Cleaning Time: The Janitorial Contingency

Cleaning Time: The Janitorial Contingency is a 2005 comedy brickfilm and community project co-ordinated by Doug James and Joshua Leasure and directed by Tom Dean. The film is about two janitors who accidentally activate a time machine that sends them to the year 12,345 AD. It was the first community project on Brickfilms.com to be completed, and features contributions from 22 animators, writers, voice actors and other artists.

Cast

 * James Jannicelli as Phil
 * Tony Guerrie as Eddie
 * Libby Clarke as Time Machine
 * Billy Gribbin as Alien 1, Alien 2, Technician 1, Technician 2
 * Joshua Leasure as Hal the Anchorbot, Ryan
 * Chris Salt as Shopkeeper
 * Tom Dean as Bob

Crew

 * Tom Dean - Creator, Writer, Animation Director, Animation
 * Jeffrey Leary - Animation, SFX Artist, Unused Music
 * James Jannicelli - Animation
 * David West - Writer, Animation
 * Kristian Sandberg - Animation
 * Logan Wright - Writing Assistant, Animation
 * Joshua Leasure - Writer, Editor, SFX Artist, Music, Animation, Executive Producer
 * Doug James - Writer, Executive Producer
 * Daniel "Idiotless" Ernst - Writing Assistant
 * Jonathan "Lewa11" Kaplan - Writing Assistant
 * Skye "Legotronn" Tronn - Writing Assistant
 * Joel Haas - Writing Assistant
 * Michael J. Green - 3D Animation
 * Robinson Wood - Music
 * Chaz "Chazmanda" Griffith - Music
 * Brandon "Proteus Xero" Pratt - Music
 * Stefan van Zwam - Special Thanks
 * Nick Maniatis - Special Thanks

Production
The idea of a community project was inspired by Jason Rowoldt's Director's Project from 2001. In the Director's Project, brickfilmers who put their names down were grouped into fours to create a co-production, in which the first filmer produced the first minute and the second produced a minute continuing on from that minute, and so on. Two such films were created out of this project. Doug James had felt that the Director's Project was chaotic and did not produce particularly memorable films due to lacking any sort of planning or scripting, and in 2003 he began talking to new Brickfilms.com owner Joshua Leasure about reviving the Director's Project as a new entity, the Community Project.

On June 18, 2003, Joshua Leasure announced that Doug James and himself had been developing the plan for the community project, and that he had created a new sub-forum for community projects. James was appointed as executive officer of community projects and on the same day, he posted the thread "Community Project", outlining his plan for the community to make films together in four separate teams: Script, Storyboard, Sound, and Animation. It was initially stated that animation may or may not be a team effort as it was the hardest stage.

References to other brickfilms
Cleaning Time contains multiple references to other brickfilms and members of the brickfilming community. The news ticker in the year 12,345 mentions the eventual release of Jay Silver's pirate film, a film with an infamously lengthy production time that was never completed. The names of the stocks also incorporate various references: "BRCKFLMS" (Brickfilms.com), "YLOHD" (Stefan "Yellowhead" van Zwam), "PRTWRX" (Stephen "Protowrxs" Nolen), and "BLNTMTN" (Nate "Bluntmation" Burr). "BROCK" and "MB" are likely references to the characters Mr. Brock and MB from Stephen Nolen's film The Factory Fix.

The scene in the ancient history museum shows several displays that reference other brickfilms. The "Eindhoven Man" exhibit features a caveman from the Great Inventors films by Stefan van Zwam, and is also named after Stefan's hometown. The "Parliament 2053" exhibit shows Ned Kelly from Nick Maniatis' films wielding a halberd, and the next shot features a screen in the wall playing The Battle of New Orleans by Joshua Leasure.