What Is a Corporation?

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What Is a Corporation? is a short film from 1949 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.

DISCUSSES PRINCIPAL FORMS OF BUSINESS OWNERSHIP: SINGLE PROPRIETORSHIP, PARTNERSHIP & CORPORATION, AND EXPLAINS ADVANTAGES & DISADVANTAGES OF EACH.

Takes a small business through the benefits of incorporation and explains the process somewhat. Discusses the idea that a corporation is treated as a person in the eyes of the law.

Shots: steel manufacturing plant; clothing store, selling ties; two men shaking hands; stock exchange;

Different kinds of corporations (including towns, schools, colleges, churches and hospitals); also partnerships and single proprietorships;

SIGN: Imperial Steel Co. Inc.

     Employees Entrance

SIGN: WELCOME TO

     FAIRVIEW
     INCORPORATED
     POP. 8540

Voiceover:

"Imperial Steel along with thousands of other legal persons is a part of daily living, it is a member of our society. Yet it is not simply this property, nor is it a human being or a group of human beings, it is Imperial Steel Co. incorporated with stock owned by people in widely scattered places."

What Is a Corporation?
Produced byCoronet Instructional Films
Production
company
Coronet Instructional Films
Distributed byCoronet Instructional Films
Release date
1949
Running time
11:00
LanguageEnglish
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