Saturday Morning Cartoons

This is the first in a series of Saturday morning screenings of a series of films produced by John Sutherland for Harding College in the 1940's and 50's. Released theatrically through Metro Goldwin Mayer around the nation, these films undertook to explain aspects of America's capitalist economic system to the public.

Sometimes I feel like asking your average liberal where wages and prices come from is likely to elicit the same kind of response as asking my six year old where babies come from. In this film "Why Play Leapfrog?" from 1949, we see that prices are largely a function of labor costs, and driving up the cost of labor raises the cost of living for us all.

Keep your eye out for the lesson/happy ending, then pass the moral on to your union labor friends.