Shows the value of bookkeeping to business and the professions, and to the individual in keeping a record of personal finances. 00:00:20:00 B/W 1947WS 1947 high school w/ large overhanging tree across street.00:00:24:00 B/W 1947CU Sign: 850,000 PEOPLE EMPLOYED AS BOOKKEEPERS, ACCOUNTANTS ANDCASHIERS.00:00:30:00 B/W 1947MS High school hall w/ students in pairs walking past, some stopto examine sign on wall.00:00:51:00 B/W 1947MS Students josh & tease one who wants to be a politician, then goto their seats in class.00:01:25:00 B/W 1947WS Homer Winslow in his father’s grocery store bags groceriesbehind counter as aproned father enters frame, bags too.00:01:36:00 B/W 1947MS Homer punches figures into cash register for middle-aged lady’sgrocery purchase.00:01:44:00 B/W 1947MS Father bags groceries for man, writes total on charge accountslip.00:01:49:00 B/W 1947CU Charge account receipt, sales slip w/ pencil.00:01:58:00 B/W 1947MS Father drops slip into bag, customer says goodbye & leaves.00:02:21:00 B/W 1947MS Father pays handsome, deferential son Homer at cash register.00:02:29:00 B/W 1947CU Register window: $206.50 ON ACC’T.00:02:30:00 B/W 1947CU Hands punch in cash register figures.00:02:30:00 B/W 1947CU Register window: $432.56 TOTAL.00:02:33:00 B/W 1947CU Register window: $ 5.00 PAID OUT (Homer’s salary).00:02:34:00 B/W 1947CU Hand opens register recording compartment, takes out Z-total.00:02:39:00 B/W 1947CU Totals on register record slip: x1 0206.50 AL A. x20432.56 TL A. x3 0005.00 Pd A.00:02:48:00 B/W 1947MS Homer watches father get daily figures from register.00:02:53:00 B/W 1947WS Father & Homer sit at rolltop desk before boxes labelled: YEL,LUX, DREFT and DUZ.00:03:03:00 B/W 1947MS Seated father talks.00:03:05:00 B/W 1947CU Handwritten ledger w/ father’s hand, showing check record.00:03:19:00 B/W 1947CU Invoice from produce company. List of produce: SPINACH,CELERY, STRAWBERRIES … etc.00:03:20:00 B/W 1947MS Father & Homer at desk, father lifts down permanent record ofdaily transactions, dips fountain pen into inkwell.00:03:31:00 B/W 1947CU Father copies register total into ledger.00:03:37:00 B/W 1947CU Father copies check stubs into ledger.00:03:40:00 B/W 1947CU Father copies invoices into ledger.00:03:52:00 B/W 1947CU Document: PROFIT / LOSS STATEMENT FOR 1947.00:04:25:00 B/W 1947CU Document: ASSETS AND LIABILITIES STATEMENT.00:04:33:00 B/W 1947WS Father puts ledger back on desk, talks.00:04:36:00 B/W 1947WS Man & boy pass storefront w/ BANKRUPTCY SALE sign in window00:04:41:00 B/W 1947CU 2-shot, Homer & father in black hat on Main St.00:05:01:00 B/W 1947MS Studious Homer in bookkeeping class, track back past Stella,Mike, Ruth & Bob.00:05:25:00 B/W 1947MS Farm boy (DICK YORK) pours fuel into tractor.00:05:30:00 B/W 1947MS Farm father & son Bob, both in overalls at desk, go over farmbusiness requirements.00:05:33:00 B/W 1947CU Father & Bob.00:05:35:00 B/W 1947CU Document: U.S. SCHEDULE OF FARM INCOME AND EXPENSES.00:05:42:00 B/W 1947CU Document: U.S. INDIVIDUAL INCOME TAX RETURN. For JOHN H. &MARY M. THAYER 603 MAPLE AVENUE CENTRAL CITY, LINCOLN OHIO OFFICEMANAGER Social Security Number.00:06:03:00 B/W 1947CU Father writes check.00:06:17:00 B/W 1947MS Seated father writes check at desk.00:06:28:00 B/W 1947CU Printed stockholder report.00:06:35:00 B/W 1947CU Statement from THE CITY NATIONAL BANK.00:06:42:00 B/W 1947MS Smug seated father addresses bored standing son.00:06:48:00 B/W 1947MS Mother on couch in sweater & ruffled blouse.00:06:49:00 B/W 1947CU CENTRAL CITY WOMEN’S CLUB QUARTERLY TREASURER’S REPORT w/mother’s painted fingernail running along the figures for: BRIDGEPARTIES, HOMECOMING FLOAT PRIZE, etc.00:07:08:00 B/W 1947MS Father hands Ronald a pen to00:07:10:00 B/W 1947CU keep track of his expenses.00:07:22:00 B/W 1947MS Studious Ronald in bookkeeping class, track to future secretaryNancy.00:07:40:00 B/W 1947MS Nancy at typewriter takes pencil to check figures vs. draft00:07:50:00 B/W 1947CU Figures on chart typed by Nancy.00:07:54:00 B/W 1947MS Nancy removes sheet, folds typewriter back into desk and usesledger.00:08:09:00 B/W 1947WS Secretaries at row of 4 desks.00:08:16:00 B/W 1947MS Bookkeeper accountant at adding machine.00:08:28:00 B/W 1947MS Businessman reading corporate report at office in front of wallshadowed by Venetian blinds.00:08:40:00 B/W 1947CU Printed report: ASSETS / LIABILITIES, business hands fold itup and reads REPORT TO THE STOCKHOLDERS.00:08:48:00 B/W 1947CU Door sign: JAMES P. TABOR CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT.00:08:52:00 B/W 1947CU Over arm of CPA working at desk.00:09:05:00 B/W 1947MS Nancy at classroom desk, then PAN back to proto-politicianHenry.00:09:19:00 B/W 1947WS Government building.00:09:20:00 B/W 1947MS Woman at grilled window: PAY TAXES HERE, man in line.00:09:31:00 B/W 1947WS Fire engine before firehouse.00:09:28:00 B/W 1947CU Sign on marble: STATE TREASURER’S OFFICE.00:09:32:00 B/W 1947WS Roomful of earnest accountants.00:09:37:00 B/W 1947CU TABLE OF CONTENTS.00:09:41:00 B/W 1947CU Report w/ columns of figures.00:09:44:00 B/W 1947CU Advertisement in newspaper classifieds: TONIGHT – STATION WXVV8:30 P.M. J.R. CUNNINGHAM WILL SPEAK ON “EFFICIENCY IN THE CITYHALL”.00:09:50:00 B/W 1947MS Grease-haired smoothie reading at big microphone.00:09:59:00 B/W 1947MS Big radio in living room, man and son listening.00:10:14:00 B/W 1947CU Henry at desk.00:10:19:00 B/W 1947CU Taking notes at desk, track back to empty desk – for viewer00:10:33:00 B/W 1947WS Students rise from finished class on bookkeeping.00:10:45:00 B/W 1947CU Sign on wall: BOOKKEEPING CAN HELP IN YOUR BUSINESS LIFE INYOUR PERSONAL LIFE.

