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 byTed De Wit
Produced byF. R. Crawley
Ted De Wit
Written byMunroe Scott
Music byWilliam McCauley
CinematographyFrank Stokes
Grant Crabtree
Edited byJames W. Turpie
Production
company
Crawley Films
Distributed byNational Film Board of Canada
Release date
1958
Running time
11 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

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.


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