Synopsis
This 1963 color educational film from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation combines live action and animated footage to offer an introduction to basic banking, explaining how checks, loans, securities and the Federal Reserve operate. It's all presented in 1960s style including teller with bubblecut and beehive hairdos (TRT: 28:58).Opening titles: “The National Association of Secondary-School Principals in Cooperation with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation presents, Money and Banking” (0:08). Montage: Cash registers and shoppers in 1960s attire. A woman buys a purse, a man shops for sporting goods, etc. (0:21). Counting out change. Writing a check. Checkbooks in closeup (1:02). An animated illustration of a “Commercial Bank.” Cartoon men wearing “sandwich board” advertisements walk through a cityscape past men in suits, insurance companies, and financial companies with flashy signs. A cartoon commercial bank advertises clean restrooms, piped in music, free coffee (1:30). Cartoon banks spread across a U.S. map. A $15000 F.D.I.C. limit. Cartoon bank examiners (1:58). Bank tellers at work. A loan counter. A meeting with an elderly woman about forming a trust. A sign: “U.S. Savings Bonds on Sale Here” (2:15). Woman bank employees in montage. A door: “Notes and Foreign Exchange.” Currency, traveler’s checks, and money orders (2:47). Two women make deposits using deposit slips (3:33). An animated check. A western cowboy sends a money order via a stagecoach, which is held up. The stolen…
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Details
- Running time
- 28 minutes
- Collection
- Ephemeral Films
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- State Banks
- Federal Reserve
- The National Association
- School Principals
- Commercial Bank
- Sale Here
- Foreign Exchange
- Simple Annual Interest
- Billion Dollars
- National Banks