British industry, 1950's. A man, probably a manager points at a graph showing U.K. sales. An expensive looking office with one man standing at a desk while another is sitting, there are two empty chairs. A man is pointing at a graph showing U.K. sales, he joins the other two men in the office and sits down at the desk. The three men talk to each other, the man that sat down examines large amounts of papers while he talks. The man that was standing bends over to one of the men sitting down, he opens a folder, the other two men gather around him. A factory line with women sorting green peas. Close up of green peas in containers on an automatic line. A woman holding a notepad is ticking with a pen. Boxes of frozen peas from the "Birds Eye" company are stacked together. A woman and a man stand by a till machine, a Birds Eye sales list is next to the till machine. Groceries are stocked and loaded onto delivery trucks. A man writes on a notepad. A red delivery truck reverses out of the stock room, another delivery truck is being fully loaded. A London street with people going into a building. A farmers Weekly book. A close up of a page showing Agriculture reports. Letters being sorted in the post office. A woman telephonist. A typing marconigram is receiving messages, a woman retrieves it. A group of telephonists at a telephone central. An office with very long rows of desks full of women typing and doing clerical work. Close up of a woman typing, of another using an accountants calculator, some are handwriting etc. A woman is counting or using a calculator (a Burroughs calculator). Close up of maybe a Monroe calculator. Close up of maybe a Burroughs calculator. Close up of another calculator. Forms are stamped. Close up of a Monroe calculator. A list is checked by hand. Close up of a calculator. More forms are checked. Close up of another calculator. A paper is looked up in a filling cabinet. Close up of figures calculated by the calculating machine. Overview of the clerks in a large office. Close ups of the "In Tray" and of the "Out Tray" and of the "Pending Tray". View of a electronic computer, three people operate it.
