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The Manufacture of Coin
(1915) United States of America
B&W : [?] Short film?
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: (unknown)
Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated, production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Released 9 October 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Edison production number 7983.
Educational.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? A thoroughly interesting and very instructive picture taken in the Philadelphia Mint, by permission of the United States Treasury Department. We see old gold and silver accepted by the mint and turned into coin, bars of gold bullion, and the process of melting gold scraps into ingots. We see also the process of analyzing the gold at the assay office. An interesting scene shows the process of filing off the rough edges of the ingots, after which the workmen’s clothes are burned to recover the precious dust. The work of rolling the ingots of gold into thin strips is next seen. This strip of metal is subjected to twenty-eight operations. First, the blanks are cut for the making of five-dollar gold pieces. These are then annealed, whitened and cleaned. They are next “milled” to round off the edges. Then we see the coining machine which stamps out the finished coin. There follows a scene of the operators loading the machines and then taking out finished twenty-dollar gold pieces. The coins are then examined for any possible defects, the slightest defect being sufficient to cause its recasting. In counting the coins after they are cast, “counting boards” are used. By this method, large numbers of coins are counted in a very short time. Next, we see the process of weighing in a perfectly adjusted machine, a machine which does the work of fifteen women. All coins, either over or under weight are automatically separated from the standard ones. We are shown the way in which the coins are prepared for shipment, small bags being placed in larger ones, and these sent out to the different banks. In every case, as one would expect, heavily armed guards safeguard the shipment.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 11 December 2024.
References: Tarbox-Lost p. 237 : Website-IMDb.
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