Employees Only
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Employees Only |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1958 |
| length | 14 minutes |
| Rod | |
| script | Malvin woods |
| production | Kenneth G. Brown |
| occupation | |
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Employees Only (German only employee ) is an American by Kenneth G. Brown produced documentary - short film from 1958, with the Brown for a Oscar nominee.
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The Hughes Aircraft Company in Culver City , California , has around 20,000 employees, including around 5,000 handicapped people who are employed in various positions and who contribute their manpower to the company. Many employees are introduced in the interview, emphasizing what a great job they would do. Among them are amputees, people who are now confined to wheelchairs due to polio, and in turn others who cannot see their disabilities, such as cardiac and respiratory diseases, which are invisible at first glance. They all do different types of work without falling behind their able-bodied colleagues.
Justin Johnson, chairman of the board of governors for the employment of people with disabilities, said the experience taught that it is a myth that workers compensation payments would increase when many people with disabilities were hired. They are firmly convinced that someone with a physical disability represents a more easily assessed risk than someone who does not have such a handicap, provided that a thorough examination takes place and that the employee is placed in the right place. The company has a large number of employees with physical disabilities. However, there are no records of a single accident at work that have occurred due to a disability in the past ten years, and no claims for compensation.
Production notes, publication
Produced and distributed by Kenneth G. Brown for Hughes Aircraft Company in association with the President's Committee, the film premiered on September 19, 1958 at the Motion Picture Association cinema in Washington, DC . It was attended by high profile Hughes Aircraft officials such as CE Blandford, public relations and advertising manager and Justin Johnson, a senior Hughes employee and chairman of the California Board of Governors for the Physically Disabled.
Arthur Motley, then director of the US Labor Office, said he had notified the directors of the state labor office of the availability of the film and asked states to secure screenings for employers in their areas. Mary Switzer, Director of Vocational Rehabilitation, who was familiar with Hughes Aircraft's employment programs, also made copies of the film available to those involved.
Hughes Aircraft had made 70 prints of the 14-minute 16mm black and white film. These were distributed to television stations across the country in September and October 1958. After November 15, copies were still made available by the relevant agencies upon request.
Award
Nomination for Kenneth G. Brown in the category “Best Documentary Short Film” .
However, the trophy went to Ben Sharpsteen and the film Ama Girls .
Web links
- Employees Only in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The 31st Academy Awards | 1959 see page oscars.org. (English).
- ↑ a b c Performance: The Story of the Handicapped: Employes Only (Continued from p. 3) by United States, President's Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped, p. 10 ff.