Mother Takes a Holiday (Part II) (1952)
1952 · Ephemeral film · 15 min
- Short
Synopsis
Three teenage girls pull a fast one on their fathers and get them to buy new washing machines. They then take their mothers on a vacation, leaving the fathers alone at home to do all the laundry, and giving them an idea of just how much of a chore washing and drying dirty clothes can be--and how much easier it is to do with Whirlpool (which produced this short) appliances.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Released
- 1952-01-01
- Running time
- 15 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Gender roles
- Appliances: Sales
- Home economics: Laundry
Cast & crew
Elaine Hyman- Claudia Hall
- Connie Taylor
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Out with the Wash · Spuzz · 2003-11-13
A total gem of a movie. 3 daughters take their Moms on a camping trip, leaving the fathers at home with all the laundry. The daughters thought of a rather curious plan that since one of the fathers has a new Whirlpool washer, (in their 'kitchen' the size of a tennis court) that the other fathers will want one for themselves! Pretty sneaky! There is also this subplot of one of the daughters writing a thesis on Freedom of the American Woman, and she turns this 200 page report on her washing machine. All through this is a nice history of the washing machine, and how it's constructed. Nicely…
★★★★★ · high suspense · Kittenfish · 2006-03-11
I wonder if David Mamet wrote this suspenseful piece. Will the women get their Whirlpools? Will the line start up again? And just who are these people. The trusty Ironrite makes an appearance as well.
★★★★ · Ahhh, The Water Saver What Happened to That? · JayKay49 · 2018-05-25
Interesting that in this day and age of conservation, the water saver is a thing of the past. In those days clothes were often filthy from doing real work, and yet you still could reuse the wash water (worked fine). Today, no one gets their hands dirty such that clothes are washed good enough even in useless phosphate-free detergents (that cost a bundle). Those machines were huge (40" wide?) and couldn't fit in most kitchens of that day, so went in the basement just like the ol' wringer washer. Not to mention the laundry tub for that great water saver. Very clean skies in (once industrious)…