By Word of Mouse
A foreign mouse comes to America and is amazed by its economic system. He goes to a mouse professor who explains how it works while they are being chased by Sylvester.
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"Barack Obama's election as president today at least suggests that that what Friz Freleng's "By Word of Mouse" portrays may return. An endorsement of free enterprise and mass production, it applied in the 1950s, before the factories shut down and moved to the third world so that they wouldn't have to pay the workers anything. But even the economy that we had in the '50s resulted in consumerism (and, among other things, car dependence). Oh well, at least we had rock 'n' roll. Friz Freleng made two other cartoons like this (all three cartoons starred Sylve..."
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This was the first of three cartoons on economic subjects underwritten by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. It was followed by Heir-Conditioned (1955) and Yankee Dood It (1956).
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A foreign mouse comes to America and is amazed by its economic system. He goes to a mouse professor who explains how it works while they are being chased by Sylvester.