CF254

Record ID: 180933
  • Title: CF254
  • Date:1950s
  • Summary: 01:12:30 - 01:16:07
    Opening credits. Catherine Boyle (Katie Boyle plays the newly wed wife)
    MS pan left suburban houses / street. MS int bedroom, 1950s woman dressing. Newlyweds. Woman sitting at dressing table - brushing hair. Angry man / husband looking under bed. Argument / domestic - criticism of her cleaning / housewife duties: "where's my clean socks?" "Do you call this collar ironed?"

    01:16:07 - 01:19:47
    1950s housewife in kitchen - apron, angry. MS woman scrubbing / plotting floor sat bottom of stairs - comical moment as husband tries to get by - argument. Husband sitting at table in kitchen - newspaper, breakfast. Wife hits him over head with ladder - face in bowl of porridge. MS wife dusting picture rail on ladder in hall - husband struggles to get by. Wife knocked off ladder.

    01:19:47 - 01:22:25
    Nosey neighbour - listening to argument outside house, open window. MS husband calling doctor on telephone. Nosey neighbours - watching as doctor arrives - gossiping over fence "No!" Husband off to work ( office ) - wife; kiss goodbye ( arm in sling ) - he bumps into ladder.

    01:22:25 - 01:28:18
    Nosey neighbour - vs shots as she demonstrates the Hoover brand washing machine. Plugged into tap. Young woman / wife / newlywed watching. CU washing powder put into swirling water, CU clothes washing. Spin dryer; CU clothes put in. Dry clothes taken out.

    01:28:18 - 01:32:24
    "Feel!" - dry clothes out of dryer. Second nosey neighbour arrives at house. Hoover cleaner - picture rail. Vs shots Hoover vacuum cleaner cleaning carpet. Demonstration bottom / underside of vacuum. BCU vacuum - carpet gently lifting carpet. Hoover / vacuum flattened to clean under sofa. MS paper bag taken out of vacuum - zip. Attachment demonstration - cleaning awkward places - crevices, buttons, stairs.
  • TYPE:Historical
  • DATE:1950s
  • GENRE:
  • SOURCE:Filemaker
  • Decade:
  • Colour:Colour
  • Keywords:UK, DOMESTIC APPLIANCES, HOOVER PRODUCTS, TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE, SEXISM, CHAUVINISM, MARRIED LIFE, 50S HOUSEWIFE, SUBURBIA, NEWLYWED COUPLE, ARGUMENT, NOSEY NAEIGHBOUR
  • Master Title:CF254
  • Segment:19
  • Sound:Sound
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