# Productivity - Key To Plenty

A compilation of live footage, staged scenes and animation discussing the rise of the U.S. standard of living as it is tied to the rise of productivity--comparison of man hour earnings in 1850 ($ .27) to 1900 ($ .56) to 1949 ($1.40). An argument for the appreciation of "the American Way" by not standing in the way of increased productivity through the use of machines.

- Kind: Short
- Runtime: 21 min
- By: J Frederic Dewhurst; Twentieth Century Fund.; Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, inc.
- Genres: Science, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/Productivity-KeyToPlenty)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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