International Zone: 26 x 36 Messenger Pt 2 of 2

International Zone: 26 x 36 Messenger Pt 2 of 2 United Nations Post Office film for UNTV w/ Alistair Cooke. UN selection panel all male review new stamp designs submitted by international artists; arguing about which designs are most meaningful. Candidates gradually narrowed down. 22:17:28 In-house designer shows design for UN Emergency Force stamp rejected because it suggested war rather than peace, other rejected designs. 22:19:09 Approved stamp design for UN Operations in the Congo; taken to engravers in Switzerland, brief street scene. INT engraver touching up design & photographer making negative, stamps printed & checked. 22:20:41 Machines locked at end of day; stamps shipped & opened in NYC. Orders from stamp collectors for first day cover of this design opened & processed. Queues at ‘United Nations Postal Administration - Philatelic & Postal Sales Counter’. Collectors inc. nuns buying new stamps & fixing to letters. 22:22:58 Collectors interviewed on reasons for buying UN stamps inc. young boy w/ thick NYC accent, woman, man. Judge J. Howard Rossbach in office talks to camera re appeal of UN stamps. 22:24:53 Celebrity UN stamp collector & Hollywood star Celeste Holm to camera briefly re hobby. Alistair Cooke sums up - “...on these tiny rectangles of paper is contained an account of Man’s struggle to keep the world at peace...” Sorting machines, people buying stamps from machines, CU postal clerk working. CU stamps. Collectors; Philately; US Mail; Hobbies; Hobby; Stamp Collecting; NOTE: One continuous minute sold at per reel rate.