sometimes i just play these old disney documentaries on my parents 4ktv via youtube app they dont even know about, and2 they walk by and hear these amazing old memories. I did notice however that AMC or turner classic channel seems to slip in old obscure public domain film reels between the old classic movies.
Glad you like it Rory! Had to first find a 16mm copy on eBay, then have it digitized, edited and posted. A labor of love for great technical explanation! :)
It truly was the dawn of the highest living standard in human history, when a household and family could be supported on a single salary, and higher education and world travel were within the grasp of the middle class. It will never be that good again; we're going back to the good old bad old days of aristocrats and peasants, nothing in between. The difference between 20th century appliances and today's digital marvels is you weren't expected to replace them every three years.
Edited for today= They cut out the first three minutes out it was the history of the years 1630-1775-1860 (pre electric). Also some (what they probably considered) problematic language was used in those years, (mentioning how women worked in the home.) The unedited version is also on youtube.
@@RicardoRamosRetrocomputacao Esta situación de que nos obliguen a recortar las obras originales es horrible. ¿Dónde está la original?. Gracias Google Translate por poder decir en ingles lo que escribo en castellano. This situation of us being forced to cut the original works is horrible. Where is the original? Thank you Google Translate for being able to say in English what I write in Spanish
@@6toCampamento as said, the unedited version is easily available on youtube, just search for it. Editing out the section was the decision of this uploader, not the evil liberals that supposedly control the internet according to your guys.
This may have been the progeny of wiring houses for 100 amps from the usual 60. The cheap little house I grew up in was a 60 amp 8 circuit house, but dad was good at balancing the load and we never had any problems. My grandmothers house by comparison was a bit of trial and error, a two story 60 amp house built in 1916. once she started using window units, by trial and error she figured out how to run it off of extension cords, balancing the load as she went along. The extra 2% of wire cost had not been spent. I just recently threw out the power strip that she used to power her refrigerator from a less stressed bedroom outlet. It had TORO branding like a lawnmower.
In the early twentieth century, electrical appliances had on the end of the power cord, a metal and ceramic ball that you screwed into a light bulb socket.
I am struggling to see why this needed to be edited "for today". I am sure it contained language and references of the period but surely we haven't become so feeble minded that we couldn't put it into the context of that period. Are you scared we would wither away with the shock at such references?
@SwingBandHeaven, I chose to edit out the inaccurate, boring monologue that predicated the technical information on home wiring. I paid for the video, I paid for the editing, and it's America where I can say what I please, and so can you. Since I'm the boss, and I'm not a white Christian nationalist fanboy, I stand by my 1st Amendment rights to cut the bull****. Go wither away elsewhere.
I don't know but the style they showed their I had a lady that I knew that had one in her laundry room back in the '50s. I guess it depend. It was sold as the True Value Store it was called a rotary steam iron. I can find some of the newer ones but I can't find the particular one she had.
@@berylwhite2983 Are you referring to the roller ironing device called "a Mangle"? They were ironing sheets and tablecloths. Nowadays with cotton/poly blends in fabrics plus using tumble dryers it's no longer necessary. Years ago, line drying and 100% cotton linens meant huge amounts of ironing with a small handheld iron. Those roller ironing devices are still used today in commercial setting. Not home use.
@@billgreen1861plenty of people used to iron 100% cotton towels (think of the “flour sack” type cloth). When line dried, cotton can be rough/harsh. Ironing softens the cotton.
They cut out the first three minutes out it was the history of the years 1630-1775-1860 (pre electric). Also some problematic language was used in those years, (mentioning how women worked in the home.)
Many homes built before WWII had 30 amp, 120 volt service. Two wires from the pole to the meter. Inside was a fuse box with two to four circuits for the entire house. Some fuse panels from the 1930s or earlier had fused neutrals, this is, two fuses per circuit, so a very old fuse panel with 4 screw in fuses might actually be 2 circuits. I actually lived in a duplex, built in 1942 we were told, from when I was in third grade to sixth, 1998 - 2001. Old fuse box, 4 sockets but only 3 were used, I stuck my finger in the unused socket and got thrown back and busted my head on the coffee table and needed stitches. Anyway I think there were 3 circuits in the house, 120 volts only because there was a gas range, small window air conditioner that plugged into the old two prong outlet in the living room, only one outlet in each bedroom, one outlet on the kitchen countertop, and two outlets for the living room. Bathroom didn't have any outlets so Mom had to run an extension cord from the bedroom to the bathroom when she needed to use her hairdryer or curling iron. Outside was two small circular electric meters, and two gas meters, one for the upper unit and other for downstairs unit, which we lived on. Cast iron radiators for heat, water heater/boiler in mechanical room only accessible by the landlord. No washer/,dryer hookups. All outlets were two prong, and a mixture of toggle switches with a loud snap when operated, and the style with two small buttons that pop in and out when you turn the lights on or off.
@@Sparky-ww5remakes our modern 240V 200amp services in new homes seem absolutely ridiculous. My panel doesn't even have spares with several 15amp mini breakers!
@@thedopplereffect00 @thedopplereffect00 I know, right? 😂 It's crazy to think that, 75 years ago, less than a century, a couple of circuits provided plenty of power for a house, until you realize that almost all of the pre-wwii houses were 1000 square feet or less and most famlies didn't have a TV until the early-mid 1950s and that was a rather substantial investment. For a typical family in the 1930s, a radio in the living room provided entertainment, a couple of fans and table/floor lamps, and having a percolator, toaster, flat iron, waffle iron, were all considered luxuries, so two to four circuits was plenty of power at the time
Haha the way they worded things.. a garbage eliminator, or describing a breaker…the washing center, the drying center, the ironing center and a ghost stepped on the cat
I wish they still animated things like this. Nowadays, the population is 'too stupid' and the technology is either 'too advanced' or 'too dangerous' to meddle with. Take every opportunity to learn about the world around you. Pay attention to the man behind the curtain!
sorry but "electric servants" just sounds a little too racial for some reason. I just imagine a Prince album called 'electric servants' with Prince as a cartoon talking purple toaster like from beauty and the beast.
In early houses, the kitchen was in the basement, so they used a dumb waiter to bring the food up to the dining room- dumb, because it doesn't speak, and waiter because it brought your food. Hence the expression "coming up!"
yes, a mangle,,, so easy. had a speed queen as an ornament, with a poster under the hood with about 18 easy steps to iron a collared shirt, lol. the nick name 'mangle' was given for a reason
Everything was going smoothly until the narrator claimed the power company brings three wire service identified as three circuits. That looks suspiciously like three phase service. What power companies really supply to residential housing is single phase to get 240 VAC for high current devices which is split to provide 120 VAC for the normal circuits and wall plugs.
220 VAC 60 Hz service in North America is separated into two "legs" of 110 VAC and a neutral. The 2 legs are combined to obtain 220 to power larger appliances.
@@OldsVistaCruiser Yes and no. Look at how the xfmrs are wired. They are however many thousands of volts (probably in the 4k to 6k range) input stepped down to 240ish with a center tap that is the neutral. So yes each leg to the center tap neutral is 120 VAC and no bc the 240 VAC is the full output of the step down side of the xfmr. US low voltage single phase electricity is called split phase bc of the physical location of the neutral on the step down side. The two 120 legs are not "combined" to provide 240.
We choose how to use scientific discoveries and envision their potential. Didn’t we buy what was sold? We also continue to buy the practical applications of ideas. I agree that we have a money driven social structure.
@@gaze505 sure but my concern is not about money, its about culture. I wanted a future like the Jetsons, but what i got was politics spreading hate and polarizing people and making us worry about every “ism” in the book
@@guitaoist Sounds like a return to the "glory" that is the 1950's where the Jetsons culturally base itself. Only thing lacking is civil unrest, National Guardsmen in every street corner, and somebody getting killed for their politics...
What a horrible thing to do to a vintage film, cutting it up to suit your whims. This sliced up version sucks. So you didn't think the intro was needed. Well, it was. And why cut out about 9 seconds of the announcer asking if we know what circuits are and the woman answering? That's a really stupid edit.
![[4k, 60fps, color] (1949) Grandma's kitchen organization hacks.](/img/n.gif)
sometimes i just play these old disney documentaries on my parents 4ktv via youtube app they dont even know about, and2 they walk by and hear these amazing old memories. I did notice however that AMC or turner classic channel seems to slip in old obscure public domain film reels between the old classic movies.
Saw a clip of this film in a documentary on Westinghouse. Thanka for posting!
Thanka
Glad you like it Rory! Had to first find a 16mm copy on eBay, then have it digitized, edited and posted. A labor of love for great technical explanation! :)
What a classic
Whatever happened to the precipitron?
They're now called Air Purifiers & are readily available (albeit pricey).
Had all that electric gimmickry were available today, the utility bill would be obscenly high. 🔌
4:18 The outlet with the T-shaped slots.
That was before electrical appliance manufacturers included ground prongs in their plugs.
If its edited for today, then I am not interested.
How was this edited for “today”???
It truly was the dawn of the highest living standard in human history, when a household and family could be supported on a single salary, and higher education and world travel were within the grasp of the middle class. It will never be that good again; we're going back to the good old bad old days of aristocrats and peasants, nothing in between. The difference between 20th century appliances and today's digital marvels is you weren't expected to replace them every three years.
World travel has never been cheaper.
Corporatism, landlordism and other rent-seeking, profiteering behavior is higher than pretty much all of recent history. 😢
prices go up, but wages stayed flat since the 1970s
Nah - you had to be rich back then too... Not much has changed.
And, No 'MADE IN CHINA' shit either which falls apart within one week or one month whichever comes first.
Edited for today= They cut out the first three minutes out it was the history of the years 1630-1775-1860 (pre electric). Also some (what they probably considered) problematic language was used in those years, (mentioning how women worked in the home.)
The unedited version is also on youtube.
The current version avoids tantrums from progressives, Democrats and other left-wing variants.
@@RicardoRamosRetrocomputacao Esta situación de que nos obliguen a recortar las obras originales es horrible. ¿Dónde está la original?. Gracias Google Translate por poder decir en ingles lo que escribo en castellano.
This situation of us being forced to cut the original works is horrible. Where is the original? Thank you Google Translate for being able to say in English what I write in Spanish
@@6toCampamento as said, the unedited version is easily available on youtube, just search for it. Editing out the section was the decision of this uploader, not the evil liberals that supposedly control the internet according to your guys.
Ricardo, honey, calm down. They can't hurt you no matter how weak and feeble minded you really are.
There is nothing wrong with women working in the home
This may have been the progeny of wiring houses for 100 amps from the usual 60. The cheap little house I grew up in was a 60 amp 8 circuit house, but dad was good at balancing the load and we never had any problems. My grandmothers house by comparison was a bit of trial and error, a two story 60 amp house built in 1916. once she started using window units, by trial and error she figured out how to run it off of extension cords, balancing the load as she went along.
The extra 2% of wire cost had not been spent.
I just recently threw out the power strip that she used to power her refrigerator from a less stressed bedroom outlet. It had TORO branding like a lawnmower.
The refrigerator draws a lot more current when the compressor starts. Also, a lot more current is drawn when Grandma chews the cord.
"Electrical living in the happier years that lie ahead" -- When was the last time you heard of a technology being sold to promote happiness?
Why not ask Elon Musk that? 😅
The first world issues were better wiring. Today's issues are that our kid's have no realistic way of obtaining a home in the first place. FYI.
Amen!
In the early twentieth century, electrical appliances had on the end of the power cord, a metal and ceramic ball that you screwed into a light bulb socket.
Was that was a blueprint for all those Levittowns?
I lived in Levittown, Pennsylvania in the late 2010s, in a 1953 Levittowner. They did have a lot of modern appliances.
I am struggling to see why this needed to be edited "for today". I am sure it contained language and references of the period but surely we haven't become so feeble minded that we couldn't put it into the context of that period. Are you scared we would wither away with the shock at such references?
@SwingBandHeaven, I chose to edit out the inaccurate, boring monologue that predicated the technical information on home wiring. I paid for the video, I paid for the editing, and it's America where I can say what I please, and so can you. Since I'm the boss, and I'm not a white Christian nationalist fanboy, I stand by my 1st Amendment rights to cut the bull****. Go wither away elsewhere.
Crazy thing is if you pay attention to everything they kinda got it right
In a lot of key ways even though we live in 2024 they got so much
Right.
Why we never got the iron table?
I don't know but the style they showed their I had a lady that I knew that had one in her laundry room back in the '50s. I guess it depend. It was sold as the True Value Store it was called a rotary steam iron. I can find some of the newer ones but I can't find the particular one she had.
@@berylwhite2983
Are you referring to the roller ironing device called "a Mangle"?
They were ironing sheets and tablecloths.
Nowadays with cotton/poly blends in fabrics plus using tumble dryers it's no longer necessary.
Years ago, line drying and 100% cotton linens meant huge amounts of ironing with a small handheld iron.
Those roller ironing devices are still used today in commercial setting. Not home use.
we got fabrics that don't need ironing. you used to have to iron EVERYthing, even sheets and towels.
@@nardo218
Towels have never been iron. Ever !
@@billgreen1861plenty of people used to iron 100% cotton towels (think of the “flour sack” type cloth). When line dried, cotton can be rough/harsh. Ironing softens the cotton.
What does "edited for today" mean? Wild to see this though from a world before modern appliances.
Not sure,
Probably year 1940. The 'Laundromat' was 1st produce in 1940. That refrigerator looks like prewar too.
Or could be just after W.W. 2
They cut out the first three minutes out it was the history of the years 1630-1775-1860 (pre electric). Also some problematic language was used in those years, (mentioning how women worked in the home.)
@@Telecolor-in3cl
This was produced in 1945, at the beginning of this film you can see the year.
@@billgreen1861 I dint' noticed it.
So my quess, it was quite correct.
Was 20 Amp service common back then?
Many homes built before WWII had 30 amp, 120 volt service. Two wires from the pole to the meter. Inside was a fuse box with two to four circuits for the entire house. Some fuse panels from the 1930s or earlier had fused neutrals, this is, two fuses per circuit, so a very old fuse panel with 4 screw in fuses might actually be 2 circuits.
I actually lived in a duplex, built in 1942 we were told, from when I was in third grade to sixth, 1998 - 2001. Old fuse box, 4 sockets but only 3 were used, I stuck my finger in the unused socket and got thrown back and busted my head on the coffee table and needed stitches. Anyway I think there were 3 circuits in the house, 120 volts only because there was a gas range, small window air conditioner that plugged into the old two prong outlet in the living room, only one outlet in each bedroom, one outlet on the kitchen countertop, and two outlets for the living room. Bathroom didn't have any outlets so Mom had to run an extension cord from the bedroom to the bathroom when she needed to use her hairdryer or curling iron. Outside was two small circular electric meters, and two gas meters, one for the upper unit and other for downstairs unit, which we lived on. Cast iron radiators for heat, water heater/boiler in mechanical room only accessible by the landlord. No washer/,dryer hookups. All outlets were two prong, and a mixture of toggle switches with a loud snap when operated, and the style with two small buttons that pop in and out when you turn the lights on or off.
@@Sparky-ww5remakes our modern 240V 200amp services in new homes seem absolutely ridiculous. My panel doesn't even have spares with several 15amp mini breakers!
@@thedopplereffect00 @thedopplereffect00 I know, right? 😂 It's crazy to think that, 75 years ago, less than a century, a couple of circuits provided plenty of power for a house, until you realize that almost all of the pre-wwii houses were 1000 square feet or less and most famlies didn't have a TV until the early-mid 1950s and that was a rather substantial investment. For a typical family in the 1930s, a radio in the living room provided entertainment, a couple of fans and table/floor lamps, and having a percolator, toaster, flat iron, waffle iron, were all considered luxuries, so two to four circuits was plenty of power at the time
Haha the way they worded things.. a garbage eliminator, or describing a breaker…the washing center, the drying center, the ironing center and a ghost stepped on the cat
I wish they still animated things like this. Nowadays, the population is 'too stupid' and the technology is either 'too advanced' or 'too dangerous' to meddle with.
Take every opportunity to learn about the world around you. Pay attention to the man behind the curtain!
So this is from 1945 and they’re showing a mid century house
sorry but "electric servants" just sounds a little too racial for some reason. I just imagine a Prince album called 'electric servants' with Prince as a cartoon talking purple toaster like from beauty and the beast.
Why is the dining room so far away from the kitchen?
Because eating close or in the kitchen back in those days was considered low class .
In early houses, the kitchen was in the basement, so they used a dumb waiter to bring the food up to the dining room- dumb, because it doesn't speak, and waiter because it brought your food. Hence the expression "coming up!"
yes, a mangle,,, so easy. had a speed queen as an ornament, with a poster under the hood with about 18 easy steps to iron a collared shirt, lol. the nick name 'mangle' was given for a reason
Mangle is not a nickname, it's the real name of the Wringer washing machine at the time
Everything was going smoothly until the narrator claimed the power company brings three wire service identified as three circuits. That looks suspiciously like three phase service. What power companies really supply to residential housing is single phase to get 240 VAC for high current devices which is split to provide 120 VAC for the normal circuits and wall plugs.
220 VAC 60 Hz service in North America is separated into two "legs" of 110 VAC and a neutral. The 2 legs are combined to obtain 220 to power larger appliances.
@@OldsVistaCruiser Yes and no. Look at how the xfmrs are wired. They are however many thousands of volts (probably in the 4k to 6k range) input stepped down to 240ish with a center tap that is the neutral. So yes each leg to the center tap neutral is 120 VAC and no bc the 240 VAC is the full output of the step down side of the xfmr. US low voltage single phase electricity is called split phase bc of the physical location of the neutral on the step down side. The two 120 legs are not "combined" to provide 240.
Aaaaand. You only needed one domestic diva to run the house 😅
What a fantasy illusion they sold us
We choose how to use scientific discoveries and envision their potential. Didn’t we buy what was sold? We also continue to buy the practical applications of ideas. I agree that we have a money driven social structure.
@@gaze505 sure but my concern is not about money, its about culture. I wanted a future like the Jetsons, but what i got was politics spreading hate and polarizing people and making us worry about every “ism” in the book
@@guitaoist Sounds like a return to the "glory" that is the 1950's where the Jetsons culturally base itself. Only thing lacking is civil unrest, National Guardsmen in every street corner, and somebody getting killed for their politics...
@@guitaoistthat’s what you get for acting like communism ended when the Wall fell.
Why would you be ironing while making toast? Why would you iron at all?
Now show us how the homeless are going to live.
kinda ate with this tbh
Only a 1 car garage?
I appreciate you censoring this for common sensibilities instead of leaving it intact as a cultural artifact. You did us a great service.
I hope you’re sarcastic
Oh brave new world,
that hath such people in it.
Found the communist book burner...
That cartoon was made in 1955
It looks way older than that, these designs look to be more from the mid 40s.
@@sterlinsilver Looks like mid forties animation, And, Thank you for answering my comment.
MCMXLV = 1945
Electric water heaters are EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE to operate!
Not really
Dumbed down beyond belief...Lol
What a horrible thing to do to a vintage film, cutting it up to suit your whims. This sliced up version sucks. So you didn't think the intro was needed. Well, it was. And why cut out about 9 seconds of the announcer asking if we know what circuits are and the woman answering? That's a really stupid edit.