Above is a great 14 minute clip of candid footage on the last day of the old CBOT bond room which closed in 1997 and was subsequently turned into the MidAm trading floor, but is currently occupied by the offices of Peak6. Clearly it was some seriously tight quarters at the old bond room before moving to the far more spacious new bond room!
Evidently part of this video, in addition to some other footage shot by the same guy, will be turned into a movie entitled The Floor. While I'm a huge fan of original content that captures the history of the trading pits, I do get the feel by watching the trailer of The Floor that it'll be overly sensationalist and as we've seen in other floor related documentaries, that mostly reflects bad upon the messenger. Not trying to prejudge, but it'll certainly be met w/a collective groan by the all locals I still keep in contact with.
