The Federal Reserve System; Origin, Purposes And Functions.
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Duration: 23 min.
Year Published: 1950
Creator: Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc.
Format: 16mm
Color: B&W
Sound: sound
Description: Explains the purpose and operation of the Federal Reserve System, tracing from its inception during the 1907 financial panic the idea of banking insurance and the steps in instituting it on a national scale. Acknowledges, through dramatized scenes, the farsighted leadership of Woodrow Wilson and Carter Glass. Uses animated diagrams to define such terms as deposit liabilities, reserves, bank portfolios, rediscounted paper, and elastic currency.
Complete Record: THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM; Origin, Purposes and Functions. Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, 1950. 23 min., sd., b&w, 16mm. © Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc.; 5Oct50; MP686.
Metadata Source:Catalog of Classroom Teaching Films for Georgia Schools, No. 10 (Georgia Department of Education)
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