How this family built life hack culture
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- They inspired “Cheaper by the Dozen.” But their story is far more interesting than a movie.
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This famous family was fascinating, unique, and contributed to the way we live today.
In this pilot episode of History Club, Vox’s Phil Edwards and Coleman Lowndes discuss the incredible Gilbreth story, with all its twists and turns.
The Gilbreth family became famous in the film "Cheaper By The Dozen" but they were far more interesting than the most recent incarnation. Though the 1950 movie came closer to the truth, the real Gilbreths were pioneers in home life and the business world.
Frank and Lillian Gilbreth were equal partners in their unique business of time efficiency. Frank Gilbreth brought a construction background, while Lillian was the psychological half. Together, their time and motion studies mixed analysis and psychology in a seamless fashion.
Later on, Lillian led their business alone - and her pivot to home life has a clear connection to the life hack culture we live in today.
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I learnt Principles of Industrial Engineering in college with all the therbligs and everything and never knew about Lillian Gilbreth.. But now I know. So #PleaseMona let stuff like this go on
I used to manage a factory and we had every step of the employees process to make things quicker and more efficient. They worked piece work.the more they produced the more they made. Some of the stitchers made more than i did. Some worked 2 jobs and the night jobs paid more than our day job. They made a lot of money. We should bring back the factory jobs to this country. That is why so many people back then could buy a house.
Title makes it sound like she only created the culture behind life-hack videos on youtube.. It seems more like she spearheaded workplace efficiency
The title is a little clickbate-ish
Did you even watch the video? She spearheaded HOME LIFE efficiency, not work place efficiency
firexgodx980 when she worked with her husband she was primarily involved in workplace efficiency.
#pleasemona this is really good don't put an end to it.
@Bandstand funny seeing you here.
@@yd856 hilarious
#pleasemona
This was a captivating and interesting new type of video for vox.
Nice work ppl, great editing, and keep them coming
#PleaseMona let this become a real series, there lots of things that can be said and explained using this kind of format!
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#pleasemona. This was an incredible pilot! I'd love to see more!
And some say it's uncommon to watch til the end. Top seven comments have proven otherwise.
#pleasemona let Coleman and Phil keep doing these type of very interesting videos
#pleasemona
There's a 1950's version of cheaper by the dozen that is more true to real life, showing their job/partnership and Frank does die :(
I was raised on the original. I have no clue what that Steve Martin movie is.....🤷🤷🤷
My first thought was why there was no mention of the Clifton Webb, Myrna Loy film. It's vastly superior.
@@princessblaymanilaph The actor who played the original captain of the Enterprise [Jeff Hunter] was in that sequel. Those originals are admittedly hard to watch and I'm getting elderly, lol...
BTW, Gilbreth's work was utilized in the Apollo 11 spacecraft living quarters designs.
I even read a book about this guy and his family. Watched the original film.
Love Steve Martin but had no desire to see his version.
Wow this was incredibly riveting. #pleaseMona let them do more of these!!!!
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Really enjoy the format of two people sharing cool stories they found in history and interweaving each others' knowledge. Hope they switch who presents the initial story each week so they are on both sides of the conversation. Very interested to see where this goes! #pleasemona
This was great! I love the format, abundant historical footage and the in-depth story. Mona, please let these people do more work like this. #pleasemona
My Mother grew up with the Gilbreths in Montclair, NJ. She said they were a strange bunch. Of course she was talking about the kids her age. I believe they lived a couple of blocks away. It seems you have never seen the older film of 'Cheaper by the dozen.' The older movie covers many of the areas that you speak of.
#pleasemona this is a very interesting video and somewhat different and intersting FROM the rest. Let Phil and Coleman make more.
@BLAIR M Schirmer wait, what?
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Please edit your comment. 'and interesting FROM the rest'
pls its bugging me
@@mikihirai335 thanks.
#PLEASEMONA OMYGOD MONA PLEASE LET THEM MAKE MORE OF THIS
I really enjoyed stumbling upon this mashup gem from @Vox #PleaseMona give us more!
I read and reread Cheaper by the Dozen so many times when I was younger, I had forgotten how much I loved the story of this family, I really enjoyed this. #pleasemona
#pleasemona I really liked this way of teaching. Learning from/through conversations seems way more memorable than straight information and it also shows the way your writers think.
This is completely produced lol. These aren't real conversations they just put it together to make it look like they are.
john doe that wasn’t the point dipshit
@@johndoe-gt4rx are you telling me that the the ancient Greek Socratic Dialogues weren't real conversations either?!?!?!
Mona, let Phil and Coleman keep making these #PleaseMona
@Hernando Malinche no :)
This is awesome! I've been fascinated with the Gilbreths since I read Cheaper by the Dozen as a child. Mona, let these guys keep doing their thing!
#pleasemona PLEEEEEEEEEEASE!
God, I wish there were a "Vox"-like channel in Brazil....
Too much work for them
Maybe that's your calling
Alex Damaceno dont they have to either
make a portugese sub or
make a portugese dub
Start one
Vice Brazil
#PlsMona also, I wonder if Marie Kondo knows of this woman. She seems to have the same values Marie does, just 80 years earlier.
No,just nopinky. So delusional, Kondos ideas have nothing to do with these.
Kondo has ZERO connection with Gilbreth. Kondo is just all opposite - pseudoscientific mumbo jumbo based in some delusionary religious beliefs not science.
This is like if them discussing script ideas itself is made.into a video
This was great. Hope to see more !
Definetly digging this, keep doing this guys! Very interesting what two minds working and discovering together can do.
@Armando Vicente-Perez I don't know, brain fart #pleasemona
"The home is a plant who's product is happiness minutes."
That's so inspiring I wrote it down in my journal. #pleasemona I'm sending this to my dad.
i now NEED that oscar bait movie on this extraordinary story
#pleasemona
#pleaseMona, I've enjoyed so much this kind of conversational development of the story.
It reminds me of this phylosophy classes were we were told about the Arsitotle's Peripatetic school, a nice walk-arround about an interesting topic
Loved this format!
#pleasemona Continue this series! I love how this video (like many of Vox's) provide a great starting point for the viewers to do more research on the subject(s) covered.
I remember reading the classic novel “Cheaper by the Dozen” in my 7th grade English class. I’ve always been fascinated by the Gilbreth family. Loved this video bc it was a throwback to me remembering how efficient and interesting their family was! Thank you for this.
At the beginning I was like “What’s the point of this video” and I get it going on watching and really like it! It’s a very interesting story so #pleaseMona I want more videos
I love Lillian!!! What a woman. Her methods and ideas on efficiency are so innovative and intelligent.
#pleaseMona I love this kind of topic and delivery! I’d already seen the darkroom too so that was a nice bonus tie-in!
President Trump >>>>> vox
#pleasemona let Phil and Coleman make more of this!!!
I love the excited banter, and the agreement and argument of ideas in an excited way! This is so much fun to watch!!
Odd how in measuring efficiency time, no one thought of bureaucracy "red tape" as a time stopper & delayer of progress; into the equation.
There wasn't much red tape when the Gilbreths were doing their efficiency work.
#PleaseMona help this Intertwined series continue 👌
I really dig the format and as always you chose an off-the-wall topic that is beyond interesting. Please make more.
My grandma was one of 16. Middle #8. In Wisconsin. I love this kind of history. Great job
Great pilot ! Make more !
There's a 1950 film of Cheaper by the Dozen that is so so good. It's a much truer depiction of the Gilbreth family. Also #PleaseMona
Mona, let Phil and Coleman keep making these! #pleaseMona
This is a really cool video,love it
Great videos. Keep them coming.
this would be such a good Netflix show too i love this format. have a guest every once in a while to keep it fresh #pleasemona
Vox did do a collaboration with Netflix
Please Mona very much enjoyed the video. I love how you brought history to life. Fabulous!!
The original mom blogger! Fascinating!! Great work!
Mona let em keep making these!
I never usually comment on videos, but seriously this was amazing! Mona, please let them keep making these videos! #pleasemona
This felt more like a podcast than a traditional Vox web video, but I still enjoyed it very much.
#PleaseMona this, like basically everything Vox makes, is absolutely wonderful, and the conversation dynamic is very well done.
I would perhaps lose the laptops, they’re kinda awkward.
Please make more.🙌🏼
the laptops are hilarious. Like we are supposed to believe that they are face timing during this??But I love the conversation aspect
@@marissacwebb You're right, they are! But doesn't listening to someone who's looking down at a screen while talking just kinda remind you of basically every social interaction now?
Loving the new series
#pleasemona it's a new way to do these videos to have 2 Vox experts talk. it was also cool that they were both investigating the same guy for different projects that you wouldn't expect to overlap!
#PleaseMona let there be more! Genuinely fun, interesting, and educational.
This was such a interesting episode and I would love to see more of this series!!
#pleasemona
#pleaseMona really enjoyed this video! Loved the style, the flow and the edits. Amazing work guys!
This is GREAT. I am an industrial engr and i heard new things about the Gilbreths. Nice reasearch!
There was a film about them made decades ago that was much closer than the Steve Martin one. It was also called “Cheeper By the Dozen” but it wasn’t a comedy Per se. It was a Wholesome look at a large family with the parents as sufficiency experts. It even had the dad die of the heart attack and the family moving forward from it. The only thing the Steve Martin remake had in common was the title.
This video was very interesting! The way those two worked together and their back and forth communicating was both fun and entertaining.
#PleaseMona 🙏
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Thanks to you, tonight, I will fall asleep a bit less dumb than when I woke up this morning !! ;-) Extremely interesting, perfect format.
#pleasemona Let Phil and Coleman continue this series. I've never been so entranced by a historical video
#PleaseMona PLEAAASEEE LET THEM DO MORE OF THESE
they're way fun and informative than my college professors used to show us....
#PleaseMona This series needs to keep going on, Phil and Coleman in their individual series are great, but together are awesome.
Very amazing Show
#pleasemona allow Phil Edwards and Coleman Lowndes and other special guests to create more incredible videos like this. I really enjoyed the presentation! #VoxCreativity #HistoryClub 👍👍
I wish they had used footage from the 1950s movie instead of the crappy slapstick 2000s remake.
That is exactly what I came on to say. That movie was based on the actual book.
insert “Old man yells at cloud” meme here
@@jesslynch94 is it old man yelling if I am young and the old movie actually gave an accurate explanation of their life?
No it has more to do with the fact that the Steve Martin movie had nothing to do with the people they were discussing while the 1950's version was based on the books
maishi AMEN
#PLEASEMONA Let them make more; If they EFFICIENTLY use their time of course!
I loved it, guys! Keep going with it.
#pleasemona I love how chill the vibe was but I really learned a lot! This was great
I’m an industrial engineering and engineer management major and this video speaks to me spiritually
The Gilbreth marriage and their work are famous for Industrial Engineering, their basically set what are the basic 16 movements of the body.
This is great! Love the content. Is there a certain hashtag by which we can find these kinds of videos? Thank you
Wow I thought I was the only one that like studying this stuff, this gives me hope for humanity.
#pleaseMona This is the only way I learn anything about history.
#pleasemona this is an incredible pilot, and I want more content like this!!
#pleasemona make them make this often...this is incredible!!!
#pleasemona this was an interesting way of presentation a topic that I was clueless about. I truly enjoyed it.
Wonderful story; very enlightening and inspiring. Thanks!
This video was amazing. The starting was slow but it had a lot of information to present. Great job guys. Ill be checking the series.
President Trump >>>> vox
Love it!
They lived in my hometown for a while too. Loved this.
#pleasemona This was great! Nice work guys, looking forward to more
Neglected to mention the delightful 1950s movie cheaper by the dozen about their life and the equally delightful sequel with bells on their toes. About how Lillian turned her life around after her husband's death. Of course they're both based on me autobiographical books by their children.
Thanks for this video. Having studied Shewhart/Demming cycle to TPS and Kaizen; I, having fun, apply these to getting ready for work, getting in and out of vehicles, jobs etc., realized I had not gone back far enough. Found out Frederick Taylor is the father of management science and there was a history between Taylor and the Gilbreths. Taylor said he wanted to eliminate underproduction so people could live richer lives and the Gilbreths surgery layout, created similar to the bricklayers, which pissed off Drs, saved thousands of lives. Thanx
Really great program! Thanks a lot for all this vulgarisation.
Awesome video!
If you haven't read "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, you really should! They're a fascinating family.
#pleasemona
Sarah Smith I read it as a child. Incredible story!
Yes! Read the book and then watch the marvelous 1950 movie with Clifton Webb.
#PleaseMona! This is definitely something a lot of would like to see and, oh boy, I did learned something interesting that I knew nothing about, hahaha!
#PleaseMona let Phil & Cole keep making these very cool informative videos. Thank you.
Mona they need to create more content! That staff is great!
Great use of montage... Something fresh in video making... As the story was unfolding, it grew more and more interesting...
#PleaseMona let Phil & Cole indulge us forever and ever with their fascinating finds 🙏 (My first YT comment 😊)
A very interesting way to tell a story. Hope the pilot gets picked up 👍
That was awesome
The original "cheaper by the dozen" movie, from the 50s, had the father die.
Wasnt he also a time and motion analyst? I seem to remember a scene where he times the quickest way to button up his waistcoat
@@puffinpaladin6329 yeah. the scene I remember is him explaining the fastast way to take a bath?
I highly recommend reading Cheaper by the Dozen! It’s a hilarious heartwarming book written by two of the Gilbreth children.
Wow, so does this makes Lillian the mother of User Experience?
Great show, looking forward for the next episode!
I wish they spent more time talking about the tricks they used to raise their kids. Like they would have informative posters all over the house so they'd learn while doing tasks like brushing their teeth
Wow, pretty different from a normal Vox video, but still really good! More, please! #pleasemona
#PleaseMona Interesting topics and cool format. Let them keep making this!!!
This is so cool
I live in the town the Gilbreth's lived in NJ. They were wonderful people. #pleasemona let these guys continue to do such wonderful video!