With the 250th birthday of America approaching,  here’s a rather odd but charming blast from the past (1948, to be exact) called Make Mine Freedom.  It’s a cartoon about why America rules and the rest of the world sucks.   

This cartoon was produced by Arkansas’s Harding College and there is some debate over who actually directed it.  Some sources claim that this was one of the first projects on which Joseph Barbera and William Hanna ever worked.  Others insist that this film should be properly credited to either Fritz Freling or Fred Moore.

The important thing is that the film did a good job of exposing Dr. Utopia and his empty promises….