Money Minters

1958 Canadian film
  • 1958 (1958)
Running time
11 minutesCountryCanadaLanguageEnglish

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]

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

  1. ^ "Money Minters". Canadian Educational, Sponsored and Industrial Film Project.
  2. ^ "Currency exhibit worth $1 billion". The Globe and Mail, March 8, 1969.
  3. ^ 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.

External links

Money Minters in the NFB collection catalog

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1 These two films were given honorable mentions rather than officially winning the award, but are included here as no other winner was named above them.


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