Bride and Prejudice
Decade: 1950
Cooker demonstration with Marguerite Patten.
Incomplete film - opens in middle of demonstration of electric oven, intercutting with audience. Young wife and neighbour chat - wife frightened of electric cooker and mother-in-law. Neighbour cooks meal in oven - mother-in-law scandalised wife happy husband happy, neighbour happy.
Typical humorous/didactic piece. Story brackets practical display. First half missing. Story obviously young housewife bullied by mother to get rid of new electric cooker. Demonstration shows cooker taken to pieces for cleaning; food cooked, including 20lb turkey. Again, typical advertiser's kitchen, clean and sparkling - mixed grill shown. Wife brings in...
Cooker demonstration with Marguerite Patten.
Incomplete film - opens in middle of demonstration of electric oven, intercutting with audience. Young wife and neighbour chat - wife frightened of electric cooker and mother-in-law. Neighbour cooks meal in oven - mother-in-law scandalised wife happy husband happy, neighbour happy.
Typical humorous/didactic piece. Story brackets practical display. First half missing. Story obviously young housewife bullied by mother to get rid of new electric cooker. Demonstration shows cooker taken to pieces for cleaning; food cooked, including 20lb turkey. Again, typical advertiser's kitchen, clean and sparkling - mixed grill shown. Wife brings in hostess trolley.
- Title: Bride and Prejudice
- Date: 6th April 2020
- Summary: Cooker demonstration with Marguerite Patten. Incomplete film - opens in middle of demonstration of electric oven, intercutting with audience. Young wife and neighbour chat - wife frightened of electric cooker and mother-in-law. Neighbour cooks meal in oven - mother-in-law scandalised wife happy husband happy, neighbour happy. Typical humorous/didactic piece. Story brackets practical display. First half missing. Story obviously young housewife bullied by mother to get rid of new electric cooker. Demonstration shows cooker taken to pieces for cleaning; food cooked, including 20lb turkey. Again, typical advertiser's kitchen, clean and sparkling - mixed grill shown. Wife brings in hostess trolley.
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- Collection:Greenpark
- Decade:1950
- Keyword:cooking, food,cookery demonstration, kitchen, 1950s fashion