Product Details

• Producers: General Electric Company
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: Quality Information Publishers, Inc.
• Run Time: 11 minutes
• ASIN: B003AX6W2E
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #580,353 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Victorian era meets electricity for the first time in this silent film by General Electric. It was an exciting meeting that sparked a new dawn for technology and human kind alike. All at once people had amenities that before were unimaginable, like a vacuum cleaner and an automatic sewing machine. Not only does this film serve as a fun look into the early 1900s culture and mannerisms, but serves as a look into the excitement that surrounded electrical technology. Devices were being created for electricity that weren't actually practical - such as an electrical cup - but were a novelty to people so used to doing everything by hand. Other devices, like the electrical car, were more practical and very important as a technological idea, even today. The Home Electrical is an interesting look into a time before electricity was everywhere and a neat look at the origins of such things as electric heat and the outlet.