Seventh Street Entrance

Seventh Street Entrance

Rejissyor: Hardcastle Films. Film about woman sales associate winning trip to New York City. Filmed at Stix, Baer and Fuller department store in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. 03:38:15:27 CU clock with Roman numerals reads 5:00. 03:38:21:08 CU man filmed in profile blows into trumpet. 03:38:56:04 Woman with short 1930s haircut opens antique cash register and counts money. 03:39:06:05 CU disembodied hand holding a pencil lifts a cursive hand written note revealing text sign “Quality tells Quality Sells.” 03:40:54:19 CU 1930s art deco clock reads 7:22. 03:40:58:19 Woman seated in chair flips through magazine; high-angle CU woman flipping through magazine, woman finds large printed page inserted in magazine with slogan “Quality tells-Quality sell,” woman crinkles up page and throws it away; mailman rings doorbell, woman receives letter in the mail; CU Western Union paper in disembodied woman’s hands. 03:43:14:12 CU disembodied hands sewing flowery patter material; CU art deco clock reads 7:44; CU disembodied hand irons silk material; CU clock reads 8:07; CU woman foot struggling to put shoe on; CU tear in woman’s stocking; CU clock 8:42; man looking at pocket watch walks up and stops with back in front of African-American bellhop in front of a hotel; woman sits down in chair and cries; man passes about in front of hotel looking at pocket watch in hand; man climbs aboard train as it is leaving station; woman huddled crying in chair; VS pan over woman’s 1930 wardrobe. 03:47:03:12 CU clock reads 8:54; woman opens crinkled ball of paper on table; wrinkled paper reads “Quality tells-quality sells.” Clock with roman numerals reads 8:30. 03:48:37:00 CU woman flips through 1930s fashion magazine. 03:49:24:28 VS woman selling pair of stockings in department store. 03:52:04:11 Calendar from May 1935 flies out of frame revealing June 1935, followed by July. 03:53:31:11 Great shot 1930s woman reading in passenger car of train, woman hands telegram to African American man working on train.

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