Money Makers (1960)

M/S of two men sitting at tables in an office; they both have drawing boards before them and are designing bank notes, with art materials beside them. M/S over the shoulder of one of the men as he uses some dividers to measure something on a master copy, then picks up a paintbrush; C/U as he paints in part of the design on a (Spanish?) banknote using a magnifying glass. Commentator tells us that this is “a firm of security printers in the City of London where a large proportion of the world’s supply of new banknotes is produced“; (the firm is not mentioned by name but notes on file say it is Morris Waterlow and Sons in Worship Street, London). C/U of a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II panning left to show a steel engraving of the picture. Portraits are apparently used so much on banknotes because they are harder to forge. M/Ss and C/U of a man working on the engraving, called a steel die. M/Ss and C/Us as we see the the design being embossed on a softened steel cylinder, being rolled back and forth