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The 1900 House

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Viewers time-travel vicariously in this four-part "docu-soap" that transplants a modern family from 1999 to 1900. The series clearly evinces the radical changes in domestic life wrought by the scientific and technological innovations of the last 100 years. The Bowler family are taken back in time to the spring of 1900 in Greenwich, a suburb of London, England. For 3 months, they live as a family in 1900 would have lived.

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Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
MPAA rating : s_medNotRated NR (Not Rated)
Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.53 inches; 4 Ounces
Media Format : Color, NTSC
Run time : 3 hours and 40 minutes
Release date : August 5, 2003
Actors : Artist Not Provided
Language : English, Unqualified (DTS ES 6.1)
Studio : PBS (Direct)
ASIN : B0000AYL45
Number of discs : 1

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J. Demers

Love this family!

Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2013

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If you are interested in history and sociology, how people really lived, you'll like this show. The producers made a smart choice in finding a warm, funny, tight-knit family that can work together and laugh together in all sorts of different circumstances. It's fun to imagine how you would have felt, trying to live the 1900 lifestyle.

Some of the things I got a kick out of is explanations of the complicated women's clothing (dresses, corsets, garters, etc.), trying to find entertaining things to do, trying to cook with the range, coping with hiring and having a maid, trying to get away with breaking the rules, and how long it took to do washing! It took days!

It's too bad they didn't try this with a few families, so that the family had other people to interact with. There's a lot of boredom felt by the oldest daughter and the mother, which is partly due to the time period and their restricted lifestyle, but probably also due to the fact that they had no one else to interact with. (Though the viewer doesn't feel bored watching this--it makes you ponder how you would have dealt with these problems.)

In the end, a really interesting piece following the lives of a caring and funny family trying to make the 1900 experience work.

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SIR

ne of their better period projects

Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2015

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I like many of these sociological reenactments of time periods (Frontier House being my favorite). I found this to be rather good as it really highlighted How suffocatinglly tedious the pampered life of an upper class women was as opposed to the freedom, active involvement in the world and preferential treatment that was afforded to upper class men. The serving class work long and hard yet it was considered a good life by many when considering the alternative. Particularly for women who had little opportunity in the workforce. If you like these programs this was pretty well done as those involved mainly kept to the rules (though there was a problem with some of the downstairs staff sticking to the period rules).

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VickyNC

Experiencing victorian life as a family

Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2012

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There have been so many changes in the world in the last 112 years so a series attempting to have a modern family really experience what it was like living as a typical middle-class family in England in 1900 was extremely interesting. Things we take for granted today did not exist in 1900 and it is no wonder that the family experienced culture shock in the three-month social experiment.

The 1900 House along with Frontier House are my favorites in the genre of having modern people live as people did in past generations. Life was hard, confining and held dangers that no long exist due to improvements in sanitation, diet, safety regulations and improved knowledge. Modern conveniences enable people, especially women, pursue other interests and activities outside cooking and cleaning.

I certainly don't believe that living in the 1900s takes one back to a simpler time; there is a reason our life expectancies are much better today and people are healthier and happier.

If you missed this British Channel 4 production when it was shown on PBS, I recommend you try to locate either a VHS or DVD of the series. The producers and experts did a wonderful job attempting to make the experience as realistic as possible for the family.

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Mary pompa

An Exceptional Journey of past living.

Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2015

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I just love this special PBS show. It really gives you an up close look at living in the 1900's. It's incredible when they take an updated house and restore it to when it was built, you never see that. They tear out the new, the installation, walls, the toilet and all the code enforcement updates. Then bring in the old gas lights, outside out house and wood cooking stove. I think every country should create a show like this. If they did I would be very excited to see it. Very educational to learn the past this way. For anyone interested in old houses and the way people lived in the old times, this is a must for you to see. The 1940 house is also a great experience just like this show.

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Jusite T. Stilwell

Good television series

Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2017

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I enjoy History and like the idea of taking a "modern family" and put them into a past in the beginning of the 20th century. See how they could handle living during the time. You could tell the family was struggling with how to live in the 1900 house. But it made it interesting to see how they could overcome it and came out of the house with a sense of what their ancestor probably had to go through.

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Gosha

The 1900 House: An Extraordinary Living Experiment [VHS]

Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2014

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I originally saw this on public television and wanted to watch it again. An amazing experiment to see if a modern family can live an old-fashioned life. High praise for those that designed the 1900 House as the attention to details was amazing. A very good movie to watch with your family -- especially when they say they're "bored" and that there's "nothing to do". I'll never complain about my modern appliances again! I wish this was in DVD format instead of VHS, but ... I'm not complaining!!!

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A. Burchfield

Interesting look at times past

Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2002

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This video makes an interesting look at times past, it's worth watching for the average viewer to see just how much things have changed in only 100 years. I found it interesting to watch the Bowler family adapt to the circa 1900 world, couldn't help thinking that they'd never have made it through a year of that life. I was actually more disappointed with the experts who set the house up for them, the guys who restored the house to period form do that for a living yet they had a terrible time getting the stove going and the others seemed to do their work largely by looking at picture books.
Although you miss so much due to the need to edit 3 months of video down to about four hours it's still worth viewing. There's a companion book out that give some background information that will help flesh out the story, get it too.

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lizzygee

Life in my grandma's time!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 8, 2016

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Interesting to see this programme again so many years later. Would have loved to see all the programmes and not just a selection. Remember the first time of watching it and thinking my grandma was a teenager at this time, and how she lived. Cannot understand how expensive some versions of this series are but I managed to find a reasonable priced version fortunately. Well worth another look at!

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