Filming Money

[Bruce]

If you go to this web site and click on the pictures of money you will find links to legally download examples of various bills back and front (with specimen printed on them) that you can use. I have the new Photoshop CS2 and it will not let you print out these examples but you can use them easily in video productions.

https://moneyfactory.com/newmoney/

[Frank Otto]

Thanks, Bruce for the update!

I see the requirement for a larger specimen font has been eliminated…as I said earlier, my info was from 2001 so it’s good to get the correctyed info and link.

Thanks!

Cheers,

Frank Otto

[Foleyvideo]

I’ve videotaped money before — in fact, a bank let me use THEIR money for the shoot! We did it at the bank with security guards standing by and of course a full count of the cash before and after the shoot.

Why not invest in some “movie money” — the kind of stuff you see on TV all the time. It looks convincing from a distance but wouldn’t stand up to close inspection — unless your audience thinks Bill Gates has his picture on a hundred dollar bill.

Steve

[Wayne Keyser]

This isn’t such a mystery when you go to the source – the Bureau of Engraving and Printing website has the following under the topic “Reproduction of Currency” (quoted in pertinent part)

…authority is hereby given for the printing, publishing … or the making … of the necessary plates or items for such printing or publication, of color illustrations of U.S. currency provided that:

1. The illustration must be of a size less than three-fourths or more than one and one-half, in linear dimension, of each part of any matter so illustrated; 2. The illustration must be one sided; and 3. All negatives, plates, digitized storage medium, graphic files, magnetic medium, optical storage devices, and any other thing used in the making of the illustration that contain an image of the illustration or any part thereof shall be destroyed and or deleted or erased after their final use in accordance with this section.

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The comparatively poor (for counterfeiting purposes) of film and video, and their projection at various sizes, would seem to meet the above requirements, in my view – as for the last part about destroying the preprint materials, film and video seem to have indefinite lives, so who is to say when the final use of the preprint materials occurs? Note that the statute does not require the destruction of the finished prints/tapes.

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There is no “way to peace.” Peace is the way.

[Joseppi]

I come from a print/graphic design background, where the restrictions tend to be more strict, since the tools of graphics and printing are what counterfitters use… scanners, plates, negatives, printing presses, and color printers and copiers have been a leapfrog competition with security measures for years.

At a printing company I used to work at, years before I was there, the secret service came in, and in no uncertain terms, took the plates and negatives for a printing job. It seems a client had a $10 bill be printed, smaller than 100%, in a fake-looking green, and only on one side of the paper. They printed their business card info on the second side, so when the “bill” was folded in half, it attracted attention when handed out. Turns out somebody had actually passed off the fake money in another state.

When the guys in beige sedans pull up, and walk in wearing suits and flash a badge, it’s not something you want to happen a second time…

Joe