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One in a Million

Follows each step in the story of Robert Fraser's tax return, from the time he prints his name on the form until the day he receives his rebate.
Year : 1960 | Total Duration : 10.5 Minutes | Producer : R J Edwards
Director : Jack Rogers |
CU on hands filling in 1959 tax return, man at desk listens to old radio announcing tax returns need to be submitted. Adds paperwork to spike. Places return into envelope.
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Access No. 40171 | 1 min 2 secs | 1960s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
VS letters being posted into old red post boxes. Post bags being sorted. Sorting room in post office. Production line of mail sorters. HA truck with bags of mail. Men walk down middle of long tables and unload bags of tax returns onto table, sorters seated at tables ready to sort. Pan along line of people opening mail and sorting returns.
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Access No. 40172 | 1 min 59 secs | 1960s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
Good office shots. Inside Taxation office. Woman at large pigeon holes stacked with taxation forms. She opens forms and checks them, uses marker pen to write on front cover then places them onto pile in front of her. WS of sorting room with rows of desks and clerical workers, mainly women, sorting into alphabetical order. Good shot of wall of index drawers Good male office workers shots.
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Access No. 66379 | 2 mins 50 secs | 1960s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
Good office shots. WS of wall of pigeon holes with piles of papers in them. Women stacks other bundles into slot. Woman stamping forms. Rows of women at typewriters. CU of type written taxation cheque.
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Access No. 66395 | 1 min 49 secs | 1960s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
Exterior doorway of Taxation Office. 2 young boys wheel trolley of bundles of taxation forms out of doorway and across footpath to van parked at curb. Load into van. Kombi van drives into warehouse
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Access No. 66405 | 31 secs | 1960s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
Woman working sitting beside paper folding machine loading cheques, cheques into envelopes manually, then sealed by machine. Man packing bag with mail and pad locking it for security.
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Access No. 66409 | 43 secs | 1960s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
Man mowing grass in garden. Postman comes toward man in background. and blows whistle. Man collects mail from postbox. CU of taxation cheque.
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Access No. 66416 | 55 secs | 1960s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
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