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Economics (28)

Inflation (2)

  • Dollar Dance
    Dollar Dance
    Norman McLaren 1943 4 min
    This wartime publicity trailer by Norman McLaren focuses on wartime inflation and the role of price control. Single-frame animation is used with pen drawings made directly on 35mm film stock. Music is by Louis Applebaum, a leading composer and advocate for the arts in Canada.
  • Price Control and Rationing
    Price Control and Rationing
    1945 9 min
    An animated documentary about the need for price controls and rationing in Canada during the immediate post-World War II period.

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