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WNET animated graphic
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Slate: Corporation fort Public Broadcasting
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Women Alive! Animated show opener.
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Blank
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Show opens z'in on an ornate gold framed Lichtenstein painting, "Power". Narration by women's activist and U.S. Representative, Bella Abzug.
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Bella S. Abzug, Member of Congress 20th District New York and Women's Rights Activist standing at podium, talking into camera - no audience is seen, wearing one of her famous hats, gives speech about woman power and women's rights 1975.
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Fade Out
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B&W vintage photo still of a typing pool, women (most wearing hats!) all in one room seated in rows typing - typewriter sound effects and narration
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B&W photo still of a young woman seated at an antiquated typewriter, one of the first - most likely late 1800's
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00:03:04 180.36 |
A montage of photos of the original typewriters - Remington, and Remington Noiseless, circa late 1800's.
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00:03:06 181.88 |
B&W photo of woman typing at beautiful antique typewriter with flowers painted on side, circa late 1800's early 1900's, with narration and typewriter sound effects.
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00:03:12 187.8 |
Pretty young woman in polka dot dress seated at manual typewriter with her hands on the keys turned looking at camera smiling
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Montage of B&W photo stills of women circa 1930's sitting at antique manual typewriters working. Typewriter sound effects. Narrator states office work paid better than factory work. In the 30's the factory workers had the sense to organize raising their salaries and working conditions, but the offices had fallen way behind.
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B&W vintage photo still of a male (boss) at his desk, with secretary seated next to him, facing each other, he's looking down at paper in his hand and she appears to be writing..
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Fade out and the words "Nine to Five" being typed one letter at a time on the screen.
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Young white woman about 30, talking with unseen unknown interviewer about the stigma attached to being a "secretary" and how no one wants to hear about your job and no one takes an interest.
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Pretty and well dressed ladies seemingly walking to work. Unseen narrator talking about the stigma of being a secretary, states the word "secretary" means clean up woman, she does what the boss doesn't want to do.
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Legs from below knee down wearing white low heeled shoes, walking. Narration about stereotyped secretaries as middle aged women, married to their jobs, a "second wife" or "office wife".
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More well dressed women all shapes and sizes, wearing dresses, skirts and nice pants in the city walking alone and in pairs - headed to the office. Continued narration over the clips of women on their way to work, "everyone ridicules a secretary." "No one gives her credit for having any amount of intelligence"
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Two young women dressed nicely walking together, talking, smiling, laughing enter office building.
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Same young woman talking with unseen interviewer about her job as a secretary - being "the coffee server, the housekeeper... you have to look nice".
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Middle aged white woman secretarysitting in office talking with unseen unknown interviewer about how she moved from office to office to find something better but always finding one office is the same as the other.
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African American woman talking with unseen interviewer about how the job (secretarial) is good because it gets you out of the stay at home housewife mother role.
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Older white woman with big white hair, lots of eye makeup and wearing a green plaid business jacket tells how she became a secretary after her parents had died and she couldn't go to college to pursue her desire to be a history teacher.
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Woman at her desk at work typing on an electric typewriter with piles of papers on her desk, a phone and rolodex is seen. Narrator talking over clip states, the secretarial job is the real function of the office, without the secretary nothing is going to get done.
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Woman with short black curly hair and glasses, holding a pen and phone in her ear working a switchboard.
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Clips of var women, secretaries, office workers hard at work at their desks, doing paperwork, working on adding machines.
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Same woman with green plaid jacket and white hair talking about how male bosses call their secretaries by their first name automatically assuming it's okay, however, you need their permission to call them by their first names. She states she told her boss to not "ever ever refer to her as your 'Girl'!
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Another woman in a secretarial position talking with unseen interviewer states she was promised a promotion so she took a mundane job and then was overlooked for the promotion when they gave the position to a male who had been on the job for less time than her.
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A montage of var women talking about the inequities of being a woman and a secretary or office worker - being asked to run errands and get coffee and when refusing to do these tasks qualifies you as a "bad secretary"; men asking to have a Xerox copy made when he's sitting right next to the machine; unreasonable dress codes; the inhumane non-consideration of things happening in the home.
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Close up hands on electric typewriter.
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Woman with ear phones typing on electric typewriter. Narration-woman stating how you can't use your sick time to take off for a sick family member
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Close up woman with ear phones, typewriter is heard.
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hands on blue electric typewriter
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Working Electric typewriter paper in
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Middle aged woman sitting at her corner desk papers stacked up, rolodex and desk phone, typing on electric typewriter.
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Young woman wearing a white blouse talking with unseen interviewer about how her job is basically just a job and her life begins when she leaves the office, this way of thinking is what gets her through.
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Another older woman in her 40's wearing a pink blouse talking with unseen interviewer states that a lot of women won't admit they're being exploited.
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Same woman with white blouse from before - talking about how worrisome it is for the older women secretaries in their 40's to join in the protest for better wages and working conditions because of the fear of losing their jobs at their age.
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Middle aged woman standing in her kitchen near a small white stove (circa 1970's) with a coffee pot on it, agrees with previous woman about how the older secretary is not going to take chances with "rebelling" because of the fear of being fired.
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Narration by same middle aged woman in her kitchen over clips of her teenage daughters in the kitchen, two others sitting listening to her talk about how she thinks her daughters are going to start life miles ahead of her because they have a better idea of themselves.
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Little girl about 6 or 7 yrs. sitting at kitchen table, hands cracking an egg open into a bowl (with narration)
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Same woman in her kitchen interacting with her family , lots of daughters (and sons) of all ages! and activity, at the kitchen table, at the stove.
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Young boy about 10 years old in yellow and brown striped t shirt, sitting in kitchen
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Hands buttering toast.
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Wide shot of same family seated around kitchen table, mom with her five kids. small white stove in bkgd.
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Older woman secretary states to unseen interviewer if they all turned off their typewriters for a day, industry would shut down.
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Young pretty African American woman at her desk, file trays and folders in bkgd.
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Hands (African American) with pink painted fingernails typing on electric typewriter. Sound of typing.
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Same young girl at her desk typing. Papers are piled up around her.
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Close up hands typing very quickly on electric typewriter
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Close up hand with long painted fingernails typing quickly on adding machine.
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Close up hands holding red pen and flipping through papers
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Close up open file cabinet drawer, hands pulling out a file, opening folder and flipping through papers
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Two young women sitting at their desks, working typing, girl in foreground with dictation headphones
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Close up hands with rings on fingers and red painted fingernails typing quickly on electric typewriter. Narrator talking about the new technology where executives will dictate directly onto tape equipment and it comes out transcribed directly onto a typewriter where corrections can be made automatically. Thereby, eliminating the need for the "old" individual kind of secreatary where there's one woman attached to one male boss.
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Side shot of young woman with blond hair
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Wide shot women working hard at their desks in a large office many tall and shorter filing cabinets along the walls.
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African American woman standing adjusting a large printer.
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Close up on one of the original printers (probably an IBM circa mid 1970's).
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African American hands with painted fingernails and rings on fingers flipping through "rolodex" cards.
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Close up on sSame hands adjusting new office equipment with narration
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African American hands, full body partially obscured, typing on new technology typewriting equipment.
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Pan out on Black woman working on a new type of office equipment
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Testimony from var. woman (all the same women as earlier in the reel) talking about how women are finally getting together and organizing for good wages, good jobs, and good benefits - there is hope! "if we got the right to vote, we got the right not to fear employment"
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Close shot of var women filing out of an office building to a feminist song by Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard
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Close up bronze rimmed glass door closing - "Pull" engraving .
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As var aged women are walking out of building down the steps, overlay reads: Almost one-half of female high school graduates going to work after graduation take clerical jobs (circa 1970's).
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Another overlay over women coming out of a building and walking down the street reads: There are more than 37 million women in the U.S. labor force. One out of three is an office worker.
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Shot from behind, a group of women in business pants suits walking down the street
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Pretty woman with sunglasses, gold earrings, orange sweater and holding flowers
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Var women continue walking out of building. A feminist song about female office workers by Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard is heard and overlay reads: For clerical workers, a woman's salary averages $4,161 less per year than a man's salary. The median annual salary for a woman clerical is $6,458.
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Fade in on hand drawn slate: Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard
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Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard
Don't Put Her Down You Helped Put Her There
(live)
Live performance by Dickens and Gerrard, female Bluegrass bandleaders (when most were men!)
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Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard
Custom Made Women's Blues
(live)
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Show credits roll over Dickens and Gerrard performance.
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Envelope with Woman Alive! address: P.O. Box 5050, Radio City Station, New York, N.Y. 10019. Narrator reads the address.
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Slate: Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Grant for program by Announcer.
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Public Broadcasting Service graphic
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End Reel.
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