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Seventh Street Entrance (1935)

1935 · Ephemeral film · 17 min

Synopsis

Film about woman sales associate winning trip to New York City. Filmed at Stix, Baer and Fuller department store in downtown St. Louis, Missouri.

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Running time
17 minutes
Collection
Prelinger Archives

Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★★ · Quality Tells, Qualuty Smells! · Spuzz · 2016-01-28

*spoilers! Maybe watch the film first!* Extreme curio that takes FOREVER to make it's point. It's not until the film is half over that you FINALLY make some sense of it. (the film is silent). In any case, a store employee recieves an ad that the store plans to use, "Quality Tells - Quality Sells!" 'BALONEY!' the girl writes on the ad! When she gets home, she recieves a telegram that her boyfriend is passing through to town on the train, and would like to see her when he comes in for the few minutes. She runs to get dressed. But all her clothes are in tatters! Her stockings have runs! Finally…