I watch the oldies movies and TV shows - got about 17k recordings in the computer, and always look for close-ups of change and paper (although usually the paper is bogus bills). On vette boards, they got the "TV and Movie vettes" thread always going - kind of interesting... Saw a Twilight Zone once a year or so ago ('61 or '62 episode) with a very close-up of change in a cigar box (I'll find that one again). Couldn't see the dates, but a Buff .05 is clear. Couldn't tell the Dimes (Merc or Roosie), or the Cents. Last night, 'Sinner's Holiday' 1930 with Cagney + Blondell - almost the entire movie set was a penny arcade, and a dozen scenes with a character at counter loaded with coins - I kept the Pause Button ready, but NO CLOSE-UPS ARGHHH... Anyone else got screenshots here? Or look for this stuff in the oldies?
The most famous instance I'm familiar with (because I'm a MST3k fan) is the short "Money Talks" preceeding episode 621 "The Beast of Yucca Flats" which features very prominently both in the credits and the episode a 1951 Franklin Half Dollar. And it looks like a Proof as well.
There was an X-Files episode (Dreamland) where there was some kind of time/space distortion at Area 51. One of the weird things it produced was a vertical coin with a horizontal coin melded into it. I wish they would have produced some of them as X-Files merchandise.
...i'm a zonie..i think you're referring to "A penny for your thoughts"...where the quarter lands on its edge?...
Could well be there O-1; I'm drawing a blank at the moment; and I DO remember the episode where the coin lands on edge... If you're a Zonie, you remember the episode with Buddy Ebsen - 1961 [?] , where a character flips a quarter onto the bed, and the camera DOES zoom in on the quarter, but I cannot make out the date????????
Real notes or coins could not by federal law be photographed. I have posted this before... this is one reason for stage money,another was using fake money there was no worries or concerns over loss or storage of said money. It was not until the mid 60's maybe later the federal law was repealed. All the money used in films was copies or fake. You can google the treasury dept. for rules and regulations
The episode of the long-running American CBS television show "Twilight Zone", "A Penny for Your Thoughts", first broadcast on February 3, 1961, shows what American coins were in circulation then. The episode is a comical one about a man named Hector who finds that he can read minds after he buys a newspaper from a street vendor and a quarter lands on it's edge. The news vendor's coin box after Hector throws in a quarter. The tray holds various United States coins, mostly silver. A "walking liberty" half dollar appears. Hector's quarter lands on its edge A "buffalo" nickel appears, they were still in circulation in 1961. "Twilight Zone" end credits showing coin box again. A "standing liberty" quarter appears, at least 30 years old at the time. Other television programs are on my website under "Coins on Television", including the famous Hawaii Five-O episode.
You're right paddy - shame on Twilight Zone for photographing that box of Silver. You should get a lawyer and SUE THEIR [insert cheech's expletive here] OFF. And you got proof too!!! (I think those coins ain't 'Proofs' tho' ??? ) Maybe don't worry about the law too much; just go with the flow? ------------------------------ GREAT shot willieboyd2 ; that's the screenshots I remember . The Buffalo shows in pic 2, as I remembered. (or maybe they're fake, and paddy's got no case? ) Shhh - let him work on it, while I find other screenshots amongst my recordings here...
LOL... Anyway here; here's a PIC of one scene screenshot from last night's movie that I waited for, that never came (didn't bother with actual screenshot, since it never zoomed good whole movie) I had my thumb on Pause Button too : edit: paddy; are we gonna' get pinched by G-Men, if we post pics of our CRH Trophys? ........
Looking closer, I believe there is a "war nickel" in the second picture (in front of the quarter on it's edge).
