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A film of two boys who find some money and decide how to spend it. Here are the parts I remember as best as a 3-decades-old memory can assemble.
Note: In my description, I will ID the boys as B(black) and W(white), as one boy was African-American and the other Caucasian. This is only because I can't remember their names, though I think one was Joe or George.
One boy has 5 pennies. The other has a nickel. They go running off through some city streets to go spend their loot.
B: (spots a dime in a storm drain) Look down there, that's a dime. That's worth as much as we got. (reaches through grating to retrieve coin, but can't squeeze through) I'm too big, you try.
W: (manages to grab dime) Share and share alike. You found it, but I got it.
(The kids run across the street on one of those crosswalks with lateral lines painted across. They come to a "corner store" type place with a friendly shopkeeper.)
B: Can you give us change for this dime?
SHOPKEEPER: Change for a dime, eh? I think I can take care of that. Change for a dime, change for a dime (keeps repeating that line as we watch him go back into the store and retrieve the change from one of those old-school cash registers. He takes the change and finds two hands out waiting.)
S: Now here's 5 pennies, 1,2,3,4,5 which is 5 cents. And here's a nickel, which is also 5 cents. For a total of ten cents. Change for a dime.
(Each boy now has a nickel and five pennies. They head for the gumball machines outside the store.)
W: I think I'll spend my pennies first.
B: I think I'll spend my pennies first too.
(A fast-motion sequence of the boys working the gumball machines to a Nickelodeon-style piano sountrack)
W: (with one penny left over) What should I do with this one?
B: I don't know, it's your penny.
(Camera zooms in on an ice cream vending machine)
W: I know, I'll get an ice cream!
B: With a penny? Ice cream is ten cents. A one and a zero. That's 10 cents.
W: You mean we can't get an ice cream?
B: Sure we can. You've got a nickel, right? I've got a nickel, right? Two nickels is ten cents.
W: (Attempts to put a nickel in the ice cream vending machine) Hey, it won't fit!
B: The machine only takes dimes. So if we give the storeman both our nickels, he'll give us a dime.
W: We'll be giving him change.
B: You got it.
(The boys exchange the 2 nickels for a dime from the same shopkeeper as before. No words are exchanged, and he hands them the dime immediately)
B: (At the vending machine) What kind of ice cream do you want?
W: A Fudgsicle.
B: "A Fudgsicle, coming up!" (as he takes from the middle of the three square doors)
(The boys walk down the street as they take turns licking the fudge pop. Eeew, though I might have done that when I was their age.)
W: Hey I almost forgot, I still have one penny left.
B: Come on, George, you can save it for tomorrow.
W: Maybe if we look around, we'll find another dime, or even more.
B: Could be, George, could be!
(Boys walk off, to some soft closing music)
Note: In my description, I will ID the boys as B(black) and W(white), as one boy was African-American and the other Caucasian. This is only because I can't remember their names, though I think one was Joe or George.
One boy has 5 pennies. The other has a nickel. They go running off through some city streets to go spend their loot.
B: (spots a dime in a storm drain) Look down there, that's a dime. That's worth as much as we got. (reaches through grating to retrieve coin, but can't squeeze through) I'm too big, you try.
W: (manages to grab dime) Share and share alike. You found it, but I got it.
(The kids run across the street on one of those crosswalks with lateral lines painted across. They come to a "corner store" type place with a friendly shopkeeper.)
B: Can you give us change for this dime?
SHOPKEEPER: Change for a dime, eh? I think I can take care of that. Change for a dime, change for a dime (keeps repeating that line as we watch him go back into the store and retrieve the change from one of those old-school cash registers. He takes the change and finds two hands out waiting.)
S: Now here's 5 pennies, 1,2,3,4,5 which is 5 cents. And here's a nickel, which is also 5 cents. For a total of ten cents. Change for a dime.
(Each boy now has a nickel and five pennies. They head for the gumball machines outside the store.)
W: I think I'll spend my pennies first.
B: I think I'll spend my pennies first too.
(A fast-motion sequence of the boys working the gumball machines to a Nickelodeon-style piano sountrack)
W: (with one penny left over) What should I do with this one?
B: I don't know, it's your penny.
(Camera zooms in on an ice cream vending machine)
W: I know, I'll get an ice cream!
B: With a penny? Ice cream is ten cents. A one and a zero. That's 10 cents.
W: You mean we can't get an ice cream?
B: Sure we can. You've got a nickel, right? I've got a nickel, right? Two nickels is ten cents.
W: (Attempts to put a nickel in the ice cream vending machine) Hey, it won't fit!
B: The machine only takes dimes. So if we give the storeman both our nickels, he'll give us a dime.
W: We'll be giving him change.
B: You got it.
(The boys exchange the 2 nickels for a dime from the same shopkeeper as before. No words are exchanged, and he hands them the dime immediately)
B: (At the vending machine) What kind of ice cream do you want?
W: A Fudgsicle.
B: "A Fudgsicle, coming up!" (as he takes from the middle of the three square doors)
(The boys walk down the street as they take turns licking the fudge pop. Eeew, though I might have done that when I was their age.)
W: Hey I almost forgot, I still have one penny left.
B: Come on, George, you can save it for tomorrow.
W: Maybe if we look around, we'll find another dime, or even more.
B: Could be, George, could be!
(Boys walk off, to some soft closing music)
