| Work, Work, Work | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 964 |
| Catalog #: | 372126 | |
| Clip Number: | 372126-1 | |
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| Year Shot: | 1963 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | BUSINESS: Offices | |
| Description: | High shot of people walking towards a distant doorway -- lots of people going to work. Reverse shot of same type scene - working class men, mostly, but some women. Various shots of people walking towards the camera. It could be a factory entrance at end or beginning of day. 01:02:19 CU factory smokestack steaming against blue sky, then wider shot, revealing oil refinery rig with dramatic blue sky and clouds behind. CU worker and Caterpillar diesel engines undergoing testing. He looks up to smoking exhaust pipe. 01:03:11 CU time cards, women and man punching in. One African American man, one suit, but mostly working class people punching and filing their cards. 01:04:01 CU paper in mimeograph machine, "Cuyama News." Man in suit at diagram, explaining something to others. MS man in tie with what look like time cards. CU another man in tie in office, scribbling somethbing. CU woman in horn-rimmed glasses adding up figures on calculator. CU check writing machine, woman's hands putting in blanks and stamping them with amounts. 01:05:30 MS woman at mimeograph machine (?), running off copies of something. CU woman punching figures into calculator, which is not seen. 01:06:12 nice automobile assembly line shots, a production line where the auto body is lowered onto chassis. MS man inspecting the cars as they go by. 01:07:17 MS working class men (some in tin hardhats) receiving paychecks from man in suit at window. CU hand dispensing paychecks. 01:08:11 brief CU man in tin hardhat with clipboard, then high shots of other men walking towards camera. One thumbs his nose at the camera. MS men and a few women walking out of factory at end of day. One African American worker walks into scene. 01:09:45 MS woman in office, putting papers or some sort of brochure on a man's desk - wide shot of sterile office with heavy fluorescent lighting: the kind of modern office that was popular in the 1950s. More office interiors including cubicles, and what looks like the executive suite with a busy man on the phone. Sign says "1963 Rockwell-Standard Opinion Survey." 01:11:11 MS men at conference table. Secretary at desk and CU over shoulder to phone with lots of lines. Boss and secretary talking, two men talking. More corporate interiors, from cubicles in large common office to private offices. 01:12:55 LS woman at desk through front window of office, sign saying "Computer Control Co., Inc." More office interiors. 01:13:33 WS office with lots of desks, tilt up to fluorescent lights on ceiling. CU over woman's shoulder as she types. Same on 317 | |
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