Money Minters
Money Minters (French: Les Monnayeurs) is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Ted De Wit and released in 1958.[1] Sponsored by INCO and the Royal Canadian Mint, the film documents the process of making a coin from the initial mining of metal ore at Sudbury to the coin's final production at the Royal Canadian Mint.[2]
| Money Minters | |
|---|---|
| Les Monnayeurs | |
| Directed by | Ted De Wit |
| Produced by | F. R. Crawley Ted De Wit |
| Written by | Munroe Scott |
| Music by | William McCauley |
| Cinematography | Frank Stokes Grant Crabtree |
| Edited by | James W. Turpie |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | National Film Board of Canada |
Release date | 1958 |
Running time | 11 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
The film was one of three co-winners, alongside The Quest and The Tall Country, of the Canadian Film Award for Best Theatrical Short Film at the 11th Canadian Film Awards in 1959.[3]
References
- "Money Minters". Canadian Educational, Sponsored and Industrial Film Project.
- "Currency exhibit worth $1 billion". The Globe and Mail, March 8, 1969.
- Maria Topalovich, And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. ISBN 0-7737-3238-1. pp. 45-47.
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