Name: 20世紀80年代芝加哥摩天大樓的幕後故事。 (Behind The Scenes In A Chicago Skyscraper In 1980s)
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I'm David Hoffman filmmaker, and you're about to see a clip from a film I made back in 1976.

I got the job just to look at the building for one day.

The assignment was go into this large office building, knock on people's doors, asking if we could film them and also behind the scenes.

How does the building function at the same time as the people go to work and don't really notice much about the building?

One day in the life of that building mission back, a skyscraper must be tall, every inch of it.

All the force and power of altitude must be in it.

It must be a proud and soaring thing, rising without a single dissenting line.

Chicago architect Louis Sullivan said that back in the 18 eighties, when the very idea of a skyscraper was brand new.

Now there are thousands of skyscrapers, among them Prudential Building in Chicago, a typical American office building filled with typical American office workers.

Now a lot of people say that office buildings like this don't work that office workers feel like robots, that they're frustrated by their surroundings and as a result, that they're unproductive and inefficient.

But half of our work force is employed in buildings like these.

So if the work isn't being done here, where is it being done?

Find out how and why these structures house so many.

We came here to the Prudential Tower, Look at business as usual.

We came to see what people at work could show us aboutthe way office buildings work.

Still sure of what I'm going to say to her?

All right, Take a couple of large ones and stick him on on the spoon.

Put a smaller a smaller flake right in front of them.

Yeah, all the way that it's getting there with a little bit more finessing we might be get Come over on this end.

The only ones that are open in Chicago now, Marty, Marty, go up to the 22nd.

Base to all units, Insurance International.

The agreement Waas You pay me $100 a month over a nine month period and settled that.

Now, would you do me a favor and get off here?

And I think couple more like this, we'll get down to routine.

I have a five on a track on the 18th floor hot water tank exchange with Wait for it to take care of that.

What you've just seen is a sample of what takes place in every American office building every day today.

Structures like these are an essential part of our society.

In fact, office buildings are a fairly new idea.

Actually, we lived out the first few 1000 years of recorded history without any offices at all.

Back in Egypt, scribe sat out in the sun keeping accounts on tablets of clay.

It wasn't until the Middle Ages that the first true offices showed up.

They were dank, cramped monastery cells were monks that day after day laboriously copying manuscript.

That arrangement didn't change much until the 18th century.

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20世紀80年代芝加哥摩天大樓的幕後故事。 (Behind The Scenes In A Chicago Skyscraper In 1980s)

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