Switch, The
Identifier
F.2005-01-0390
Date Of Production
1961
Date Of Production
1961
Abstract
In this amateur domestic comedy by Chicago’s Metro Movie Club, housewives use 16mm film to outwit their horny husbands.
The Switch won an Award of Merit from the Toronto Movie Club and was selected for screening at the Photographic Society of America’s 1961 convention.
The Switch won an Award of Merit from the Toronto Movie Club and was selected for screening at the Photographic Society of America’s 1961 convention.
Abstract
In this short in the Margaret Conneely Collection, we get a slapstick comedy of trust and commitment between husbands and wives, as both wives uncovered that both their husbands have been looking through a porno magazine. Within time and great comedy pace, the women teach their husbands a lesson.
Description
Description
We start with a title card of the film, cut to a medium shot of two couples playing cards, both the women get up and leave to go to the kitchen. We cut to a closer shot of the two husbands watching to see if their wives left the room, one of them pulls out a porno magazine for them to look at. We cut continuously to a closeup shot to see the pages of naked women in the magazine, and back to the husbands agreeing fondly of their desires. We cut to a medium shot of one of the wives approaching the living room with a pot of tea to notice what they are looking at and is in shock of horror without them noticing. We cut to her back in the kitchen talking to the wife about what she just saw, to the other wife not believing her. We cut back to the living room with the husbands, noticing that the wives are approaching the husband hides the magazine in his suit pocket. They all sit down in the same shot to have a cup of tea, we cut with time passing and for one of the couples to leave the others home, they then say their goodbyes. Next, we cut to another day, we get medium shots of the wives talking to one another on the phone, one of them is holding onto a film reel tray. We cut to the other woman being now in the same kitchen as the one with the film reel, both laugh and puts the film reel in a package. We cut to a medium shot to time later in the day pass by with the husband in the kitchen holding onto the mail, we see that he has the package containing the film reel. We see on the same frame of the phone in the kitchen of the husband calling the other husband to come over to his house. We cut to later that day in a medium shot of the husband greeting the other couple to his place again. The women leave to go to the kitchen, the husband shows the other that he has a film reel which he anticipates being a stag porno film, he hides the reel back in his robe as the wives’ approach back to the living room. We are in the same medium frame as everyone in the living room, the husband makes a quick remark that the film might not be of interest to the women, the women agree and leave the house. The husband sets up the film on the projector and turns off the light. We cut to closeups of the husband’s reaction to watching the porno, then to the film they are watching. We get a medium shot of two women behind a folding panel taking off their bras, cutting back to the husbands looking excited. We cut back to the folding panel shot of the women approaching out of it and relieves that it’s the wives looking straight at the camera that they caught them in the act. We cut back to a medium shot of the husbands seeing in shock and embarrassment of the being caught. We cut back to the wives on film giving each other a high five and fades out to credits. Fade out.
Run Time
6 min 18 sec
Format
16mm
Extent
250 feet
Color
Color
Sound
Mag Stripe
Reel/Tape Number
1/1
Has Been Digitized?
Yes
Language Of Materials
English
Language Of Materials
English
Element
Print
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Genre
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Main Credits
Conneely, Margaret (is filmmaker)
Metro Movie Club (is production company)
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Main Credits
Conneely, Margaret (is director)
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Participants And Performers
Zorn, Hans (is actor)
Engels, Bruce (is actor)
Herron, Irma (is actor)
Holch, Kathy (is actor)
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