Metadata
WORK ID: NEFA 22517 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
LITTLE SISTER | 1974 | 1974-01-01 |
Details
Original Format: 16mm Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 8 mins 53 secs Credits: Production: Jim Fairweather, Brian Dunckley Cast: Linda Fairweather Genre: Amateur Subject: FAMILY LIFE |
Summary Amateur comedy by Jim Fairweather and Brian Dunckley about a bored young girl who sabotages her big sister’s date with a new boyfriend. |
Description
Amateur comedy by Jim Fairweather and Brian Dunckley about a bored young girl who sabotages her big sister’s date with a new boyfriend.
Credit: Jim Fairweather and Brian Dunckley
Credit: Linda Fairweather
Title: Little Sister
A young girl stares out of her bedroom window, bored on a rainy day.
She peers into her big sister's bedroom where a new outfit is laid out on her bed for a date with her boyfriend. Little sister can't resist playing with the outfit. She holds up the...
Amateur comedy by Jim Fairweather and Brian Dunckley about a bored young girl who sabotages her big sister’s date with a new boyfriend.
Credit: Jim Fairweather and Brian Dunckley
Credit: Linda Fairweather
Title: Little Sister
A young girl stares out of her bedroom window, bored on a rainy day.
She peers into her big sister's bedroom where a new outfit is laid out on her bed for a date with her boyfriend. Little sister can't resist playing with the outfit. She holds up the clothes, admiring herself in a mirror. She begins to dress up in big sister's clothes, ripping the new tights when she pulls them on. She slips on the high heels.
She opens big sister's make-up drawer and tries on a lipstick and blue eyeshadow. She draws in her eyebrows. A final touch is two dots of pink on her cheeks. She then puts on a curly wig resting on a mannequin head on the dressing table. She sprays on too much perfume. Then, she tries on a pearl necklace, rips it on a drawer handle and the pearls scatter all over the floor.
Whilst little sister scrabbles around picking up the pearls, a not very happy big sister arrives in the bedroom. Close-up of her sister's face.
Outside, the sun is now shining. Some boys are playing a Native American Indian game with feather headbands. Little sister tries to join in and is pushed over by one of the boys. They start to throw stones and she runs away. They chase after her through the wood.
Little sister rests against a tree. She spots a feather peaking over the top of a brick wall as someone makes their way along a path on the other side. Thinking it's one of the boys sneaking up on her, she gets a pile of mud from a nearby stream and flings it at the feather as it reaches a gap in the wall. It hits a woman wearing an elegant hat with a feather. She's not happy.
Little sister runs away. She trips over a tree root. Then she spots a single mannequin leg dressed with a stocking laying in the grass.
Back at home, big sister's boy friend arrives with flowers. She takes them away to put in a vase.
Little sister gestures to the boyfriend from the doorway. He follows her into big sister's room, where he discovers an unusual outfit laid out on her bed for the date, including wig, a single mannequin leg, fake eyeballs, conical bra pads. The boyfriend looks shocked and starts to imagine big sister with a peg leg and severe short haircut.
When big sister returns with a tray of coffee, the boyfriend has mysteriously vanished. Big sister sees the outfit combo on her bed.
Big sister looks in on mischievous little sister who is angelically pretending to be asleep, her Womble doll beside her on the bed. When she leaves, little sister opens her eyes and smiles.
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