Make Mine Freedom - 1948

"Make Mine Freedom" is a 1948 American animated anti-communist propaganda cartoon created by John Sutherland Productions for the Extension Department of Harding College. Directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby, the cartoon depicts four American individuals at odds with each other: a worker, manager, farmer, and politician.3 The cartoon links patriotism with free enterprise and freedom with prosperity, arguing that working together to produce an ever-greater abundance of material and spiritual values for all is the secret of American prosperity. The cartoon was the first in a series of pro-free enterprise films produced by Sutherland for Harding.