1970s - Americana: Educational Film Illegal Gambling: Numbers, Dice, Bookmaking

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Main title. 04:22:03 Old fat white haired man smoking cigar & reading The Sporting News sitting at desk, VO: “This is a business man, his business is organized crime...” Pulls out stack of $100 bills & envelopes for bribes, then counts the money, MCU, & puts into envelopes & into jacket pocket. Talks on telephone w/ mcu of man in numbers operation basement, pull back to group w/ adding machines counting winnings of bets VO explains how numbers racket works. 04:23:58 Lookout outside door; stakeout team watching w/ binoculars & telescope from behind upstairs office window, MCUs. Camera w/ telephoto lens; man on radiophone. 04:24:41 Man stocking cigarettes in small hotel newsstand / bodega; man in & places bet. CU putting into cigarette pack. Man watching outside of newsstand; man collects winnings, leaves; runner in & picks up, then seen going into doorway & officers called & arrest / searching the lookout. 04:26:56 Runner into counting room w/ bets. Phone call w/ last digit of winning number & posted. Officers moving in / out of unmarked van for arrest. Men hiding & burning evidence as agents come in, search. Cop arrests newstand clerk; detectives gather up evidence. CUs. 04:29:33 Montage: Capitalist / boss on telephone, takes airplane ticket out of pocket, men in hotel room rolling dice; drunk man out of taxi, pays driver & pointed to gambling game location; he goes into room & is agent w/ recorder not drunk. Staggers in, gets chips & plays w/ others till police raid game. Gather up evidence. 04:33:46 Crime boss reading newspaper & drinking coffee in his office, CU sports page w/ football; CU finger pointing to Belmont race chart. Talking / laughing on phone; CU list of football scores. Man in apartment on telephone & illustration electronic Blue Box to make toll free untraceable calls. Works on betting charts; Black Box explained. CU bookmaker & illustration of use of Cheese Box to conceal his location. 04:37:43 Woman / informant talking / giving paper w/ phone number to agents, CUs. 04:38:22 Agents in car watching / surveillance. Bookmaker working at desk; agents follow deliveryman into apartment house, agents run & arrest & search bookie; seize evidence. 04:40:39 MCU organized crime boss laughing at desk, takes out cigar as FBI agents come in & show badges. 04:41:21 Summary shots CUs of badges, money, agents w/ telescope & camera, w/ police, searching suspects. The End. Stereotypes; Americana; Cops; Propaganda; Educational Film; 1970s Instructional Films; Capitalist; Federal Bureau of Investigation; Criminals; Capitalism; Gangsters; Organized Crime; NOTE: Any continuous ten minutes sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk