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{{Filmjr |title=Time Out for Trouble |embid=0851_Time_Out_for_Trouble_03_00_56_04 |embsv=archiveorg |desc=Illustrates the most common accidents causing serious injury in the home and explains that mental attitudes are the real cause of the trouble. Suggests a course of action to eliminate such injuries.|forma=16mm |year=1961 |up=Boredom at Work|next=|prev=|step= |lang=English |pbrs=University of Oklahoma, General Services - Extension Division |heldby=PA |len=19:30 |link= |bw= |ani= |ewid= }} == More Details == One of a series of films on emotional problems in business, industry, and life itself. == Shot List == 03:01:08:28 Peaceful couple sleeping in bed striped by early morning beams of sunlight peaking through the curtains; audio track with mellow smooth Jazz guitar music and prominent ticking clock. 03:01:12:16 CU woman in bed asleep on her side; nice early morning light. Ticking clock in audio track. 03:01:19:23 CU Bald man in his early forties asleep with one arm behind his head; well lit by soft early morning light. Alarm clock visible on nightstand off side of bed. Audio track ticking alarm clock. 03:01:25:01 VS two preteen brothers fast asleep sharing a bed looking very peaceful. Nice early morning light. Younger of the two boys furthest from camera begins to wake; CU young by in pajamas begins to wake up in early morning light, but closes his eyes and goes back to sleep. 03:01:46:09 Slow zoom in on peaceful looking dog asleep on doormat taking in early morning sunlight; suddenly alarm clock goes off and another clock's cacophonous low sounding bell begins to sound; dog quickly lifts head and looks backward. 03:01:53:15 VS eerie zoom in on old-fashioned pendulum clock on wall which is ringing its bell on the hour. Good use of chiaroscuro to create frightening horror movie effect. Blurry ghostlike face appears over the face of the clock. Audio track plays grating music intensifying the frightening scene. Eyes of the apparition superimposed over the face of the clock rapidly look right and left. Ghost speaks: 'this time that hussy Jane's gone too far�.me a treasured heirloom, a present from her husband's own mother. Well, she�ll live to regret it. Time takes care of so many things, especially when you are a specialist in time like I am. But Jane will never suspect, she just won't understand why she's having so much trouble, because its all going to be completely accidental [ghost gives creepy laugh]� 03:04:08:06 MS old-fashioned pendulum driven clock with ornate woodwork casing. 03:04:10:01 Woman in dress vacuuming carpet in living room. 03:04:14:04 VS two young boys running through living room playing with toy guns. CU mother stops vacuuming and in angry fit starts yelling at the boys in heavy Oklahoman or southern accent: �Get out of here with that dart gun you know I don't allow those things in this house, get out of here!�; woman trips on vacuum's cord and falls to the ground and immediately reaches for her back moaning in pain; CU woman wincing in pain groaning on the carpet floor. 03:04:35:02 CU woman's face winces in pain; LS old doctor sits beside woman in suit and stethoscope around his neck as her husband stands beside the doctor. 03:04:50:07 CU brunette woman lays on pillow with eyes shut suffering. 03:05:21:03 Tall lanky man walking on snow-covered sidewalk; CU man's feet slipping on icy sidewalk, man falls on his bottom. 03:05:24:21 CU inside medicine chest. Bottle of Old Spice after shave and iodine among other bottles; CU unlabeled pill bottom taken from medicine chest. 03:05:27:13 CU man's feet in black dress shoes climbing ladder. Third rung of ladder breaks under his weight and man falls. 03:05:30:29 CU Pot covered on stovetop with steam coming out of the edges between pot and cover. 03:05:33:18 Low angle woman grabs bowel and walks into handle of bowling pot of water; CU bowling pot of water falling off stove, scorching woman's legs. 03:05:38:03 CU woman with both hands on her temples wincing in pain. 03:05:49:27 VS man in white sweater works under hood of car in auto garage; LS blonde man with crew cut leaning against wall watches man work on his car; blonde man badgers the auto-mechanic; the mechanic goes to punch the man but misses punching the brick wall with his bare hand; CU hand punches brick wall. Narration on audio track: ��he didn't like anyone calling him a grease monkey, and he certainly didn't know how to handle his feelings.� 03:06:16:29 VS middle-age woman in kitchen stands deep in thought fidgeting with her wedding ring on her finger; CU woman playing with wedding band on her finger; narration on audio track: 'that ring's a simple for Martha, a symbol for everything she hoped she�d find in marriage� CU man rolls a glass between his hands, wedding band visible on finger; man stops and reaches for bottle of booze and fills up glass; audio track narrates: �only fool that she is, human as she is, she married Jeff Hoover, and Jeff's first love was always the bottle, so Martha waits and home and twists her ring.� 03:06:42:06 CU man's hand taps nervously on counter. 03:06:44:05 CU woman's eyes crying. 03:06:49:12 CU man's feet kicking dirt angrily. 03:06:52:21 CU man's mouth yawning. 03:06:58:12 CU hand doodling on page. Money symbol and other doodles. 03:07:03:14 CU woman's mouth with lipstick on lips nervously bites bottom lip. 03:07:09:27 CU cute little girl with blonde hair chews her finger nails. 03:07:26:23 CU 1950s to 1960s style wall clock reads 7:25. 03:07:26:26 Woman stands in kitchen waiting, checks her wrist watch and turns to cutting board and begins chopping up a head of lettuce, looks up again, walks away from counter running into bowling pot on stove burning her legs. 03:07:47:03 CU man in suit shot from neck down pouring alcohol into glass; MS man takes drink out of glass. 03:08:04:16 Sequence of shots objectifying woman's body begins with narration: �Back when he was younger, he got all in a swived over her, well over part of her anyway� CU woman 's legs in skirt and wearing high heels walking down brick sidewalk; CU woman's breasts in sweater; CU woman's bare shoulders while dancing with a man; CU woman's neck while laughing. 03:08:20:22 Silhouette of man and women kissing in passionate embrace on couch; slowly the slink down into lying position. 03:08:32:17 CU woman with wedding ring on holding man's hand places wedding band on his finger; narration over shot: 'so they were married.� 03:08:39:18 CU record reads �Wang-Wang Blues- Fox Trot (Mueller - Johnson - Busse; Paul Whiteman and His Ambassador Orchestra�; hand places record on record player. 03:08:42:03 CU hand holding card stamped with words �Insufficient Funds�, narration on audio track 'she didn't have anything in that pretty head of hers but buckwheat pattern.� CU woman's hand replaces empty chocolate wrapper in box of chocolates on armrest of couch. 03:08:48:26 CU woman's hand opens magazine to article which reads �My Husband Called Me �Easy�� 03:09:04:01 Man's exists bar with glass windows covered in Coors beer logos. 03:09:11:14 LS of cars parked in front of liquor store with neon sign �West Side Beer Lockers.� 03:09:19:13 Middle-age man in suit and hat walks into street; CU car headlamp coming toward camera; man is hit by car. 03:09:26:05 VS man in suit and hat walking with a cane arm in arm with wife wearing white gloves leaving hospital. 03:09:40:13 CU woman in shower with shower cap on. 03:09:47:22 CU Phone with rotary dial rings. 03:09:49:11 CU two wet hands in shower turn of hot and cold water faucets in shower; woman in shower cap and towel pulls back shower curtain to exit shower, slips and falls on wet floor. 03:10:06:05 VS man in leather jacket enters kitchen and sees wife bent over scrubbing counter; man smacks woman in the butt making the woman bang her head on the open cupboard door; CU man laughs; CU woman's bleeding forehead. 03:10:34:11 Woman writhing in pain on floor. 03:10:42:01 Disconcerted woman lying in bed awake, closes eyes and tosses and turns trying to sleep. 03:10:56:09 CU pendulum clock on wall with ghost face superimposed over faces of clock. Ghost in clock speaks �After all you only have to pay attention to three simple rules to put an end to accidents in any time.� 03:11:02:28 Great special effect of words �Face your feelings� being written in cursive on white wall in black; the words on wall vanish and are replaced with �Beware of Boredom� written in cursive on wall, followed by words �Watch for Danger.� 03:11:58:16 CU Clock with ghost's face superimposed on face of clock. Ghost on clock says �Now that's all there is to it. But how many humans are smart enough to follow the rules.� 03:12:08:04 VS 1950s housewife vacuuming, stops to run hand through hair; CU agitated woman with hands on head 03:12:42:11 VS CU woman's hands sewing on sewing machine. MS woman sewing on a Singer sewing machine. 03:13:05:20 Camera pans from mother telling the kids to get out to zooming in on clock on shelf in living room; CU clock with ghost face reflected on the glass face of the clock. Ghost says �Jane wasn't that smart though, so now she has a wrenched back and she�ll have more when I am through with her; call me an eye sore will she.� 03:13:20:08 CU blurry shot of woman asleep in bed, suddenly wakes up and yelling from a nightmare; * husband shoots up and turns on lamp: * Husband says to frazzled wife 'take it easy, what is it? You must have been having a nightmare.� * Wife �It only was a dream; no you can't imagine its that clock in the living room.� * �You know we�ve been over that confounded clock a dozen times, we can't get rid of it, my mother would have a fit.� * �But it's alive, talking to me, taunting to me, it hates me, that's why I had this accident. It says I�ll keep on having them.� * �Must be those pills the doctor's gave you. You�re just imagining things.� * �No Mel, that clock talks, it did, it did.� 03:14:12:19 CU clock with ghost face covering the face of the clock says: ''�He's so right of course, but she won't get anyone to believe her, and by the time she is up and about, she won't be sure of anything herself but she will keep having accidents, she can count on that.�'' 03:14:32:16 VS brunette woman in profile combing her hair. Narration on audio track: �Well Jane, it's good to see you up, can't get you done until you�re up you know. Now we need to set the stage for that next accident, make it seem properly accidental.� 03:14:51:00 Man enters bedroom tying his tie and says to his wife �What's going on around here this morning, aren't you going to get me any breakfast?� MS wife angrily responds �Well your majesty, maybe it's about time you got your own breakfast.!� 03:15:23:07 CU woman says �I must be crazy�� 03:15:34:21 CU hand flips on light switch. 03:15:37:09 Brunette woman in night gown enters hallway shaking her head., hesitates for a moment; CU woman patting cute black dog looking up at her �You crazy dog, do you want someone to fall over you?� 03:15:54:03 Woman cleaning kitchen counter opens cupboard to put away cups and box falls out of cupboard just missing her head. CU woman sighs and shakes her head. 03:16:10 :03 CU hand dialing phone on rotary dial. MS woman on phone. �Hi Madge. This is Jane. Say why don't you come over and have a cup of coffee with me. I have been cleaning this house all day and I am just about to go out of my mind. OK, say bring that new�� Woman hangs up phone, looking exhausted she leans against the wall and rubs her forehead. 03:16:51:00 CU clock with ghost face saying �Why I don't believe it. Don't tell that girl's beginning to use her head. Well, I�ll get her yet.� 03:17:03:14 VS black dog barking at black cat in tree. 03:17:39:02 CU of clock with reflecting of woman saying: 'so there you old eye sore, aren't you disappointed� then sticks our her tongue. 03:17:47:09 Pendulum clock on brick wall reads 9:00 03:17:58:00 VS two young boys in pajamas run into living room playing with toy guns. 03:18:08:15 Glass cover over clock hung on brick wall is shattered. 03:18:14:22 Ghost face superimposed over clock on brick wall speaks: ''"My springs, my gears, my face, oh boy was I such a fool, I am as bad as that stupid female Jane. Worse even because I knew better. But I hated her so, I didn't even take my own advice. I let my feelings run away with me, just as if I were human . So now there will be another clock here taking my place"'' 03:19:07:16 Round clock on brick wall read 12:00. Text superimposed on shot: "to Avoid Accidents: Face Your Feelings! Beware of Boredom! Watch for Danger!"

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