International Zone: 26 x 36 Messenger Pt 1 of 2
United Nations Post Office film for UNTV w/ Alistair Cooke. Animated introduction, titles.
22:01:28 INT post office in New York City, wanted poster, customers at counter, letters & parcels sorted. Lighted sign: United Nations Post Office. Clerk fixing special United Nations stamps to letters. Cooke to camera on importance of national postal services, over montage of stills re postal history: origins in pigeons in ancient Egypt.
22:03:47 CU of US Postal Service motto on NYC P.O. neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night...
22:03:58 Incas & Peru stamp re knotted string, pre-literacy.
22:04:30 Drawings of development of early US service, Cooke VO re high charges; pioneer English school teacher Sir Rowland Hill, seen on Portuguese postage stamp, devised notion of single pre-paid rate for all letters & postage stamp.
22:05:35 CU first adhesive stamp: English Penny Black of 1840; CUs other stamps. Interview w/ postage history expert Ernest Kier ? on first period prior to issue of first US federal postage stamps (1847). Stills of stagecoaches, Pony Express etc. Portrait of US Postmaster-General Montgomery Blair. Universal Postal Union HQ in Berne, Switzerland.
22:08:30 Cooke to camera (w/ cigarette) re stamp collecting / philately & famous collections of Queen Elizabeth II & Franklin Roosevelt; CUs valuable & rare stamps & commemorative issues. UN Postal Administration established 1951, proceeds from UN stamp sales go to pay off loan for UN HQ building NYC.
22:12:32 UN stamp designer to camera re purpose of designs, to reflect work of specific agencies or world issues e.g. scenes of malaria, malnourished African child given food, ‘Freedom From Hunger’ & ‘Economic Commission for Latin America’ stamps; scenes of poverty & people behind barbed wire, Human Rights. International co-operation fostered by UN - meteorologists releasing weather forecasting balloon & UN stamps represent meteorology, International Labor Organization, Civil Air Traffic, Telecommunications, Atomic Energy Agency, UNESCO, International Monetary Fund. Flags flying outside UN HQ. Stamp designer at desk w/ more UN stamp designs.
Collectors; Philately; US Mail; Hobbies; Internationalism; Cooperation; Hobby;
NOTE: One continuous minute sold at per reel rate.
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International Zone: 26 x 36 Messenger Pt 1 of 2 United Nations Post Office film for UNTV w/ Alistair Cooke. Animated introduction, titles. 22:01:28 INT post office in New York City, wanted poster, customers at counter, letters & parcels sorted. Lighted sign: United Nations Post Office. Clerk fixing special United Nations stamps to letters. Cooke to camera on importance of national postal services, over montage of stills re postal history: origins in pigeons in ancient Egypt. 22:03:47 CU of US Postal Service motto on NYC P.O. neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night... 22:03:58 Incas & Peru stamp re knotted string, pre-literacy. 22:04:30 Drawings of development of early US service, Cooke VO re high charges; pioneer English school teacher Sir Rowland Hill, seen on Portuguese postage stamp, devised notion of single pre-paid rate for all letters & postage stamp. 22:05:35 CU first adhesive stamp: English Penny Black of 1840; CUs other stamps. Interview w/ postage history expert Ernest Kier ? on first period prior to issue of first US federal postage stamps (1847). Stills of stagecoaches, Pony Express etc. Portrait of US Postmaster-General Montgomery Blair. Universal Postal Union HQ in Berne, Switzerland. 22:08:30 Cooke to camera (w/ cigarette) re stamp collecting / philately & famous collections of Queen Elizabeth II & Franklin Roosevelt; CUs valuable & rare stamps & commemorative issues. UN Postal Administration established 1951, proceeds from UN stamp sales go to pay off loan for UN HQ building NYC. 22:12:32 UN stamp designer to camera re purpose of designs, to reflect work of specific agencies or world issues e.g. scenes of malaria, malnourished African child given food, ‘Freedom From Hunger’ & ‘Economic Commission for Latin America’ stamps; scenes of poverty & people behind barbed wire, Human Rights. International co-operation fostered by UN - meteorologists releasing weather forecasting balloon & UN stamps represent meteorology, International Labor Organization, Civil Air Traffic, Telecommunications, Atomic Energy Agency, UNESCO, International Monetary Fund. Flags flying outside UN HQ. Stamp designer at desk w/ more UN stamp designs. Collectors; Philately; US Mail; Hobbies; Internationalism; Cooperation; Hobby; NOTE: One continuous minute sold at per reel rate.