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CU WALL CLOCK AT 10:00
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DOUGLAS EDWARDS SITS IN FRONT OF MAP OF THE WORLD AND GIVES DESCRIPTION OF HOW REAL MONEY, BILLS, CURRENCY SHOULD LOOK "IF NOT, YOU HAVE BEEN GIVEN A COUNTERFEIT, CALL THE SECRET SERVICE."
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00:00:58 58 |
CU DOLLAR BILL PRODUCTION TREASURY MAKING TEN DOLLAR BILLS
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00:01:16 76 |
ARMSTRONG COMMERCIAL CARPENTERS ON ROOF BANGING NAILS. INTERIOR NICE HOME, PACKAGING MATERIALS, INDUSTRIAL CITY, SMOKE STACKS
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00:01:48 108 |
HOUSEWIFE WASHES CLOTHES THE OLD FASHIONED WAY IN TUB BY HAND ON A WASH BOARD. DOMESTIC CHORES. CU SCRUBBING THE WALL WITH A SCRUBBING BRUSH. "MODERN"
LATE 1950s WASHING MACHINE. WASHING WALL WITH ALL PURPOSE CLEANER THAT TAKES THE "ELBOW GREASE" OUT OF HOUSEHOLD CLEANING JOBS. HOUSEWIFE DOING THE LAUNDRY IN "MODERN" WASHING MACHINE |
00:02:28 148 |
CU AMMONIA USED AS LAUNDRY DETERGENT. CU PLASTIC BOTTLES CONTAINING CLEANING PRODUCTS CIRCA 1958
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00:03:11 191 |
CU PAPER STOCK MERCHANT GRABS ORDER CATALOGUE FROM SHELF HELPING 2 NEW CUSTOMERS INTERESTED IN GOOD QUALITY PAPER STOCK.
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00:03:57 237 |
CU PAPER MONEY SPITS OUT OF MACHINE MAKING NEW CURRENCY
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00:04:17 257 |
CU COUNTING MONEY THAN HANDING IT TO ANOTHER MAN MONEY CHANGING HANDS. COUNTERFEITERS MAKING COUNTERFEIT MONEY. CIGAR SMOKING "COWBOY" TEXAN TYPE INSPECTS THE MONEY, NODS HEAD IN APPROVAL
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00:04:27 267 |
SHADY BUSINESS DEAL, NERVOUS DISTRIBUTER OF COUNTERFIET MONEY QUICKLY GRABS PACKAGE, CLOSES DOOR AND DRAWS THE SHADE DOWN
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00:04:33 273 |
WOMAN RIPS OPEN ENVELOPE COUNTS THE MONEY INSIDE "THE LOWLY PASSER"
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00:04:40 280 |
MAN BEHIND THE REGISTER TAKES MONEY FOR A SALE, RINGS IN A SALE, UNWITTINGLY TAKING COUNTERFEIT MONEY.
MONEY CHANGING HANDS. BUSINESS TRANSACTION |
00:04:48 288 |
CU MONEY CHANGING HANDS, SECRET AERCIVE OFFICER INSPECTS THE BILL
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00:04:50 290 |
SLOW ZOOM IN ON AGENT IN CHARGE FRED LEEDS OF THE OMAHA, NEBRASKA DISTRICT WHO IS TALKING ON THE TELEPHONE. SECRET SERVICE. HANGS UP THE PHONE, IS HANDED A COUNTERFEIT BILL, PULLS OUT MAGNIFYING GLASS FOR CLOSER INSPECTION OF THE BILL NEW AGENT IS TAUGHT BY AGENT IN CHARGE. INTERRUPTED BY A PHONE CALL.
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00:05:40 340 |
CU HANDS PICK UP COUNTERFEIT NOTE INDEX, AGENT IN CHARGE COMPARES NOTE AGAINST THE INDEX TO SEE IF IT'S COUNTERFEIT WHILE NEW AGENT TAKES A PHONE CALL ABOUT SUSPECTED THEFT OF SOCIAL SECURITY CHECKS.
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00:06:06 366 |
NEW AGENT GETS UP, GRABS HAT WITH SMALL PLUME DECORATION FROM COAT RACK, BLOWS ON IT, BRUSHES HAT OFF, PUTS IT ON & OPENS THE DOOR, AGENT IN CHARGE STOPS HIM, POINTS OUT THE OBVIOUSNESS OF THE HAT "WE'RE THE SECRET SERVICE NOT THE CONSPICOUS SERVICE" I GUESS THE HAT GIVES HIM AWAY AS A SECRET SERVICE AGENT
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00:06:37 397 |
CONTINUITY ERROR, THE AGENT WHO NEVER LEFT THE OFFICE PUTS HAT BACK ON COAT RACK AS IF HE'D BEEN GONE, ASKS HOW THE NOTE COMPARISON IS GOING
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00:06:54 414 |
CU 1950s TEN DOLLAR BILL $10.00
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EXTERIOR TREASURY DEPARTMENT
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00:07:08 428 |
"2437 COUNTERFEIT SECTION" ON DOOR IN THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT "THE GRAVEYARD OF THE HOPES OF MANY A MAN IN A HURRY TO MAKE MONEY"
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00:07:17 437 |
INTERIOR OF THE COUNTERFEIT DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY. AGENT IN CHARGE PAUL JAMESON ANALIZES A COUNTERFEIT BILL WITH HIS IMMEDIATE SUPERIOR RUSSEL DANIELS, DEPUTY CHIEF OF THE SERVICE IN CHARGE OF INVESTIGATIONS. THEY DISCUSS THE BILL AND ITS QUALITY.
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00:07:40 460 |
THEY WALK TO AN ENLARGED COPY OF THE COUNTERFIET TEN DOLLAR BILL. CU COUNTERFEIT BILL. POINTER USED TO POINT OUT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN REAL AND COUNTERFEIT BILL. SIGNATURE FORGED. SERIES OF THE NOTE WRONG. RED FIBERS IN THE PAPER WERE SIMULATED WITH PEN AND INK
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00:08:40 520 |
AGENT IN CHARGE OF A DISTRICT OFFICE LOOKS AT A FLIER ON THE NEW COUNTERFEIT SERIES, HANDS TO NEW AGENT "YOU HAVE THE HONOR OF BEING PRESENT AT THE BIRTH OF A BRAND NEW FAKE: AGENT TALKS INTO INTERCOM GIVING INSTRUCTIONS TO FIND PAPER DISTRIBUTORS SELLING THAT BRAND OF PAPER.
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00:09:05 545 |
CU 1950s TYPEWRITER TYPING A COMPILATION OF ALL STORES STOCKING THAT BRAND OF PAPER "ARSENAL BOND"
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00:09:12 552 |
AGENTS DISCUSS THE CASE, ONLY 4 STORES STOCK THAT PAPER.
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00:09:21 561 |
CU CROSSING OFF NAMES ON PAPER, DELEATING COUNTERFEIT PAPER SOURCE POSSIBILITIES
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SECRET SERVICE AGENT QUESTIONS ELDERLY SHOPKEEPER WHO TELLS HIM 2 MEN CAME IN LAST WEEK AND BOUGHT A LARGE AMOUNT OF THE PAPER IN QUESTION. 10 REAMS OF ARSONAL BOND "THEY PAID CASH AND HAULED THE PURCHASE AWAY"
AGENT TAKES NOTES AS HE INTERVIEWS THE SHOPKEEPER |
00:10:12 612 |
CU HANDS GOING THROUGH INDEX FILES INDEX CARDS
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00:10:20 620 |
AGENT IN CHARGE ON THE TELEPHONE, NEW AGENT SPORTING A LESS CONSPICUOUS HAT ENTERS, TAKES HAT OFF AND HANGS ON COAT RACK HAT RACK. WHEN HE HANGS UP, AGENT GIVES HIM DETAILS ABOUT SOCIAL SECURITY CHECK FRAUD CASE. THIS TIME. THE AGENT IN CHARGE CRITICIZES HIS ACCENT "DID YOU EVER GIVE ANY THOUGHT TO JOGGING UP THAT SUGARFOOT DRAWL OF YOURS?"
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00:10:56 656 |
AGENT IN CHARGE HANDS HIM A TELETYPE CONTAINING INFORMATION ABOUT THE COUNTERFEIT CASE.
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AGENT GETS UP AND FILES A FOLDER IN FILE CABINET
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GUM CHEWING PUSHY WOMAN GIVES MEEK SALES CLERK A HARD TIME ABOUT HER SHADE OF LIPSTICK CHOOSES "EARLY SUNRISE" PASSES HIM A COUNTERFIET $10.00. SALESCLERK RINGS IN THE SALE, ALERT SALESCLERK INSPECTS THE BILL AND DISCOVERS THAT IT IS COUNTERFEIT. HE TRIES TO GET HER TO THE MANAGER'S OFFICE, SHE BECOMES ANGRY. "LET ME GO, I'M GOING TO SUE YOU."
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CU AGENTS GOING THROUGH WOMAN'S PURSE. IT'S FULL OF LIPSTICKS AS A PASSER OF COUNTERFEIT MONEY, SHE'S IN THE HABIT OF BUYING THE SAME ITEMS EACH TIME THEY PASS A COUNTERFEIT BILL.
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00:13:20 800 |
AGENT PUTS ON HIS SUIT JACKET, OTHER AGENT CALLS MISS BETTY JEAN WEED IN FOR QUESTIONING. ANGRY WOMAN STILL PLAYS INNOCENT. SECRET SERVICE AGENT QUESTIONS CIGARETTE SMOKING FEMALE CRIMINAL. AGENT READS FROM HER CRIMINAL RECORD. CLICHE 1950s GUM CHEWING CIGARETTE SMOKING BAD GIRL CONFESSES AND GIVES NAME OF DISTRIBUTOR. MOLL
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00:15:46 946 |
COUNTERFEITER MAKING FAKE BILLS COUNTERFEIT MONEY HANGS THEM TO DRY. INTERRUPTED BY KNOCK ON THE DOOR.
GAS STATION OWNER CUSTOMER WANTS GAS, HE TELLS HIM TO HELP HIMSELF, AGENT PRETENDS NOT TO KNOW HOW TO PUMP GAS TO GET THE COUNTERFEITER OUT OF THE ROOM. WHEN THAT DOESN'T WORK, HE IDENTIFIES HIMSELF AS AN AGENT "OPEN UP, I'VE GOT A SEARCH WARRENT" COUNTERFEITER TRIES TO PUT EVERYTHING AWAY FAST BUT THE AGENTS KNOCK THE DOOR IN AND HE IS CAUGHT RED HANDED CAUGHT IN THE ACT OF COUNTERFEITING. AGENTS WANT THE NAME OF THE SUPPLIER. IDENTIFIED AS WOODSTOCK |
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AGENT ON THE PHONE WITH THE LOCAL SHERIFF WHERE THE SUPPLIER IS SUPPOSED TO BE. HANGS UP & TALKS TO ANOTHER AGENT INTERRUPTED BY ANOTHER PHONE CALL, NEWS THAT THE SUPPLIER AND HIS "STILL" BLEW UP
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00:19:20 1160 |
CU MANUFACTURING MONEY PAPER BILLS SPIT OUT OF MACHINE COUNTERFEIT MONEY
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00:19:40 1180 |
ARMSTRONG EXCELON TILE COMMERCIAL BOYS WEARING 1950s SPACE MEN ROCKET MEN OUTFITS.
FATHER TAKES AWAY THEIR TOY GUNS, GET IN TROUBLE FOR PLAYING IN THE LIVING ROOM. MOM INAGINES THE BASEMENT FIXED UP AS A PLAY ROOM. WIFE COVERS HUSBAND'S EYES FOR A SURPRISE, BOYS WHEEL IN THEIR WAGON FILLED WITH FLOOR TILES. DO-IT-YOURSELF FLOOR TILING. BOYS HELP DAD WITH THE FLOOR |
00:21:52 1312 |
SECRET SERVICE AGENTS LOOKING AT MAP OF THE UNITED STATES, COUNTERFEIT MONEY HAS SPREAD THROUGH 18 STATES, TRYING TO SOLVE A CRIME
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00:22:38 1358 |
MONTAGE COUNTERFIET MONEY CHANGING HANDS.
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00:22:59 1379 |
SALESMAN WITH HEAD BANDAGED WAS BEATEN SAYS "I DON'T KNOW WHY THIS HAS TO BE A FEDERAL CASE" WHILE BEING QUESTIONED "IS THIS THE FACE OF A CONMAN?" "I WAS MINDING MY OWN BUSINESS WHEN THOSE 4 HOODLUMS JUMPED ME" GETS CAUGHT IN A LIE. "EVERY MAN HAS HIS WEAKNESS" GOT IN TROUBLE WITH CRAP SHOOTING THEN TELLS THE TRUTH. PULLS OUT CHECK BOOK STUBS
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00:26:13 1573 |
TRACING THE CHECKS. EXTERIOR LIQUOR STORE. BLUE LIGHT CAFE. PARRISH JEWELRY STORE.
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00:26:25 1585 |
JEWELRY STORE OWNER IS INTERVIEWED BY A SECRET SERVICE AGENT WHO ASKS HIM TO OPEN THE CASH REGISTER TO LOOK TO SEE IF THERE ARE COUNTERFEIT BILLS IN THERE, HE IS NOT COOPERATIVE & THE AGENT HAS TO THREATEN HIM BEFORE HE'LL CONFESS TO UNLOADING COUNTERFEIT BILLS ON HIS COSTUMERS "NOW WHERE DO I STAND, A BARREL OF SNAKES"
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00:28:30 1710 |
CU MAN CONFESSES, GIVES NAME OF BIG JOE HOLKUM AS THE SUPPLIER
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00:28:44 1724 |
AGENTS DISCUSS COUNTERFEIT CASE, SHOWN PHOTOS OF BIG JOE
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00:29:44 1784 |
AGENT GETS UP, GOES TO A WALL MAP OF THE UNITED STATES
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00:30:22 1822 |
AGENT GETS A DOSE OF HIS OWN MEDICINE, HIS SUPERIOR TELLS HIM HIS HAT SCREAMS CONSPICIUOS STRANGER, GIVES HIM A PROPER HAT FOR "COW COUNTRY". PUTS ON COWBOY HAT
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00:30:54 1854 |
CU 1950s MUGSHOT PHOTOS
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00:30:59 1859 |
MEN PLAYING POKER PLAYING CARDS AND GAMBLING IN A SMOKY ROOM, AGENT WORKING UNDERCOVER TURNS HIS BACK TO THE TABLE AND LOOKS AROUND
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00:31:49 1909 |
CU DEALER DEALING CARDS. CU CARD PLAYER'S HAND. MEN PLAYING CARD GAME IN A SMOKY BACK ROOM. BOUNCER TYPE WEARING SUNGLASSES ENTERS AND CALLS BIG JOE OUT TO THE PHONE, BIG JOE SAYS "TELL THEM TO WAIT" BOUNCER COMES OVER, PUTS A HAND ON HIS SHOULDER AND SAYS THEY CAN'T. MAN REPLACES HIM IN THE CARD GAME
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00:32:32 1952 |
UNDERCOVER AGENT TAKES TOO LONG TO PLAY HIS CARDS "READ THEM CARDS ANY HARDER YOU'LL READ THE PICTURES RIGHT OFF. HE FOLDS "THIS JUST ISN'T MY NIGHT I GUESS"
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00:33:00 1980 |
AGENT SNOOPS AROUND. EAVESDROPS ON CONVERSATION. THE CARD PLAYERS COME OUT AND ACCUSE HIM OF CHEATING AT CARDS "LISTEN I GIVE YOU MY WORD" THEY SURROUND HIM AND BEAT HIM UP LEAVING HIM UNCONSCIOUS ON THE FLOOR
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00:34:53 2093 |
CU COUNTERFEIT BILLS SPITTING OUT OF MACHINE MAKING COUNTERFEIT MONEY
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00:35:16 2116 |
ARMSTRONG CEILING TILE COMMERCIAL WOMAN STANDS NEXT TO TOY FIRE TRUCK HOLDING AN ARMSTRONG TILE. NOISE FILTER DEMONSTRATION. ELECTRIC BELL ON TOY FIRETRUCK
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00:36:27 2187 |
SECRET SERVICE AGENT REPORTS TO WASHINGTON BOSS.
"IT'S A LOT ROUGHER CROWD THAN MOST COUNTERFEITERS" THE CARD PLAYERS BRING THE COUNTERFEIT MONEY BACK TO THEIR REGIONS |
00:37:29 2249 |
AGENT GIVEN A FAKE IDENTITY AS A CAR THIEF TO GO OUT AS A ROPER AN UNDERCOVER MAN SENT OUT IN DISGUISE TO ROPE IN LAW BREAKERS
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00:37:37 2257 |
CU LETTER ADDRESSES TO CONVICT IN STATE PENITENTUARY.
CU LIST OF UNDERWORLD CONTACTS. CU LETTER FROM THE STATE PAROLE BOARD. BUILDING UP A FAKE IDENTITY FOR AN AGENT |
00:37:54 2274 |
UNDERCOVER AGENT DRESSED IN 1950s JEANS AND JEAN JACKET GOES THROUGH A "DRESS REHEARSAL" AS A TOUGH TEXAN. AGENT IN CHARGE PREPARES HIM FOR THE FIELD
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00:41:02 2462 |
UNDERCOVER AGENT "ROPER" SITS IN CARD GAME AS A TOUGH TEXAN CALLS IT A NIGHT. AFTER HE LEAVES, THE GROUP IS SUSPICIOUS
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00:42:08 2528 |
CU DEALER DEALING CARDS OUT FOR POKER GAME.
UNDERCOVER AGENT AS TOUGH TEXAN SITS IN CARD GAME. AFTER HE GAINS THEIR TRUST THE COUNTERFEITER SAYS HE'LL SELL HIM COUNTERFEIT MONEY, HE WANTS IT FOR 5 CENTS ON A DOLLAR. "JUST STICK AROUND, WE'LL SEE" |
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COUNTERFEITER MANUFACTURES PUT MONEY IN A SUITCASE.
UNDERCOVER AGENT BROUGHT IN TO BUT COUNTERFEIT MONEY, COUNTERFEITERS HAVE TO MAKE MORE MONEY, AGENT IS GOING WITH THEM |
00:46:36 2796 |
UNDERCOVER AGENT ON THE ROAD WITH COUNTERFEITERS, GETTING IMPATIENT. AT A GAS STATION HE PULLS "OPERATION PAPER TRAIL" AGENT ROPER SLIPS HIM A COUNTERFEIT BILL. GAS STATION ATTENDANT CALLS THE POLICE. GIVING CLUES TO HIS WHEREABOUTS
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00:47:05 2825 |
AGENT IN CHARGE DICTATES INTO TAPE RECORDER GIVING DETAILS OF THE CASE
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00:47:26 2846 |
UNDERCOVER AGENT LEAVING A PAPER TRAIL, IN LIQUOR STORE HE PAYS FOR SALE WITH A COUNTERFEIT BILL.
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00:47:52 2872 |
UNDERCOVER AGENT EATING IN RESTAUIRANT WITH COUNTERFEITERS GETTING IMPATIENT WITH THEM FOR THE RUNAROUND THEY'RE PUTTING HIM THROUGH. WHEN HE GETS UP TO GO TO THE BATHROOM THE COUNTERFEITERS TALK ABOUT HIM, ONE IS SUSPICIOUS OF HIM THE OTHER IS NOT
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00:48:39 2919 |
SUSPICIOUS ONE GRABS LETTER FROM AGENT'S JEAN JACKET, FOOLED BY THE FAKE IDENTITY "I TOLD YOU HE WAS ALLRIGHT"
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00:49:33 2973 |
AGENT DROPS A BILL FOR A TIP LEAVING A PAPER TRAIL.
QUICK THINKING WAITRESS RUNS TO THE DOOR AND WRITES DOWN LICENSE PLATE OF THEIR CAR, CALLS THE POLICE |
00:49:59 2999 |
AGENT IN CHARGE TALKS TO NEBRASKA STATE POLICE CHIEF.
AGENT DOES A RUN DOWN ON THE CAR, WAITRESS ONLY GOT 2 DIGITS OF THE LICENSE NUMBER |
00:50:39 3039 |
UNDERCOVER AGENT WITH THE COUNTERFEITERS IN THEIR FACTORY FILLS HIS SUITCASE WITH FAKE MONEY, GOES TO LEAVE, THEY WANT HIM TO GIVE THEM A HAND LOADING THEIR GEAR, THEY'RE PULLING OUT NOW THAT HE KNOWS WHERE THEY WORK, THEY DON'T TRUST ANYONE
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00:52:20 3140 |
COPS ARRIVE, SECRET SERCIVE AGENT ARRIVES WITH GUNS DRAWN COUNTERFEITERS CAUGHT AND ARRESTED
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00:53:01 3181 |
"REPORTER" TALKS TP THE CAMERA
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00:53:20 3200 |
ARMSTRONG CLASSIC CUSHION TONE COMMERCIAL THUNDER AND LIGHTNING STORM. GREAT DAY FOR GETTING THINGS DONE INDOORS. MAN REPLACES HIS CEILING. DO-IT-
YOURSELF CEILING TILES |
00:54:26 3266 |
ANNOUNCER INTRODUCES THE CHIEF OF THE UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE MR. U.E. BAUMAN
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00:54:33 3273 |
BAUMAN TALKS TO THE CAMERA ABOUT COUNTERFEITING IN THE UNITED STATES
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00:55:40 3340 |
ANNOUNCER TALKS ABOUT NATIONAL EDUCATION WEEK, INTRODUCES MR. H. W. PRENTISS, JR., CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD, ARMSTRONG CORP. COMPANY AND ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE COUNCIL FOR FINANCIAL AID TO EDUCATION
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00:55:57 3357 |
MR. H. W. PRENTISS TALKS TO THE CAMERA ABOUT THE NEED FOR HIGHER EDUCATION WITH IMAGES OF COLLEGES AND CLASSROOMS SHOWN STUDENTS IN SCIENCE LAB, LECTURE AUDITORIUM
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00:59:31 3571 |
FILM ENDS
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