How to Be a Successful Hostess (Outtakes, Reel 3) (1958, silent)

Description:

Description: Content warning: This film contains scenes of a white woman engaged in the cultural appropriation of Chinese culture.

Description of the source film from Educational Film Guide, 1954-1958:
"Gives hints and helps on the most popular types of entertaining; buffet dinner, barbecue, family dinner, formal dinner, informal dinner, and wedding reception. Also gives suggestions on party giving, proper table settings, making guests feel comfortable and a sequence on an 'unexpected guest'".

Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com.

Subjects: 1950s, Domestic life, Etiquette, Gender roles, Home economics, Food, Cooking

Tags: setting tables; girls; sterling silver; silverware; silver patterns; utensils; dinner tables; dinner parties; entertaining; Thanksgiving; pies; cranberry sauce; Powell & Hyde cable cars; San Francisco Chinatown; Chinese markets; Chinese workers; San Francisco scenes; housewives; homemakers; girls setting table; family dinners; knotty pine walls; kitchens; green olives; celery; nut mixes; Hors d'oeuvres; making appetizers; ironing; cable cars; Russian Hill; Powell and Market Streets cable car turntable; storefronts; shops; grocery stores; Freed, Teller & Freed; weighing coffee beans; San Francisco Chinatown; Grant Avenue; produce markets; lotus root; flower bouquets; tofu; Chinese food; Chinese vegetables; white woman wearing qipao; cultural appropriation; hot pot; upper-middle-class families; kitchen bulletin board with calendar leaves; woman dialing wall-mounted telephone; making pie; ironing; housework

Film Sponsor: Reed and Barton, Silversmiths

Creator: Kenneth Richter, Kenneth Richter Productions

Credits: Directed and Photographed by: Kenneth Richter
Script by: Shirley Richter, BS in Home Ec.
Music by: Robert Velazco
Narrated by: Norman Rose
Table Consultant: Helen Sprackling
Presented by: Reed & Barton Silversmiths

Distributor: Association Films

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Kenneth Irving Richter Collection

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date:

Release Date: 1958

Geographical Location: USA; California; San Francisco, California

Genre/Form: sponsored

Language: eng

Rights:

Film Format: 16mm film

Element: original, reversal, positive

Color: color

Color Process: Eastman Reversal

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code:

Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 1088

Complete Record: Description: Content warning: This film contains scenes of a white woman engaged in the cultural appropriation of Chinese culture. Description of the source film from Educational Film Guide, 1954-1958: "Gives hints and helps on the most popular types of entertaining; buffet dinner, barbecue, family dinner, formal dinner, informal dinner, and wedding reception. Also gives suggestions on party giving, proper table settings, making guests feel comfortable and a sequence on an 'unexpected guest'". Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com. Subjects: 1950s, Domestic life, Etiquette, Gender roles, Home economics, Food, Cooking Tags: setting tables; girls; sterling silver; silverware; silver patterns; utensils; dinner tables; dinner parties; entertaining; Thanksgiving; pies; cranberry sauce; Powell & Hyde cable cars; San Francisco Chinatown; Chinese markets; Chinese workers; San Francisco scenes; housewives; homemakers; girls setting table; family dinners; knotty pine walls; kitchens; green olives; celery; nut mixes; Hors d'oeuvres; making appetizers; ironing; cable cars; Russian Hill; Powell and Market Streets cable car turntable; storefronts; shops; grocery stores; Freed, Teller & Freed; weighing coffee beans; San Francisco Chinatown; Grant Avenue; produce markets; lotus root; flower bouquets; tofu; Chinese food; Chinese vegetables; white woman wearing qipao; cultural appropriation; hot pot; upper-middle-class families; kitchen bulletin board with calendar leaves; woman dialing wall-mounted telephone; making pie; ironing; housework Film Sponsor: Reed and Barton, Silversmiths Creator: Kenneth Richter, Kenneth Richter Productions Credits: Directed and Photographed by: Kenneth Richter Script by: Shirley Richter, BS in Home Ec. Music by: Robert Velazco Narrated by: Norman Rose Table Consultant: Helen Sprackling Presented by: Reed & Barton Silversmiths Distributor: Association Films Contributor: Prelinger Archives Source Collection: Kenneth Irving Richter Collection Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive Production Date: Release Date: 1958 Geographical Location: USA; California; San Francisco, California Genre/Form: sponsored Language: eng Rights: Film Format: 16mm film Element: original, reversal, positive Color: color Color Process: Eastman Reversal Sound or Silent: silent Film Soundtrack Type: mos Edge Code: Frame Rate: 24 fps Length (feet): 1088