Historic Films Stock Footage Archive: VM-2648

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00:16:21 1.33	CU PAN VARIETY GREAT ART WORKS INCLUDING MEDALLIONS, HEAD SCULPTURES, ORNATE JARS "INSPIRED AS A RECORD OF OUR GREAT CIVILIZATION", FEATURED AT THE FRANKLIN MINT..
00:16:34 15.33	FEMALE SCHOOL TEACHER HOLDS UP AN HOUR GLASS, AND VARIETY OF COMMEMORATIVE COINS PRODUCED AT THE FRANKLIN MINT, TO CHILDREN IN HER CLASSROOM.
00:17:04 44.33	CU TEACHER HOLDS UP BOOK TITLED, "THE FRANKLIN MINT, HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, 1ST EDITION - STERLING SILVER PROOF SET". BOOK OPENS SHOWING SEVERAL SILVER COMMEMORATIVE COINS.
00:17:20 60.33	CU MONTAGE SHOWING OUR HERITAGE ON EACH COIN. VOICE OVER EXPLAINS EACH COIN CONCERNING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR EVENTS, AS IT IS SHOWN. "1776 THOMAS PAYNE CALLS FOR FREEDOM'. "MARCH 17TH THE BRITISH EVACUATE BOSTON". "JULY 4TH .......ETC.".
00:17:21 61.33	CU MONTAGE COINS INCLUDE, JULY 4TH, JOHN HANCOCK, THOMAS JEFFERSON, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SIGN DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
00:17:35 75.33	1778 COIN, SOLDIER OF CONTINENTAL ARMY ENDURING THE FREEZING WINTER AT VALLEY FORGE..
00:17:45 86.33	1781 COIN, THE SIEGE OF YORKTOWN ENDS. CORNWALLIS SURRENDERS. "4 MONTHS LATER THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ENDS".
00:18:07 107.33	COIN COMMEMORATING GEORGE WASHINGTON INAUGURATION IN 1789AS FIRST PRESIDENT OF U.S.
00:18:12 112.33	TITLE: "THE ULTIMATE ACHIEVEMENT". MONTAGE VARIOUS SHOTS, ARTISANS WORKING AT THE FRANKLIN MINT "CAPTURING FOR POSTERITY FREQUENT MOMENTS IN THE HISTORY OF MAN".
00:18:49 150.33	AERIAL VIEW UNITED NATIONS BUILDING AND OTHER SKYSCRAPERS IN MANHATTAN. ZOOM IN UNITED NATIONS BUILDING. ABOVE VIEW DELEGATE SEATED IN CHAMBER.
00:19:16 176.33	MONTAGE VIEWS OF FRANKLIN MINT COMMEMORATIVE PEACE MEDALS OF HUNGARY, SOMALI, YUGOSLAVIA ETHIOPIA, GREECE. VOICE OVER OF EACH OF THE LEADERS AND AMBASSADORS OF THESE COUNTRIES VOICING THEIR APPRECIATION TO THE FRANKLIN MINT.
00:20:22 243.33	FRANKLIN MINT PEACE MEDAL TO MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. AND PHOTO OF HIS WIFE ARETHA KING. ARETHA KING'S VOICE OVER COMMENTS.
00:20:49 270.33	SPLIT SCREEN SHOWS COIN COLLECTORS YOUNG AND OLD. VOICE OVER, "TODAY.S COIN COLLECTORS MAY BECOME TOMORROWS EXPERT".
00:21:01 282.33	DRAWINGS SHOW HOW ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL COINS WERE STRUCK. "ANCIENT COINS WERE STRUCK WITH HAMMER BLOWS ON A PAIR OF DIES. EACH COIN DIFFERENT FROM THE NEXT, PAINSTAKING TO PRODUCE".
00:21:13 294.33	"MODERN ROUND COINS PERSEVERED IN THE 16TYH CENTURY AFTER THE INVENTION OF THE SCREW EFFECT",AS SHOWN IN DRAWINGS.
00:21:21 302.33	SHOTS OF 2 COINS STRUCK BY THE PRIVATE MINT OF JOHN HOWE, OF MASS. ARE THE FIRST COINAGE OF WHAT IS NOW THE UNITED STATES.
00:21:25 306.33	DRAWING OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR TROOPS. "AFTER THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, MANY OF THE COLONIES COMMISSIONED PRIVATE MINTS TO PRODUCE COINS".
00:21:37 318.33	MAP OF U. S. SHOWS LOCATIONS OF THESE PRIVATE MINTS IN RUPERT, VT. NEWBURGH, N.Y. AND NEW HAVEN, CONN. CONTINUED TO GROW.
00:21:40 321.33	CU SHOT OF FIRST COIN AUTHORIZED BY THE U. S. GOVERNMENT . "THE FAMOUS SPUGIO CENT WAS MADE IN A PRIVATE MINT".
00:21:57 338.33	CU SECRETARY OF STATE THOMAS JEFFERSON. HE TOOK STEPS TO ESTABLISH THE FIRST U. S. GOVERNMENT MINT
00:22:02 342.33	MONTAGE SHOTS OF COINS PRODUCED THROUGHOUT THE 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY BY PRIVATE MINTS.
00:22:19 360.33	MONTAGE - DRAWINGS OF CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH. MAN HOLDING GOLD NUGGETS IN HAND. "SEVERAL PRIVATE MINTS MADE THE NEWLY MINED GOLD INTO COINS". CU VARIOUS GOLD COINS.
00:22:25 366.33	DRAWINGS, WOMEN SEATED AT TABLES WORKING ON PRODUCING COINS AS THE FEDERAL MINTS BECAME MORE PRODUCTIVE. "AS A RESULT PRIVATE MINTS FADED INTO OBSCURITY AND THE STAYED THERE FOR NEARLY 100 YEARS".
00:22:49 390.33	CU "THE NATIONAL COMMEMORATIVE SOCIETY, SERIES 1 CATALOG. "IN 1964 A NEW CONCEPT OF COLLECTING WAS DEVELOPED BY THE NATIONAL COMMEMORATIVE SOCIETY". IT LED TO THE BIRTH OF THE FRANKLIN MINT.
00:23:13 414.33	MONTAGE NEW SERIES OF NON-MONETARY COLLECTIVE COINS, EACH PAYING TRIBUTE TO A SIGNIFICANT PERSON, PLACE OR EVENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY..
00:23:36 437.33	CU 1965 FRANKLIN MINT COIN WITH FACE OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. THE YEAR THE MINT WAS ESTABLISHED. LS PAN EXTERIOR OF FRANKLIN MINT BUILDING.
00:24:05 465.33	MONTAGE VARIOUS SHOTS SCULPTOR, ARTIST AND OTHERS WORKING ON THE EISENHOWER COMMEMORATIVE. CU WHEN EVERYTHING IS RIGHT IT IS TURNED OVER TO THE ENGRAVING DEPT.
00:24:56 517.33	CU MONTAGE - ENGRAVING MACHINE DOING ITS WORK ON THE EISENHOWER COMMEMORATIVE. "STARTING AT THE CENTER AND WORKING TO THE OUTSIDE.
00:25:20 540.33	CU A SKILLED ENGRAVER THEN TAKES OVER. HE PEERS THROUGH MAGNIFIER AS HE DOES THE INTRICATE WORK.
00:25:27 548.33	THE COIN IS DIPPED IN 1500 DEGREES LIQUID, THEN DIPPED IN COLD WATER TO HARDEN THE STEEL. THEN HYDRAULIC PRESS SQUEEZES THE HARDENBD STEEL.
00:26:28 608.33	AFTER SEVERAL OTHER STEPS THE DYE IS POLISHED, THEN CAREFULLY INSPECTED BEFORE APPROVAL. MONTAGE NO DYE IS APPROVED UNTIL IT PASSES ALL STEPS OF APPROVAL WITH FLYING COLORS.
00:27:30 670.33	BULLION IS TAKEN FROM HEAVILY GUARDED VAULT ARMED GUARDS KEEP CLOSE WATCH. MONTAGE THE BULLION IS MELTED, THEN ROLLED INTO FLAT SLABS, THEN AFTER SEVERAL OTHER STEPS, COINS ARE STAMPED OUT INTO FINISHED COINS.
00:29:02 762.33	CU FINISHED STATUE OF LIBERTY COIN 1865 - 1965. "THE COIN REQUIRED A TOTAL LOAD OF THE ENTIRE STATUE OF LIBERTY TO STAMP THIS COIN (450,000 POUNDS)".
00:29:17 777.33	CU FEMALE WORKER REMOVES COINS FROM STAMPING MACHINE, PASSES IT TO ANOTHER FEMALE WORKER WHO EXAMINES THEM.,
00:29:35 795.33	CU REJECTED COINS BEING DESTROYED BY MACHINE..
00:29:56 817.33	TELEVISION CAMERAS AND ARMED GUARDS WATCH EVERY STEP OF THE PRODUCTION. "OFTEN KNOWN AS THE CLEANEST MINT IN THE WORLD, IS NOW ALSO KNOWN AS THE MOST SECYRITY CONSCIOUS".
00:30:38 859.33	IMMEDIATELY PRIOR TO PACKAGING, PROOF QUALITY COINS ARE SUBJECTED BY QUALITY INSPECTION BY FEMALE WORKER BEFORE GOING INTO THE HANDS OF COLLECTORS WHO WILL BE THEIR PROUD OWNERS"..
00:30:45 866.33	MONTAGE VARIOUS CREATIVE ARTISANS CREATING VARIETY NEW COINS.
00:30:54 875.33	MONTAGE VARIOUS NEW COMMEMORATIVE COINS CELEBRATE VARIETY OCCASIONS. OUTER SPACE, HELEN KELLER, U. S. AIR FORCE, ETC. ,
00:31:38 919.33	CU PAN CATALOGS OF COMMEMORATIVE CHRISTMAS COINS AND OTHERS. "FRANKLIN STRIKES LIMITED ADDITION COINS FOR EVERY OCCASION". CU DISPLAY OF 20 COIN ALBUM.
00:32:28 969.33	CU MONTAGE OF COINS INCLUDE, - ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL, ROBERT F. KENNEDY, BABE RUTH, GENERAL PERSHING, IWO JIMA, 3GALLANT MEN, THE SPACE PROGRAM,THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, ETC.
00:33:14 1015.33	COINS OF GREAT WOMEN INCLUDE JOAN OF ARC, HELLEN KELLER, CLARA BARTON,SISTER ELIZABETH KENNY, MADAME CURIE, ETC. FOLLOWED BY GREAT REVOLUTIONARY MEN.
00:33:59 1060.33	GREAT AMERICAN AFRICAN AMERICANS INCLUDE MARTIN LUTHER KING, BENJAMIN CARVER, FREDERICK DOUGLAS, ETC. MONTAGE OF OTHER CATEGORIES.
00:35:11 1131.33	LONG LINE OF PEOPLE AROUND FRANKLIN MINT BUILDING IN WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, WHERE THEY WAITED HOURS FOR COIN OF WILMINGTON TWIN BRIDGE.
00:35:22 1142.33	CU MAN HOLDS UP HIS COIN. CU COIN OF TWIN BRIDGE.
00:36:04 1184.33	MONTAGE VARIOUS SHOTS FAMILIES GOING OVER THEIR COLLECTIONS IN THEIR LIVING ROOMS. KIDS IN CLASSROOMS RAISE HANDS TO TEACHER WHO HAS DISCUSSION ABOUT COINS.
00:36:52 1233.33	CU YOUNG WOMAN HOLDS UP NEW MINI COIN WHICH IS NO WIDER THAN HER FINGER.