Overview
- Description
- Sign over door: Foreign Service Officers Training School. Seal and machinery for stamping the seal. Sign: Appointments: Department of State. Statement to camera (and to those gathered for class). Sync sound about the American Foreign Service, duties, importance. Silent views of individuals seated in the room taking notes. Sync sound: swearing of oath. Another take of same. (Two men) Calendar on wall in background: November. WS, of large room, procters during examinations at desks. Candidates are exclusively male; most in shirts and ties, no jackets. McCrory's store on corner, trams and traffic passing in street. Sign over door: U.S. Civil Service Examination Rooms. Street number 820. MWS, View of candidates during exam (includes one woman). Closer shots of individuals; VAR. Another woman seen in CS. 02:10:02 Candidate "Donovan" in informal questioning situation in study. Sync sound. Four examiners include George Messersmith. Books and globe in BG. Sample question: "What are the prospects, Mr. Donovan, of concluding a trade agreement with Great Britain?" VAR takes.
- Film Title
-
State Department
- Duration
- 00:11:49
- Date
-
Production:
1937
- Locale
-
United States
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Producer:
March of Time, Inc.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Outtakes.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 02:00:45:00 to 02:12:34:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 937 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 937 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 937 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 937 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small- Preservation
Preservation 937 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 937 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 937 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 937 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
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- You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
- Copyright
- Public Domain
- Conditions on Use
- To the best of the Museum's knowledge, this material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this material.
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in September 1994.
- Copied From
- 35mm; b/w
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 1554
Source Archive Number: 200 MTT 665 RR - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
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- 2024-02-21 07:44:59
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