- Title: CF254
- Date:1950s
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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