Since I'll be out of the Library for the foreseeable future on maternity leave, there will be no new posts to this site for awhile. As always, you can still contact the Library with any requests you have for new materials or any other questions. Take a look at the options available on the "For Faculty" page on the Library's web site or feel free to use the Ask A Librarian service anytime.
Happy springtime to all!
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Monday, March 03, 2008
"Floored" documentary will highlight the end of the trading floor
From today's Chicago Tribune: The trading floors at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange close for good in the middle of May, marking the end of an era, and the end of a movie for filmmaker James Allen Smith.
In a feature-length documentary set for release later this year, Smith aims to chronicle the vanishing life and times of the open-outcry futures trader, highlighting the clash between technology and humanity, and the personal toll of progress.
If the film comes across as Smith intends, " Floored " will capture the incendiary thrill of trading hand to hand and profile the regular guys who became some of the business world's least-likely tycoons. These blustery masters of the free markets proved vulnerable when computers finally penetrated their sheltered club, and only a relative handful remain in the pits today.
Smith feels their pain.
Read the whole article HERE (stable link).
Link to the Tribune's site HERE (with some video clips from the documentary)
In a feature-length documentary set for release later this year, Smith aims to chronicle the vanishing life and times of the open-outcry futures trader, highlighting the clash between technology and humanity, and the personal toll of progress.
If the film comes across as Smith intends, " Floored " will capture the incendiary thrill of trading hand to hand and profile the regular guys who became some of the business world's least-likely tycoons. These blustery masters of the free markets proved vulnerable when computers finally penetrated their sheltered club, and only a relative handful remain in the pits today.
Smith feels their pain.
Read the whole article HERE (stable link).
Link to the Tribune's site HERE (with some video clips from the documentary)
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