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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2017 19:34:51 GMT
Hello. I'm making a video which touches on the relationship between Banking and Law in the US. I'm in the process of accumulating visual resources to use and I'd love some old footage of banks and bankers (preferably dodgy!) from film history (silent, animated or documentary films would be amazing). I don't think any of the classic films I've seen really deal with this subject matter, so I'm unsure where to look.
If you know of anything, please let me know on this thread.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2017 19:44:16 GMT
Hello. I'm making a video which touches on the relationship between Banking and Law in the US. I'm in the process of accumulating visual resources to use and I'd love some old footage of banks and bankers (preferably dodgy!) from film history (silent, animated or documentary films would be amazing). I don't think any of the classic films I've seen really deal with this subject matter, so I'm unsure where to look. If you know of anything, please let me know on this thread. Thank you! You might want to put a bit from "It's a Wonderful Life" in your compilation. |
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Post by naterdawg on Feb 24, 2017 19:48:26 GMT
Well, there's "The Bank Dick," for one. And there's a banking scene in Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt. When you use the word "dodgy," do you mean in the public domain?
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Post by rycki1138 on Feb 24, 2017 19:49:03 GMT
It's a Wonderful Life was also the first thing I thought of. It had the stodgy greedy old banker in the character of Mr. Potter and the more altruistic banker in George Bailey.
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Post by naterdawg on Feb 24, 2017 19:57:35 GMT
It's a Wonderful Life was also the first thing I thought of. It had the stodgy greedy old banker in the character of Mr. Potter and the more altruistic banker in George Bailey. Mr. Potter wasn't banker. He was just rich, mean, and greedy. |
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Post by rycki1138 on Feb 24, 2017 20:11:28 GMT
It's a Wonderful Life was also the first thing I thought of. It had the stodgy greedy old banker in the character of Mr. Potter and the more altruistic banker in George Bailey. Mr. Potter wasn't banker. He was just rich, mean, and greedy. He owned the bank and had his offices there. When people with money in the bank started panicking he bought them out at 50 cent on the dollar and he tried to take over the building and loan by offering anyone who had their money in the B&L 50 cent on the dollar. He would have succeeded and owned the B&L, too, if George Bailey hadn't stopped them from selling out to him. |
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Post by carlcarlson1 on Feb 24, 2017 23:14:20 GMT
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Post by camimac on Feb 24, 2017 23:24:32 GMT
I don't have any pre-50's movies to mention featuring banks or banking. The movie I want to mention is 1952's, Steel Trap, starring Joseph Cotton. Very good movie.
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Post by OldAussie on Feb 25, 2017 0:02:50 GMT
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Post by OldAussie on Feb 25, 2017 0:15:49 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2017 10:20:23 GMT
American Madness (1932) directed by Frank Capra sees Walter Huston embroiled in a New York banking scandal. Dinner at Eight (1933) has dinner table conversations about companies preying on smaller companies during The Great Depression. Citizen Kane (1940) has a scene where Charles Foster Kane (A Rupert Murdoch type media baron figure of that time) brags about how rich he his. Gabriel Over the White House (1933) is a not very well known film but it is quite interesting in that it's a what if scenario: What if a dictator took over the presidency of the United States? The central figure's rise to power is modeled upon Hitler and Mussolini. This scene shows a senator calling for him to be impeached but where he calls to suspend the senate to take over full power by himself www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivMiVQjGeyg This is how Donald Trump will eventually undo himself: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zzCQLyNnIg. Its an amalgamation of clips for the Andy Griffith movie Face in the Crowd made in 1957. |
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Post by hi224 on Mar 30, 2017 8:08:42 GMT
Wrong man possibly.
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