Delicious Dishes
Delicious Dishes is a short film from ca. 1940s released on 35mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.
Pitchman / television salesman promoting kitchen gadgets, excellent piece
. 14:50:13:14 Great footage of early cooking show / infomercial male chef selling various specialty cooking knives, all the typical conventions of a cooking knife infomercial; man opens by announcing that each woman attending the show will get free 12 piece cutlery set.
14:51:00:14 CU disembodied hand winds cork screw, the Parisian Cutter through potato then removes French Curl from potato; disembodied chef s hand stuff s the potato with meat then cuts the potato with a garnishing knife; disembodied hand uses garnishing knife to cut waffle fries then regular fries then uses various other specialty knives to demonstrate various ways of cutting potatoes; Chef uses specialty knives to grate and cut cabbage and parsley; CU man demonstrates the Parisian Scoop a spoon to cut little balls out of potatoes or melon
14:58:19:20 CU disembodied hands sharpen knife over cutting board, man demonstrates how sharp knife is by cutting paper.
14:58:44:26:26 CU disembodied hand places can of Campbell s Pork and Beans on Cutting Board, man uses can opener to open the can; CU man demos a peeler
15:00:39:03 CU disembodied hands demonstrates the Sara Bernhardt Cutter , cutter is screwed into a potato then wound, long coil of potato is produced| Delicious Dishes | |
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| Produced by | 0 |
Production company | 0 |
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Release date | ca. 1940s |
| Language | English |
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