- Title: CSF-38A
- Summary: REV. TAYLOR FOOTAGE:
- Description:00:01:02 - TITLE : "ANOTHER TAYLOR MADE PICTURE BRINGING YOU NEWS AND HISTORICAL RECORDS, ETC." 00:01:12 - TITLE: "THE NEGRO IN BUSINESS" 00:01:20 - TITLE CARD: "WASHBURN'S SERVICE STATION. WICKS AVENUE AT MISSISSIPPI BLVD. MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE. A SERVICE INSTITUTION. MR. CHARLES WASHBURN, PROPRIETOR". 00 01 31 VARIOUS SHOTS PAN GULF GAS STATION, REPAIR SHOP, OFFICE. 1940 SEDAN PARKED BY GAS PUMPS. BLACK MAN SHINING CAR WITH WHITE WALLED TIRES, POSING WITH CHILD AND OTHERS. BLACK-OWNED BUSINESSES. 00:02:16 - TITLE CARD: "THE UNION PROTECTIVE ASSURANCE COMPANY BEALE AVENUE, MEMPHIS,TENNESSEE. AN OLD LINE LEGAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, WRITING BURIAL AND DISABILITY INSURANCE. DISTRICT OFFICE" 00:02:33 - VARIOUS SHOTS INTERIOR DISTRICT OFFICE. MAN ADDRESSING LARGE GROUP BLACK BUSINESS PEOPLE OR EMPLOYEES. ALL APPLAUD. 00:03:52 - TITLE CARD: "HOME OFFICE: MAIN OFFICE AND AUDITING DEPARTMENT" BLACK SECRETARY ON TELEPHONE. BLACK WOMAN TYPING. TITLE CARD: "OFFICE OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY AND BOOKKEEPER". BLACK FEMALE WORKER TALLIES ON 1940s ADDING MACHINE AS PIPE-SMOKING BOSS SITS, WRITES AT SAME DESK. READS OFF NUMBERS. 00:04:40 - TITLE: "OFFICE OF SECRETARY - TREASURER" GREY HAIRED BLACK MAN AT DESK POSES. 00:04:55 - "OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF BLACK OWNED BUSINESS, MR. WHALUM". CIGAR IN HAND, DICTATES TO SECRETARY 00:05:15 - "OFFICE OF MEDICAL DIRECTOR". POSES AND WORKS. 00:05:30 - BLACK INSURANCE AGENTS POSE OUT IN FRONT OF BUSINESS FILE PAST CAMERA AS THEY RE-ENTER BUILDING. "GULF" SIGN IN BKGD. PAN OFFICERS OF INSURANCE AGENCY POSE. 00:08:03 - TITLE CARD: "ADULT SCHOOL AT THE METROPOLITAN BAPTIST CHURCH, COMMERCIAL CLASS TAUGHT BY MRS. S.E. GRIGGS. THE MEMBERS OF THIS CLASS ARE MEMBERS ALSO OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S THRIFT CLUB OF THER CITY FEDERATION". 00:08:17 - VARIOUS SHOTS WOMEN STANDING ON CONCRETE STEPS OF BUILDING. LITTLE BOY STANDS ON CONCRETE RAIL OF STOOP AS WOMEN POSE. 00:08:53 - TEACHER OF COMMERCIAL COURSE, MRS. S. E. GRIGGS POSES BY STOOP. BLACK TEACHERS. 00:09:08 - BLACK FEMALE MEMBERS OF CLASS SIGNING INTO LEDGER BOOK AS MS. GRIGGS WATCHES. 00:10:23 - PAN ADULT EDUCATION CLASS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN SEATED AT DESKS SINGING AS PIANO PLAYER PLAYS. AFTER SONG ALL STAND & BOW THEIR HEADS IN PRAYER. 00:11:00 - TITLE: "CLASS TYPING BY MUSIC". PAN TO PIANO PLAYER. LEARNING BY RHYTHM. 00:11:08 - SIGN IN STORE WINDOW: "GORINE BEAUTY COLLEGE, MME.GSM YOUNG". GROUP POSING IN FRONT OF STORE WINDOW. 00:11:21 - TITLE CARD:" GORINE BEAUTY COLLEGE, MME. GSM YOUNG, THE GORINE ALUMNI CLUB, AUXILIARY TO THE GORINE BEAUTY COLLEGE". PAN BLACK WOMEN IN UNIFORMS OSE IN FRONT OF GORINE BEAUTY COLLEGE, MEMPHIS. 00 12 05 TITLE CARD WRITTEN IN SCRIPT: "LECTURE ROOM, GORINE BEAUTY COLLEGE, 432 BEALE AVE, MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE". PAN GIRLS IN UNIFORMS SEATED IN CLASS. 00:12:49 - GIRL WRITING ON BLACKBOARD. 00:13:08 - "BENCH ROOM, GORING BEAUTY COLLEGE". BLACK HAIRDRESSERS CUTTING HAIR, DOING NAILS, WOMEN UNDER DRYERS. BEAUTY SCHOOL. LEARNING TRADE. PAN STUDENTS HANGING AROUND, READING NEWSPAPERS. 00:14:53 - GROUP BLACKS SALESPEOPLE POSING IN FRONT BLACK-OWNED HOSIERY STORE. 00:15:15 - VARIOUS SHOTS BLACK PEOPLE STAND IN FRONT OF JEWELRY STORE. 00:16:10 - INTERIOR HOSIERY SHOP. CLERKS, CUSTOMERS. SALESWOMEN PUT HOSIERY ON DISPLAY LEGS. MAN WITH CHECKERED CAP AT COUNTER LOOKS OVER SOCKS. OWNER TAKES INVENTORY. "COCA COLA" SIGN IN BKGD 00:18:59 - TRIO POSES IN FRONT OF TREE. TROPICAL BUSHES IN BKGD 00:19:04 - TRAIN PORTERS ON TRAIN PLATFORM HELP PASSENGERS BOARD TRAIN. PULLMAN PORTER DOFFS CAP AT CAMERA. 00:19:20 - POV FROM INSIDE MOVING TRAIN PAST GRAVES & PALM TREES, ORANGE ORCHARD. 00:20:00 - PAN OLD FASHIONED STEAM LOCOMOTIVE IN FREIGHT YARD 00:20:02 - 1940s CAR SPEEDING ON HIGHWAY DRIVES ALONGSIDE TRAIN. POV SPEEDING TRAIN. 00:20:12 - TRAIN ENTERS STATION. CU BLACK PORTER STICKS HEAD OUT OF TRAIN DOOR AS TRAIN PULLS INTO STATION. PORTERS AT STATION WAITING FOR PASSENGERS TO DISEMBARK. 00:20:30 - LUGGAGE ON TRAIN PLATFORM. AFFLUENT, WELL DRESSED BLACK PASSENGERS GET OFF TRAIN. 1940s PULLMAN PORTERS, BLACKS DISEMBARKING TRAIN. BLACK MIGRATION FOOTAGE, 1940s FASHIONS. PAN STATION. PEOPLE LEAVING WITH LUGGAGE. 00:21:50 - BLACK MEN IN BUSINESS SUITS POSING OUTSIDE BANK. CROWDS OF AFFLUENT BLACK PEOPLE MAKING TRANSACTIONS INSIDE BANK AT TELLER'S WINDOWS & COUNTERS. ABOVE VIEW TELLERS WINDOWS WITH LINES OF POEPLE. PEOPLE GOING IN & OUT OF BANK. POSING IN FRONT OF BANK
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1940
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: CSF-38A