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1 videodisc : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
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DVD. |
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Title from container. |
| Summary |
Features contains five job-related shorts produced in the 1940s and 50s. America Looks Ahead, made right after World War II, has radio newscaster Lowell Thomas reflecting on where America is heading. The overall point is that business needs money and that's what post-war America also needs, so be patriotic and do some investing! You and Your Work shows how a vocational guidance counselor helps a young man who has just lost his job to change his attitude. That's Not My Job discusses the importance of training each employee to understand his role and his relationship to other employees. |
| Contents |
America looks ahead (20 min.) -- Design for selling (1953, 38 min.) -- You and your work (1948, 11 min.) -- How to keep a job (1949, 12 min.) -- That's not my job (1967, 25 min.) |
| Note |
America Looks Ahead (b&w), made right after World War II, has radio newscaster LOWELL THOMAS reflecting on where America has come from and where it's heading, emphasizing business, business, and more business. But what makes this 20-minute short so great is that most of it is illustrated with some amazing and varied stock shots -- everything from giant factories and assembly lines to research labs and antique patent models. (Hey, look, it's the world's first typewriter!) Thomas also introduces us to Dr. NEIL CARRUTHERS and, folks, there's nothing quite like the hypnotic spectacle of being lectured to by a man with a giant mouth. Of course, the overall point is that business needs money and that's what post-war America also needs. |
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Design for Selling (b&w), a 38-minute mini-movie made by Johnson & Johnson, demonstrates how a business must keep pace with modern times. Old man Higgins runs an old-fashioned pharmacy -- so old fashioned that he has trouble attracting new customers. Enter his son Dave, fresh from the Army, who wants to join Dad in business except Dave wants to change the store into "the hottest thing in town" while Dad resists "all this modern hocus pocus." Troubled, the old fart walks around town, sees how the rest of post-war America is selling and, sure enough, realizes he must enter the mad, modern world of 1953! |
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You and Your Work (color) is the 1948 saga of high-school student Frank Taylor who gets a job in a local shoe store and immediately hates it: "All I did was put shoes away!" He comes in late, gets angry at customers, and is eventually fired: "The shoe business was no good!" So Frank goes to his school guidance counselor for help getting work and the counselor suggests the exact same job at the exact same shoe store! Zowie. Together, they discuss why Frank flopped and, you guessed it, Frank Taylor soon becomes the Best Damn Salesman in all America! |
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How To Keep a Job (color) takes the above short a step further by giving us "identical twins" Bob and Walter Anderson. Through the motion-picture miracle of special effects, we see Bob do well at work, while Wally goofs off. |
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That's Not My Job (color) takes us into the workplace of 1967 where Dan first does too much at work at the office, then not enough. Trying to impress his boss, gung-ho Dan butts into the work of his fellow workers to the extent that the boss tells Dan to cool it. So Dan does and, like a sulking brat, does only his work and won't lift a finger to help anyone else. But, hey, Dan's also a volunteer fireman and soon learns all about "The Cooperation Zone" and, yes, "The Overlap Zone." |
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United States -- Civilization -- 1945-
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United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
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Popular culture -- United States -- 20th century.
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Investments -- United States.
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Job satisfaction.
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Vocational guidance.
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Motivation (Psychology)
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Work -- Psychological aspects.
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Personnel management.
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| Added Author |
Thomas, Lowell, 1892-1981.
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Something Weird Video (Firm)
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| Added Title |
Lifestyles USA. Vol. 23 |
| Music No. |
35656 Something Weird Video |
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