"IS A CAREER IN CLERICAL WORK FOR YOU?" 1970s OFFICE JOBS CAREER GUIDANCE FILM XD12144

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This color educational film, one of a series of forty created for counseling purposes, is about the careers available in the clerical field. This was made circa the early 1970s, and likely shown in high school and junior college classrooms.
Opening (live action and animated): people sit in a classroom, type on typewriters and punchcard computer terminals, and use microfilm, work in an office. A woman sit and thinks. She could be a file clerk, a typist, or a typing supervisor, a stenographer, or a secretary (:06-1:27). An African American woman thinks and could be a bookkeeper, a cashier or a bank teller. A boy thinks about possibly being office machine operator or a computer operator. Other possibilities include: a woman is a telephone operator, an African American woman is a receptionist, a man is a shipping/receiving clerk, a stock clerk, a mail clerk, and a mail carrier. Students sit in a classroom (1:28-2:21). Main titles (2:22-2:33). An African American puts together a puzzle of the United States. Military man sits at a desk. High rise buildings. Men and women walk into a building. Newspaper ads for a secretary, stenographer, typist, bookkeeper, and accounting clerk. Buildings for banks, insurance companies, manufacturing establishment, and a mall. Exterior of a United States Court House, a college, a door for a law office, and an armed services office (2:34-3:29). Women, white and African American, are featured. Students walk down the stairs in a high school. A teacher teaches young women, white and African Americans. A woman files, another listens. A paper says 'spelling' on it. African American women on the job at desks and being supervisors. A woman talks with a boy (3:30-5:12). Close on a typewriter as it types: Stenographers and secretaries make up the largest group of clerical workers, 95% are women. A hand writes, fingers type on an IBM selectric typewriter. A woman on the phone, another woman makes copies. A woman takes dictation. A court stenographer. An older woman who's a secretary opens mail, talks on the phone, fixes her desk, purchases a gift for him. An African American woman types, another sits at a desk and talks with a man. She then answers the phone (5:13-6:53). Typewriters on every desk, secretaries and office workers work. Close on fingers typing. Close on a stopwatch. Typists should have: finger dexterity, accuracy, neatness, and the ability to concentrate. A woman types as another drops something off at her desk. Close on fingers typing. A woman takes dictation from her boss. A woman sits at a desk and writes with a pencil in a ledger. Pages to a book are turned. An African American woman types, another speaks to a colleague. A paper is sent on a conveyor belt type machine from one side of the room to the other. A bookkeeping machine, a billing machine, a tabulating machine, adding and calculating machines, a copier, duplicating machine, and equipment for processing mail. A mail sorter. A younger man stands near an older boss-type individual. Armed services students attend class. A younger man trains an African American woman on a bookkeeping machine (6:54-9:17). Machine operators need to have: finger dexterity, hand & eye coordination, and good vision. Men in an office with computers. A woman uses a key puncher. An African American console operator uses a key punch machine. An African American woman uses a UNIVAC mainframe computer. A woman uses a mail sorter. A hand touches a UNIVAC mainframe computer. UNIVAC mainframe computers are around the workers. Close on the computer console lights. A hand places a ten dollar bill on a table. Hands in a register make change (9:18-10:51). Men work with registers at various jobs. A man teaches a class how to use a register. Figures are written down on a piece of paper, buttons pushed on a register. Women of various races work as cashiers. Bank tellers, men and women of various races are in these positions. Telephone operators. An African American woman works a switchboard. Operators deal with various problems. Receptionists at work, almost all are women (10:52-13:18). Men in various positions as clerks, working with mail and as mail carriers. Women in an office. Screen is split into thirds to show three different clerical positions with men and women. Men and women of various races in various clerical positions. A woman opens a booklet. Armed Forces recruiting office. A boy talks with his counselor.(13:19-15:21). End credits, a boy gets in a car and drives away (15:22-16:12).
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@stephenbright9316 Жыл бұрын

If I had known 40 years ago that I would spend most of my working life behind a computer typing, I would have taken typing classes at school with the girls, instead I took woodwork classes with the boys in order not to be called a sissy, lol, how times have changed! Thanks for a great video.

@edwardpate6128 Жыл бұрын

My mom forced me to take typing when I was a sophmore in high school in 1976. I thought the same thing about meeting girls but then found out the typing teacher was the new football coach!

@Monica-gj2yx Жыл бұрын

Took shorthand twice 50 years ago. My instructor, who was a wonderful teacher, told me she never saw a student try so hard and fail so miserably. Thank G_D I did a lot better in typing!

@TheJstewart2010 Жыл бұрын

I just turned 59 and can remember our high school guidance counselor telling us that being a keypunch operator was a very stable job that would never go away. Seeing those IBM Selectric typewriters makes me really miss their keyboards, though. They were the most comfortable keys every made.

@edwardpate6128 Жыл бұрын

The early IBM 3270 terminal keyboards were based on those and were the best! There is a company out there that bought the rights to them and is now manufacturing them for PCs. They still have that great key feedback and make that clicking sound due to the beam spring design.

@philpots48 Жыл бұрын

The thing of value that I learned in HS was touch typing, and ended up being a computer programmer making a good living.

@thatjpwing Жыл бұрын

Same here.

@madamebovary7211 Жыл бұрын

People were just happy to have a job in the 70s.

@lostinpa-dadenduro7555 Жыл бұрын

There’s was a lot more respect for work back then. Having a job was a sign of growing up and young people were eager to get hired and gain independence.

@dariowiter3078 Жыл бұрын

It was true in every age in human history. 😁😁😁😁😁

@jaminova_1969 Жыл бұрын

My mother was a secretary for an International Corporation in NYC in the 60's and 70's. I thought she worked with Mary Tyler Moore when I was very young!

@jaminova_1969 Жыл бұрын

She would leave me shopping lists written in shorthand!

@dariowiter3078 Жыл бұрын

Had that happened, she would have been a great colleague to have at ANY job. 😁😁😁😁😁

@dariowiter3078 Жыл бұрын

@@jaminova_1969 Did she teach you how to read short hand? 🙂

@brokennib1 Жыл бұрын

Ahhh, a rewarding life dedicated to the clerical arts...

@Monica-gj2yx Жыл бұрын

Look at the mini dresses! LOL!

@taxizztop6052 Жыл бұрын

And what's funny? Than the womens were very beautiful and slender, and they had something to show.

@SarahK86 Жыл бұрын

Times have certainly changed a lot.

@thomasgoodwin2648 Жыл бұрын

"Soul crushing jobs to help turn the curious enthusiasm of youth into the punishing regrets and alcoholism of old age. Thankless jobs, with no room for advancement, and plenty of opportunity to be looked down upon by those who consider themselves far superior to you. Some of you may even be able to experience the joys of sexual predators disguised as your boss." Sorry, but when this came out I was still busy devouring MAD Magazines. (RIP Al Jaffee)

@kmyre 8 ай бұрын

Ah, the ramblings of the unemployabe

@heatherrussell8255 Жыл бұрын

Just in time for Administrative Professionals Day. Thank you for posting. Great film.

@Doodlesthegreat Жыл бұрын

Short answer: Oh, HELL no...

@mishima70 Жыл бұрын

Check out the dead, haunted expression on the gal from 1:13-1:26. Those eyes say SO MUCH about how much she dreads her future. That's right, Marsha- It's not all about you anymore! GET TO WORK!

@annamariecannariato7357 Жыл бұрын

Amazing how much of these are obsolete now.

@jerrykitich3318 Жыл бұрын

I was the only boy in my high school typing class in the 1980s. Every job I got after that required typing. Even a part-time job as a civilian custody officer at the local police station. I switched to night school typing classes while still in high school. I can't say I didn't enjoy being the only boy. Although at one of my first jobs some homophobe made a crack to others that I must be the managers gay lover I fairly quickly got to 20 to 30 wpm then a few years 50 wpm, eventually 66 the last time I was tested.

@illmerica322 Жыл бұрын

Just because he made a gay joke doesn't mean he's a homophobe

@valiantredneck Жыл бұрын

This has got to be one of the most stupid and pathetic comments I’ve ever seen. Obviously sad and desperate for attention. What a complete and total weirdo you are.

@googleuser7454 5 ай бұрын

Did you enjoy your career and did computers drastically change it?

@jerrykitich3318 5 ай бұрын

Computers changed everything. Most of my early knowledge became obsolete. Such as how to centre titles etc. Computers made things much easier.

@jerrykitich3318 5 ай бұрын

@illmerica322 or the fact he thought only women should be typists didn't mean he was sexist

@renatoamaral8259 Жыл бұрын

Great old video! Thanks for posting! 🌟💯👍❤️

@PeriscopeFilm Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoy it and thanks for being a sub.

@Lee90000 Жыл бұрын

Wow that sounds exciting

@montyyy08 Жыл бұрын

Nice upload! From pencil-pushers to pixel-pushers 👍

@new2000car Жыл бұрын

Great film. These clerical jobs I think were right down the middle. So much better than working outside on the street (like hotdog vendors, street sweepers, cab drivers) but not as good as management or programming jobs. They were a good stepping stone however. I always felt looked down upon, with pity, by management back in my clerical career in the early ‘80s. I did eventually get a degree via night school, so thank you clerical jobs! Back then college was everything, now colleges are just woke indoctrination feel good places.

@nokomarie1963 Жыл бұрын

Ah, the smell of white trash resentment and conservatism.