Selling the Marshall Plan on celluloid [video 3 min 54]
The hat-maker believes in producing few hats and looking for the maximum profit on each, protected by tariff.
The shoemaker aims to keep down the cost of his shoes through mass production and make money through free trade and exporting them.
It might be a tale for our times as the global economic crisis bites ever more deeply and protectionism rears its head.
But The Shoemaker and the Hatter was an animated film made in Britain in 1950. It became one of the most popular of the films made to help promote what was known as the Marshall Plan, the post-World War II project for European recovery.
Now, a number of the Marshall Plan films have been shown to audiences at the Barbican Centre in London as interested archivists bring a cross-section of the films together as "Selling Democracy" to show them to contemporary audiences in the US and Europe.
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The shoemaker aims to keep down the cost of his shoes through mass production and make money through free trade and exporting them.
It might be a tale for our times as the global economic crisis bites ever more deeply and protectionism rears its head.
But The Shoemaker and the Hatter was an animated film made in Britain in 1950. It became one of the most popular of the films made to help promote what was known as the Marshall Plan, the post-World War II project for European recovery.
Now, a number of the Marshall Plan films have been shown to audiences at the Barbican Centre in London as interested archivists bring a cross-section of the films together as "Selling Democracy" to show them to contemporary audiences in the US and Europe.