GE Film: Who’s in Hot Water Now?

Duration: 9:00

Year Published: 1941

Creator: ge

Complete Record: Old fogey voice over speaks in first person as if the voice of a dilapidated house. MS of the shingled house. A middle aged couple enter the house talk about the lack of central heating. Cut to modern home with water heater complete with all the amenities of modern living. We follow the couple as they explore the luxuries of modern living like dishwashers, kitchen sinks, water heaters. Shots of water heater plant. Multiple CU of assembly line workers constructing said heaters. Shots of convenient places in the home for a water heater. Salesman talks to couple about precious hot water. Animation of how heater works. Factory workers add insulation to heaters in plant. A second couple without central electrical heating is shown bickering to demonstrate how unhappy lack of hot water can make people. More shots of the plant. Unhappy couple buys water heater. Shots of their modern home, a dinner party with the other couple, all praise the new modern home and the advantages of hot water. Slow zoom out on the old shingled house.