It's Everybody's Business 1954
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Sponsors: Chamber of Commerce of the United States; E.I. duPont deNemours & Co. Production Co.: John Sutherland Productions. Producer: John Sutherland. Writers: John Sutherland, William Scott, George Gordon. Art Director: Maurice Noble. Music: Eugene Poddany, Les Baxter. Animation: Carl Urbano, Bill Melendez, Emery Hawkins, Abe Levitow, Bill Higgins. Narrator: Macdonald Carey.
Animated history of the American economic system told from a pro-free enterprise perspective. Free enterprise, the narrator argues, can be traced to the Bill of Rights, and the Founding Fathers regarded “political and economic freedom” as “interlocking inseparably.”
However, in contrast to what the film characterizes as the favorable economic climate of colonial America (where individuals had the “freedom to go into business”), today’s government imposes taxes and regulation.
The film features John Sutherland’s usual humor and memorable visual devices, including images of the “tax monster,” the tidal wave of war, and paper money riding a railroad train.
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Bill Scott LOATHED writing these films for Sutherland. He recalled, "i disliked what I was writing, but I wrote it because the money was good. About once a year, I'd get fed up and march into the office to say I couldn't do it anymore. Every time I opened my mouth to complain, they'd stuff it with money. I worked with some of the greatest wheelers and dealers and corporate pirates {including DuPont}, as yet unhung, that I'd ever met. Finally, I just couldn't take it anymore. I'd lied for four years, and that was enough. Everything I'd thought or suspected about big business turned out to be absolutely true, and I just couldn't deal with it after a while. That's the only job I ever quit....."
@Neal_R
Жыл бұрын
Boy does that ever sound familiar!
@ChristopherSobieniak
Жыл бұрын
Poor Bill.
@fromthesidelines
Жыл бұрын
If he hadn't quit, he wouldn't have met Jay Ward in 1957. 😃
@ChristopherSobieniak
Жыл бұрын
@@fromthesidelines True, and we wouldn't have had Bullwinkle.
@fromthesidelines
Жыл бұрын
Or Rocky, either. 😉
I love everything that came out of John Sutherland Studios. Thanks for the post!
Beautiful.
A shame America doesn't work this way anymore.
@WitchidWitchid
Жыл бұрын
I was thinking the same thing. This was from back when people had more respect and instead of hating on the government they worked together to build a great country, a great economy, and a better overall standard of living.
@reginaldforthright805
8 ай бұрын
Immigrants ruined the country
And Jonathan the milliner was voiced by Herb Vigran.
339 Dollars for a new fridge in the 50's ? Never knew 😅
2:10 In the 1980s, Jack Welch had a brilliant idea: Let's send all the jobs to China and rake in even bigger profits!
12:27 10 hours and 6 days a week. Currently we regress to the beginning of the s. xx.
Sadly, our monies are spent overseas for their equipment, etc. Very little is going here
@ronaldlomerson9454
Жыл бұрын
That is very true!
@ChristopherSobieniak
Жыл бұрын
@@ronaldlomerson9454 This is the world that is now forever gone from our lives. Our parents and grandparents would be ashamed of us.