1940 - USA Government: Mint, The
San Francisco Mint under construction; Denver, Colorado mint.
16:46:32 Philadelphia mint exterior. Tilt down & people thru large doors. Exhibition space & people viewing; machine to make coins; scales; Director of Mint Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, first woman director of Mint. Men working on clay model of President Roosevelt / FDR, stages reducing to medal shown. Galvano single faced coins.
16:49:05 Man working at transferring engraving machine which is cutting small die from large master. Stamping die in press forces blank into medal. Large scale for weighing metal for coin production, pouring mixture into mold.
16:50:33 Furnace & metals added, door closed & electricity applied. Flame out of hole as furnace is rocked during melting of metals. Man looking w/ goggles into furnace. Furnace tapped into carrier, then poured into copper alloy ingots, bathed in acid & rolled into sheets.
16:53:07 Strips fed into blanking presses. Planchets into annealing ovens, weighed, tumbling barrels & cleaned & polished & dumped. Men at bank of stamping presses feeding coins & slow motion of process of stamping. Women checking all coins on conveyor belt.
16:55:26 Machines counting money into bags. Pile of bags of nickels. Montage of money w/ coins, uses superimposed.
Economics; Coin Manufacturing; Government; Educational Films; Propaganda; 1940s;
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1940 - USA Government: Mint, The San Francisco Mint under construction; Denver, Colorado mint. 16:46:32 Philadelphia mint exterior. Tilt down & people thru large doors. Exhibition space & people viewing; machine to make coins; scales; Director of Mint Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, first woman director of Mint. Men working on clay model of President Roosevelt / FDR, stages reducing to medal shown. Galvano single faced coins. 16:49:05 Man working at transferring engraving machine which is cutting small die from large master. Stamping die in press forces blank into medal. Large scale for weighing metal for coin production, pouring mixture into mold. 16:50:33 Furnace & metals added, door closed & electricity applied. Flame out of hole as furnace is rocked during melting of metals. Man looking w/ goggles into furnace. Furnace tapped into carrier, then poured into copper alloy ingots, bathed in acid & rolled into sheets. 16:53:07 Strips fed into blanking presses. Planchets into annealing ovens, weighed, tumbling barrels & cleaned & polished & dumped. Men at bank of stamping presses feeding coins & slow motion of process of stamping. Women checking all coins on conveyor belt. 16:55:26 Machines counting money into bags. Pile of bags of nickels. Montage of money w/ coins, uses superimposed. Economics; Coin Manufacturing; Government; Educational Films; Propaganda; 1940s;