The 1900 House (1999)
- Genre
- reality television
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Length
- 1 season, 10 episodes
- Rating
- 7.3 of 10 from 9 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A modern British family moves into a retrofitted house and tries to live by Victorian standards for three months. The series follows their daily struggles and adjustments to life without modern comforts.
observationalimmersiveslow-pacednostalgiceducationallightheartedintimatecurious
What happens
The 1900 House is a historical reenactment reality television series made by Wall to Wall/Channel 4 in 1999. The programme features a modern family attempting to live in the way of the late Victorians for three months in a modified house. It was first broadcast on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom and PBS in America (with American commentary). The series was accompanied by the book 1900 House: Featuring Extracts from the Personal Diaries of Joyce and Paul Bowler and Their Family by Mark McCrum and Matthew Sturgis. It won a Peabody Award in 2000 for being "an often humorous, always perceptive, series about the realities of life in 1900 that reveals themes of perseverance, human adaptation and family dynamics." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Comin' Atcha! (1999)- More like this series, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.