Practical Dreamer (1957)
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2012
- A fantasy of kitchen planning and modernization. With Augusta Roeland and Rege Cordic. Produced by Haford Kerbawy.
Producer: Handy (Jam) Organization
Sponsor: U.S. Steel Company 
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I think at the end we should have seen her dream kitchen!
Love the dresses and clothing back then !
4:42... WRONG! That sink should be under the window so I can gaze out as I'm washing the dishes.
Agreed. I have that in my current house (didn't have it in the last house, and doing dishes was a boring chore).
Thats where my sink is in my house. It's great
Gregory May buy a dishwasher
My kitchen sink overlooks the neighbor's driveway instead of the back yard as it should.
Absolutely!
What's keeping me awake? Gee...could it be that ridiculously LOUD ticking clock that's overpowering the audio????
In our family of six, my father was a military man and was able to meet the financial needs of our family on the salary of an enlisted man. My mother was an extremely creative and intelligent woman who had technical training from MIT in arial photography and arial reconnaissance. Mom managed our household like it was a small business. She was an executive secretary and worked when she wanted to however mom chose to be home with us most of the time. Our house was beautifully decorated and the family well dressed because my mother shopped at thrift stores and estate sales. That didn't look like a bad life to me. I felt safe and loved.
I felt dreamy just reading your comment! Indeed like my mother says, a good wife can transform the house into a cozy home even on a tight budget.
After the pioneering years Indian wars Amer ican women took alot of initiative.
I too was raised by a military enlisted man. Mom never worked but somehow we managed and I never was at a loss for anything. It was due to a loving traditional family which is nearly completely lost in todays liberal society. Kids with two Dads or Moms in the same house. Kids with split family's step moms dads and siblings......Its a mess.
I can relate to your story! Our father was an officer in the Navy. There were nine of us kids and Mom stayed at home.
@@davenone7312 Actual cringe
I friggin' love Jam Handy industrial films. What a cool, slick, sweet peice of an America gone by. I know many of you will say 'Thank goodness they're gone too' but think on it. There was an innocent naivete' that is sadly lacking from every facet of our (post) modern lives. Maybe there were changes that needed to be made, but I think we threw out the baby with the bath water. Too bad.
i totally wonder if i could cut it as a housewife... we’ll never know
I actually miss being a stay at home mom
No way!!! I love these! It seems like such a simpler, sweeter time.
I totally agree. Another element to this is that we interpret the 1950s through the radical lens of the 1960s and beyond. Radicalism does indeed throw the baby out with the bathwater. Sometimes quite ordinary or even positive old things have to be demonized in order to support the new views. The result is a distorted understanding of the old things and views.
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I can't believe she let the cookies get away.
Twin beds, wearing full makeup to bed. Some fantasy!
I know 2 women who have NEVER let their husbands see them without makeup. One is gorgeous and doesn't need it, but is so insecure that he might be swayed by another woman if she doesn't always look her best. The other has such terrible skin that she's afraid he'll get scared and divorce her on the spot.
@@clg4536 they shouldn't be so worried haha, if a man leaves you just because he doesn't like how you look naturally he's not the one
@@lilay1841 My point exactly! I've only ever worn makeup to major events, like weddings, or certain jobs where it was expected. Some men like the natural look. Others don't care. I was never focused on their perspective on the matter. I'm more concerned with staying clean and keeping my complexion healthy.
@@lilay1841 have you seen my response?
Separate beds, and yet two children. That's not normal.
I can tell this is the 50s when it starts out like a horror movie and she’s just like, bemused by the fact her kitchen has been replaced with a black void and a disembodied voice.
I still can’t figure out if it it’s a movie or an overinflated ad. This medium is confusing. I can’t figure out what they want from me
Love watching those old archives. Makes me wonder if the 1950s is much better than 2022.
I was there. YES
I suspect some things were easier but I’m thankful to live today
It was better if you were White.
Most definitely! In the 1950s, ppl cared for one another, they respected one another, and the whole community took care of, not only each other, but the helpless amongst them! The helpless didnt expect handouts, they just wanted a job and some dignity. They werent mooches, they contributed to society in any way they could! Kids had both parents in the home and there was less stress and less emphasis on material things and more emphasis on families and being together and helping to make each other better! 2022....its a sad time to be alive! Totally opposite of all that!
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I've had this same dream and im a 40yr old straight dad🤓
Never, in my life, have I found my husband’s snoring “comforting”🤣.
Can't tell you how many couples I know who wind up in separate bedrooms, not just separate beds, if they can't get the snoring under control!
CL G My husband snores and flails, yells occasionally. He’s a nightmare. Even the dogs don’t want to sleep in there😂. It’s a viable option!
@@mangot589 Sounds like you need to sleep in a separate wing, like Hillary had.
CL G 😂 don’t know about Hillary, but we get along just fine lol. We really love each other. 40 years👍. But I need some sleep! A wing would be awesome, frankly.
@@mangot589 My husband has restless leg sindrome and he's actually kicked me a few times.
Is no one gonna y’all about how her “slippers” were heels
Even my kid was like wha...?? lol I dont even own slippers anymore
I have house slippers with heels. A because I live for vintage aesthetics and B because wearing flats are actually uncomfortable
Those were the style! In the early seventies we wore kitten heel slippers of satin with feathers!
PLEASE! Those are "mules."
I asked my grandma if people really had twin beds and she said hell no, one bed was already expensive haha
Twin beds were used for tv purposes. It wasn't proper to show people sleeping in the Same bed.
--Also, with the normal shared bed, the Largest size they came in was Double/Full, unless you had more money then brains to afford a queen size.
My mother had an aunt and uncle and I thought it was so weird that they actually did sleep in twin beds or two single beds as they were😂
So Millennial here. I had many twin beds. They still exist.
I want a nightgown like hers! Looks comfy
Chris Curtain-Magee I agree minus that torpedo bra 😊
Yeah it's probably super comfy to be strapped into a garment that jams something round into something pointy. Great for sleep, I imagine.
@@kerstiesweeney 🤣
@@cskiles318it was the height of the Cold War so even bras had to look like torpedos lol
The perfect two child family in 1957.
Those metal cabinets were and are the bomb. They were made to last and if you can find some for sale they cost a fortune.
Advertising convincing consumers they needed/deserved so many things...
Those clothes were so beautiful.
And maybe .5 is in the oven?
Love her “Mid-Atlantic” accent!
Brad Ferguson Cary Grant always spoke with that accent.
Why do I miss this if I never lived it?
Because it’s part of the fabric of our American life.
Αααχ ωραίες εποχές και αξίες...❤❤❤
Someone wise recently said that rather a view of the past these films are a vision of a future utopia and better world. A lot of wisdom and food for thought in that.
Ahhhh...1957...a WONDERFUL year!!
Do you know, the EXACT same thing happened to me!
I couldn't sleep, went to the kitchen for milk and cookies, and the kitchen was gone! 😂😂😂
My kitchen had an office too, for planning meals, keeping records and ordering! Sadly, all gone now! Just a disembodied voice!
The “sit down workplace” in front of the sink didn’t take off did it.
i'm planning one.
My old apartment had one...
Well it was actually the space where the dishwasher is suppose to go, but I don't believe in those things, so I placed a stool in that spot. I Loved it.
The crazy thing is how much of this is still valid ...
in 1957 I had yet to see a refrigerator look "built in" surrounded by cabinets, or an island (although I think my ma's friend Eva Pinto put one in about that time). They never tell her to get out a yard stick and measure the room. Many kitchens in our very middle class neighborhood were about 8 X 8'. Not much you COULD do.
Wow LOL Did you see the ashtray with used cigarettes on her nightstand
Starts out like a horror film or the Twilight Zone.
This is the "Halloween" house. You can see how the kid went wrong, with this weird mom and her priorities.
my old house had a kitchen made with steel cabinets. it was the strangest kitchen I have ever had. it felt more like a ship's galley or caravan cooking set-up than an ordinary domestic kitchen. fun to show friends but horrible to work in, Edie will soon want her old kitchen back (especially if the family keep coming into the new one!)
My grandmother's husband has steel cabinets in her kitchen. I love them!
My parent's house was built in 1945 under the veteran's housing program. It had steel cabinets and a gas refrigerator (which was being pushed at a discount by the gas utility). They were fine when new, but I've seen some old ones that haven't aged gracefully. Once they start to rust it's very hard to make them respectable again.
My first house (built in 1924) had white steel cabinets and a red countertop. I loved itt!
@@BrittMFH @Britt H "Flapper" sensibility.
Yes so did my grandparents
I want one of those kitchen planning books!
"Why...The whole idea is to plan it the way YOU want it! Don't worry, we'll make certain that it costs you plenty!"
I would buy ANYTHING if it was in the vein of 50’s adverts. Need a tailor made kitchen when you’re own is as wide as you’re outstretched arms?! NO PROBLEM!
" 'And a husband?' 'Why, of course!' " I love this slices of thick, cheesy Americana. I wonder what will be better remembered, now or then? Their not making films about living now...
"Their not making films about living now."
They don't HAVE to remind us of what things are like right NOW, silly.
Practical living. Period. No dreaming needed. ♥️
I like the calmness. And separate beds.
Even today on almost any HGTV home renovation show, the "Dream Kitchen", is often the focal point of the episode.
Kind of weird, but it was fun seeing hubby cracking open those old ice trays with the handle. 50s illustrations were so cool! The "do side" seems to be an old version of the kitchen island.
I HATED those nasty things, sometimes we ended up with bloody ice cubes
and that is what I believed that life was like as a little girl of the 50’s. I now have close to that dream, but I learned along the way that the world is not like that.
Hence the need for women to have thier own income. Thus we depend on ourselves for financial stability. Good idea!
It is funny, but really it was one way to let each other sleep because both the husband and wife normally had different times to wake. Notice they have two children so they don't have to worry about intimacy. Actually did you know that on the Brady Bunch it was the first time that a couple on tv had ever been seen sleeping in a large bed together instead of to separate beds. I've heard it was a break through in tv.
I think the Nelsons did. But they could because they were husband and wife.
I think most married couples continue with "intimacy" even after they have the 2.5 kids?
@@JoeKaye-hn5dt So were Lucy and Ricky (Desi), but even so, the then tv code said, separate beds.
Everyone so far is WRONG! www.snopes.com/fact-check/early-to-bed/
It was actually The Munsters.
Love the 50's decor. Am redoing my house with a huge throwback to the 50's.
13:01 I wondered why they only mentioned steel cabinets; that's what they were selling.
PC No My late father used to paint steel cabinets at St. Charles Steel Kitchens. He said they moved on a conveyor while he sprayed them and was like a calisthenic workout everyday. He worked there twelve years. He earned over $12/hr when he left in the early 60’s, a huge sum for the time.
I wonder where they aired these 10 minute type commercials. Before movies or during the intermissions?
Love the cupboards around the fridge
Wow so this where the kitchen adjacent to living room design came from!
INTERESTING THANKS FOR THE UPLOAD!!!
I love the sass of some of these old videos.
5:55 omg what a gem!
And a husband? "Well of course!!"
Terry Gross/Fresh Air did a show on the people who composed music for these films & musicals as entertainment for the steelworkers. Ice wanted to see/hear them forEVER!
I just realized my kitchen doesn't have the workspace triangle. Also, just watched a GE film from the 30s where the lift top dishwasher didn't need pre-rinsing and the dishes supposedly were done in 5 minutes (mine takes 2 hours), plus the monitor top fridge was a whopping 7 cubic feet, while nowadays they're over 20! I like the old kitchens better.
mine has the workspace triangle. however, it is so small that two corners are back to back, I just turn around, the third corner is one sidestep away. it is efficient as hell for one person, once I got used to planning the sequence of prepping each part of a meal on the one surface available for that. however, its impossible to share the space with anyone else. teaching the kid to cook is a pain because there is no room for them to just hang about watching and being supervised as they assisted when they were little. now they are a grown up sized person and it's even harder to work together. sharing the cooking of a meal, or even having two people making separate quick breakfasts or tea and toast or coffee and cereal are just not possible. the previous owner wanted a 'formal dining room' so moved the entire kitchen into what was a pantry/laundry room. at least they moved the washing machine and dryer into what was a walk-in storage cupboard at the front of the house. I want to combine the tiny kitchen and biggish dining room into a glorious kitchen-diner. someday.
who could sleep with that constant ticking of the clock so close
I could, I like it.
That would annoy me
Konga 5000, if I could get a wooden metronome, I would and put it on a slow beat. Comfort sounds.
@@maunster3414 There's an app for that!
Jami Nova, yes, I know, but I'd like the actual article!
The kitchen of Dr. Caligari
I’m pretty sure it’s because I’m 5’3 tall but I have never understood the cabinets above the fridge🤷🏻♀️😂
It's NOT because of your height (which is normal). Although having cabinets aboue a fridge is useful, random objects (& cats, which can never resist climbing as high as possible) tend to get put on top of fridges IF there's no cabinets over them.
I love it
BTW if you are looking for mid century styles watch another Jam Handy film called'The American Look'. It is the ultimate MC modern industrial film.
I didn't know about a dishwasher till the 80's
Needs more Rod Serling.
That pink gingham dress!!! I adore that!
PURE HORROR!!!
On the contrary. Happiness peaked in the 50 for both, men and women.Back in the 50s women practically owned their neighborhood and were really smart. They knew how to keep a husband and a family together. They administered their husband's pay check and the house finances. They were subtle, elegant, clean, modest, restrained, feminine, moderated and exquisite. Have you taken a look at what people call "women" today? Loud, masculine, clown-like, unfaithful, woke, entitled and vulgar. They have copied only the vices of men...
Boy that alarm clock is loud !!!
I was a widow ten seconds in!
I thought she was gonna whack him with her shoe lol
Her housecoat is very nice.
First, she'll want a new kitchen. Second, she'll need a new house. Third, she'll want a new husband. :)
user9, The children's book, "if you give a mouse a cookie".
Or better, no husband as she can do it all on her own. Ever thought of that?!
@@alina3254, Nowadays is straightforward. Men are disposable. But 63 years ago... It was a bit tougher.
@@alina3254 Were talking about kids who felt safe and loved because they had a mom at home and a dad Who provided
🤔👍
I feel a man would love this type of life, he works brings in the money and she raises the kids cooks cleans make sure everything is ok with every1 else. Seems back then there was no time for herself. And maybe that was all ok with both. Also she should should shut the light off for sleep 😂 I loved this. Thanks for sharing. I hope she got her kitchen
I grew up then and in modern homes once the kids were at least in kindergarten, mom had PLENTY of free time. The women in my subdivision ran major charities, were involved in League of Women Voters, one woman I know had a copper enameling kiln and sold and won awards for her artwork and jewelry. They had a much richer life than cutthroat jobs in a megacorp.
@@poetcomic1 How many children, though? One or two, yes, but when you have three or four or more it is a three ring circus. You have to get everything done while they are at school because they will need to be taken somewhere or supervised or kept on task with homework. My mother worked early to late. She had a 15 minute nap in the early afternoon and was back at it. My father worked long hours, too. The only weekday time they had together was sitting side by side in the evening, catching up on newspapers and magazines. In warmer weather they were outside working on their landscaping while the sun was still up. Plenty of free time? Hardly any.
@@653j521 FIGHT FOR SCHOOL CHOICE. You PAY for it. I'm with you.
People like to think that the 50s house wives were put upon. I don't think 50s men had it much better time at work though. Post war was a tough time.
Wish I knew about fridges with bottom freezers back then. This one is very nice. Only recently noticed the ones on Bewitched and Friends, none of which were sold at Sears. Now only huge ones are at Lowes & HD.
Bottom freezers did exist in the early 1960s .. several of my parents friends had them, were purchased at either Sears or Oklahoma Tire and Supply Company - OTASCO
This video sent me right to JLO’s video for her song, “I Ain’t your Momma!”
Lol
At the beginning they made it look like the whole family was sleeping in the same room
I love her gold, peep-toe, heeled slippers.
The music sounds ominous at first! Thought it was a horror movie. And what's with the shoe in her hand? Is she planning to throw it at her snoring husband? Lol
At first I thought this was an episode of The Twilight Zone after Rod Serling sold out and embraced the concept of virticle integration.
*vertical
I remember when I would fall asleep with my mule slipper in my hand.. and dangled it over my satin coverlet………
😂😂
@@sharonh2991 You remember walking downstairs into a spotlight too…Don’t you…
@@elderlypoodle9181 yes, and suddenly a narrator was telling me how beautiful my kitchen could be. It was weird, thought I was dreaming but no….
@@sharonh2991 😆👍
good video
If I ever have a family (where are you my future husband!?)... This will be me:-)
I liked her shoes.
Notice how the washer is on the left and the dryer on the right? That's about how everyone does it, us included.
That's because you read left to right.
Facedesking at 6:36... why am I watching this?
that narrator is the Devil
(it doesn't really matter) 😏
No harsh, Valley Girl accent. I forgot that the female voice can be beautiful.
2:29 SUBMITTED FOR YOUR APPROVAL: Edie Michaelson....
and a husband? "Well of course!" Not any longer is that true.
...there will always be family...
How about just a maid, Butler and chef and be done with it.
Of course she has a husband it's the 1950s, not 2019 silly.
There’s still hope. ❤️
I don't want a sewing area in my kitchen. I don't like threads in my soup.
It would save on flossing post meal
Interesting that the counters as well as the sink appear to be stainless steel. Even steel cabinets?
Sponsored by US Steel.
@Kuchi Kopi Well, the floor linoleum had asbestos, and plaster in walls and ceilings.
Notice that she has her ashtray right beside her bed on the nightstand? Maybe she can't sleep with her lungs full of nicotine?
People from the 50's are still around smoke and all!
Sink by the window is the worst idea ever but it still gets perpetuated till this day.
Depends on the view outside the window.
@@JudgeJulieLit Not about view, it's just impractical from water damage to the wood frame of window also dirty or washed dishes are usually kept by the sink or in the sink in most houses but no model house shows it as that. The sun exposure also makes left over food susepbtle to bacteria and germs.
Sailorforlife BESTTI Most windows these days are PVC or aluminium. So what if dishes are left by a window? And surely leftover food belongs in the fridge, not on the draining board. Sinks by the window are nicer to work at.
@@spencerwilton5831 I'm just speaking in terms of common sense. And dirty dishes don't belong in the fridge.
As one who does not presently have a window over the sink, it is something I would very much like to have as every other home I have lived in had that luxury. I miss it. When one spends a lot of time at the sink, and in cooking one does, it's nice to have the view, even if it's only the backyard.
Ashtray by the bed-lol
'The' most important thing in any kitchen is counter space.
Lol Debbie and David are my parents names. Don't see too many kids with names like that anymore.
I know, today boys have soft names like "Todd, Flynt, Kyle, Jordan", etc. Before, they had real masculine names: Edward, William, Alfred, Anthony...
I love how mum is sleeping holidng her slpper lol mum had one to many sheery's the night before ???
It is like I love Lucy - separate beds ha
Cooking cleaning entertainment that's my department....oh not anymore.... it's 50/50 😂😂
It's funny how they sleep in the same room but in different beds.
He snores and she tosses and turns.
Her slippers are toeless heels I'd wear to work.
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Careful there, careful !
Sweet Jesus, my kitchen is so tiny that 2 people can barely fit in it!
My grandparents slept in twin beds side by side. Was that traditional at some point?
So when they concieved a baby did they go to sleep in separate beds after the deed?
Damn i find twin beds so illogical
@@OzmaOfOzz Well you know I didn't ask that question🤡.. It didn't matter to me. Wasn't my sleeping arrangements.. I can't understand why people get so upset over things that don't concern them. Extremely "illogical".. Rest their souls they where sweet n kind people.. And they remained married their entire adult lives.. It could have been my grandfather got alzheimers and grandma wasn't feeling well for some time herself, that they separated their beds. I wasn't around when they had their kids.. 🤦🏽♀️
@@MaryJane-qq9mm lol my grandparents slept in different rooms on different levels of the house but this was well after they had kids, even grandkids
But still find it strange to sleep in separate beds especially as young couple
No. It's all individual. No rules.
She needs to be sure to schedule that late morning marijuana break with the girls on the block to make sure she’ll make it through dinner.
no automatic ice cubes?
Yep, and no mold or fungus either...check out the chute that your ice comes down. Don't try to clean it, you can't get to it. Gross. Last fridge I bought does not have an icemaker.
I worked for Whirlpool, they started with auto icemakers in the mid 1950s if I remember correctly. The same basic design used in most refrigerators today.
Her kid is named Debbie 7