What vacuums have you seen in movies?

[jo]

Thought I’d start something new and fun for us! What vacuums have you seen in movies new or old?

I’ll start off with one...the one that inspired this thread (also the thread of vacuums on bewitched inspired this as well).

In the movie “The Help” I believe it was Minnie who was seen cleaning the house with an Electrolux Olympia One. It was running but sounded like it had a rebuilt motor in it, also the attachments were generic and if I recall correctly was only being used with a straight suction floor nozzle...this coupled with the odd sound are indicators that it may have been a metropolitan rebuilt model. Both my Mother and I who were watching the movie together noticed it and commented.

 

[hoover300]

I saw part of a 50s Goblin in one of the Harry Potter movies,
The Leasure in the Addams family movie, and, I do not know if this counts, a Packard in Malcolm in the Middle. I know I have seen more, but do not remember them. I have heard of a vac shop in Breaking Bad though.
Pic 1 is Leasure, pic 2 is the Packard. Sorry for the sideways shots.

 

[pr-21]

Samantha Stevens on Bewitched had one. I believe it was a hoover dial a  matic, that they rigged


to run by itself......


 


PR-21


Bud

 

[eurekaprince]

The 1960's comedy "Good Neighbour Sam" had a Hoover Convertible on the roof of a vacuum repair truck. The truck was actually a disguise for a private investigator hired to spy on the comings and goings of a suburban husband. The handle of the cleaner was a periscope and the two "o"s in the word Hoover were binoculars!!!

And of course there is the famous vacuum cleaner scene in Jerry Lewis' classic "Whose Minding the Store?". (Poor Fifi - she got sucked up by a Hoover Convertible!!!)

 

[KirbyCollector01]

I can think of multiple.

Kirby Classic Omega in “Mr. Mom”
Kirby Classic Omega in “AntMan”
Kirby Classic III in “Casper”
Hoover Convertible (I think 1060) in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”
Electrolux Model XXX & Eureka Upright in “National Lampoon’s Vacation”
Hoover Elite in “Mrs. Doubtfire”

Etc.

There’s so much more.

 

[bvac6]

I spotted these two in the 80's tv show Hotel; a Dial-a-matic and a commercial Eureka. I'm not sure why these photos are in sideways!

 

[compactelectra]

If You Expand This

To include TV shows here is one of my favorites. Hazel vacuuming the Baxter’s living room with a Modern Hygiene. She also used it to help out the bachelor neighbor who moved in next door. That Modern Hygiene was a fabulously beautiful machine.

 

[jo]

I don’t see the Electrolux XXX in the National Lampoons Christmas vacation attic scene but I do see what looks like Electrolux hoses on the left in the second of the attic photos. Am I missing something? This is a fun Can you find the vacuum in this photo” challenge!

That looks like a nice modern hygiene that Hazel is using, wonder what model it is. I’d like to see one closer up.

Jon

 

[compactelectra]

Jon

Here you go courtesy of Charles Lester.

http://www.1377731.com/modern/

 

[vacman1961]

Jo, Did you realize in the movie the Help there was actually 4 different vacuums pictured? One vacuum was the Electrolux Olympia with a standard hose and looks like a model 30 upholstery nozzle, the second was another Electrolux, you can't really tell the model, it could be a Model AE, AF or G but you can see the electric pigtail hose, she is vacuuming a bare floor behind a couch, the third is a Kirby Dual 50, it is propped against an end table in Elizabeths living room when she had to hurry and leave the house, the Dual 50 had a replacement red plaid bag on it, and the fourth was the ever so famous Shinolater which is a Filter Queen Majestic used to dry hair.
The Electrolux Model 30 in Christmas Vacation is laying on its side up in the attic between the beams when he climbs the pull down stair case.

 

[gregvacs28]

Just for inspiration

It seems like we can never remember them all.

https://www.vacuumland.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?23226

 

[vacman1961]

Kirby Dual 50 from The Help.

 

[gregvacs28]

For the memory archives:
Three's Company's Jack, Janet, & Chrissy had a small Eureka Princess I think it was.

Knot'slanding's Karen Fairgate in season three (or two, midway through the season) had a 1978 Kenmore TOL canister that she wouldn't let Diana use at Abby's.

On Dragnet 1968? there was an episode where they inspected the contents of a 50s Airway vacuum. (link to my previous post)

The Brady bunch had at least 2 vacuums. An upright and what I believe was an electrolux tank, but it had a white vynil hose, so..... And Greg was using it to vacuum the engine compartment of a car. Anyone remember this?





https://www.vacuumland.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?37552

 

[jo]

I only remember may instances of Alice on the Brady bunch vacuuming with some sort of upright and Inthink over the years it may have been different ones. Don’t remember Greg using an Electrolux, that would be nice to see which model it was though.

Didn’t remember so many vacuums in “The help” , mostly just the Electrolux perhaps because it’s the same model my Mom has and In an Electrolux fan. I do t see many Electrolux’s having popped up in movies perhaps because they were more expensive.

@ Charles Lester: Thanks for taking the time out to dig out the modern hygiene photo. Sure looks like nice retro designing. Can’t remember if Lurelle Guild designed the Electrolux LX as well since he did the XXX, and I think he did the E through L metal canister design...but if he did the LX, I wonder if he designed the modern hygiene, definite similar styling cues. I enjoy Art Deco design. While I don’t collect it, I appreciate it’s distinctive styling and the modern hygiene seems to have it for sure. Well I’m wandering off into a design subject off my own there as I should stay on topic!

Jon

 

[gregvacs28]

Jo

Greg was using some type of tank with a white hose. It had to be an episode later in the series because Greg was driving at that point. The car was out of the carport with the trunk toward it. The hood was up and he was vacuuming under the hood. Why would someone do that, I don't know, but....

 

[oldskoolguy]

Who could forget?

The Kirby Dual Sanitronic 80 feathered in the Brave Little Toaster! For reference, I have my Dual 80 (with the wrong handle) pictured next to my TV.

 

[jo]

Thought if another

In the tv series “Madmen”, Peggy borrows her Mother’s Electrolux LX to clean her new apartment with. In a later episode, it appears again as she is returning it her Mother, and her Mother asks “Did you empty the bag” which for this model was an incorrect question to ask as it can only be used with disposable paper bags but likely the writers wanted more to be period correct as in the 1950s almost all vacuums had cloth shake out dust bags!

By the way, I love that Red plaid Kirby bag! So stylish! My partner would love it, he’s so into plaid this past winter adding tidbits of it all over our house.

 

[fan-of-fans]

In Matlock there was an Elite very similar, if not the same as in the Mrs. Doubtfire scene. Matlock in one episode apparently owned a late Hoover Dial A Matic Powerdrive in the light gray/dark gray color scheme, that the maid is cleaning with. And of course the scene with the Rainbow D4 SE demo that due to Russ's back injury, gets scheduled to take place in Matlock's living room, much to his chagrin.


In The Andy Griffith show Barney becomes a vacuum salesman in one episode and has a Hoover Convertible he goes door to door with. And Aunt Bee has a Hoover Constellation in one episode.

In the Dennis the Menance movie , there is a shop vac, where the spilled paint is sucked up and either explodes or gets blown out onto the neighbor's barbecue grill, resulting in the burgers tasting of paint.

In Big Comfy Couch I watched as a kid, there is a modified green Hoover Constellation. I believe it was the late Canadian model in the sour apple color. It has a reversing switch in place of the Hoover logo. Loonette gets allergies so decides to run the vacuum cleaner and places the hose under the couch. The two Dust Bunnies underneath get sucked up, and Molly hears them yelling inside the vacuum, so she turns the reverse switch to blow them out before Loonette unplugs it.

The movie Tomorrowland from a few years ago features some Electrolux model XXX vacuums as part of some kind of rocket suit contraption, but I can't recall what exactly.

 

[fan-of-fans]

The Stuart Little movie had an Electrolux tank of some kind in the scene where the maid is cleaning the hotel. She lays the nozzle down to go wipe down the mirror and with the machine still running, Stuart Little almost gets sucked into it on his motorcycle. I remember reading the book and was sad about the part where it mentions the vacuum died (because I thought it literally died). But in the scene it's just the maid unplugs it, and Stuart is finally able to get free.

Also one of the animated movies either Secret Life or Pets or Secret Life of Dogs was on when I was channel surfing a few weeks ago and I saw an upright of some kind, in blue. Looked kind of like a Singer Twin Fan or maybe a Eureka F&G.