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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221707-06
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1947
Country: USA
Location: DC,Washington
TC Begins: 22:45:15
TC Ends: 22:54:21
Duration: 00:09:06
What Is Money? (main title & first of scene missing) Boy paying for paint in hardware store w/ five dollar bill - storekeeper then uses bill to give change to next customer, CU of wad of cash; man gets into car & pulls away. 22:45:56 Cave dwellers around fire carving stone tools for bartering. 22:46:14 Teenager swapping bicycle light for baseball mitt. Paint cans on store shelf. 22:46:37 Aerials freight trains in railroad switching yard. 22:46:41 High angle of Studebaker factory. INT factory worker watching metal working machine. 22:46:55 Man at gas station paying w/ five dollar bill from hardware store. CU of bill. 22:47:28 CUs early monetary items including spearhead, shells, beads; VO re flaws of this kind of money - salt in rain. Gold & silver coins. Counterfeit bills on poster. 22:48:54 Ext. US Treasury Mint building. EXT Bureau of Engraving & Printing in Washington. 22:49:07 Gas station attendant putting five dollar bill in cash register & counting change. Coins, bills. 22:49:44 CUs coins being put in jukebox, piggy bank etc., notes being counted. 22:50:06 Man at cash register cashing check for woman in elaborate hat, CU writing check. 22:50:40 Woman into gift shop looking for bookends; SOF stilted dialogue w/ saleswoman: “that’s more than I care to spend, do you have a cheaper pair?” - uses five dollar bill to pay. Note put into clerk’s pay packet by manager - uses it to pay instalment in radio & record shop where boy from start of film works - given five dollar bill as pay. 22:52:41 Boy depositing money at bank - ‘Savings’ window. Montage summarising journey of five dollar bill - CU bill passing along several pairs of hands. Passengers boarding aircraft - take off & in flight. Economics; Economy; Finances; Consumer Goods / Services; 1940s Educational Films; 1947; Post-WWII; Post-WW2; NOTE: Cave dwellers also in scene in Nature of Energy. NOTE: One continuous minute sold at per reel rate.