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Title: HUSTLE OF SPRING, the

Reference number: 3811

Date: 1941

Director: filmed by Frank Marshall

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 17.35 mins

Description: The film shows the chaos of a mother trying to spring clean her house and all the things that go wrong.

Shotlist: title credit (0.18) Alarm clock showing 6.30am, man still in bed (0.36) Mother Spring cleaning (1.21) woman entering door, children greet the woman (1.57) At table having tea (2.15) Father still in bed (2.22) maid preparing breakfast, and father waking up (2.34) Father gets up at 8.30am, maid eats her breakfast (2.54) mother gets a fright from a spider, maid kills it with her fork (3.21) father comes down to the kitchen to get water (4.00) Children leave for school (4.06) Women preparing to polish floor (4.23) Father shaves, woman beats the rug, dust makes father sneeze (5.42) Boy plays with toy, mother begins to polish floor and boy turns off the power, father gets newspaper to read (7.01) Father walks in door and jams maid's fingers, she resigns (8.01) Mother looks through old photographs (8.22) father gets ready to go out but has problems finding things in the mess (9.29) Mother is cooking but cooker is switched off (9.57) mother trying to polish the floor but she keeps getting interrupted, [image of clock overlay] (11.12) Children return home, boy hurts his knee (12.09) Mother takes uncooked dinner out of the oven, and phones a repair man (12.25) Boy remembers and switches electricity back on, all the machines begin to work (13.35) Mother takes a telephone call from a woman having a manicure smoking a cigarette (14.12) woman (in fur coat), chauffeur and dog arrive at the house, mother still in her cleaning clothes answers the door, woman leaves (15.13) Mother looks in mirror at her dirty face, a blind man (?) rings bell, mother fixes her hair and make-up before answering door - he is selling shoe laces (16.10) Clock shows 2.54pm mother fixes room and sits down (16.45) Father returns home (16.51) children jumping on bed (16.57) children put a hole in the ceiling, mother and father covered in dust (17.19) The End (17.35)