| Catalog Merchandising | ||
|---|---|---|
| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 592 |
| Catalog #: | 315768 | |
| Clip Number: | 315768-3 | |
| Orginal Film: | BHC 26 | |
| Timecode: | 06:02:35 - 06:05:36 | |
| Location: | Various | |
| Year Shot: | 1965 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | BUSINESS: Communications COMPUTERS: Business LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA | |
| Description: | Panning TLS Montgomery Ward catalog house in Kansas City. MS/CUs orders being processed, given numbers, sorted, price verification, sales tabulation (duties performed exclusively by white women). Panning TLS data center, large IBM data processing computers & machines all about. MSs customers at catalog desk of Wards retail outlet. Panning ECU data entry keyboard -- Order No, Order Prefix, Department, Catalog Key, Article No, Quantity. MCU/CUs women entering order into keyboard, typing on keys. CUs punch-coded ticker tape printing, then torn off; ticker punch is then loaded onto machine for transmission. TLS computer room, two men in black slacks & white dress shirts milling about. MCU six line rotary phone being dialed. MSs men in computer room taking ticker tape from machine, loading it onto processing machine. Panning TLS computer room. MS/CUs big ugly IBM printer printing out orders. MS/CUs orders traveling along conveyors to processing house. MS man working at IBM teletype machine; CUs lights, dials, buttons, switches on console. | |
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