What vacuums have you seen in movies?

[oreck_xl]

I've been trying to figure out for the longest what kind of tank cleaner they used for the movie "Mac and Me." Whatever it was, I'm sure it was modified.

 

[hoover300]

@oreck_xl

I just saw the clip,it looks like a Royal/ Electro Hygiene. It has the wheels, pointy back end, color, and an early belden plug.

 

[oreck_xl]

Thank you Hoover300. The lighting was so dim in those scenes it's hard to tell. But were Belden plugs used on Royals?

 

[hoover300]

Although I cannot see from pictures of the vac, older royals did. The model appears to be the red first model(repainted?). In the scene where they plug it in and chase mac, the plug looks like a rounded kirby machine end plug, but with prongs. Both of my Premier Spic Spans have this molded plug.

 

[johnnyb59c]

more from Hazel

also had Electrolux XII and model E. and whatabout the "Davidson"?(not a real vacuum I dont think but had Electrolux attachments

 

[human]

I was watching "My Name is Earl" on DVD a couple of weeks ago and there was a scene in one episode where one of Earl's neighbors in the trailer park is vacuuming a rug, hung on an outdoor clothesline, with a vintage Electrolux LX.

 

[elecroluxmodel1]

I saw...

An Electrolux model xxx in the Carol Burnette show. Tim Conway was the vacuum salesman and brought in a vacuum called the Davis 500 but you could tell it was an Electrolux model xxx.

 

[johnnyb59c]

I forgot a couple

there was a GE Roll Easy on I Dream of Jeannie but it was green and gray(almost like Montgomery Ward colors) I never saw a green one before. after that I only saw the Hoover that was on Bewitched. also saw an Electrolux XXX on The Flying Nun they were using to power a pump organ with explosive results. Kenmore commander on Munsters and on Father Knows Best what looked like a Premier Duplex not sure.

 

[gregvacs28]

Lucy doing a Hoover slimline in slate/mint green.


 

 

[panasonicvac]

Panasonic Ultra Pro commercial upright in Ocean's Thirteen. When I was a kid, we've stayed at a hotel where I saw two of these cleaning some rooms and they were both MC-V300 models.

 

[ocscott3085]

Not a movie but if you're watching Firefly Lane on Netflix, Tully has a late 70's/early 80's green Hoover Celebrity in her mom's family room. To me the vacuum didn't match the storyline. They flashback throughout each episode from the early 70s, to the 80's as young adults and then 2003 as forty-three year olds. Tully's mom is a drug addict who barely leaves the house. I doubt she could have afforded a new Hoover Celebrity Powermatic. I think production just saw the machine and figured it was retro looking enough to be used as a prop.

 

[kirboover]

I can’t believe it!

No one has mentioned the vac from super sucker. I think it was a Panasonic MC-V7571

 

[fantomfan]

That's a Fantom Cyclone XT!

Not a Panasonic, lol.
I have that movie, there were a whole bunch of machines featured in that movie.
Here's a few more:

The Borrowers: Kenmore Commander and Royal upright (maybe electro hygiene)

Stop or My Mom Will Shoot: blender motor eureka

Men Don't Leave: blender motor eureka

Baby Boom: commercial hoover or eureka of some sort

Kid's show ICarly had a few dyson models

Prancer: kirby (maybe a heritage or tradition model)

The Golden Girls/Golden Palace: Panasonic upright, Regina Brush n beat, Electrolux canister

Alf: Hoover Convertible, Dirt Devil Broom Vac

All in the Family: Hoover Dial A Matic

Everybody Loves Raymond: Rainbow e series, Hoover (62 or 63 I think)

The X Files: Hoover Constellation

I've seen lots of true crime shows where vacuums are featured as evidence, or are merely in the crime scene photos

 

[ocscott3085]

Also the Tom Hank's movie, Big, had a lower-tier Hoover Spirt Powermatic canister being used by his mom.

 

[dysonman1]

In "The Main Event" Barbara Streisand is using a Kirby model Classic III.

 

[air-waycharlie]

"All That Heaven Allows", (1955), Lewyt big wheel green version. Cary Scott's, (Jane Wyman), housekeeper uses one while she is talking with her best gal pal, Sara Warren, (Agnes Moorehead), and she slams the bedroom door so they can talk without the noise.

Also, Loretta Young uses a Hoover 28 in, "The Farmer's Daughter", (1947), when she portrays housekeeper Katie Holstrum.

And one of the great ones, "Who's Minding The Store", Jerry Lewis fixing a Hoover 68. Absolutely hysterical.

 

[johnnyb59c]

a few interesting links

I also remember seeing Hamilton Beach model 14 on All in the Family. also here are some interesting sites-https://www.icollector.com/Prop-Hoover-vacuum-cleaner-from-The-Rocketeer_i13226825


https://www.therpf.com/forums/threads/tomorrowland-frank-walker-1964-jetpack-wip.243066/
the first is a by gone auction. the second is from a movie I started to watch but something happened and I lost wifi.

 

[oldcrankman]

This old Hoover Convertible I saw today in Waynes World 2.

 

[dysonman1]

How could we ever forget the general electric swivel top on "leave it to Beaver". I sure do love mine. why do they always connect the hose backwards?

 

[dysonman1]

The props department on "the marvelous Mrs. Maisel" borrowed my Hoover Lark. It appears in the second from the last episode, and has its own storyline. Glad to have gotten it back, and it now hangs in the Vacuum Cleaner Museum. I look at it every day when I walk to the back door.

 

[dysonman1]

Samantha and her Hoover dial a matic. The very first version. Huge thanks to John Gregory for a brand new set of attachments that he sent me.

 

[beevac]

Still another vacuum shown in a Lucy -Desi movie 1954.

There is a cameo appearance of the Hoover #42 Aerodyne lying on a bed with other wedding presents in the movie The Long Long Trailer. I own a complete 42 vacuum in my collection. It has a powerful motor.

 

[kirbyman65]

There was one in Macgyver

In an episode of macgyver, he used and Electrolux model e with 2 hoses. The suction end in a large pot of oil and the blower end to spray the oil (to bad for the Electrolux)

 

[lokisdads]

424008 vacuums in movies

#vacman1961

There is also a scene in "The Help" where Minnie is vacuuming a big stuffed bear, It appears that she is using an Electrolux Olympia. Wrong machine for that scene, as the Olympia didn't come along until approximately 20 years later.

 

[paul]

SINCE YOU WENT AWAY—1943

Fifteen-year-old Shirley Temple in her role as 'Brig' Hilton vacuums briefly with an Electrolux Model XXX [warning: you'll cringe as you see her kink the hose with her arm]:

 

[kirbyuser]

i walk the line movie

there's a kirby sitting in one of the rooms.also karen black in some movie vacuuming on the stairs with a kirby.sound was fake.

 

[kwalsh97214]

1929 The Bishop Murder Case

In this early sound film, Basil Rathbone plays detective Philo Vance.

Near the middle of the film, Philo tries to question the housekeeper of the home to find out what she might know about some murders. The housekeeper is trying to vacuum the hallway carpet. Two or three times she has to turn on and turn off her upright vacuum to answer Philo's questions.

I believe the upright vacuum she is using is an early Premier.

I will try to watch the movie in the next few days and capture an image of the vacuum and post it here.

 

[panasonicvac]

Recently saw Jumanji again and there was a red Sanitaire Widetrack shown.

 

[huskyvacs]

As I come across random TV shows where vacuum cleaners appear I have been keeping notes of what they are and what show it was on, haven't gotten the list compiled yet.

Recent one was on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon. He used a Dyson stick to clean up feathers from pillows.

 

[paul]

The Farmer's Daughter—1947

Katie (Loretta Young) uses an unfamiliar to me vacuum cleaner.

 

[dysonman1]

The Farmer's Daughter—1947

Katie (Loretta Young) uses an unfamiliar to me vacuum cleaner.

It's a Hoover model 800. One of the giveaways was the orange triangle, along with the rubber around the headlight opening.