| Description |
1 videodisc (77 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. |
| System Details |
DVD; NTSC, all regions; widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital stereo & 5.1. |
| Note |
Documentary. |
| Credits |
Edited by Andrew McAllister ; director of photography, Chris Baron ; music by Stefan Scott Nelson ; executive producer, Karol Martesko-Fenster. |
| Note |
Originally released as a motion picture in 2009. |
| Audience |
Not rated. |
| Note |
Incorrect aspect ratio of 1.33:1 (i.e., full screen) indicated on container; program is widescreen. |
| Summary |
"With 'an elegiac poignancy' (New York Times), director James Allen Smith (My Name is Smith) "captures the waning heyday of the Chicago Trading Pits" (ABC News) and tells the bizarre and gripping stories of the traders -- 'overgrown kids with money, brains, and a pathological need to release stress' (Barron's) whose chaotic, audacious, and thrill-seeking way of life has all but vanished with the recent shift toward automated computerized stock trading." -- from container. |
| Note |
Bonus features: Raw pit footage (10 min.); Deleted scenes and alternate ending (9 min.); Commentary with director James Allen Smith and editor Andrew McAllister; Commentary by CNBC contributors Jon Najarian, Rick Santelli and Pete Najarian; Live pit commentary of the 'flash crash' of 2010 by Ben Lichtenstein (11 min.); Photo montage of the trading floor; Floored at NASDAQ (4 min.); 'Corner in wheat' by D.W. Griffith, courtesy of Kino International. --www.kino.com (14 min.). |
| Language |
In English with optional subtitles in English, Spanish, French, and Japanese. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
Floor traders (Finance) -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography.
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Stock exchanges -- Illinois -- Chicago.
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Chicago Board of Trade.
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Commodity exchanges -- Illinois -- Chicago.
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| Added Author |
Smith, James Allen. Director. Producer.
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Prosniewski, Steve. Producer.
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Gibbons, Joseph. Producer.
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Trader Film, LLC.
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Typecast Films (Firm)
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| Standard No. |
643519122902 |
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