Synopsis
Business produces Mother's pen, the bread on the breakfast table, and the pop-up toaster into which the bread goes.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Released
- 1948-01-01
- Running time
- 9 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
- Internet Archive item
- WhatIsBu1948
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Economics
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Filmed in and around Evanston, IL · HoldtheLight · 2018-08-08
For anyone who is interested, much of this film was shot in Evanston, IL.
★★★ · Wait a minute.. · Spuzz · 2005-02-10
You know you've seen too many movies when you start realizing that a movie you've seen is quite similar to a movie you saw just once a year and a half ago, Yet this is exactly what happened when I first started watching 'What is Business' and started noting the eerie resemblance to another (later) movie called 'In Our Hands, Part 2: What We Have'. In the first half of "what is business" we find out how the cereal, the eggs, and the toaster is made. In "Part II" we also find out how cereals and eggs are made. Both films also deal with other kinds of business that Make America Great. Too bad…
★★ · Business as God · trafalgar · 2004-03-17
Typical capitalist propaganda fluff piece, with loads of stock footage of farmers, factories, etc. Coronet could have changed the narration, and sold this to Russia as "What is Socialism?" Includes a very self-serving shot of the (totally unrelated) Coronet theater.
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