UNION PACIFIC MOVIE TOKEN

Up for sale is a 1939 advertising and commemorative token. It is aluminum, and measures 32mm in diameter. The obverse reads CECIL B. DEMILLE'S / MOTION PICTURE "UNION PACIFIC" The reverse reads, with t wo railroad engines and the shield logo of Union Pacific ROAD OF THE STREAMLINERS AND THE CHALLENGERS / UNION PACIFIC / UNION PACIFIC / THE / OVERLAND / ROUTE / ALUMINUM IN THESE / FAMOUS TRAINS / FURNISHED BY / ALUMINUM COMPANY OF AMERICA / UNION PACIFIC (The reverse is the same as those tokens given out during the 1939 Golden Gate Exposition held in San Francisco.)

The world premiere of the movie was held in Omaha, Nebraska in April 1939, with a corresponding 4-day commemoration called the Golden Spike Days Celebration. The piece is in excellent condition with slight wear.

To read the complete article, see:
1939 UNION PACIFIC/CECIL B. DEMILLE MOVIE/TRAIN TOKEN (OMAHA NEBRASKA/HOLLYWOOD) (https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1939-union-pacific-cecil-demille-14460329)

The 1939 Paramount Pictures film "Union Pacific" is an epic Western film about the building of the Union Pacific railroad across the United States in the late 1860's as half of the transcontinental railroad which was authorized in 1862 by the US Congress and President Abraham Lincoln.

The route of the railroad went from Iowa to Utah, where it was to meet the Central Pacific railroad being built from San Francisco, California.

A wealthy financier Asa Barrows attempts to slow down the railroad effort in a scheme to lower the price of railroad stock. The financier hires two men, Sid Campeau and Dick Allen to run gambling casinos and saloons to distract the mostly Irish railroad workers.

Jeff Butler is a railroad troubleshooter who attempts to block Campeau and Allen. Jeff and Dick were soldiers in the Union Army together but now they are on opposite sides. Both are competing for Mollie Monahan who manages the railroad mail and telegraph office.

The film was one of Cecil B. DeMille's epic productions and was made in cooperation with the modern Union Pacific Railroad.

The Union Pacific Railroad and the Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA) issued a series of 32 mm aluminum tokens to advertise the trains and one to advertise the film.

Some silver dollar size prop coins appear on a gambling casino table.

To read the complete article, see:
Coins in Movies Union Pacific (1939) (http://www.brianrxm.com/comdir/cnsmovie_unionpacific.htm)

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