Can you show money on tv

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The reason Doctor Who used fake notes may have been not so much that they weren't allowed to use real currency, but that the scene involved a cash machine malfunctioning and shooting banknotes across the street. There'd be too much risk of the notes becoming damaged or getting pocketed by the extras who scrabble across the street collecting the notes.

It's not an offence to show currency on British TV, but it is an offence to damage or destroy it. Real Life example: During the Victorian era, forging a banknote carried a hefty sentence, but making something that looked a bit like a banknote didn't. So forgers would create notes that read "Bank of Engraving" instead of "Bank of England", and could try to pass these off as real currency. To someone who goes to Chinatown often enough, it's obvious when someone is using Chinese Hell dollars as stand-ins for American dollars, but otherwise the designs are quite similar.

They were used like that in an episode of the Australian series Pizza. The Stephen Sondheim musical Road Show involved piles of cash being literally thrown into the air until they carpeted the stage, so that audience members in the front few rows were able to catch loose bills. Needless to say, it wasn't real money. They printed true-to-scale images of the front and back of a bank note, which as Vetinari observes surely sent most of the city scrambling for scissors and glue. A related trick in real life: the "carnie roll", a roll of what appears to be high-denomination bills.

One short from The Three Stooges has them needing to get the ransom for a starlet. They resort to some bills found in a room marked 'Property'.

It didn't say whose property, of course. I had a producer who wanted to show a real dime on screen and I thought that it might be illegal. A friend of mine who is finishing up his PhD in film school made this claim to me years ago and I told him that I thought it was nonsense. I think it is pretty clear that the link only refers to printing money on paper.

Counterfeiting involves making fake money that might be passed off as real in commerce. There is no law whatsover against photographing money for viewing on a screen or monitor. If, however, you print bills, either with a printing press or by inkjet, laser printer, etc.

So I guess that unless someone comes up with a federal law prohibiting the filming of currency, the facts are: 1. Magicians on TV perform tricks with dollar bills all the time. If it were illegal to film money they would be picked up by the Secret Service in no time. The money was loaned from a bank, which had guards standing by to collect the money after the scene was shot. Groucho explained that it was illegal to show real currency on television.