Going Places

About

Defines the profit motive and dramatizes the part it has played in the economic development of our country. Stresses the need for continued industrial profits if our economic vitality is to endure.

Great 1948 color cartoon about the American entrepreneurial spirit and the temptation to do evil in big business; monopoly busting.

04:48:22:19 Discouraged looking boy stirring bubbling pot to make soap; CU boy says “Shucks, if I didn’t have to work think of all the phone I could be having”; imagination bubble appears over boys head of him swimming, playing baseball etc.; imagination bubble appears again, image of motor labeled Imagination begins to start; VS boy turns into man working hard to invent caked soap; man opens up business and sells soap in cakes to eager housewives; man’s company is called Fudso Soap Co.; man walks out of Fudso Soap Co. door, tries to hit on woman, woman punches man in face; VS urban development, buildings pop up over farmland, new schools, houses, streets, parks, libraries, playgrounds, waterworks.

04:50:45:13 Great shot cartoon thief tries to steal 5 cent apple; large policeman busts the thief, thief runs away, policeman eats the apple.

04:50:57:11 Great shot cartoon businessman working hard at desk; working man looks miserable, press button, tray appears with bottle, grabs headache medicine bottle glass from tray, pours it into glass, drinks, then goes back to work.

04:51:05:27 Man driving wife and family in pre-1920s automobile, man in driving outfit, everyone wearing goggles.

04:51:25:11 Chemist in laboratory doing scientific research, chemists smells liquid in test tube then falls to the ground.

04:52:07:16 CU bald business man grabs chin in deep thought, though bubble appears with drawing of motor with gears churning, motor labeled Imagination and electric light on motor labeled Profit Motive.

04:52:19:10 Man seated at giant desk between Fudso Soap Factory and the Bank; disembodied arm reaches out to hand man at desk money, man at desk in turn hands money over to disembodied arm reaching out of bank; disembodied hand reaches out of Insurance building and hands man at desk money, on other side of desk disembodied arm reaches out of Stock Exchange building to hand man at desk money.

04:52:54:24 Great scene business man answers phone with little devil on one side of his desk and little angle on the other, also on phones, man makes deal with other business man to create Soap monopoly; little angle at desk on phone is shot in the face with black ink from the devils pen; devils laughs holding his pen gun; businessmen watch profits on chart drop; man shoves miniature devil off his desk into the trash can and smiles at the miniature angel on his desk who is also behind a miniature desk.

04:56:05:08 Boy in rocket suit working in garage makeshift laboratory puts drop of liquid on spoon then pours drop into his rocket pack, boy flies out of garage, into the sky and past the moon.

Archive

Internet Archive, in Prelinger Archives

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Credit

Sutherland (John) Productions, Inc.

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