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Make Mine Freedom

Make Mine Freedom

Make Mine Freedom is a 1948 American animated anti-communist propaganda cartoon created by John Sutherland Productions for the Extension Department of Harding College (now Harding University). Financed with a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the cartoon was the first in a series of pro-free enterprise films produced by Sutherland for Harding. The cartoon depicts a satire of perceived life under collectivist ideology.

Plot

The film opens with a paean to American values, noting how America means different things to different people. The central conflict in the film concerns four composite characters, a worker, a capitalist, a politician, and a farmer, who all find themselves at odds with each other. A slick salesman approaches the men, offering them a solution to all their problems in the form of a magic tonic known as ISM, which he claims will "cure any ailment of the body politic." The bottles are labeled differently, such as "ISM for workers" offering higher wages and economic security, "ISM for farmers" offering bountiful crops and no inclement weather, and "ISM for management" disallowing strikes.