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Shows how a vocational guidance worker helps a man who has just lost his job to change his attitude and achieve success when allowed a second chance. B/W 1948
The story of Frank Taylor: his failure in a good job and his ultimate rehabilitation and success. Vocational guidance counselor addresses these basic problems: being satisfied and happy in one’s work; the right attitude and approach to a job; achieving personal  adjustment Includes scenes of : shoe store, shoe salesman, job interview, etc.

color 1948

MS of man answering phone

MS man talking to the camera

MS man looking at card catalog

CU boy’s ID card

LS man looking at Help Wanted/store

CU shoe shopping, putting shoes away

CU getting a bad paycheck

CU unhappy boss

LS unhappy customer

LS getting fired

MS 2 men talking

MS man and career posters

LS architects w maps

LS airplane taxiing

MS teacher and students

MS pharmacist helping customers

LS fishermen standing

MS chemist mixing

MS bank teller helping customers

MS men talking across desk

CU man’s ID

CU man talking

CU carpentry

LS farming, threshing, plowing

MS woman talking

CU secretarial work, typing, note-taking

LS factory work

CU secretary’s ID

MS men talking across desk

MS putting away shoes, helping customer try on shoes

MS man talking in office

01:25:17:00 B/W 1948
cu Man’s hand picks up office telephone.

01:26:29:00 B/W 1948
vs Clean cut teenage guy walks past shoe store, notices sign
“HELP WANTED Part Time Will Train” in window; cut to inside shoe
store, teen shakes hands with owner (he “got the job”). MCU sign
being removed from window.

01:26:47:00 B/W 1948
vs cu Putting shoes in shoe boxes; teen guy gripes about his job
(drudgery) VO: “…I began to get bored. It was ‘put shoes away’,
day after day, ‘put shoes away’, ‘put more shoes away’. Nothing
every broke the routine. All I did was put shoes away. And then the
PAY I got…HUH! THAT wouldn’t buy many of those things I wanted.
The shoe business was no good”. Good shot of teen guy disgustedly
looking at his pay slip.

01:27:14:00 B/W 1948
vs VO: “And just because I got to work a half hour late now
and then! I didn’t understand why Mr. Canfield should get mad…”
Teen guy quietly entering office, to angry glare from his boss;
teen guy glances at his watch, returns glare (bad attitude).

01:27:25:00 B/W 1948
ms cu Trying shoes on womans foot; shoes don’t fit; teen guy
struggles with shoes, angrily blows up at woman shoe customer,
yells at her (verbal abuse), she leaves in a huff. Boss fires teen.
(We don’t hear the exchange, but this VO accompanies the action:
“When I had a customer, it was ‘tiny shoes on big feet’, ‘these
didn’t look right’, ‘these didn’t fit right’, ‘these were too
expensive’, ‘these hurt her feet’. Boy, some of these people really
made me SICK!! I didn’t last long, but I figured it was only a
job…”) Great example of “bad attitude”.

01:28:26:00 B/W 1948
ms Looking at Architect’s plans at building site

01:28:33:00 B/W 1948
ws Taxiing 4 engine airplane

01:31:10:00 B/W 1948
cu Hands taking shorthand

01:31:11:00 B/W 1948
cu Hands typing

01:32:15:00 B/W 1948
ms / cu Measuring man’s foot for shoes