Moving Image / Home Office Daily Operations

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Title: Home Office Daily Operations
Creator: Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Co.--Employees
Date Created and/or Issued: ca. 1953
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company records
Rights Information: Copyrighted
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Rights Holder and Contact: University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections
spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description: Scope/Content: A circa 1953 filmed tour of the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company West Adams home office shortly after it was built. Footage shows staffers at work in various departments, a detailed view of the office interiors and equipment and installation of a sign publicizing a new hospital plan. A number of key personnel appear such as Helen Batiste, Edgar J. Johnston, Ivan Houston, Verna Hickman, and co-founders George Beavers and Norman Houston. Also shown are Bertha Nickerson, Lena Horne, and Joe Louis.
Funding: Access to this film is generously supported by funding from the National Film Preservation Foundation.
Type: moving image
Format: color ; 16mm Kodachrome
Form/Genre: Amateur films
Extent: Reel 1 of 1 (16 min., 13 sec.) : mos
Identifier: yrlsc1434_100_03_H264
Language: English
eng
Relation: Audiovisual materials. 1947-1950, 1954, 1957-1958, 1961-1962, 1964, 1966, 1966-1969, 1971-1975, 1977-1978, 1981, 1987, 1999-2007, undated.

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