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The clerk shows an endorsement note which is afterwards projected enlarged. We read on the screen ■
Use the brains of your employees where they are not wasted. Don't make them do work that can be done by a machine.
The audience are shown a number of « printers » and « sorters » worked by a single clerk, and this part of the film gives a vivid idea of what a single section of a modern business really is.
The Caption reads : Manual labour is the exception in workshops : in offices it is still the rule and then :
Specialize your zvork
The book-keeping office of the Bank is shown, with its machines, The employees file into the office, take up their positions behind the machines and get to work.
The screen shows, closer up, how the machines work. We read : Daily entry of accounts in the register by the old method.
The audience are shown the accountants coning out of the strong room bearing their enormous and heavy registers. This picture is followed by another showing a clerk carrying a bundle of cards.
How things are done to-day
End of the 2nd. Part.
Caption :
Third Part
The technical department
We are shown a skilled mechanic busy experimenting on a new machine designed for the administrative department.
The work-shop Here we are shown the technical experts at work. We next read : The printing works
and the film shows us the Bank's printing department.
Several machines are at work ; the printers are busy and the foreman supervises them individually.
Some of the machines are shown closer up and the audience watch a rapid press with a special arrangement for printing envelopes, three at a time. A small rapid press is then shown on the screen ; this has an automatic attachment for placing the paper in position. Then a big American rapid press is shown, equipped with a like attachment.
The film then exhibits a modern rapid printing press that works en
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