I was in elementary school in the 1950's, and Destination Earth is exactly the type of corporate-sponsored propaganda that our teacher would pull out of the storage closet and show us, when she hadn't had time to prepare anything else for class, or perhaps just needed a break from us. In those days, we lived on a steady diet of optimism about the U.S.A., its science, technology and freedom, and we knew it would be just a matter of time before we wiped out the Communists. And you know what? I think that was a lot better than the "we're no better than any other country" mentality that seems to be slowly permeating our classrooms today. So I'm giving this cartoon 7 stars, despite the blatant industrially-subsidized public relations spin. Plus I thought it was pretty funny in places, and it told the complex story of how oil is made in a way that was nicely sugar-coated for kids.