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Competition and Big Business (1953)

1953 · Ephemeral film · 21 min

Synopsis

Defines big business and analyzes the relationship of big business to competition. Discusses the effect of big business on such problems as monopoly, entry into the market and technological progress.

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Running time
21 minutes
Collection
Prelinger Archives
Internet Archive item
Competition_and_Big_Business

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★★★ · Do you hear what I hear? · Spuzz · 2012-08-17

A bit of a talkathon mainly featuring three old guys sitting around in an office talking about how big business operates.... Well, I mean, if you havent figured it out by now, then there's no hope for you is there? Also worth noting is the cutaway scene featuring a barber shop with three VERY chatty barbers talking about the threat of larger businesses closing up the smaller ones. It's very odd these days to find such chatty barbers ("So, how bout the sports team?" is all my barber says to me, and to talk so loudly about business, even though such businessmen likely go in there and here this…