Transaction Database
A record of historical creative expenditure denominated in gold, organized by country. Each entry is a transaction (a payment, a commission, a budget) converted into grams of fine gold for direct comparison across centuries and currencies. Why gold? The methodology explains.
This is also where a Discourses film starts. Each documentary in the series enters one of Canada's co-production treaty territories and asks how that culture decided what was worth paying for. Each record below is one such decision: a name, a date, a sum, a source. Find the one that raises a question you would want to spend a year answering, and the corridor page linked from that country explains how the film gets made.
What physical goods weigh in fine gold, monthly since 1960. The same unit of account as the records below, pointed at the present.
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