Sponsored Films

Your Share in Tomorrow (1957)
Sponsor: New York Stock Exchange. Production Cos.: Knickerbocker Productions Inc.; International Film Foundation. Director: Francis Thompson. Camera: Stanley Meredith, Michael Nebbia, Peaslee Bond, Robert Downey, Wheaton Galentine. Special Effects: D.A. Pennebaker. Music: Gene Forrell. Transfer Note: Scanned from a 16mm print held by Anthology Film Archives. Running Time: 27 minutes.

Informational film explaining the work of the New York Stock Exchange. The short describes types of stocks, the function of brokers and investors, and how stocks support business and industrial activity across the nation. Howard Thompson called the film “devastatingly original” and praised its “exciting color photography.”

Note: Your Share in Tomorrow premiered on the exchange floor in New York and was shown in 52 other American cities on the same day. Produced in Eastmancolor. Also distributed in 16mm.

Resources
“Your Share in America’s Future,” Business Screen 18, no. 2 (1957): 40; Howard Thompson, “Newcomers in 16mm,” New York Times, Apr. 21, 1957, 97.