Selling Wizard, The
Selling Wizard, The is a short film from 1954 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.
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Pedestals, silhouette drawing of man in shirt pops onto pedestal Another silhouette, then other - total of 3 CU foods arranged in store frozen food freezer, a hand picks up frozen desert MCU pyramid of ice cream boxes - pyramid collapses CU hand with paintbrush - painting ice cream box CU jumbled frozen food section Camera pans well organized frozen food section
1:40 CU woman in red and white checked vest, red cape - she points to herself, nods her head, puts her head down, shakes her head, smiles broadly Silhouette of frozen food cabinet - set lightens and cabinet is full of products MCU woman in cape (sales wizard) with pointer - she points to title as appears beside her : SALES APPEAL STYLING Cabinet : CU of various boxes of frozen foods through the glassed in front and through wide top opening MCU sales wizard - she opens notebook, begins writing in it with long pencil Camera pans frozen food boxes in cabinet CU sales wizard holds up booklet - with graph - CU ICE CREAM SALES SURVEY Pans cabinet, frozen foods MLS full frozen food cabinet MLS sales wizard with short cape and short shorts next to frozen food cabinet Frozen food cabinet with jars on top
4:19 Pan of legs (sales wizard) walking towards camera, turns around corner of frozen food cabinet Frozen food cabinet with "superstructure" that says PLEASE SERVE YOURSELF CU PLEASE SERVE YOURSELF, wizard's hand with pointer MLS full frozen food cabinet MCU sales wizard uses pointer to point at the title beside her SPACE SAVING CAPACITY MCU smaller frozen food cabinet, longer one, even longer cabinet Sales wizard pops up from behind cabinet & begins to measure cabinet's length with tape measure
5:45 Top level loading - arm putting box into cabinet CU empty cabinet Camera pans length of full cabinet that says PLEASE HELP YOURSELF VS/MLS of full frozen food cabinets Sales wizard using pointer to point at title PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT Line drawing/blue print of cabinet - hand pointing with finger CU PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT MCU full frozen food cabinet MCU wizard smiling Sketch of cabinet cross section - showing how air currents flow through cool fins CU time control of automatic defrost Sketch of defrosting method Sales wizard pointing to aluminum panel on front CU frozen food CU bottom of shopping cart as it bumps bottom of cabinet VS/MLS frozen food cabinets Sales wizard VS/MLS storage cabinets - different kinds of cabinets MCU frozen foods and cabinets
10:30 Frozen food in cabinet - hand pulls open glass top door of cabinet Cabinets Sales wizard pointing at titles : SALES APPEAL STYLING, SPACE SAVING CAPACITY, PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT Back to pedestals and silhouettes of male figures in suits Sales wizard comes up from behind frozen food cabinet, he winks
"A" with eagle inside - symbol of Anheuser-Busch| Selling Wizard, The | |
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| Produced by | Handy (Jam) Organization |
Production company | Handy (Jam) Organization |
| Distributed by | Handy (Jam) Organization |
Release date | 1954 |
Running time | 12:00 |
| Language | English |
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