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Brown's New Monetary Standard (1913)
Short | Short, Comedy

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Brown's New Monetary Standard (1913)

Short | Short, Comedy

One Brown reads in an unveracious colored Sunday supplement that a process has been discovered for extracting gold from sea-water. As Brown is a student of 10-penny finance, he is impressed by this fact, and at once concludes that gold ...See moreOne Brown reads in an unveracious colored Sunday supplement that a process has been discovered for extracting gold from sea-water. As Brown is a student of 10-penny finance, he is impressed by this fact, and at once concludes that gold will soon be so cheap that copper will be far more valuable by comparison. He gets a wagon, goes down to the bank and converts $10,000 that he has there on deposit in gold into copper pennies, and then attempts to do all his business on the ten-mill basis. The transaction of large deals in coin of small denomination is rather difficult and embarrassing, not to remark overweighing patience on the part of purchaser. Brown's path is strewn with pennies that rise in mountains and fall in gulleys to obstruct his way. He goes out shopping with his wife, visits a millinery store, and pays ten thousand pennies for a hat. Then he goes to buy tickets for a theatrical matinee, pours out a pile of pennies on the glass counter, but the ticket seller merely orders him to take them away. Brown refuses, and a special officer is called, who threatens him with arrest. Brown leaves very angry, and the newsboys scramble for the pennies that he leaves as he is rushed on his way. He goes home, and fuel is added to his fever when a collector comes to present a bill, but will not accept the payment in coppers, "as pennies are legal tender to one dollar only." He has hardly gone away, refusing to accept, when another collector comes. He "falls for it" and is ballasted down so heavily with coppers that he man hardly walk. The collectors meet and exchange confidences, and the various grocery men and retail dealers in town, having received a line on Brown, refuse absolutely to do business with him. When he goes to church he loads the collection plate so full of pennies it is full to overflowing, and his efforts to put more on excite the risibility of the congregation. The community at large have begun to think that Brown has copper on the "coco." He has lots of money, but he is a terrible nuisance. He finally reads a newspaper a week after his exploits that the bubble concerning the making of gold out of seawater has been exploded, and that Prof. Sharp, the man who proposed to do it, has been discredited as a fake. Brown gets his money back into the bank and his pennies into the proper channels of circulation, the hands of the newsboys. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Name	Known for
Edwin Wallock Mr. Brown Mr. Brown See fewer	Tammany's Tiger (1916)
Vera Hamilton Mrs. Brown Mrs. Brown See fewer	The Cat and the Canary (1912)
William Stowell The Paying Bank Teller The Paying Bank Teller See fewer	Fighting Mad (1917)

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