- Title: F-A4316
- Summary: THE PRIVATE SECRETARY: WITH RUTH GREENMAN, MORTON BUCK, GEORGE CULP, MARIAN HALL, MAY JOHNSON, JOSEPH BASSETT
- Description:02:41:54 - SPINNING GLOBE IN STAND 02:42:02 - JOSEPH TUMULTY, PRIVATE WHITE HOUSE SECRETARY OF WOODROW WILSON DURING WWI, WRITING AT DESK & TALKING ON OLD-FASHIONED TWO-PIECE TELEPHONE. 02:42:22 - PAN OFFICE WITH TWO FEMALE SECRETARIES TYPING AT DESK 02:42:31 - STENOGRAPHER SECRETARY TAKING NOTES ON PAD WHILE BOSS DICTATES 02:42:38 - SECRETARY LEAVES BOSS' OFFICE WITH NOTES & SITS DOWN AT TYPEWRITER 02:42:44 - PAN SMALL OFFICE, FEMALE OFFICE WORKING READING NOTES 02:42:51 - SECRETARY TYPING WHILE LOOKING AT NOTES, HITS RETURN LEVER 02:43:02 - "PRIVATE SECRETARY" PAINTED ON GLASS ON OFFICE DOOR 02:43:45 - BORING OLD BRICK BUILDING ON CITY CORNER 02:43:55 - FEMALE SWITCHBOARD OPERATOR, EXAMPLE OF BAD EMPLOYEE. READING BOOK & CHEWING GUM AS SHE ANSWERS PHONE 02:44:06 - CU WOMAN GOSSIPS 02:44:13 - SWITCHBOARD OPERATOR ANSWERS PHONE WITH GRUMPY, ANNOYED FACE. SWITCHES LEVER ON PANEL. COVERS RECEIVER WITH HAND AS SHE GOSSIPS TO OTHER EMPLOYEES 02:44:37 - "PRIVATE SECRETARY" ON OFFICE DOOR 02:44:46 - SECRETARY STANDING AS SHE TALKS ON PHONE IN BOSS' OFFICE 02:45:01 - BOSS COMES INTO OFFICE IN BAD MOOD. TAKES OFF HAT & SHUFFLES THROUGH PAPERS ON DESK. 02:45:36 - SECRETARY SITS DOWN NEXT TO BOSS. THEY GO THROUGH NOTES & MESSAGES. SIGNS PAPERS FOR SECRETARY. PAPERWORK 02:47:16 - SECRETARY GOES THROUGH PAPERS IN TRAY ON DESK & SHOWS IT TO MAN SITTING ACROSS FROM HER AT DESK 02:47:30 - WALKS THROUGH OFFICE & HANDS PAPER TO FEMALE OFFICE WORKER 02:47:37 - PRIVATE SECRETARY APPROACHES SECRETARY TYPING. PULLS PAPER FROM FILING CABINET & SHOWS OTHER TO REFILE 02:47:54 - LEAVES INNER OFFICE & GOES TO OTHER OFFICE EMPLOYEES 02:48:02 - REPRIMANDS SWITCHBOARD OPERATOR 02:48:21 - TALKING TO OFFICE WORKER TYPING 02:48:25 - RECEPTIONIST GOSSIPS ON PHONE. VERY EXCITED. HANGS UP PHONE & GETS UP 02:48:31 - FEMALE WORKER RUNS OVER TO WINDOW, CALLS OTHERS OVER & POINTS OUT WINDOW 02:48:35 - POV FROM WINDOW OF YOUNG MAN IN NEW CONVERTIBLE CAR. TAPS CAR HORN, HONKS HORN 02:48:38 - BOSS ON TELEPHONE LOOKING UPSET. SECRETARY COMES IN & SHOWS HIM PAPER ON DESK. MAKES EVERYTHING OKAY. THINKS & PICKS UP TELEPHONE 02:49:22 - MONTAGE SHOW OF SECRETARY TALKING TO OTHERS ON TELEPHONE 02:49:44 - SATISFIED, SECRETARY HANGS UP PHONE 02:50:26 - SECRETARY IN FANCY COAT. GETS READY TO GO HOME, GETS GLOVES & HAT & ORGANIZES EVERYTHING ON HER DESK 02:50:53 - WOMAN WALKS UP TO BOYFRIEND IN PARKED CAR ON CITY STREET. CAR DRIVES OFF 02:51:08 - EXTERIOR SAGAMORE HOTEL WITH SIGN & AWNING 02:51:10 - CAR PULLS UP TO CURB, DOORMAN OPENS DOOR FOR PATRONS 02:51:15 - COUPLE SEATED IN FANCY RESTAURANT BY MAITRE D' 02:51:25 - HEAD-ON SHOTS AS COUPLE TALK TO EACH OTHER AT LUNCH 02:51:40 - BOARD MEETING OF COMPANY DIRECTORS. BUSINESSMEN TALKING 02:52:25 - SECRETARY GETS UP & LEAVES 02:52:32 - SECRETARY WALKING DOWN HALL, STOPPED BY YOUNG MAN 02:52:40 - SECRETARY HESITANTLY TALKS TO BOSS ABOUT QUITTING 02:53:17 - NEW SECRETARY ENTERS BOSS' OFFICE WITH STENO PAD, TALKS TO WOMAN 02:53:51 - WORKERS COMING OUT OF OFFICE BUILDING. LOTS OF CAR TRAFFIC IN FRONT OF BUILDING 02:54:12 - CAR TRAFFIC ON CITY BRIDGE WITH FACTORIES VISIBLE 02:54:35 - CU PAYCHECK. ROCHESTER, NEW YORK 02:54:46 - SECRETARY STANDS BY BOSS IN HER COAT AS HE SIGNS HER PAYCHECK. HAPPY WITH HER SALARY
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1930
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1930s
- File Name: F-A4316