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Retail Credit Buying (Film is scratched)

Retail Credit Buying (Film is scratched)
Clip: 490542_1_1
Year Shot: 1968 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: Color
Tape Master:
Original Film: WPA 1673
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 00:00:00 - 00:09:38

PREVIEW CASSETTE 201440 This film attempts to demystify credit cards and the system of borrowed finance. Fairly heady (moralistic) for its time and geared towards the youth crowd.

Retail Credit Buying (Film is scratched)
Clip: 490542_1_2
Year Shot: 1968 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: Color
Tape Master:
Original Film: WPA 1673
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 00:00:00 - 00:00:04

DO NOT USE Opening text

Retail Credit Buying (Film is scratched)
Clip: 490542_1_3
Year Shot: 1968 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: Color
Tape Master:
Original Film: WPA 1673
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 00:00:04 - 00:00:17

Titles.

Retail Credit Buying (Film is scratched)
Clip: 490542_1_4
Year Shot: 1968 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: Color
Tape Master:
Original Film: WPA 1673
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 00:00:17 - 00:00:39

Sisters Lulu and Sam, blond teenage girls wearing colorfully funky sweaters, sitting in a white lighting studio and talking fairly hip to the camera about credit.

Retail Credit Buying (Film is scratched)
Clip: 490542_1_5
Year Shot: 1968 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: Color
Tape Master:
Original Film: WPA 1673
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 00:00:39 - 00:00:43

Text explaining retail credit.

Retail Credit Buying (Film is scratched)
Clip: 490542_1_6
Year Shot: 1968 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: Color
Tape Master:
Original Film: WPA 1673
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 00:00:43 - 00:01:00

Sisters Lulu and Sam, blond teenage girls wearing colorfully funky sweaters, sitting in a white lighting studio and talking fairly hip to the camera about credit.

Retail Credit Buying (Film is scratched)
Clip: 490542_1_7
Year Shot: 1968 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: Color
Tape Master:
Original Film: WPA 1673
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 00:01:00 - 00:01:14

Teen girls shopping, passing by windows and wandering through department stores and riding escalators.

Retail Credit Buying (Film is scratched)
Clip: 490542_1_8
Year Shot: 1968 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: Color
Tape Master:
Original Film: WPA 1673
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 00:01:14 - 00:01:59

In studio, CU of sweaters on a table rising one by one towards the camera. Sam mouthing her father's words of wisdom (his voice, her face). Dad appears speaking the truth about credit and finance charges, much to the girls' blatant chagrin.

Retail Credit Buying (Film is scratched)
Clip: 490542_1_9
Year Shot: 1968 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: Color
Tape Master:
Original Film: WPA 1673
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 00:01:59 - 00:02:12

Retail Merchants Credit Association. Female office employees work on typewriters and at file cabinets.

Retail Credit Buying (Film is scratched)
Clip: 490542_1_10
Year Shot: 1968 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: Color
Tape Master:
Original Film: WPA 1673
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 00:02:12 - 00:02:30

CU's of a credit report (Credit history)

Retail Credit Buying (Film is scratched)
Clip: 490542_1_11
Year Shot: 1968 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: Color
Tape Master:
Original Film: WPA 1673
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 00:02:30 - 00:02:36

Female office employees work on typewriters and at file cabinets.

Retail Credit Buying (Film is scratched)
Clip: 490542_1_12
Year Shot: 1968 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: Color
Tape Master:
Original Film: WPA 1673
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 00:02:36 - 00:03:07

In studio, Dad speaking the truth about credit and finance charges to his teenage daughters

Retail Credit Buying (Film is scratched)
Clip: 490542_1_13
Year Shot: 1968 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: Color
Tape Master:
Original Film: WPA 1673
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 00:03:07 - 00:04:49

Graphics explaining "Simple Interest". CU's of a finance charge bill as Dad explains how interest is charged.

Retail Credit Buying (Film is scratched)
Clip: 490542_1_14
Year Shot: 1968 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: Color
Tape Master:
Original Film: WPA 1673
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 00:04:49 - 00:04:57

Teen girl, Lulu, wearing a sweet hot pink outfit, shopping for matching pink gloves, purse and

Retail Credit Buying (Film is scratched)
Clip: 490542_1_15
Year Shot: 1968 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: Color
Tape Master:
Original Film: WPA 1673
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 00:04:57 - 00:05:10

CU of department store credit card. CU's of receipts being filled out.

Retail Credit Buying (Film is scratched)
Clip: 490542_1_16
Year Shot: 1968 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: Color
Tape Master:
Original Film: WPA 1673
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 00:05:10 - 00:05:15

Teen girl, Lulu, wearing a sweet hot pink outfit, shopping for earrings.

Retail Credit Buying (Film is scratched)
Clip: 490542_1_17
Year Shot: 1968 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: Color
Tape Master:
Original Film: WPA 1673
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 00:05:15 - 00:05:20

Female office worked stamps a piece of paper. CU of piece of paper with word "Delinquent" written on it.

Retail Credit Buying (Film is scratched)
Clip: 490542_1_18
Year Shot: 1968 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: Color
Tape Master:
Original Film: WPA 1673
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 00:05:20 - 00:05:24

Zooming on face of teen girl.

Retail Credit Buying (Film is scratched)
Clip: 490542_1_19
Year Shot: 1968 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: Color
Tape Master:
Original Film: WPA 1673
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 00:05:24 - 00:05:41

CU of credit card statement spinning. Dad explains revolving credit.

Retail Credit Buying (Film is scratched)
Clip: 490542_1_20
Year Shot: 1968 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: Color
Tape Master:
Original Film: WPA 1673
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 00:05:41 - 00:06:13

Graphics explaining "True Annual Interest".

Retail Credit Buying (Film is scratched)
Clip: 490542_1_21
Year Shot: 1968 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: Color
Tape Master:
Original Film: WPA 1673
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 00:06:13 - 00:06:37

CU of bank statements and bills piling up.

Retail Credit Buying (Film is scratched)
Clip: 490542_1_22
Year Shot: 1968 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: Color
Tape Master:
Original Film: WPA 1673
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 00:06:37 - 00:06:50

Table shots of consumer items: a camera, a fur lined coat, a record player (turntable), a Siamese cat, and a government savings bond.

Retail Credit Buying (Film is scratched)
Clip: 490542_1_23
Year Shot: 1968 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: Color
Tape Master:
Original Film: WPA 1673
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 00:06:50 - 00:07:25

Graphics explaining interest. A bank statement book being flipped through.

Retail Credit Buying (Film is scratched)
Clip: 490542_1_24
Year Shot: 1968 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: Color
Tape Master:
Original Film: WPA 1673
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 00:07:25 - 00:08:13

In studio, Dad lecturing the teenage girls on credit and interest.

Retail Credit Buying (Film is scratched)
Clip: 490542_1_25
Year Shot: 1968 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: Color
Tape Master:
Original Film: WPA 1673
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 00:08:13 - 00:08:15

Graphics recap of the information on credit.

Retail Credit Buying (Film is scratched)
Clip: 490542_1_26
Year Shot: 1968 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: Color
Tape Master:
Original Film: WPA 1673
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 00:08:15 - 00:08:25

Women office workers working in credit office.

Retail Credit Buying (Film is scratched)
Clip: 490542_1_27
Year Shot: 1968 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: Color
Tape Master:
Original Film: WPA 1673
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 00:08:25 - 00:09:04

Graphics on interest. CU of percentages being written on a sheet of paper.

Retail Credit Buying (Film is scratched)
Clip: 490542_1_28
Year Shot: 1968 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: Color
Tape Master:
Original Film: WPA 1673
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 00:09:04 - 00:09:24

In studio Dad and the teen girls waving to the camera as it dollys out.

Retail Credit Buying (Film is scratched)
Clip: 490542_1_29
Year Shot: 1968 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: Color
Tape Master:
Original Film: WPA 1673
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 00:09:24 - 00:09:38

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