Czech futuristic kitchen video from 1957

This Czech industrial film from 1957 about the Kitchen of 2000 is a lovely bit of paleofuturism. Infra-red chicken, ingredient spouts, TV shopping (actually, we have most of those!). Link

Update: Treehugger's Chris Tackett sez, "one of our writers knew of a lot more clips of that kitchen, so he made a follow-up."

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Whatever happened to those induction ranges anyway? I haven’t seen one since the early ’80s.

And the rotating glass fridge makes a lot of sense, because it lets you locate what you want before you open the door.
se7a7n7

I can’t wait till punch cards replace all my cookery books.
Antinous

Whatever happened to those induction ranges anyway?

You can still buy an induction range, but they cost a fortune.
footage

This is the Frigidaire Kitchen of the Future, and the footage is probably a newsreel handout (what we would now call a video news release). See Design for Dreaming at archive.org/details/prelinger.
eustace

“I can’t wait to fry up a mess of punch cards.” cried the half-man, half-mainframe.
Stefan Jones

I’m pretty sure this is a dubbed version of an American film. Something I saw just recently, in fact.