Albert In Blunderland.
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Copyright
15Aug50 LP347, renewed 29Aug77 R670382 Renewal claimant: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc Original author: Loew’s, Inc
Complete catalog record
ALBERT IN BLUNDERLAND. John Sutherland Productions, Inc., 1950. 10 min., sd., color, 16mm. © Harding College; 3Jan50; MP5112.
Animated critique of New Deal–type liberalism. In a dream “Albert,” a worker in a statist economy, is forced to watch a state-sponsored “free movie” on national planning. On awak- ening, he is convinced of the failings of excessive government control. note: Produced in Technicolor and distributed theatrically by MGM, this was among the cartoons in the Fun and Facts about America series. Received a Freedoms Foundation award in 1950. Also distrib- uted in 16mm and revised in 1961. The Sloan Foundation provided funding to Harding College for other films extolling free enterprise, including Brink of Disaster (entry 64) and Make Mine Freedom (entry 246). For more about Harding College, see Gene Blake, “Aims of Conservative Freedom Groups Told,” LAT, July 2, 1961, B2.
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