Domestics Unlimited (1961)
M, S of Malcolm Taylor sitting at a desk in an office and talking on the telephone and making notes; he hangs up, takes his notes and a briefcase and walks out of shot. M, Ss as we see him walk up to a large house in St John s Wood, London, and ring on the doorbell; a lady answers the door and lets him in. Commentator tells us that Malcolm is an actor, and has set up an agency called Domestics Unlimited for actors between engagements; a kind of homehelp agency, the duties can mean anything from housework to babysitting. M, Ss of Malcolm taking off his jacket and putting on a frilly apron, then going outside to scrub the doorstep. C, U of a young actress, writer, Bernadette Milne, sitting at a table and typing; M, S as we see Malcolm sweeping the floor around her with a rollersweeper. C, U of Bernadette typing then looking over her typewriter to check Malcolm s work. M, S and C, U of another resting actor, Graham Larkin, polishing a tiled floor in a bathroom he too wears a rather feminine apron.
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