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Title: HOME HELP

Reference number: 9026

Date: 1964*

Director: [filmed by George Gibson]

Sound: sound

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: Fiction

Running time: 5.22 mins

Description: Amateur family comedy in which a mother returns to bed in the morning to sleep off a hangover, while her daughter dreams about doing the housework for her.

Film-maker was George Gibson, a keen amateur and a member of a cine club in Dundee at the time.

Shotlist: woman with hangover wakes up and gets out of bed in morning - she wakes up her son and daughter in their bunk beds - family at breakfast table, children eating Rice Krispies, mother holding a jar of Anadin painkillers - father comes into kitchen and offers mother a bottle of whisky - father and son leave kitchen and depart from house (1.17) clock on wall shows 8.30 - mother and daughter go back to bed, mother sleeps and daughter reads book - daughter creeps out of bedroom, goes downstairs, plays with toys, sweeps living room - she goes into kitchen and clears table and washes dishes - she prepares a tray with a plate of Rice Krispies, finds an empty milk jug and bottle in the fridge, then pours whisky on the cereal - she removes a cushion from under the tray and the whisky bottle falls on the floor and smashes - upstairs, the mother and daughter wake up with a start - animated end title - END (5.22)