Video URL


13170_19039_ad_agency3
Subjects

1950
B&W

Film taken in a Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn Inc. Advertising office setting with people dressed in business attire. Clip opens with shot of man in overcoat and fedora walking toward and opening a frosted glass office door. Above the doorway is the text “Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn Inc.” Inside, he greets a woman sitting at a desk. Shot of a flip clock with a golfer statue attached to top. A man in glasses sits at desk, writing. His office is large and fancy (a globe, framed photos and art on walls, windows, couch, chairs). He takes glasses off and looks at camera. An older woman sits in an office at a desk littered with papers. She’s writing. Many more clips of people in open office spaces, sitting at desks or drafting tables, working and talking. Two men go out on roof of building. Camera pans across surrounding area: many buildings, a smoke stack, a bridge, a ship moving through the river, streets.