In this animated warning against pushing up prices during wartime scarcity, an auctioneer manages to sell a basket of goods worth under $10.00 for $35.00. The message: "This is inflation." One of the first cel-animation films produced at the National Film Board.
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These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1944:
01 August 1944
Social Democratic election film. Young Lasse is unemployed and drawn to the Communists. However, he comes to the Social Democratic fold after heroically capturing a saboteur.
02 June 1944
A lawyer tries to clear his wife's lover of murder charges.
12 February 1944
Professional bullfighter pretends to his girlfriend that he's a doctor, because her father hates bullfighters and would never let her marry one.
01 September 1944
The capture of Naples, the first great European city to be liberated, revealed the magnitude of the tasks involved in re-creating the means of livelihood and the machinery of government in a devastated, starving and disease-ridden city.
10 November 1944
The baron of Santafusca, descended from a noble family, leads a dissipated life. To pay debts he is forced to sell his house.
25 August 1944
A little dog tries to steal some bones from a pile of wartime scrap bones (intended for a victory drive) that's being guarded by a big, mean bulldog.
28 October 1944
In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short, a man recovers his lost memories when he is forced to relive events in his dreams.
31 March 1944
Mamsie catches Lulu making a mess of the kitchen, so she punishes Lulu. When Lulu asks, "How do you know that I made this mess?", the maid says sarcastically, "A little bird told me!" Angered that the bird outside her home snitched to the family's maid, Lulu goes after the bird with her slingshot.
28 July 1944
A modest employee of exemplary behavior is mistakenly accused of committing a major fraud.
06 March 1944
Inger lives at home with his parents. She suspects that she is pregnant. A doctor notes her pregnancy and urge her to seek the child's father.
23 September 1944
Brash ladies' man James Dale and his partner, wisecracking Everett Northrup, are sent by Cartell & Co.
09 October 1944
Nora leaves the convent where she has been raised to marry a relative. Just arrived she has an accident resulting in total amnesia.
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