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- Instructional short aimed at school-aged children of the early 1950s that combines animation and live-action footage with voice-over narration to explain what to do to increase their chances of surviving the blast from an atomic bomb.
- Hoping to bury her criminal past, Jenny Hadley settles into a comfortable existence as Gina, the wife of the politician Clinton Crane. When her former associate Floyd Durant shows up to blackmail Gina, she has no choice but to murder him. Things take a bizarre turn when Barbara Arnold is charged with Durant's murder and Gina is selected to serve on the jury.
- A snake oil salesman try to sell the American people 'happiness', exchange for their freedom, while one man stand up, against him.
- The American worker, personified by Brooklyn-accented Joe, is presented as the "king of the workers of the world," with higher wages and shorter hours than his counterparts abroad.
- Pepito approaches a beautiful senorita who icily rebuffs him, but he is persistent and she allows him to take her to an upscale restaurant, where Pepito can not pay the bill. The consequences are realized later when he finds himself at the altar, about to be married, a confused victim of a misunderstanding.
- A Martian explorer discovers the secrets behind the USA's prosperity: oil and free enterprise!
- In a dream Albert, a worker in a statist economy, is forced to watch a state-sponsored "free movie" on national planning. On awakening, he is convinced of the failings of excessive government control.
- Stock-broker teaches Fred Finchley, a family man, how to invest in stock
- A GE-sponsored short film about a housewife hoping to move with her family to a newly electrified house, but instead winds up with a house so old, even the maid her husband hires won't help.
- Joe, who works at a doll factory, gets an economics lesson explaining why a doll that has only ten cents worth of materials costs two dollars at the toy shop.
- A young couple struggles to raise their adopted daughter, but a mysterious murder reveals the child's unknown fortune and a greedy lawyer who is out to steal it.
- A 20 minute documentary about the construction industry in 60s America. The film was for the Associated General Contractors of America. The odd title refers to the Construction Contractor (the General) who runs the project and marshals an army of construction workers to build buildings, bridges, roads, etc. and has a 'cockeyed' super ego (id). The film is noteworthy for a lengthy score from the famous film composer Jerry Goldsmith. The music is suitably militaristic for the most part but expands into comedy for the animated sequences as well as light period pop and at times a certain sensitivity as well as reverence for the incredible structures these individuals create.
- In a chicken colony, everybody learns about the competitive market and its benefits to the consumer.
- Animated classic presenting what an atom is, how energy is released from certain kinds of atoms, the peacetime uses of atomic energy and the byproducts of nuclear fission.
- Cold War propaganda short explaining how capitalism guarantees America's freedoms.
- Cold War-era cartoon aimed at convincing workers that increased productivity brings about greater purchasing power.
- The film opens with a newspaper from the distant future of October 5, 2000 with headlines reading "Space Travel to Mars" and "tax cuts." The protagonist of the short begins by debating whether to buy a new car or not as his family watches 3-D television. A show then comes on explaining the history of the automobile. The show within the show moves through the beginning of the 20th century starting with hand cranking cars and topless buggies. The clip moves through the decades explaining new inventions like windshield wipers and suspension systems.
- Part-live-action, part-animation short about the importance of industrial research in a capitalist society, with a focus on the development of nylon fiber.
- This puppet (stop-action) cartoon features a young Mexican troubadour, Pepito, who is serenading a senorita beneath her balcony, hoping to win her love. She is vastly unimpressed, however, so he goes to a music teacher to find out what is wrong with his technique. He returns as a musical-cross of Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra, and wins fair senorita.
- A comedy of errors befalls a chicken community as a result of trying an owl-professor's "crackpot" ideas on price guarantees, farm payment, consumer subsidies, rationing, black market policing and taxation to pay the costs.
- Animated short that describes the operation of the New York Stock Exchange and explains how wise investments help to make the Nation powerful and prosperous.
- A short film produced for the National Consumer Finance Association with the purpose of educating high school and college students on debt, loans, and how much additional debt should be taken on given net income less fixed expenses and other necessities. It centers on a conservative, stuffy business-like character named "Mr. Money" and his explaining of debt to two students. Very campy and naive, so much so that it is featured as comic relief in excerpts, and in its entirety as a special feature, in the DVD release of the 2006 documentary "Maxed Out," which deals with the predatory lending practices of credit card companies and their sponsorship of the recent anti-consumer changes in bankruptcy law.
- The devil poses as a business tycoon to try and raise the price on home living to start another war and it's up to John Q to stop him.
- A musical cartoon detailing the woes of a new family in a neighborhood beset by credit wolves. A wise owl comes to the rescue by organizing a Community Action Program to boycott the unfair merchants in the neighborhood.
- Describes and illustrates steps being taken by the Plymouth State Home and Training School, Northville, Michigan, to bring mentally retarded children out of the wilderness into the mainstream of life.
- In 1979, a plant malfunction causes confusion and radiation leak. As fear spreads, so does suspicion that the authorities are concealing the truth.
- 202242mTV-147.1 (243)TV EpisodePanic strikes the community as a full-blown catastrophe looms. Locals mobilize to confront the authorities and protest the nuclear power industry.
- During cleanup at the plant, insiders claim that cost-cutting measures and intimidation tactics create a danger far worse than the accident itself.