Interesting video.
No radios of course, as coffin radios were just beginning in the early 1920's.
These people had no concept of safety. "Mrs Wise" was risking losing her fingers to the washing machine, and her frilly dress could easily have been ripped off in front of the visitor. The hot soldering iron dangling from the ceiling was another safety hazard. And the equipment did not seem to have an earth - just two wires. Edison cared more about money than safety.
I noticed the maid looked Caucasian, meaning it probably came from New York which had a fledgling movie industry at the time, or some other more progressive northern state.