Make Mine Freedom (1948) || Relevant Today

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CREDIT:

Production Companies:

• Harding College
• John Sutherland Productions
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor:

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1948) (USA) (Theatrical)

Date: Wednesday, February 25th, 1948

DESCRIPTION:

A John Q. Public try to sell the American people 'happiness', exchange for their freedom, while one man stand up, against him. This phenomenal classic animated propaganda film has the basic Cold War anti-communist theme, but talks about it in a unique and entertaining way. A traveling salesman called Dr. Utopia, selling bottles of "ISM" (communism), takes in four unsuspecting dopes who believe his promises about the powers of ISM to solve all their problems.

They sample his wares, falling into a waking nightmare where they get a nasty taste of the lack of freedom they would face after relinquishing control over their factories and farms to the parent state. When a lone politician dares speak up, he is brainwashed and later shown with a phonograph for a head that plays "Everything is fine!" over and over. In the end, the character "John Q. Public" declaims about the way communists try to incite race hatred, class warfare, and religious intolerance, and the townspeople drive Dr. Utopia out of town, pelting him with bottles of ISM as he flees.

This is must-see vintage animation with hilarious political themes. This cartoon is a presentation every American NEEDS to see! It's clearly relevant to our present times.

QUOTE:

"Whenever anybody preaches disunity, tries to pit one of us against the other, through class warfare, race hatred or religious intolerance, you know that person seeks to rob us of our freedom and destroy our very lives."