XD48944 “MONEY AND BANKING” 1963 CHECKING AND LOAN ANIMATED FILM FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

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 check is voided (3:56). We are introduced to “John” who writes a check. Shopping for surfboards. John carries away a new yellow board (4:57). A surf shop employee in a red floral shirt makes a sale, then a deposit (5:47). Handling checks in closeup (6:44). A man uses a large adding machine. Bags of checks go to a clearing house (7:16). Stacks of checks are bundled and sorted. Rapid fingers type on adding machine keys. Computers with magnetic tape drum memory (7:43). Mechanical sorting. Advertisements for loans in montage (8:08). A black man in a grey suit shops for a car at a sales lot. A blonde salesman offers a quote (9:03). The black man seeks a car loan at his bank. Filling out an application (9:46). The loan is approved with a 6% interest rate. Driving a new car (11:03). Animated calculations tabulate the loan’s total interest and the monthly payments (12:05). A corporate treasurer seeks a multi-million dollar loan, makes a deal (13:52). Animated calculations tabulate the interest over 5 years, payment on the principal (15:37). “6 ½% Simple Annual Interest, 200 Billion Dollars.” Previous scenes in montage (16:51). Filling out deposit slips. A black teller counts out cash. A white woman teller with a mod hairstyle (17:17). Animation: Money flows from the Federal Reserve to local banks. An illustration of seven white male figures in suits, “Board of Governors” (17:52). “5000 National Banks” blend with “State Banks.” Money goes back to the F.R.S. (18:37). A cartoon man in glasses makes a deposit. A banker puts the money in a drawer, then provides a loan to a man who writes checks to workmen, who deposit their checks in turn (19:32). Cartoon checks in closeup. A seductive cartoon woman in a short pink skirt receives a loan and purchases a hair salon via check, which is then cashed. Three checks’ fees are totaled, showing the profit to the banking system (20:34). Return to live action. Montage of financial headlines over busy banks (21:58). “Reserve Requirements.” A cartoon banker sells bonds to meet obligations and balance liabilities (22:28). Faced with excess reserves, more loans are granted (23:42). “Federal Open Market Committee.” Securities are exchanged and “No Loans Available” (24:42). More reserves result in more loans. Flags advertise low Federal Reserve discount rates, which also lead to more loans (25:00). Bank tellers and bank employees, customers. “Tom” puts his house up for sale. For sale sign. A construction foreman meets with the treasurer at a work site (26:44). A crowd of workers. A photomontage of finance (27:29). End titles (28:24).

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