Hollywood does not give print fake dollars

For shooting Hollywood blockbusters requires a huge amount of cash dollars. In the film, they are passed in suitcases, transported in vans, they should be in the bank vaults, etc ... But here the filmmakers put a spoke in the wheels of the US Secret Service, whose duty - to fight against counterfeiting.


The real and fake banknote production Independent Studio Services i>

Production of counterfeit notes for Hollywood studios engaged in two private firms. One of them - Independent Studio Services (ISS). Representatives of this company complain exceptional idiocy US Secret Service employees. For example, for the film "Rush Hour 2" in 2001, they produced a bill with the inscription "In Dog We Trust" instead of the original inscription "In God We Trust", replace the main photo and 28 more features bill. It did not save them from persecution. Agents said the bill is still too similar to the present: it is the same color and it is the face value.

By law, Counterfeit Detection Act of 1992 , a copy of the bill be daolzhna 1) size or less than 75%, or more than 150% of this ; 2) printed on one side only; 3) be monochrome.

For the film "Rush Hour 2" produced bills par value of $ 100 million, in compliance with all applicable laws, that is, in accordance with all of the above requirements. Nevertheless, the Secret Service broke into the office of ISS, seized computers and finished products. All were seized bills par value of $ 200 million. Since the production of these bills ISS costs about 8 dollars for a $ 10,000 loss is quite significant.

Moreover, the Secret Service subsequently forced ISS to destroy all stocks of finished products (the nominal value of several billion dollars).

In the same repression suffered another company that produced counterfeit banknotes for Hollywood studios - Earl Hays Press .

As a result, the studios had to radically revise their work. Now the demonstration inside the stacks of bills are pure pieces of paper, and the edges - these bills. This practice is consistent with the law.

Source: habrahabr.ru/post/232051/

Tags

See also

New and interesting