Video URL


13170_19039_ad_agency4
Subjects

1950
B&W

Film taken in a Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn Inc. Advertising office setting with people dressed in business attire. Clip opens “Hollywood Blvd. -> 6200 W.” sign. Then shot of a drawing of a man in a suit, chain necklaces and a beret holding a microphone stand. Face of man from photo has been cut out and pasted where head on the drawing would be. Text under drawing says “Hollywood." Two men sit at a desk looking at a print ad draft, more hang on wall. Another drawing with a photo cutout face, this time of a man in a overcoat and fedora, carrying a pistol and a violin case. A cloud blows at his back and the text “Chicago” lays underneath. Shot of the Palmolive Building, then close up on entrance. A doorman talks to another man. Shot of door that says, “Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn Inc. Advertising.” Door opens and secretary looks up from desk inside office, then answers phone. A man in an overcoat opens a desk drawer, removes a riffle barrel and a rifle stock. He places them in a violin case and snaps the case closures shut. Man and woman sit at a desk talking, then two women sit at a window seat, gazing at and pointing at the city below. Aerial shot of streets next to a body of water. Woman follows man upstairs, writing as he dictates to her. He takes off his hat and coat as he climbs the stairs. A man types at typewriter. Signs behind him read “U.S. is going down the road” and “Turn the tax eaters out.”