Stupid short film that tries to teach people how to save money and to budget. Sorry, but people are idiots and no matter how much you try to educate them if they are no good with money they are always going to have problems. I have a lousy job and do not make much, but I always have plenty of money in the banks, yet I know of people who make four times the amount I do and end up barely scraping by each month. This one features a kid who was doing rather well considering the time and could not afford to go to a dance for 2 bucks. Then again, 2 bucks for a school dance back in 1951 seems steep! I never remember a function that cost much more than that when I went to school. I think a skate party for 5 dollars, but that was in the 80's and they provided the skates and everything. The boy is in luck, as Mr. Benjamin Franklin comes in the form of a shadow and teaches the boy about saving and budgeting his money. The boy promptly uses this information to swindle his father out of the two bucks. Of course, Benjamin's appearance raises questions. If I were in need of assistance would a historical figure come and assist me? Would it be in shadow form? Could they help me if I were being attacked as I am sure a talking shadow of a historical figure would distract and possibly scare my attacker? Well whatever, this short tries to convey a good message, but one that no one who has trouble spending money wants to hear or even if they do they will not heed it. You could remake this short and put AC/DC in it and they could sing their song Money Talks and you could have a whole lot of historical figures drinking and stuff and at the end they through the boy out the window! That would be worth watching.

Here's the premise of this short film - a kid with no idea how to spend his money gets a visit from the ghost of Benjamin Franklin and then the ghost tells him how to use money wisely. The entire movie takes place in a corridor then a room. The shadow of Franklin makes it pass more off as Alfred Hitchcock than what they're intending. This movie basically says that teenagers - when taught will be able to handle every budget and adults won't. This movie is extremely cheezy, everybody behaves like a character from The Brady Bunch (NOT A GOOD SIGN) and there is little reason to pay attention at all now (I learned about all this in High School) and is extremely dated. Soon I will get the movies The Beast of Yucca Flats and Progress Island USA, watch out for those and my opinions.

This educational short isn't too bad and given the current climate of credit card exorbitance, might be a good idea to dust off the old film reel and show it to kids on a rainy school day.Of course, that would be a bit delusional because this short is incredibly dated in the fact that it makes the individual responsible for making their own money by working for it. In my small corner of the world, children EXPECT their parents to buy them whatever they want. So talking about saving money would be a moot point.Technically, this short is a cookie cutter impression of every B&W short made in this era and the technique of some historic person coming back to talk about some inane aspect of modern life (like saving money and budgets) seems to be a popular meme in this era.

Money Talks! is a very boring short film about telling young people how to make a budget. Basically a kid gets visited by the ghost of Ben Franklin and told how to properly spend his money. Bad acting is rampant in this film, and it somewhat lacks a sense of reality.