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CAPITALIST CARTOONS DVD
Five of John Sutherland’s Classic Technicolor Economic/Industrial Information Films on One All Regions DVD! Capitalism has never been so animated! Contents: MEET KING JOE (1949 – 9:26) John Sutherland was famous for many things in animation history – direction, production and voice-over work in the employ of Disney, Warner Brothers and, as with the series of films of which this cartoon is a part, himself. This installment of the “Fun and Facts about American Business” series, which he produced for Harding College of Searcy, Arkansas under a number of generous grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, introduces us to “the king of the workers of the world”, here known as Joe, the average American worker. He earns the highest wages and works the shortest hours of any other laborer, and he doesn’t like the capitalist narrator telling him he’s no smarter nor stronger than workers in other countries. Joe’s sense of privilege needs cultivation, and it’s provided by the time machine the narrator has handy to show Joe what work was like for Joe’s ancestors. The monetary capital contributions by banks, insurance companies and stocks are well lauded for their bringing about the productivity and prosperity of U. S. workers, a point illustrated by the comparison between of the labor costs of a Chinese coolie and an American railroad worker. “New inventions create thousands of jobs for every one they displace”, just like competition and the research and development it fosters does. The statistics on how much stuff American workers had at this time in comparison with the other 93% of the world’s workers are truly extraordinary – 72% of the cars, 92% of the bathtubs, and “practically all the refrigerators in existence”. The point of this film, in brief: American labor, management & capital are “the greatest production team in the history of Mankind”. IT’S EVERYBODY’S BUSINESS (1954 – 19:53) Sponsored by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and DuPont, this film won the Freedoms