The Will to work | David Eady | ACMI collection | ACMI: Your museum of screen culture

Episode of Series “Supervisors in Action”.
In an amusing and unusual setting, Tom Fraser, a low morale producing supervisor is forced to re-live his supervisory mis-deeds. He is shown the far-reaching effects of his inconsiderable, insensitive and self-centred methods of supervising.

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Credits

director

David Eady

producer

Michael Barden

production company

RMR Productions

Duration

00:30:00:00

Production places

United Kingdom

Appears in

Supervisors in Action

Group of items

Supervisors in Action

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

013339

Language

English

Subject categories

Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Executives

Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Management

Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Personnel management

Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Supervisors

Short films

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)

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