British Pathe

London.

CU. Jo's hands typing on machine. LV. Jo at desk typing. SV. Sign 'Pitman's College', pan to girls entering. SV. Interior, Pitman's College, Jo typing with other girls. Pan to girls typing. SV. Girls typing. CU. Girl typing. AS. Teacher alongside girl learning to type. LV. Girls in...

London.

CU. Jo's hands typing on machine. LV. Jo at desk typing. SV. Sign 'Pitman's College', pan to girls entering. SV. Interior, Pitman's College, Jo typing with other girls. Pan to girls typing. SV. Girls typing. CU. Girl typing. AS. Teacher alongside girl learning to type. LV. Girls in classroom learning shorthand phrases (natural sound). SV. Girls at desks repeating phrases. SV. Teacher at blackboard pointing to shorthand outlines. LV. Girls in classroom learning shorthand. SV. Girls in classroom taking shorthand down in their notebooks from recorder. CU. Tape recorder. CU. Girl writing shorthand in notebook. SV. Girls writing in notebooks at desks.

CU. Sign on door as it opens 'Secretarial Agency'. Woman at desk speaking into phone, 'Yes I know girls don't like a job in the City nowadays when they can get one in the West End'.

GV. Exterior, City & Royal Exchange. SV. Girls walking down narrow City street. CU. Clock at one o'clock. LV. Traffic jam on crowded City street. SV. Women entering Lyon's teashop. SV. Interior, girls queuing up for food.

SV. People walking in street. GV. Large block of new offices. LV. Another block of offices, St. Paul's Cathedral in background. SV. Attractive typist taking dictation, pan down attractive legs. CU. Director, Stewart Farrar, feeling very hot under the collar as he glances towards girl's legs. LV. Manager, Colin Farman, in office, dictating to his not as attractive secretary. He pauses during dictation and shrugs his shoulders.

LV. Shorthand typists at tables in canteen. SV. Girl talking: 'All I can say is, I'm sorry for his wife'. SV. Another girl speaking: 'Can't dictate for toffee, if I put down what he says it doesn't make sense'. SV. Another girl speaking 'He says I can't spell, $8 a week and he expects a walking dictionary'.

SV. Girls hurrying across road. Several shots of women scrambling on buses. GV. Shops in Regent Street. Several shots of people looking into fashion shops in Regent Street.

SV. Jo at typewriter typing, she stops and picks up cigarette, leans on typewriter and starts to dream.

SV. Secretary speaking into phone: "Lord Croyston will see you for ten minutes at 3.30 next Thursday, Thank you, I'll book that. Oh Miss Foster, a table for four at the Carlton, one o'clock for Lord Croyston, please." SV. Secretary puts down phone and rings intercom. CU. Secretary with dubbed voice 'Yes'. SV. Secretary speaking into intercom "The conference at the Ministry has been put back an hour to 5.30 ... Damn! .. I told Lady Croyston that it may make you a little late, Thank you."

SV. Jo dreaming, she comes to and types slowly, voice off says 'Miss Briggs I am waiting for that letter'. Joe starts to type quickly. CU. Hands typing quickly on keyboard.