This color film, Your Career in Hotel Management, was filmed in 1956 by Rarig Film Productions, with Modern Learning Aides as distributor, and with Dwight Robinson as narrator.
The film opens with the title (0:07-0:13) followed by Dwight Robinson showing a sign of The Red Lion Inn, founded in Spokane, WA in 1937 as Goodale and Barbieri Co. (0:20-0:30). Code of the Innkeeper or Modern Hotel is: Feed the hungry, Give drink to the thirsty, and Shelter the shelter less (0:34-0:45). 10% of hotel careers are managers (1:04-1:15). What is needed for a high schooler to become a hotel manager? High school: likable, handles self well, commands respect, serious student, helps others (2:00-3:20). Camera Club: looks at detail, thinks it art, want best print, looks at Solarisation or Pseudo-solarisation, all making a great hotel manager (3:21-4:59). Questions about college: High School Student Counselor regarding scholarships, (5:20-5:42). Counselor recommends colleges to become Manager and get a degree in Bachelor of Arts in Hotel Administration. (6:07-6:21) Courses needed: mathematics, English, foreign language, art (6:22-7:06). Make use of vacation time. Work at Rainer National Park Company or Mt. Rainer National Park, established in 1899, learning the business (8:12-8:52). Next step College: First year take general education courses: English Composition, Sociology, Psychology, and the Humanities such as languages, literature, philosophy, geography, history, religion, art and music (9:08-9:32). Take Introduction to Business (9:33-9:38). Take Home Economics to learn food preparation and costs (9:48-11:29). Take Hotel Administration: hotel history, Europe and American (11:31-12:31). Second year decide whether Business Administration or Hotel Administration (12:41-12:50). Take: Accounting, Business Statistics, Business Finance, Speech, food laboratory courses (12:51-15:11). Third and Fourth years take: Business Law, Hotel Accounting, Labor Economics, Statistics, Finance, Personnel Administration (15:12-15:32). Practical experience comes from volunteering at vacation, jobs, field trips, internships, visiting outstanding restaurants (15:33-15:58). View of Hotel Washington in Washington, D.C., established 1918, designed by Carrere and Hastings (18:36-18:44). View of City Center Motel (19:07-19:12). Senior students take Hotel Planning and Architecture course (21:23-21:44). Final step a job: may start at the bottom and gain experience moving up to manager (22:42-26:15). Credits: Produced as public service for Weyerhaeuser Company (26:17-26:24), Distributed by Modern Learning Aids (26:24-26:28).
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