World War I and the Stock Market
This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA.	Tape Master:	1861
	Catalog #:	507408
	Clip Number:	507408-1
	Orginal Film:	HFR-SFL-35-264
	Timecode:	01:27:06 - 01:28:24
	Location:	United States / Europe
	Year Shot:	1922 (Estimated Year)
	Audio:	Yes
	Color:	No
	Headings:	FARMING: Grain, Wheat INDUSTRY: Metal, Iron & Steel LOCATIONS/EUROPE: Misc LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA MONEY: Coins MONEY: Paper MONEY: Trading Floors WORLD WAR ONE, GENERAL: Misc.
	Description:	Dizzying, rapid, symbolic Eisenstein-like montage relating World War I (WWI) and world financial markets (note that the battle sequences are historical re-enactments, NOT actual battle footage): newspaper headline from The Wall Street Chronicle stating, "300,000 Slain in Mighty Battle"; "War Buying Sends Wheat on Market Here to 2.25"; TLS/MS/CUs farming tractor combines threshing, harvesting wheat in field; CUs numbers being written on chalkboard, MSs white male stock traders yelling, working on trading floor; coin money piling; TLS three German Army soldiers running with rifles toward camera, then falling as though shot and killed; MS AEF soldier grabbing belly, falling into trench on battlefield; MSs soldiers charging, retreating, rolling into trench or sliding dead down hill; "Steel Federation Plants Working at 92% Capacity"; TLS steel mill, MSs foundry, CU gears rolling; MS/CUs coins falling into pile, paper money being thrown into air & falling; MSs coinage being minted; CUs cash register till loaded with coin & paper money opening & closing; MSs Russian Army soldiers running, jumping over camera, leaping into trench; MSs naval artillery cannons firing; CUs rifles & machine guns firing, bullets loading into weapon; superimposition shot of coins falling into pile over panning shot of grave markers in military cemetery; "Stocks Continue Soaring in 12,000,000 Share Day, War Commodities Lead."

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