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Know Your Money - Counterfeit Bills And Forged Checks
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Synopsis: Methods for detecting counterfeit money and forged checks as well as common errors found in many examples of counterfeit bills...(read more)
- Date: 1939
- Duration: 00:17:24
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States
Know Your Money - Counterfeit Bills And Forged Checks
Shows the Treasury Building in Washington DC in 1939. Shows information that should be gathered and checked when cashing a Federal check for a stranger. Shows various methods of detecting a counterfeit coin from checking the softness of the metal, noticing difference in weight, visual inspection of edges of coin, and an acid test.
Describes the three different types of "paper money" bills, color of seals on each type of bill, and portraits on the different bills. Emphasizes the false test of rubbing ink off of a bill. Ink can be rubbed off both a real and counterfeit bill. Comparing a real bill to a counterfeit shows many differences. Shows geometric engraving machine in operation. Shows hand operated transfer press for making plates from a master die.
Postman delivers notice from Treasury Department on how to detect counterfeit bills to local neighborhood grocery store. Dramatizes the apprehension of counterfeiters through the alertness of a grocer who receives a bogus bill. Grocer notifies police department. Shows two motorcycle policemen responding to radio call. Shows Police motorcycles with side cars. Police Officer uses call box to summons a paddy wagon. Shows 1939 police paddy wagon responding to crime scene with siren sounding. Crooks are placed in back of police paddy wagon.
Shot List:
00:13:19;20
Shows interior and exterior of a typical 1939 neighborhood grocery store
00:15:05;06
Two motorcycle policemen responding to radio call of a crime in 1939
00:16:01;03
Police Officer uses call box to summons a paddy wagon, paddy wagon responds with siren
- Related Titles:
- The Treasury Story - History Of The Treasury Department
- The Printing Of U.S. Currency
