The First Time a Toilet Was Flushed in a Movie
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The 1960 movie “Pyscho” is thought to be the first movie where a toilet is shown being flushed. The momentous flushing took place just before Janet Leigh’s character takes a shower and subsequently gets stabbed to death.
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Actually, the first flushing toilet was in the movie “Grapes of Wrath” in 1940
Yes, but that was only the sound of a flushing toilet. Psycho was the first movie to show it.
A plumber is shown flushing a toilet in the pre-Code Joe E. Brown film “Going Wild” from 1930.