Hitler’s Phoney Fivers

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1574
Date Released
3 Aug 1959
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
7 / 7
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Hitler’s Counterfeit Money. DESCRIPTION: Lake Toplitz in Austria, and the end of a long search which for years puzzled Scotland Yard and the International Police. Down there at the bottom of the lake are boxes of printing plates and notes. Hitler had made them during the war, to undermine Britain’s economy by flooding the country with counterfeit money. Expert forgers, released from concentration camps did the job. They produced 350 million counterfeit pounds. The SS sank the lot together with the plates towards the end of the war. 14 years later they’ve been found. SHOTLIST: GV lake & mountains (key & title). GV same. LS salvage raft. Closer same. CU salvage diagrams. CU underwater TV equipment. MS same being lowered into water. Shot of TV screen showing bed of lake. SUC engineer operating equipment. BS same showing screen. Shot of screen showing money lying at bottom of lake. MS frogman going under water. LS frogman brings up box. Closer bringing up NoSles of fivers. Closer same. TS same. MS sorting out money. Same - boxes being carried. CU fivers being sorted. MS same. CU five pound note.
Keywords
Environment; Science and technology; Crime
Locations
Austria
Footage sources
Germany
Card file number
77785
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
117
Story extras:
Film clip

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'Hitler’s Phoney Fivers', British Movietone News Issue No. 1574, 3 Aug 1959. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/23151 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)