School For Salesmen (1961)

M/Ss of an instructor pointing at a board as three future sales representatives look on; the board says ’Plan your work - work your plan’; another board in the background lists the dress code. A larger group of trainees are seen in a session, sitting before another instructor who writes ’Smile’ on a blackboard; a weasely-looking trainee doesn’t look convinced. The trainer then takes a mirror around the class which they smile into, presumably to get used to the idea of how charming they look when they smile. We are shown two examples of how not to get past the director’s secretary; the first man (who wears a bright red waistcoat and badges on his lapels) drops all his business cards on the floor. The next man puts his head round the door with a caddish smile, and tries to bribe the secretary with a bunch of flowers, putting his arm around her shoulder - she’s not having any of it! The salesman pouts. The card-dropping man has now made it into the director’s office, shakes the director’s hand clumsi