💵 Working Dollars (1957) | Classic John Sutherland Economics Cartoon | Money in Motion! 🏛️🔁📈 - video Dailymotion

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💰🔍 Working Dollars (1957) is a fascinating animated short by John Sutherland Productions, designed to explain how money flows through the American economy. Sponsored by the New York Stock Exchange, this vintage educational cartoon breaks down complex financial ideas—savings, investment, and capital growth—into easy-to-understand visuals.  📽️ Plot Summary: Follow "Mr. Working Dollar" as he zips around the economy, demonstrating how saved money doesn't just sit—it works, generating jobs, building infrastructure, and helping businesses grow. This Cold War–era classic champions capitalism as the engine of progress.  🕰️ Year Released: 1957 🎭 Genre: Educational Animation, Economics, Propaganda 🎬 Produced by: John Sutherland Productions 🏛️ Sponsored by: New York Stock Exchange  🎯 Why Watch It? ✔️ Classic example of mid-century economic propaganda ✔️ Great introduction to how savings and investments fuel growth ✔️ Fun, engaging, and highly stylized animation ✔️ Valuable for students of economics and American history  🔔 Don’t forget to LIKE 👍 | COMMENT 💬 | SUBSCRIBE 🔔 for more vintage animation, public domain gems, and Cold War education films!  👇 Watch more Golden Age educational cartoons here: 📺 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYSxyPafGbnQOHVjtutbCJoNsaOS4Vh54 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎞️ #WorkingDollars #JohnSutherland #VintageAnimation #EconomicsExplained #PublicDomainCartoons #ColdWarPropaganda #StockMarketEducation ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💸 Watch how your money goes to work! Working Dollars (1957) makes finance fun and visual! ________________________________________

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00:00This is the residence of

00:28Fred Finchley.

00:30He's a family man who enjoys the peace and quiet of his little home.

00:41Fred Finchley has a good job.

00:44Freddy, look.

00:45And his family enjoys their standard of living.

00:52His salary keeps up with the cost of living,

00:55and he owns some of those work-saving appliances we all admire so much.

01:01Finchley always checks to make sure he gets his money's worth.

01:05But after paying his bills,

01:07his savings account,

01:09and life insurance premiums,

01:12there never seems to be enough money left to pay for that.

01:16But there's a time for dreaming

01:17and a time for working.

01:21So every workday morning,

01:22Finchley joins the stream of traffic that flows toward his job.

01:29As you can see,

01:30Finchley could not be called, Hector.

01:33But he always gets to work

01:35right

01:37on

01:39time.

01:44Sorry, $60 a month.

01:46Have a cigar.

01:48Thanks for the good work, Finchley.

01:50Well, uh,

01:51gee,

01:52thanks, JB,

01:53for the cigar.

01:55And,

01:55and,

01:56the race.

01:58Sixty bucks a month.

02:03Hey,

02:03can I use it?

02:05Sure you can,

02:06Mr. Finchley.

02:07But how?

02:09Huh?

02:09Yes,

02:10what will you do with those extra dollars?

02:12There are lots of things you could do.

02:14Bury it in a tin can in the backyard,

02:16for instance.

02:18But idle money may in time depreciate.

02:21Or,

02:22you could spend it on a couple of nights out a week with the wife.

02:28This seems like a lot of fun.

02:35But with this kind of life,

02:37you'd depreciate.

02:38So why not put your money to work?

02:41Put my money to work?

02:43That's right, Mr. Finchley.

02:45You can own a share of American business.

02:48There are over 1,200 companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

02:52Companies which employ more than 11 million people,

02:55produce half of all the goods made in America,

02:59and pay about half the nation's dividends.

03:02Many of these companies have been paying dividends for 25 years or longer.

03:07Tycoon.

03:08Neither are most of the people who own shares in American business.

03:12Three out of four of all share owners are in families which make less than $10,000 a year.

03:17The raise was only $60 a month.

03:20Well, the monthly investment plan is specifically designed for anyone

03:24who wants to invest in common or preferred stocks on a pay-as-you-go basis.

03:30You can pay $40 up to $1,000 every month or every three months under MIP.

03:37So why not the member firm of the New York Stock Exchange

03:40and get some practical advice on how to own a share in American business?

03:45And before you invest, investigate.

03:52Yeah, invest.

03:55Just think, with $60 a month, I could...

03:58Just a moment, sir, if you please.

04:08You look like the kind of a pigeon, uh, uh, uh, man of judgment

04:12who knows how to invest his money wisely.

04:14Uh, uh, uh, won't you step into my office, please?

04:17Let me give you a hot tip of the strictly confidential.

04:20For a limited time only, we are offering to discriminating buyers like yourself

04:24a few shares in a world-famous company with mines in Nigeria, Tasmania, Somaliland, and Brooklyn.

04:31It's...

04:33Utopium Unlimited.

04:36It glows in the dark.

04:38Small investment, big profit.

04:40As a special favor, I'll let you have 100 shares for only 40 cents a share.

04:44That comes to $40.

04:46Plus, of course, $20 for putting you onto a sure-fire moneymaker.

04:50You are now a man of some...

04:52Hey, you!

05:03Mr. Finchley, there is a big difference between dealing with a fly-by-night operator

05:08and a reputable broker.

05:10Sit down, Mr. Finchley.

05:13First, tell me.

05:14What are you gonna sell me?

05:17Not a thing, Mr. Finchley.

05:18As members of the New York Stock Exchange, we are prepared to be of service to you, at least.

05:24Every day, member brokers buy hundreds of thousands of shares of stock.

05:28A doctor in Atlanta wants to buy some stock.

05:32A farmer in Spokane wants to sell his stock in the same company

05:35to get, uh, cash, say, for a new tractor.

05:39The Atlanta broker for the buyer

05:41and the Spokane broker for the seller

05:43speed the orders to their exchange members

05:46on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

05:49When the floor broker representing the buyer

05:51bids the price asked by the floor broker representing the seller,

05:55a transaction is made.

05:58When you sell securities on the New York Stock Exchange

06:01in cash by the buyer,

06:03every day, millions of dollars of listed securities

06:06are bought and sold on the New York Stock Exchange.

06:09You can check the price of your stock in a daily newspaper

06:13or by getting the latest market quotation

06:16from a member broker like myself.

06:18Well, uh,

06:20how do I get the facts before I invest?

06:23Before you buy stock in a company,

06:26you'd want to know, among other things,

06:27its record of sales,

06:30for previous years,

06:32what dividends it has paid,

06:34and its prospects for the future.

06:37Of course, we can't foretell the future,

06:41but we can give you many facts and figures

06:44to help you select a suitable stock.

06:46Well, how about this monthly investment plan?

06:50Maybe I'd want to invest only about $50 a month.

06:53Well, MIP was set up for people

06:56who want to buy stocks on a...

06:58$50 a month can build up quite a little nest egg.

07:02Suppose you take a trial run

07:04on the imaginary investment route.

07:06You might dock selling for $100 a share.

07:10Let's say you invest $50 each month

07:13in a stock selling for $20 a share.

07:16At this price,

07:17you'll buy almost two and a half shares

07:19as the Brokers Commission.

07:19If the price of your stock drops,

07:24you'll get discouraged,

07:26providing you believe the long-range price trend

07:29will be upward.

07:31Of course, you can sell at any time.

07:34You'll lose on stock that costs you more than $50 a share.

07:37In addition, you'll have to pay the Brokers Commission on the sale.

07:42To continue the plan,

07:44the monthly payment of $50

07:45buys three and a fraction shares of stock

07:49at $15 a share,

07:50to $27 a share.

07:53If you sell here,

07:55you'll have a profit on the shares

07:56that cost you less than $27.

07:58Your $50 monthly payment

08:02buys one and a fraction shares of stock

08:05at the price of $27 a share.

08:09Of course, the price of a stock

08:11can go down as well as up.

08:13But with a long-range monthly investment plan,

08:17your $50 a month

08:19buys more shares

08:20when the price is low,

08:22fewer shares when the price is high,

08:24to average out the price of all the stock you purchase.

08:31You can quit the plan at any time, Mr. Finchley,

08:34and take the shares you have purchased.

08:36But the idea of the monthly investment plan

08:39is to invest every month

08:41on a long-range basis

08:43in the stock of a company

08:45that you think will have good earnings

08:47and pay dividends.

08:49Take, for example,

08:50a company whose stock is selling at $20 a share.

08:53If that company, over the past year,

08:56paid out a dollar a share,

08:58the dividend yield comes to 5%.

09:00You can keep the cash,

09:04or if you wish,

09:05the dividends can be automatically reinvested for you.

09:09Now, the investment route you're traveling

09:12is a good one

09:12because the stock has paid satisfactory dividends.

09:17And even with its ups and downs,

09:19the long-range price trend has been upwards.

09:23Hmm, looks pretty good.

09:27But before I invest,

09:29I'm going to study the facts myself.

09:33That's right, Mr. Finchley.

09:35All investors should study the facts carefully

09:38before they buy any stock.

09:40And remember,

09:42the monthly investment plan

09:44is designed especially

09:46for people who want to invest

09:47as little as $40 or $50,

09:50as well as for those who want to invest

09:52up to $1,000

09:53every month

09:55or every three months.

09:59There are many promising investment routes

10:01to travel.

10:02Many companies whose stocks are listed

10:05on the New York Stock Exchange

10:06have helped to build

10:08our rising standard of living

10:10by constantly creating new jobs,

10:14services,

10:15and products.

10:17Therefore, Mr. Finchley

10:19and all those

10:20who can assume the risk

10:21of seeking dividends and profits

10:24can put their dollars to work

10:26by owning their share

10:29of American business

10:30through the monthly investment plan.

💵 Working Dollars (1957) | Classic John Sutherland Economics Cartoon | Money in Motion! 🏛️🔁📈

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