How Eve Makes Money
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- Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
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- 5 / 5
- Summary
- NoS Summary - Women and men at work in a mint, making American money.
British Pathe synopsis: Introductory title reads: "Most men believe this impossible, but as a matter of fact, Uncle Sam’s daughters have been making money for years - on paper. Adam starts the business." C/U of man looking at an engraved piece of shiny metal. He works on it with tweezers, looking through a magnifying glass. C/U of a man at work on a press. Presumably printing bank notes. Shot of a piece of machinery in action. High angle long shot of a factory floor with lots of women at work. High angle shot of men at work on presses. High angle shot of a woman at work on a machine through which she feed sheets of printed banknotes. Top shot of other women at work, they seem to be checking the notes. C/U of the money (one dollar notes) passing through a machine. Top shot of women at work by the machine. They check the notes. L/S of women at work with piles of banknote sheets. They check them. C/U of a woman turning over sheets of printed notes. "In this work, Eve’s light touch scores - (Where’s the cynic who said Eve always was a good "toucher"?)" C/U of women counting or checking money. L/S of men at work in a packing department. Notes are packaged up and a label is stuck on with glue. Uniformed men push trolleys on to the back of the lorry. The doors are shut. High angle shot of the vans leaving the mint. - Keywords
- Women; Economics; Industry and manufacture; Employment
- Locations
- United States of America
- Written sources
- Kinematograph Weekly 8 August 1929, p37.
Pathe Inventory File Tin No.110
British Pathe Database 1997 Reference No.EP110 Used for synopsis
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How to cite this record
'How Eve Makes Money', Eve And Everybody’s Film Review Issue No. 426, 1 Aug 1929. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/332226 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)