Stenographer’s Friend or What Was Accomplished by an Edison Business Phonograph, The

Stenographer’s Friend or What Was Accomplished by an Edison Business Phonograph, The Advertisement for Edison Dictaphone. In office, secretary is having difficulty taking shorthand from her boss. Two men are argue with her. It is getting to 5.30 and employees are leaving. Stenographer puts paper on boss’s desk and puts on hat. Both men try to give her more work, she starts crying, they let her go. An Edison sales rep shows up with a solution. Shows pamphlet in CU “The Edison Commercial System”. Trying out the Dictaphone w/ salesman & cylinder being cut. Stenographer transcribing on typewriter w/ earphones on, big smile on her face. Office boy shaving wax cylinders for re-use. Everyone in the office shown at 5 pm, work finished. Edison sales rep comes in & shakes everyone’s hand. 1900s; Advertising; Promotional Film; Product Placement; Motion Pictures; Inventions;