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1937 - Economics: Treasury Moves U.S. Gold Bullion To Ft Knox Vault, Jan37

Reel Number: 221744-33

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1937

Country: USA

Location: DC,Ft,Kentucky,Knox,Washington

TC Begins: 01:10:40

TC Ends: 01:11:35

Duration: 00:00:55

1937 - Economics: Treasury Moves U.S. Gold Bullion To Ft Knox Vault, Jan37 01:10:50 Exterior of US Treasury building. Int. w/ men at furnace melting & pouring gold. 01:11:12 Woman signs paper as two men (one may be US Treasurer William Alexander Julian) & woman watch. Men weighing bullion. CU hands moving bullion off scales. Money; Valuable; Bullion; NOTE: After FDR outlawed private ownership of gold the treasury built a depository at Fort Knox, KY. First gold shipments were made from January to July, 1937.

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