westinghouse & Telsa over the acceptance of AC Power that included demonstrations where Dogs & Elephant were Electrocuted (it was hideous) to scare the public in an attempt to stop them. Westinghouse was loved by everyone who Worked for him,
From Europe (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternating_current#History). But ... you know ...
13:52 I've saw this a few times, Just NOW noticed Monessen, PA! Yay!!! I used to live there and THIS is likely the ONLY time anyone sees her on the YinzTubez!
Artificial radioactive elements for electricity. Sounds promising.
BUD USAF , .. as the guy picks up the radioactive nugget and moves it to the microscope... manipulating the atoms... lol
Muonium , more of the production of electricity as the narrator was covering.
GREAT VIDEO !!!!!!!!
Wow.
There are advances in science mentioned in this that we don’t even have today.
Yes, and you can also see the mindset of people back in the day, woman belong in the kitchen. Sad, but true. Not one word about a man cooking a meal, and we know that men didn't change the diapers either. The best thing to come out of the time that truly made America great way back then, was in all the innovations, technology that paved the way for our infrastructure, that many people take for granted today.
@@stellarproductions8888 hmm might be that they said that, but the also showed the women of westinghouse which made the motorcoils so?
Before Hoover was even a thought 💭Boulder Dam
Niagara Falls, developed by Nikola Tesla, and the Westinghouse Company, came first!
I love how proud every company was to present their products back in the day with a whole film! RIP America 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 we need trump back! LGB2024!
No mention of electric chairs! Yellow Mama and Old Sparky get no love!
Pointy tail?
What?
Horsie is as horsie is.
A dishwasher in 1936!!
Dr. Frankenstein used Westinghouse equipment. Anything else just wouldn't do for properly reviving a conglomeration of dead body parts. (Provided by Igor and his shovel.)
"It's aliiive! It's aliiive!"
Fritz.
They're basically predicting nuclear weapons without saying so towards the end.
It they had only known what was to come
Skip to 2:00 to skip the intro.
Trains are trained to be trains. An untrained train just isn't really a train.
If you took a person from 1886 and dropped them in 1936, I think the world would look much more like the "future" than if you moved someone from 1936 to 1986... Or even today.
TV, radio, airliners, diesel locos all existed in some form in both times. Unlike 1886 when none of that did.
But then ATM machines have been around for 45 years and there are still people who can't use them... Go figure.
By 1986 PCs were changing life in significant ways, at work and home, small in size, they had already done something a person from 1936 would find astounding, they had made engineering, medicine, arts, CAD & CAM, business, publishing and much more into virtual tasks, a world of interactive functions that replaced huge amounts of physical operations and obsoleted many trades and specialists along the way. We just live with it today.
Perhaps, a lot would depend on what the person from 1886 or 1936 was used to. TV existed in 1936, the Nazi's even broadcast the Olympics live on TV, but hardly anyone had seen one, and most radios were pretty big. They would be totally flabbergasted by our big screen TVs, air conditioning and cell phones... and would have a pretty hard time understanding what the internet was. In 1936 if you wanted to get an urgent message to someone across the country you could send them a telegram.
My Victorian paternal grandfather lived from 1884-1968. He just missed out on the moon landings!
TV had to wait until after WWII.
Not in Europe, both the UK and Germany had working systems in the 30's, the Nazis even broadcast the 1936 Olympics, it was the first televised Olympics.
Shots of Pittsburgh obviously on a Sunday or holiday. Where's the smoke that those chimneys constantly belched out? If you were born much after 1960 you haven't the foggiest idea of what air pollution is/was.
And today light bulbs cost 30x as much and last 10 % as long
And I thought dishwashers were made in the 70 s..along with original Tupperware..cuz ours melted it..u never forget the smell of melted Tupperware. Like burnt celery..something musta still been unsafe 40 years after they made them
Many people born in the 80s and beyond think that many things they have grown up with were recent inventions, but conversely, other things have been around "forever," as in the time period that took place well beyond their own existence. Dishwashers in the residential kitchen, for instance, were marketed by GE as "Electric sinks" and many versions included garbage disposals in the 1920's! Of course, being new technology to the new homeowner, they were relatively expensive to have them either built into the new home, or retrofitted into the newly renovated home including the new electrical service and plumbing furnishing hot and cold running water. But, with the newly booming economy, and newly expanding residential home building areas, plus the job market, the dishwashers became relatively popular for well to do homemakers, whether or not they had "hired help" to take care of housework.
@@sharid76 yes, its interesting..like every generation is shown something "new" that's not...
Tupperware was actually created as a way to use a waste byproduct from the petroleum industry.
I don’t know. I think this “elastic trickery” is little more than a gimmick.
I sure would like to go back to a time when it was fashionable to be pro-American.
"Westinghouse and associate engineers" meaning Tesla.
Not in March 1886. Tesla didn't get a licensing agreement for 3 phase AC and the 3 phase AC motors with Westinghouse until 1888. Single phase AC was around before Tesla's inventions.
11:11 so that's what they call it.
Tesla invented the AC system and sold it to Westinghouse.
Single phase AC was used for such things as arc lights before Tesla's inventions. You can look it up.
Spain used marconi, telefonica,telefunken, french devices (now tha les)
I WONDER IF IT'S TRUE THAT WHEN ELECTRICITY FIRST GOT
STARTED THAT IT MADE SOME PEOPLE HAVE HEALTH ISSUES
if they touched the wires and electrocuted themselfes i am pretty sure they has health issues then
@@TheFlow2006 THE COMMENT/QUESTION WAS FOR ADULTS
@@cantseeneedcaps ok maybe I don't get the joke because I'm not a native English but then you didn't get mine so we're quit
@@TheFlow2006 👍
Well. Tesla, anyway. TESLA.
Geez with the new age crap. Nothing new under the sun. Same old bs.
A fatal dependency. Stop the power grid for a few weeks.
@@DataWaveTaGo Yep, cut off the AC power and watch what happens. Would make this virus thing look like a day at the beach.
@@DataWaveTaGo And I suppose YOU live without electricity? Good for you! I hope you enjoy it? 😂😂😂
@@quantumleap359 @DataWaveTaGo And I suppose YOU live without electricity? Good for you! I hope you enjoy it? 😂😂😂
@@marcse7en I was stating a scenario that should be considered if we are to survive a grid failure. But as a matter of fact I live 3 months a year without any form of electricity except for a flashlight that can be replaced by my oil lamps.
16:00 One thing for sure, on my next clothes iron, I want the highly accurate Spencer Disc Thermostat.