The Florida Experiment
name: label: Collection Creator
content: United Telegraph Workers.
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content: Western Union Telegraph Company
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content: Western Union Telegraph Company Records
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content: Western Union Telegraph Company Records / Series 26: Audiovisual Materials / 26.5: Films Documenting Corporate Activities
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content: 1 Motion picture film (16 mm training film which includes outtakes; one magnetic tape; one 1/2 " VHS, and one DVD)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1969
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content: Reel OF 205.70-1
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content: Reel OF 205.70-2
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content: Reel OF 205.70-3
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content: Reel OF 205.70-4
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content: Reel OF 205.70-5
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Moving Images [31983000039289]
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content: Moving Images [31983000039255]
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content: Moving Images [31983000039248]
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content: Moving Images [31983000039297]
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content: Moving Images [31983000039438]
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content: Motion picture films
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content: Film documents a pilot program being conducted in the Florida division of Western Union. This pilot program implemented a new stream-lined single-line management system that extended down through all management levels. The program proved so successful in the Florida division that the Western Union Telegraph Company President implemented this stream-lined management system throughout the entire Western Union Telegraph Company. With the new system, the company reduced its management divisions across the country from 30 to 18 which also resulted in significant management cost reductions.