'A woman's cooking problems have been solved by 20th century minds and in a 20th century fashion...'

'It's amazing how much you can get in it!'

This is a transfer from a 16mm print I bought from a junk shop a couple of years ago. It is in very poor condition, as you'll see from the dirt and deep vertical emulsion scratches. A lot of footage is missing, and 73ft was not transferred for this video because the perforation damage was too severe for it to go through a telecine.

The start and end titles were totally missing, so I have no idea what this film is. Can you help?

The stock mark is 1937. The material may have been shot a year or two earlier, but of course no later. It appears to be a promotional film made either by an electricity generating company or a manufacturer of domestic appliances (given that it promotes electric cookers heavily). It is somewhat bizarre, to put it mildly. I doubt if the two 'actresses' had ever prepared an actual meal in their lives - even if the cut glass accents don't totally give it away, people didn't wear fur shawls to cook the dinner - even in the 1930s!