Labor Relations,
Electrical Generation,
Stock Market, Dangers of Communism and More
This fascinating DVD is a collection
of short animated advertising films made in the 1940's and 1950's. The collection
explores a wide variety of areas of life at that time including how electricity
is generated and how it is a key to our essential freedoms, how the average
person can put the stock market to work for him to generate additional money
to buy the finer things in life and several cold war films teaching the average
American why capitalism and hard work is better than communism. All in all an
excellent collection demonstrating the mood and thinking of the times.
Here are all the films that make
up this fascinating collection:
Freedom and Power / 1952
  
Animated film that shows how electricy has helped grow America from its
roots of independence to a great powerhouse. The film is broken into two
parts. The first part shows how the settlement of America was dependent
on power of various sorts and the second half of the film concentrates
on what electricity is doing for the modern 1950's family. It ends by
showing the house of the future.
Producer: Wolff (Raphael G.) Studios, Inc.
Audio/Visual: Sound, Color
Run Time: 25:34
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What Makes Us Tick / 1952
  
Animation showing how the stock market is creating great prosperity across
America. It shows how the typical American can enjoy the finer things
in life by the proper use of credit and investment.
Producer: Sutherland (John) Productions
Audio/Visual: Sound, Color and Black & White
Run Time: 11:35
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Working Dollars / 1957
  
This animated film shows how the stock market works and talks about Monthly
Investment plans as a smart way to invest in your future.
Producer: Sutherland (John) Productions, Inc..
Audio/Visual: Sound, Black & White
Run Time: 10:44
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Going Places / 1948
  
This film shows the glory of profit. Follow the story of Freddie Fudsie
who has a simple goal. He wants to spend his life relaxing and fishing.
He invents a bar of soap and makes enough money to reach that goal but
meets a women and falls in love and grows a family. Which means he needs
more money to live his new lifestyle. So instead of spending life fishing,
he is working hard, making lots of money and making America stronger by
his profit driven work ethic.
Producer: Sutherland (John) Productions, Inc.
Audio/Visual: Sound, Color
Run time: 8:33
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It's Everybody's Business / 1954
  
This is a cartoon about American consumption and how money works. It
shows how money earned goes to making purchases and paying taxes so the
government can do all the good things it does to make our life better.
Producer: Sutherland (John) Productions, Inc.
Audio/Visual: Sound, Color
Run Time: 19:53
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Make Mine Freedom / 1948
  
This is a film highlighting the dangers of communism. It shows a salesperson
going around selling bottles of Ism to a variety of people promising them
that they will have all they desire once the swallow their Ism and give
up their freedom to the state as the parent.
Producer: Sutherland (John) Productions
Audio/Visual: Sound, Color
Run Time: 9:30
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Meet King Joe / 1949
  
This animation shows America's industrial might and how that might has
translated into its citizen's ability to buy all the good things in life.
It has statistics like Americans owning 92% of the worlds bathtubs, almost
all the refrigerators ever manufactuered, 72% of the cars in the world,
etc.
Producer: Sutherland (John) Productions, Inc.
Audio/Visual: Sound, Color
Run Time: 9:26
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Why Play Leap Frog? / 1949
  
This animation shows how the economy works from taking inexpensive raw
materials and turning them into more costly finished products. It shows
how the money from a retail sale trickles down the chain to the manufacturer
with everyone getting a piece and how some of that extra money that was
created is used to invest in even greater productivitiy and even greater
profits to be shared by all those who participate.
Producer: Sutherland (John) Productions, Inc.
Audio/Visual: Sound, Color
Run Time: 9:39
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