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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221718-39
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1947
Country: USA
Location: DC,Washington
TC Begins: 21:17:53
TC Ends: 21:28:22
Duration: 00:10:29
main title missing 21:18:06 Father gives son Tom $5, CU of bill. VO “what IS money anyway?”. 21:18:37 Tom pays for paint in hardware store w/ five dollar bill, gets change; storekeeper uses bill to pay electrician, electrician into car & away. 21:19:39 Cave dwellers around fire carve stone tools for bartering. 21:19:58 Teenager swaps flashlight for baseball mitt. Paint cans on shelf in store. 21:20:20 Aerials of freight train, LS Studebaker factory - INT factory worker on production line. Electrician at gas station paying w/ five dollar bill from hardware store, CU. CUs early monetary items inc. spearhead, shells etc. VO re flaws of this kind of money - salt in rain. Gold & silver coins. 21:22:27 Poster of bills showing counterfeit money. Ext. US Treasury Mint building. EXT Bureau of Engraving & Printing in Washington. Gas station attendant putting five dollar bill in cash register & counting change - CUs coins being put in jukebox, piggy bank etc., notes being counted. 21:24:01 Woman in elaborate hat cashing cheque / check at gas station. Woman into gift shop next day looking for bookends - stilted SOF dialogue w/ assistant - “that’s more than I care to spend, do you have a cheaper pair?” Pays w/ five dollar bill. Note put into clerk’s pay packet by manager - uses it to pay instalment in radio shop where boy from start of film works - given five dollar bill as pay. 21:26:36 Ext. Bank w/ traffic;interior, boy depositing money at bank - ‘Savings’ window. Montage summarising journey of five dollar bill - CU bill passing along many hands. Passengers boarding aircraft - take off & in flight. The End. Economics; Finances; Currency; Consumer Goods / Service; 1940s Fashions; Americana; Educational Films; Cavemen; Post-WWII; Post-WW2;