Oil Industry Propaganda Cartoon, Destination Earth, 1956
Please SUPPORT my work on Patreon: Visit my 2ND CHANNEL: Facebook: Twitter: Google+: Watch my Old America PLAYLIST: Destination Earth is a 1956 propaganda SciFi cartoon created by John Sutherland and sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute, still the biggest lobby for the U. S. oil and gas industry. It explains the fundamentals of the petroleum industry and how petroleum products enrich everyday life in the United States of America, as well as the benefits of a free market economy. The cartoon was produced in the middle of the Cold War. Not surprisingly, it features a fine blend of anticommunist and procapitalist sentiment. The cartoon follows the adventures of Colonel Cosmic, a Martian space traveler, as he learns that oil and competition are the two things that m
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