NFB Collection
Bid It Up Sucker
19443 min 5 secFilm: Animation
Direction: Jim MacKay
In this animated warning against pushing up prices during wartime scarcity, an auctioneer manages to sell a basket of goods worth under $10.00 for $35.00. The message: "This is inflation." One of the first cel-animation films produced at the National Film Board.
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Subject categories
- War, Conflict and Peace - World War II Archival Films > Economic Conditions and Shortages
- Economics > World War II
Credits
- director
- Jim MacKay
- animation
- Jim MacKay