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County Government (1951)

1951 · Ephemeral film · 18 min

Synopsis

Shows how county government came into being, the functions and duties of each of the county departments, and need and value of modernization of this form of government.

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Running time
18 minutes
Collection
Prelinger Archives

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★★★ · 'll have the copies ready for you in 2 days. · Spuzz · 2016-02-07

Not bad overview of what a county government does. This is produced by a company I am unfamiliar with, and the totally bad stock music at the beginning had me worried, but actually this moves along at a brisk pace, stopping at each department to take a look of what goes on there. As to be expected for the time period, most of the govermental jobs are by men, with women doing mostly secretarial jobs (love the photocopier which takes up half the room!). This looks to be shot on location, and I was quite surprised at the lack of camera consciousness everyone seemed to have.