WHY PLAY LEAP FROG?
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Year Published: 1949
Description: This cartoon "Why Play Leap Frog?" was originally released in 1949 as part of a series of animated films financed by the Extension Dept. of the Harding College (now Harding University). The series was intended to create a deeper understanding of what has made America the finest place in the world to live. "Leap Frog" was produced by John Sutherland, who famously voiced the adult Bambi in the 1942 Disney film. Sutherland also produced 45 films from 1945–73; many of which were instructional cartoons that extolled the socioeconomic concept of capitalism and delivering a political message on the benefits of both corporate and individual liberty, and the drawbacks of government interventionThis particular film discusses how wages and productivity are related while promoting the idea that workers need to continually increase production if they want to keep their wages high. At (0:49), an animated presentation showcases the cost of living and inflation. The animated film opens with a view of a house titled Dilly Doll Company at (0:51), followed by an image of a doll maker painting a girl doll's face at (1:17). At (3:01), a red Travelmaster car advertisement appears, and from (3:10-25), the narrator describes the materials required to manufacture the vehicle. The car assembly line is depicted in the film at (5:07), while a pie chart at (5:43) illustrates the components that constitute the car's cost. At (6:25), the animated film shows an A-Meat Market, and the narrator describes the labor cost involved in producing meat. At (7:13), the film shows a butcher throwing a piece of meat on an old scale, revealing the labor cost required to obtain the meat. At (8:17), the animated film shows a worker running to his boss to describe a plan for an early assembly line for the dolls, followed by the assembly line in action at (8:41). We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: "01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference." This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Shorts remixing this video JOE gets his PAYCHECK and some welcome news! 8.5K views Joe at the Dilly Doll factory is having a bad day. 1.4K views Transcript Follow along using the transcript. Show transcript PeriscopeFilm 759K subscribers Videos About Support Us on Patreon 1970s NEW DIMENSION FILMS, INC. CARTOON ANIMATION STUDIO PROMO FILM XD72554 by PeriscopeFilm
Complete Record: This cartoon "Why Play Leap Frog?" was originally released in 1949 as part of a series of animated films financed by the Extension Dept. of the Harding College (now Harding University). The series was intended to create a deeper understanding of what has made America the finest place in the world to live. "Leap Frog" was produced by John Sutherland, who famously voiced the adult Bambi in the 1942 Disney film. Sutherland also produced 45 films from 1945–73; many of which were instructional cartoons that extolled the socioeconomic concept of capitalism and delivering a political message on the benefits of both corporate and individual liberty, and the drawbacks of government interventionThis particular film discusses how wages and productivity are related while promoting the idea that workers need to continually increase production if they want to keep their wages high. At (0:49), an animated presentation showcases the cost of living and inflation. The animated film opens with a view of a house titled Dilly Doll Company at (0:51), followed by an image of a doll maker painting a girl doll's face at (1:17). At (3:01), a red Travelmaster car advertisement appears, and from (3:10-25), the narrator describes the materials required to manufacture the vehicle. The car assembly line is depicted in the film at (5:07), while a pie chart at (5:43) illustrates the components that constitute the car's cost. At (6:25), the animated film shows an A-Meat Market, and the narrator describes the labor cost involved in producing meat. At (7:13), the film shows a butcher throwing a piece of meat on an old scale, revealing the labor cost required to obtain the meat. At (8:17), the animated film shows a worker running to his boss to describe a plan for an early assembly line for the dolls, followed by the assembly line in action at (8:41). We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: "01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference." This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Shorts remixing this video JOE gets his PAYCHECK and some welcome news! 8.5K views Joe at the Dilly Doll factory is having a bad day. 1.4K views Transcript Follow along using the transcript. Show transcript PeriscopeFilm 759K subscribers Videos About Support Us on Patreon 1970s NEW DIMENSION FILMS, INC. CARTOON ANIMATION STUDIO PROMO FILM XD72554 by PeriscopeFilm
Transcription
foreign [Music] wages and prices often played fraud one jumps up then the other which means a steady rise in our cost of living the Dilly doll factory is a happy shop but Joe our doll painter friend seems to be a little down in the mouth which even shows in his work foreign Joe is pretty discouraged because the High Cost of Living makes it harder and harder to make ends meet are you Joe old boy hello better look in that envelope [Music] wow a race and just in time to buy the kid a birthday present what do I get let's see dress and bicycle roller skates shoes people a doll a doll [Music] what's the price Miss I work on a factory that makes this style two bucks is too much I'm very sorry sir but your company charged us more for this shipment so we had to raise our Sunrise we got a wage increase all right but it couldn't raise the price that much it just takes a little wood rubber hat club and if only we make that dog there's only about 10 cents worth of materials and the whole thing you Pirates Crooks Bandits you you robbers you're right about the cost of raw materials in that doll about 10 cents worth raw materials in practically everything we buy are worth little until Labor transforms them into finished products for example how much do you think the raw materials cost in that car oh about 300 bucks you've got a surprise coming it takes four and a half tons of coal two and three quarters tons of iron ore 50 pounds of cotton 14 pounds of cured and finished wool aluminum zinc lead copper and countless other raw materials to make an automobile without the addition of labor costs these things are worth about 22 dollars the raw materials require the accumulated labor of thou people in countless crafts to transform them into a finished automobile miners dig the coal and iron ore Railroad and Maritime workers transport these materials to the steel mill where workers convert the R into finished Steel the wages of railroad workers add to the value of Steel when it is transported to automobile factories the cotton that goes into a car accumulates labor cost from the farmer who tills the soil from workers who sow the seed and helped to raise the cotton wages paid to other workers add to the value of the cotton as it is moved from the field to the cotton gin where it is processed six six other workers transport the cotton to the automobile Factory the wool that is used to make a car is worth little while it is still on the Sheep when the labor cost of a sheep Shearer is added the value of the wool is increased by his wages when all of the parks and materials finally reach the factory for assembly the labor cost of automobile workers must be added to the price of the car foreign automobile direct and indirect labor costs add up to approximately twelve hundred dollars or over 80 percent of the selling price that's four taxes and what happens to the other 20 or 300 raw material cost twenty two dollars profit to producers of raw materials and Allied Industries 89 profit to part manufacturers forty seven dollars profit to local dealer seventy seven dollars profit to car manufacturer sixty five dollars now when you add four hundred dollars for taxes the cost is nineteen hundred dollars to the buyer foreign like the dolls you make an automobile has a low raw material cost and a high labor cost and that goes for practically everything we buy oh yeah well what's the labor cost in a book's worth of steak we'll start back at the farm where bully boy was raised the selling price of meat has to include the labor cost in producing the feed in building fences and constructing housing for our Animal Friend it takes a lot of costly care to get bully boy ready for the market wages have to be paid to railroad workers who provide our friends with care and courtesy on his way to the Stockyards preparing bully boys Anatomy for The Butcher Shop costs money too the family butcher figures in his wages every time he sells a thick juicy steak we're getting taxes for a moment the labor cost in a dollar's worth of meat adds up like this workers raising beef 24 cents transportation workers one half cent Packing House workers 42 cents meat delivery drivers one half cent butcher shop workers 18 cents the other 15 cents goes in profits to the retailers the Packers Allied Industries and to the farmers and Ranchers most of the things we buy accumulate direct and indirect labor costs that add up to 85 percent of the selling price before taxes are added generally speaking a wage raise means a corresponding rise in prices unless productivity is increased proportionately what do you want a guy with four arms four arms [Applause] [Music] say I got a sensational idea to expand productivity labor and management must work together to develop new ideas and techniques [Music] to expand productivity Capital must Finance the creation of more efficient tools and plans [Music] the production of more and better Goods at lower costs means that when you get a wage raise it's a real raise a raise a raise [Music] [Applause] [Music] I want to buy a doll how much now you've got a real wage raise because you can buy more with what you earn with increased productivity wages can keep ahead of prices
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