Film Teaching Basic Capitalism To Children

Here's a snippet of something, dunno if this is what you're looking for.

Well, three thumbs up on the preceding advert!

Check this out, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVh75ylAUXY, I didn't see the exact one you were looking for, but there are more to the right.

Good luck, those could very well be banned from schools now. Also check out "Going Places", from 1948 about a soap maker.

I'll tell you what, watching those old flicks really reminds you of how much things have changed. Not necessarily for the good, either.

Check out the movie "Network".

Thx folks, GA's to ya but not the one Im looing for, but I may be able to use them and they provide good leads.

I did google it and found a lot of different refferences, but not the old technocolor movie that I remember.

I found the old Elmer fud one from warner brothers but that wasnt it.

Just hoping someone would remember it.

I may be getting warmer, http://www.answers.com/topic/yankee-dood-it-1956-film.

Oops, that's the one I just posted. I'll continue the hunt.

Well, you've put me off on a little mission. The news is not good.

The more research I do, the more convinced I become, that you won't be able to show this film in schools.

Within educational websites the prevailing attitude, (in US education), is that capitalism is outmoded and no longer applies to todays society.

If films like this are shown in (US), schools, they are called, "capitalist propaganda films", and are used to illustrate how stupid and naive Americans used to be.

I'd be interested to hear the reaction, if you were to call the principle of an elementary school near you, and ask him/her what they thought of your idea.

I suspect your project will be shot down. I double dare ya to make the call.

I'd have to agree with you. The idiocy of the message in the link below is a metaphor for the prevailing attitude allowed in today's public schools.

Nissan polar bear

GA, good link.

Cool commercial but the message it is sending is subtle and the propoganda seeps into the subconscience on the children the easiest. Win the youth and and you win the elections to come. They new this in the 50s and it helped to produce the youth of the 60s and the leaders of today.

GA, Kramarat.

I have rarely voted let alone be an activist, however i feel a calling.

I have a problem with capitalism as you see it. There is currently a gold price bubble. ALL BUBBLES BURST. When this happens, it will be unpleasant. Shouldn't there be some kind of control that limits this kind of thing?

I was lucky with the last gold bubble.

I was burnt by the silver bubble.

I did a packet of dough on one share after the next share bubble.

Capitalism is great if your timing is spot on.

I live in hope that I get it right this time (If I'm spared!)

Phaddy,

I have lost and gained in both silver and gold, but thats the markets, capitalism is IMHO "I make something and sell it and with luck make a profit."

Capitalism will save us all ..........what a crock.

"capitalism is IMHO "I make something and sell it and with luck make a profit."

If the western world is such a bastion of "capitalism" how come China, India and several other "eastern" countries are kicking your butts at it. If you make something, good luck making a profit if someone else makes the same thing for half the price.

Exactly what "crap" are you complaining about?

Ice caps are shrinking as shown in the clip ...true.

Polar bear habitat is shrinking ......... true.

Electric cars are less likely to contribute to the two facts listed above ........true.

Actually, electric cars do not reduce greenhouse gases. Wind, nuclear, and hydro plants run at near 100% capacity at night since this is where they are most efficient. Fossil fuels make up any deficiency in power. If we add a lot of electric cars, which get recharged at night, the added power to charge them is almost all produced by fossil fuels. By the time we burn fuel, make electricity, transmit it, convert it to DC and charge the car batteries, the losses at each stage make electric cars no better than gas-powered cars. Of course, we could build more nuclear plants and, possibly, change this situation.

On the other hand, all of the emissions are moved from the cities to the country.

Do you believe that polar bears leave the ice caps to hug people that drive hybrids too?

I've done this before, but I'll repeat myself just for you.

School is for reading, writing, arithmetic and all other things academic. Anything beyond that is crap. Here are some examples of what I consider crap.

Any kind of social agenda.

I don't need the school teaching my daughter about her sexuality, beyond the human biological aspect.

I don't need them teaching her that competition is bad.

I don't need them teaching her that the kids that don't work hard are entitled to the same things as the kids that do, in the name of fairness.

I don't need them teaching her that mankind is destroying the planet unless a direct and provable correlation can be made.

I don't want them teaching her that God does not exist.

I don't want them teaching her that America is an evil empire that has raped the world, when in fact we have saved the worlds bacon at least twice.

Those are a few examples, hopefully I've put this in a format that you can understand.

While you are driving around in your tiny car with your head held high, the true heroes in the world will hard at work, toiling in obscurity, developing technologies that will truly impact our collective futures in a positive way.

No, but I like a good tale just like most people. I don't take most of the literature of the world literally but I get the point more often than not. To the rest of the points.

1. Actually if you check on the history of the American public school system I think you will find it was created exactly for this purpose. To meld all those imigrants into model Americans.
2. Not about "her" sexuality no. But isn't it their job to teach her that there are other people on the planet who don't all agree of everything?
3. Agreed competition is not bad, but cooperation is usually better.
4. Agreed 100%.
5. Would you have the schools eliminate ALL theories from the ciriculum, or just the ones you don't agree with.
6. See #5 above? And should they be teaching there IS a god, an equally unproven theory. And if so which one? Please check the section on seperation of church and state, another large part of the history of the creation of the public school system. The entire reason there are "public" schools and "Catholic" is that the Catholic schools refused to remove the religion from their class rooms. If as you say schools are for "academic" things only, then leave the religion to the church(s).
7. Ahh lets not touch this one cuz every one knows that it was the late arrival of the yanks in Europe that tipped the scales in WWII to keep the world free for all those countries that had been fighting (and winning) for the previous 5 years or so.

1) There was a certain degree of national pride, but schools were primarily for learning. Period

2) Yes, it's called social studies. Kids learn about other cultures in an unbiased way.

3) If you open a lemonade stand and your neighbor opens a lemonade stand, would you prefer to make better lemonade than him and make more money, enabling you to open more lemonade stands. Or, would you rather cooperate with him and split all of the profits from both stands, even though you know his lemonade is inferior to yours. If it's the latter, good for you, it's not for me.

5) Theories are fine, as long as they are presented in an unbiased manner and are supported by proven facts.

6) No place for God talk one way or another from teachers. However, kids of any religion should not be chastised for praying, and should be allowed a moment of silence to do so if they wish.

7) Fighting a war for five years or so ( and winning), is an oxymoron.

I will, but we may have to label it as something else, like "how to make money", or "making money". If approched as teaching capitalism you are right, the idea would be shot down. To be frank we have to sneak the principals of good living in, propogandize it, disguise it. The same way the progressives have done for the last 100 years. Unfortunatly I have to get past the teachers which are a product of a education system that has move so far off the American path that we are on the verge of colapse.

Glenn Beck has a short (2-3 min) animation on capitalism. Go to his web site. (Google him to find it.) I think you can download it from there.

More GA's, I did see Glen Becks explantion of capitalism and I thought the old shoemakers film was better so that why Im doing this.

However it could just be my nostalgic memories thinking it was so good.

It isn't a film, but the book I, Pencil is a kid-accessible introduction, available from Laissez-Faire Books.

capitalism died in 1913 when the fed was launched. and bank of canada.

communism as practiced in russia et al, is not communism... for all are not equal...

appearances are deceiving. what we have are corruptocracies.

better to go about as diogenes, with a lamp in daylight, looking for an honest politician....

chris

Hi Chris,

GA, but who is Diogenes?

I don't believe that it is legal anymore to teach and promote 'capitalism' in this 'socialist' nation!