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BOOKKEEPING AND YOU
AFP-52AZ 16mm VTM-52AZ Beta SP
B W
Educational
1947
00:00:20:00 B W 1947 WS 1947 high school w large overhanging tree across street. 00:00:24:00 B W 1947 CU Sign: 850,000 PEOPLE EMPLOYED AS BOOKKEEPERS, ACCOUNTANTS AND CASHIERS. 00:00:30:00 B W 1947 MS High school hall w students in pairs walking past, some stop to examine sign on wall. 00:00:51:00 B W 1947 MS Students josh & tease one who wants to be a politician, then go to their seats in class. 00:01:25:00 B W 1947 WS Homer Winslow in his father's grocery store bags groceries behind counter as aproned father enters frame, bags too. 00:01:36:00 B W 1947 MS Homer punches figures into cash register for middle-aged lady's grocery purchase. 00:01:44:00 B W 1947 MS Father bags groceries for man, writes total on charge account slip. 00:01:49:00 B W 1947 CU Charge account receipt, sales slip w pencil. 00:01:58:00 B W 1947 MS Father drops slip into bag, customer says goodbye & leaves. 00:02:21:00 B W 1947 MS Father pays handsome, deferential son Homer at cash register. 00:02:29:00 B W 1947 CU Register window: $206.50 ON ACC'T. 00:02:30:00 B W 1947 CU Hands punch in cash register figures. 00:02:30:00 B W 1947 CU Register window: $432.56 TOTAL. 00:02:33:00 B W 1947 CU Register window: $ 5.00 PAID OUT (Homer's salary). 00:02:34:00 B W 1947 CU Hand opens register recording compartment, takes out Z-total. 00:02:39:00 B W 1947 CU Totals on register record slip: x1 0206.50 AL A. x2 0432.56 TL A. x3 0005.00 Pd A. 00:02:48:00 B W 1947 MS Homer watches father get daily figures from register. 00:02:53:00 B W 1947 WS Father & Homer sit at rolltop desk before boxes labelled: YEL, LUX, DREFT and DUZ. 00:03:03:00 B W 1947 MS Seated father talks. 00:03:05:00 B W 1947 CU Handwritten ledger w father's hand, showing check record. 00:03:19:00 B W 1947 CU Invoice from produce company. List of produce: SPINACH, CELERY, STRAWBERRIES ... etc. 00:03:20:00 B W 1947 MS Father & Homer at desk, father lifts down permanent record of daily transactions, dips fountain pen into inkwell. 00:03:31:00 B W 1947 CU Father copies register total into ledger. 00:03:37:00 B W 1947 CU Father copies check stubs into ledger. 00:03:40:00 B W 1947 CU Father copies invoices into ledger. 00:03:52:00 B W 1947 CU Document: PROFIT LOSS STATEMENT FOR 1947. 00:04:25:00 B W 1947 CU Document: ASSETS AND LIABILITIES STATEMENT. 00:04:33:00 B W 1947 WS Father puts ledger back on desk, talks. 00:04:36:00 B W 1947 WS Man & boy pass storefront w BANKRUPTCY SALE sign in window 00:04:41:00 B W 1947 CU 2-shot, Homer & father in black hat on Main St. 00:05:01:00 B W 1947 MS Studious Homer in bookkeeping class, track back past Stella, Mike, Ruth & Bob. 00:05:25:00 B W 1947 MS Farm boy (DICK YORK) pours fuel into tractor. 00:05:30:00 B W 1947 MS Farm father & son Bob, both in overalls at desk, go over farm business requirements. 00:05:33:00 B W 1947 CU Father & Bob. 00:05:35:00 B W 1947 CU Document: US SCHEDULE OF FARM INCOME AND EXPENSES. 00:05:42:00 B W 1947 CU Document: US INDIVIDUAL INCOME TAX RETURN. For JOHN H. & MARY M. THAYER 603 MAPLE AVENUE CENTRAL CITY, LINCOLN OHIO OFFICE MANAGER Social Security Number. 00:06:03:00 B W 1947 CU Father writes check. 00:06:17:00 B W 1947 MS Seated father writes check at desk. 00:06:28:00 B W 1947 CU Printed stockholder report. 00:06:35:00 B W 1947 CU Statement from THE CITY NATIONAL BANK. 00:06:42:00 B W 1947 MS Smug seated father addresses bored standing son. 00:06:48:00 B W 1947 MS Mother on couch in sweater & ruffled blouse. 00:06:49:00 B W 1947 CU CENTRAL CITY WOMEN'S CLUB QUARTERLY TREASURER'S REPORT w mother's painted fingernail running along the figures for: BRIDGE PARTIES, HOMECOMING FLOAT PRIZE, etc. 00:07:08:00 B W 1947 MS Father hands Ronald a pen to 00:07:10:00 B W 1947 CU keep track of his expenses. 00:07:22:00 B W 1947 MS Studious Ronald in bookkeeping class, track to future secretary Nancy. 00:07:40:00 B W 1947 MS Nancy at typewriter takes pencil to check figures vs. draft 00:07:50:00 B W 1947 CU Figures on chart typed by Nancy. 00:07:54:00 B W 1947 MS Nancy removes sheet, folds typewriter back into desk and uses ledger. 00:08:09:00 B W 1947 WS Secretaries at row of 4 desks. 00:08:16:00 B W 1947 MS Bookkeeper accountant at adding machine. 00:08:28:00 B W 1947 MS Businessman reading corporate report at office in front of wall shadowed by Venetian blinds. 00:08:40:00 B W 1947 CU Printed report: ASSETS LIABILITIES, business hands fold it up and reads REPORT TO THE STOCKHOLDERS. 00:08:48:00 B W 1947 CU Door sign: JAMES P. TABOR CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT. 00:08:52:00 B W 1947 CU Over arm of CPA working at desk. 00:09:05:00 B W 1947 MS Nancy at classroom desk, then PAN back to proto-politician Henry. 00:09:19:00 B W 1947 WS Government building. 00:09:20:00 B W 1947 MS Woman at grilled window: PAY TAXES HERE, man in line. 00:09:31:00 B W 1947 WS Fire engine before firehouse. 00:09:28:00 B W 1947 CU Sign on marble: STATE TREASURER'S OFFICE. 00:09:32:00 B W 1947 WS Roomful of earnest accountants. 00:09:37:00 B W 1947 CU TABLE OF CONTENTS. 00:09:41:00 B W 1947 CU Report w columns of figures. 00:09:44:00 B W 1947 CU Advertisement in newspaper classifieds: TONIGHT - STATION WXVV 8:30 P.M. J.R. CUNNINGHAM WILL SPEAK ON "EFFICIENCY IN THE CITY HALL". 00:09:50:00 B W 1947 MS Grease-haired smoothie reading at big microphone. 00:09:59:00 B W 1947 MS Big radio in living room, man and son listening. 00:10:14:00 B W 1947 CU Henry at desk. 00:10:19:00 B W 1947 CU Taking notes at desk, track back to empty desk - for viewer 00:10:33:00 B W 1947 WS Students rise from finished class on bookkeeping. 00:10:45:00 B W 1947 CU Sign on wall: BOOKKEEPING CAN HELP IN YOUR BUSINESS LIFE IN YOUR PERSONAL LIFE.
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