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 home-help agency, the duties can mean anything from housework to baby-sitting. 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 roller-sweeper. 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.