A wonderful compilation of classic and animated NYSE films. This DVD explains how trading on the New York Stock Exchange works and how people make money playing the market.
Included Films:
The Big Board
The Big Board
Produced: 1940s
Length: 13 Minutes
Playing the game of buying and selling is mastered by the those involving themselves in the stock market. A volatile and equally lucrative means of making money, the stock market is an ever changing and fluid game that brokers and firms spend a lifetime mastering. Made in the 1960s, the film attempts to explain the game, sowing the stark reality of the stock market floor against the colored scenes of the ideal. Managing your money is something stock brokers take seriously and only with the most extreme care on their part do they invest their energy and your money. A wonderfully historic film on the process of using the stock market for profit and gain, The Big Board, is a nostalgic look at days that were not so defined by financial turmoil.
What Makes Us Tick
What Makes Us Tick
Produced: 1952
Length: 11 Minutes
In a typical city or town in a typical residential street we find a typical home occupied by a typical American family. The family works hard and has all the typical things that make home enjoyable, such as a dishwasher and vacuum cleaner (a revolution in the fifties), but they have more money to spend. With excellent John Sutherland animation lighting up the screen, how they should spend that extra cash is explained in detail. The New York Stock Exchange was not only the be all, end all of stock exchanges in Americas 1950s, but continues to have a dramatic impact on the economy today. What Makes Us Tick explains all the elements of the NYSE with cool animation and campy fiftys fun.
Working Dollars
Working Dollars
Produced: 1957
Length: 11 Minutes
Fred Finchley is a typical American who works hard to enjoy the peace and quiet of home. One day at Finchleys office his boss gives him a 60 dollar a month promotion for his hard work. Working Dollars takes Finchleys situation to explain how the Stock Exchange works with things like a Monthly Investment Plan. Glorious 1950s animation adds life to the story of Fred Finchley in a way that makes economics and trade interesting for the average American.
