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Short informational or educational film 1960's about secretaries and their role in the workplace, an inexperienced young secretary in training asks questions of the male narrator throughout the film. Sexist overtones throughout - women are all referred to as girls despite their ages.
The outside of a large glass fronted office building, secretaries walking into the building. Smartly dressed women walk through the revolving doors of the Hartford Building, experienced secretary or female office worker Joan, a middle-aged woman with blonde hair, walks up to the front of the building and enters. Joan is now in an office building, behind her is an empty typing pool, rows of desks with type writers all with their covers on in the background, she puts her coat and bag in a cupboard or wardrobe and heads to her desk, she wears a bright pink two piece outfit.
Joan walks to her desk and sits down, she removes the cover from her typewriter or typing machine and places it neatly away - she is the first one in the office to prepare for her boss or managers day. Joan sitting at her desk, she picks up a fountain pen from a holder and uses index cards and a filofax to write down appointments for the day. Joan opens the drawer and places a memorandum card in the typewriter. Joan types up the memorandum. Close up of letters being punched out on the memorandum card, excellent shot of the card being whisked out of the typewriter by a woman's hand.
Joan walking into the office of her supervisor and placing the card on the desk. Joan looks at the diary or calendar on the desk and alters her memorandum card by hand. A dictabelt style dictation or Dictaphone machine on the desk, Joan removes the dictation tape and places a new one in the machine, she prints off the notation slip. Joan places the dictation belt into her own transcribing machine and listens to the dictation with headphones on, as she is about to start typing the telephone rings and Joan immediately answers it. Excellent shot of Joan picking up the receiver and speaking on the telephone. Good close up of appointments being written in a timestamped diary with a fountain pen - Joan is rearranging the appointments for her boss.
Joan puts her phone down. Boss arrives, a middleaged man in a suit, he places a briefcase or suitcase down on the desk in front of Joan and chats to her - she shows him the altered appointments. Boss nodding in agreement, he hands a report to Joan. Joan takes the report from her boss and immediately begins going through it. Joan now standing in the typing pool with several young women sat at their desks, she is showing the report to a younger secretary or typist called Sally, good shot showing managerial stance as Joan leans over Sally's shoulder to tell her about report.
Great low angle shot of young woman using typewriter. Joan is handed a pile of letters or mail by a man. Joan sorts the envelopes or letters into several piles on her desk. Joan uses a letter opening machine to guillotine the edges of the envelopes. A dating machine is used to stamp the date onto an envelope. Joan then answers some of the routine letters herself, excellent shots of someone underlining text in a letter, circling items, stapling etc.
Joan greets a male visitor to the office. She introduces him to her manager (she is not thanked), the men then continue talking. Joan returns to her desk and looks up information in a large reference folder of prices. Feeding paper into type writer. Close up of keys being punched on typewriters. Young woman taking over Joan's desk whilst Joan is at lunch.
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