Czech futuristic kitchen video from 1957

Posted by Cory Doctorow, April 29, 2008 2:24 PM | permalink

This Czech industrial film from 1957 about the Kitchen of 2000 is a lovely bit of paleofuturism. Infra-red chicken, ingredient spouts, TV shopping (actually, we have most of those!). Link

Update: Treehugger's Chris Tackett sez, "one of our writers knew of a lot more clips of that kitchen, so he made a follow-up."

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#1 posted by se7a7n7 , April 29, 2008 2:30 PM

I can't wait till punch cards replace all my cookery books.

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#2 posted by eustace , April 29, 2008 9:13 PM

"I can't wait to fry up a mess of punch cards." cried the half-man, half-mainframe.

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#3 posted by Stefan Jones

, April 29, 2008 9:39 PM

I'm pretty sure this is a dubbed version of an American film. Something I saw just recently, in fact.

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#4 posted by footage , April 30, 2008 7:30 AM

This is the Frigidaire Kitchen of the Future, and the footage is probably a newsreel handout (what we would now call a video news release). See Design for Dreaming at archive.org/details/prelinger.

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#5 posted by The Unusual Suspect , April 30, 2008 8:55 AM

Whatever happened to those induction ranges anyway? I haven't seen one since the early '80s.

And the rotating glass fridge makes a lot of sense, because it lets you locate what you want before you open the door.

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#6 posted by Antinous , April 30, 2008 11:03 AM

Whatever happened to those induction ranges anyway?

You can still buy an induction range, but they cost a fortune.