Hollywood and the demand for prop money brings back a story. In the late 1970s, my father was producing in-house video for an electronics firm, and wrote a script with a scene that required a (literal) pile of money. The company’s credit union was eventually convinced to supply 5000 one-dollar bills, and (of course) they also supplied a guard who tended the heaped pile of bills. That pile sat on a table in the studio for most of a day during the shoot. When the guard slipped out to use the bathroom, my father casually dropped an extra one-dollar bill into the pile.
At the end of the day, the guard counted the money. My dad asked if it came to $5000. “Yup!”
He told that story for years. My dad could get plenty of entertainment from a single dollar…
