Capitalism (1948)

Another winner from Coronet Instructional Films! In this one, a group of teenagers on a high-school radio program discuss just what capitalism is, seizing onto the example of the butcher who supplies the weenies for their picnic. A bona fide capitalism love-in! Weenie references fly fast and furious here.

Capitalism is one of many "free-enterprise education" films released in the first few years of the Cold War. Unlike many films produced under corporate sponsorship, it avoids taking jabs at socialism, Russia or New Deal government programs. Nonetheless, it uses the common Coronet device of showing a group collectively engaged in coming to terms with an idea -- a process with predetermined conclusions. In this respect, I imagine that it's not so different from Soviet educational films.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• capitalism
• economics
• cold
• war
• propaganda
• anti-communism
• weenie
• roast
• 1950s
• coronet
• educational

[starsassy]

We needed weenies...Mr. Brown had weenies...

[Scottchmorsco]

@blackgold161 this is just the kind of commit I was talking about, lame

[Scottchmorsco]

such lame comments to this video. pay attention and learn something.

[JaleDrums]

So... capitalists are prostitutes?

[Declanth1]

It's interesting that they explain capitalism in a way that it benefits the nation. But what happens when the capitalists set up their factories in other countries?

[nottinmatterz2day]

that girl cute, too bad she's 63yrs older today

[blackgold161]

@arenor I mean this is when we where brainwashed and didn't know it

[arenor]

@blackgold161 Lmfao, and you think we aren't brainwashed now?

[belbobiggins6969]

@blackgold161 implying that they arent brainwashed today

[blackgold161]

This is when America was brainwashed