Floored

For Some, Risking Everything Is Nothing

(DVD - - 2010)

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"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.

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Statement of Responsibility: Traderfilm presents a film by James Allen Smith ; produced by Steve Prosniewski, Joseph Gibbons and James Allen Smith ; executive producer, Karol Martesko-Fenster

Title: Floored
for some, risking everything is nothing
[videorecording]

Publisher: [Seattle, Wash.] :, Typecast Releasing,, 2010.

Characteristics: 1 videodisc (77 min.) :,sd., col. with b&w sequences ;,4 3/4 in.

Notes: 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.
Title from container.

Credits: Edited by Andrew McAllister; director of photography, Chris Baron; directed by James Allen Smith; music by Stefan Scott Nelson.

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.

Audience: Not rated

System Details: DVD, NTSC, region-free, color, aspect ratio 1.33:1, Dolby Digital stereo., 5.1.

Other Language: In English with English, Spanish, French & Japanese subtitles.

Subject Headings: Floor traders (Finance) Illinois Chicago Video recordings.
Commodity exchanges Illinois Chicago Video recordings.
Chicago Board of Trade Video recordings.

Genre/Form: Feature films
Documentary films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Topical Term: Floor traders (Finance)
Commodity exchanges

Additional Contributors: Gibbons, Joseph
Prosniewski, Steve
Smith, James Allen

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