Oil Industry Propaganda Cartoon | Destination Earth | 1956
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Destination Earth is a 1956 propaganda Sci-Fi 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 anti-communist and pro-capitalist 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 make America great.
The cartoon compares the Earth-style free enterprise economics to a stagnating Mars under the fist of a certain “Mr. Ogg,” a dictator who centrally controls the Martian economy. Mars, the "red" planet, looks a lot like the Soviet Union and Ogg, the totalitarian leader who puts his name on everything and forces the Martians to applaud for him, looks like Stalin with large moustache. Colonel Cosmic, who flies from Mars to Earth, is actually on an intelligence mission. He finds that the lack of government regimentation and control is what makes the American system flourish. Colonel Cosmic goes back to Mars and initiates a revolution, overthrowing the Ogg government. Soon, lots of small businesses and wildcat oil drillers are in business and Mars is starting to look like Earth.
Destination Earth avoids coming off as too doctrinaire or propagandistic through its self-deprecating humor (a trademark of John Sutherland films), but it's still an insidious, self-serving piece of corporate propaganda. It takes the ideas expressed in films like Make Mine Freedom and takes them one step further, showing free-enterprise ideology not simply as a defense against socialism but as a means of subverting other societies.
Storyline:
Ogg, the supreme dictatorial leader of Mars, holds a special rally to celebrate the exploits of Mars' first space explorer Colonel Cosmic, who has just returned from a trip to Earth. That trip was initiated by Ogg to overcome the problems of Ogg's own explosive-powered state limousine, by finding out how state limousines on other plants operated. By chance, Cosmic landed in the United States. He ventured into a nearby big city where he found that all Americans could move quickly and efficiently by gasoline powered automobiles. Despite the difficulty of finding and getting the raw resource of petroleum out of the ground, petroleum and distributing it to the masses is the panacea for many of the problems that Americans may have faced otherwise, not only as that efficient fuel source, but also for the manufacture of many other transportation and non-transportation related products. Cosmic also found another important component - capitalist spirit of competition - in making America the most prosperous nation on Earth, which, if adopted on Mars, could overthrow Ogg's dictatorship. The Martian triumphantly returned to Mars with stolen library books on the oil industry. After reading from them the population of Mars deserts Ogg and sets up their own oil companies. The short ends with the slogan "destination unlimited" written across the screen.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND / CONTEXT
The Cold War (1947-1991) was in many respects a struggle for the hearts and minds of people everywhere. That competition was carried out through massive American and Soviet propaganda campaigns to isolate the respective opponent internationally, win the approval of world opinion, and consolidate the own sphere of influence. Every opportunity from art exhibits to international sports events, and every medium from radio to television, was used to fight the propaganda war.
Television and advertising played key roles in constructing the image of an ideal American way of life. American propaganda functioned to shore up support and national pride by projecting an image of prosperity, freedom and strength. In many ways, however, these images were fantasy. They contrasted and conflicted with many American's real life.
Oil Industry Propaganda Cartoon | Destination Earth | 1956
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when I have kids, I'm gonna show them this one day.
I'm guessing that's just the way people thought, up until the 70's that the planet was a non ending source of consumables. And that they could just dump there garbage and nuclear waste in the oceans without a second thought. Thanks Gramps!
@@TimeTheory2099 dude they don't do that any one with any amount of basic education into the matter in which they dispose of and they would tell that's Not how it is done in fact they don't even Use barrels instead they use Much more complicated casings that could take a train and Still wouldn't Crack and leak and the effect of using what you call a Natural resource implies the same logic for water and oxygen it's called a natural cycle and in order for us to properly manage and dispose of the wastes we have is by essentially competition if you thought about it mans nature of "greed" is what gave your phone safe electrical wiring fride education housing cars medicine science in general quality food incentive to work better and do the right thing so that our kids of something to Eat when they can't feed themselves it isn't perfect but look at the alternatives...
@@TimeTheory2099 What a good guess! It's such a relief to know that smart people like you will be taking over and fixing everything.
This film really tells us the great achievements we make with oil and how important it is with sprinkles of Capitalism. But now we have a Climate Crisis and depletion of the world's resources. So from the eyes of someone 70 years later, it instead gives a different message. Saying that we depend way too much on oil and that we need to find alternatives.
Putting the invisibility button right next to the suicide button was a risky decision.
Mister Ogg, I don't feel so good...
At least it wasn't the History Eraser Button.
Either way you disappear
In cars we have the stop moving button right next to the go faster button, just saying
One miss click would be as lethal at Taco Tuesday at toco bell.
Powering cars, that's hard. Powering interplanetary spacecraft, that's easy
Yeah I was about to say lol
They were trying to use bottle rockets for both
They didn’t even know what lubricant was
let me see 1956... what do you think about 3-6 years before that part started to go bad? Still haven't seen the film but if it only took that long before it started to look dated? Oh this is going to be fun.
@@notsaying7838 That's around the time when Kennedy started proposing the idea to go to the moon.
"there wasn't one, but THOUSANDS of oil companies!"
well now there's 5, and by the time im 90 there will probably be just one.
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@@GeneralChangOfDanang Where can I bet money on this
Thing about "free market competition" is that eventually someone wins
Free market lover types seem to gloss over that one
@@ab-wx3or "some one wins" is a hell of a lot better than "everyone loses" which is what happened every time any other economic system has been tested.
All these old animations feel like a fever dream. Thousands of oil companies keeping prices low through competition? Never happened in my 45 year lifetime.
Government interference didn't help.
This “government interference” is corporate greed. The lifestyle of your country is made of lies, saccharine men who want to enslave you to wages:
@Lost on Earth yeah the government cancelling all of those oil leases is sure helping us get enough cheaper domestic oil and not rely on more expensive foreign oil
We had two gas stations right on the same intersection. I remember, for a time, they would compete with lower prices. The difference was a few cents less a gallon, which was nice, until it shot up to $3+ a gallon and the difference became minimal.
guess why
"Competition is good!" - This message is brought to you by the oil monopolies.
"monopolies" is funny word
i'm not laughing tho. ...
Freedom, brought to you by the organization that locks you up if you don't pay them a quarter of your money(the government). The world is kinda always like that, isn't it?
Reniun Competition is good when it comes to oil
Which is why we must be the only country that has access to it
Reniun Well competition is good
I'll give the martians as many tonnes of oil as they want in return for some of those sticks of ogg-splosive. Just one had enough power to drive a ship from Mars to Earth and could apparently be handled without any special equipment.
And is also able to break the laws of physic, as it can explode in exactly one direction without any harm to environment.
and the crazy leader had like 8 to power his car
@@bilbobeutlin3405 might be a civilization that collapsed and a gangs took over
Stargate: IT'S A BOMB!!!
Wrong! One stick was enough for a _round trip!_ Not to mention it only needs to be lit once and apparently can be re-combusted at will!
"These wells are expensive to make! Only 1 well in 9 finds any oil at all! Only 1 in 44 recovers enough to pay for itself! And only 1 in 1000 makes a major discovery"
Well, gee willickers mister, that sure does sound mighty sustainable in the long term!
It also sounds a lot like an industry naturally predisposed to the formation of huge monopolies due to the capital intensive nature and the inherent risks involved of operating it on a smaller scale. So much for "competition".
@@olenickel6013 “I like a _little_ competition.” -Rockefeller
Apparently it is. The wells that pay off more than make up for the others.
@@hobomike6935 "so I can have fun crushing it into oblivion" -Rockefeller the part he did not say
Expensive and only a 1 in 44 chance to recover the investment, sounds like anyone can get in and compete!
The Mars dudes are just evolving but backwards, they went from clean energy and incredibly fast spaceflight to oil
Exactly lol
Clean energy? Slave labor you mean? Rocket fuel thing doesn't seem good either
they were living in a complete dictatorship where they where all slaves to ogg
Not to mention they don't have the oxygen necessary for the combustion process.
Unless they have a device which can anaerobically use the petroleum products to produce power...
@@kamewantor4594 rocket fuel is usually hydrazine and oxidizer, hydrazine is a mix of hydrogen and oxidizer is well oxygen, so let me ask you, what does hydrogen and oxygen make? Water. rocket fuel makes water.
I find it interesting how they're drilling for oil in a planet where there is quite literally not a single drop
Tesseract 14 It is just fiction, it is only purposed to teach you about freedom
As far as we know, it's possible there is oil on Mars if there was once life on Mars.
@@idot3331 not all life turns into oil. A very special set of circumstances allowed it to appear on earth, which almost absolutely, positively, Assuredly never-ever happened on Mars.
@@FurryEskimo We have no way to be certain that oil never formed on mars. It's widely accepted that mars once had oceans of liquid water and geological activity similar to earth, which may have allowed for life to emerge. Because of this mars may have had ecosystems and biomes just as vast and diverse as earth's, which would mean the conditions for oil to form would likely occur somewhere on mars, even if the probability of it happening in any specific place is low. Currently we have no way to know how rare the emergence of life is, as we only have a sample size of one and no way to truly verify if life does exist or once did exist on other planets. Therefore we have no way to know the likelihood of there being oil on mars, we just know that it is possible.
Guess there going to find out
Something tells me they are gonna be pissed when they find there is no oil in Mars
Well guys we tried. No oil, no capitalism, no freedom... back to communism I guess
Why do you think the government stopped trying to go to space
Imagine drilling for oil while being able to fly through space
They would likely find something else.
@@sonicmastersword8080 space aids
I love how the ending is just “anything is possible with freedom and oil”
Murica moments
I mean, they're not wrong.
That's a sign that there never was an intention to switch from oil 🤣
Switch from oil to what?????
Battery's and solar panels from china....the climate hoaxers haven't told you what we are going to do with all those toxic and unrecyclable solar panels and Battery's... Do you see how the liars destroyed our energy and now they are going after our food... Because you're gonna eat bugs
America:
_"If you trade us your oil willingly, we won't have to bring you our freedom."_
Making the oil companies seem like the good guys in this is as believable as the martian having to fly past Saturn and Jupiter to get to Mars.
Especially with how these companies act now.
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Gravity assist? NASA does that sometimes with Venus
@@brianwhite2104 Jupiter and Saturn aren’t in between Earth and Mars
@@pogmonke5217 I know. I'm referring to gravity assist, where a spacecraft flies around one planet in order to gain momentum for traveling to another planet.
After watching this I've decided to go out and start my own oil company. Apparently it's just that simple.
I know you're being sarcastic but take one drive through the American west and you'll find individual land owners literally just doing that. Like they ain't lying in that regard
It would be, if you had the money to gamble and the regulations weren't oppressive.
@@tbird1991 but its to risky... open up a cake shop or something.
It actually is. Some prospecting and a lease is all you need, with a modest startup capital you're willing to lose.
@@wheatandtares-xk4lp You also need to get licensing from the government, and why would they license to you when they can give it to the big oil companies?
genuinely made me shiver when he said "limitless". The attitude in the 50s, that there would always be more oil is genuinely so crazy. Imagine squatting in a house ripping up floorboards to burn to keep warm, and telling your friends that it's okay, there will always be more floorboards in other parts of the house.
"it's ok guys, I'll just go to your house, and rip up your floor boards."
@@jwalster9412 "We ran out, we are using the walls now"
@@herosvicentegonzalez7872 "were all out of walls, we will have to use the doors."
@@jwalster9412 what will we do when we run out of house?, also, i think that removing the walls wasn't a good idea, we are colder now.
Yes, but back then oil was relatively plentiful and cheap. It was assumed it would take centuries to run out, especially with new exploration technologies finding new reserves off the coasts & under the deserts.
We pretty much have the same mindset with renewables. Yes, the wind & sun are perpetual, but the minerals & metals we need to produce the photovoltaics, wind turbines, and batteries are not.
To say that this hasn’t aged well would be an understatement.
Why? It has aged just fine. The basic points are common knowledge for all except retards in the CZcams comment section.
No no! Just like Oil, it needs to age and ripen for tenth of thousand of years
It aged like a dead rat
It was born rotten. X(
Are you referring to the fossil fuel caused environmental crisis, the Martians being a stand in for the Soviet Union, or a combination of both?
This is the kind of cartoon The Simpsons used to parody durring school assemblies
i remember that electric car ride sponsored by oil companies
The main character even sounds like Billy West.
@@bloopahVIII When was that?
@@ryanhernandez8324 i forgot but i saw it in a funny moments compilation
Ziiiiinc
They could figure out lasers and space travel but not lubrication?
No fossils on mars means ogg goes in dry.
Did you noticed all of the martians are male?
i did not in fact, as there was no genetelial shown, and even if they were male, still dosen nestaly mean that they use penis in their reproduction methods.
Who gives a fart about their buggery!? What about all those poor probing victims?!?
From 1:26 clearly shows a Martian officer spraying his men down with lube
I enjoy their ability to use electricity to make screens, non lethal guns and invisibility cloaks, but they can't make an electric engine. Is friction not a problem for any other devices on their planet?
Non lethal guns?
What a useless idea.
Furthermore, what happened to magnetic levitation bearings?
@@GearHeadBoris You just dismissed the concept behind a tazer or rubber bullets
@@specialopsdave That’s what I was going to say. They probably figured out what we’re finally getting around to. They may have also figured out the air bearing for other applications.
Making things not kill you ain't hard
You'd think with advanced technology like massive telescreens (the biggest Earthling TVs in the 1950s would just be several feet wide), invisibility, rayguns, near-indestructable flying saucers, and interplanetary propulsion the size of a stick of dynamite, the Martians would have no interest adapting the Earthlings relatively primitive fossil-fuel technology.
"relatively primitive" it's actually very easy to understand lol. Suck, squeeze, back, push. That's literally all you need to know to get energy out of fossil fuels.
@@jwalster9412 Primitive doesn't mean "hard to understand"
@@tylerboothman4496 it's not "relatively primitive" it's just straight primitive.
@@jwalster9412 You have to refine the oil to make gas, and design an engine that can burn it usefully.
"Primative" would be more like a water wheel
@@tylerboothman4496 Yes, but compared to an advanced space civilization it would be primitive. A coalburning steam frigate of the 1850s would be primitive compared to a modern computerised nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.
I like how the US is presented as a great country but still the alien is being shot at from the very first second on
Don't tread on me, I'll strike you down
Second Amendment bubby, SECOND AMENDMENT!!!
USA! USA! USA!
Well he was am invader trying steal stayed secrets. He just ended up stealing common knowledge and government property.
How did this species develop space technology without discovering oil ?
I know it is a cartoon and i shouldn't take it seriously, but it's like swimming to another cointinent to see what its people use to travel in the ocean
Maybe fissile stuff like Uranium of Thorium? That does beg the question of what fuel source we'll use to get off Mars once we get there, other than chemical fuel we brought from Earth...
maybe they are smart and use clean energy ^^
you don't use oil in rockets, not enough power >.>
That's not true; the Saturn V uses Kerosene as a primary fuel source.
I'm not saing oil is ideal rocket fuel
I'm just saing that a pre-indurial civilization, (one that relies on man power as we saw in the video) is incapable of building any kind rocket
Also, if one can use oil, one can also use methane
I love it how the Simpsons made occasional jabs at these quaint cold war era corporate propaganda cartoons. The show got the tone and style down eerily well, this feels like an ironic parody
Atomic power is your friend!
@@3boy779 Exactly
@@3boy779 but atomic power really is good
@@Brave_Sir_Robin You are correct, Brave Sir Robin, Sir. Of course there are wee glitches, such as Chernobyl and Fukushima.
Turn off your computer if you hate oil.
I like how this starts off with the narrator lying about everything to please a rich magnate, and finishes with him lying to please some rich magnates
I like how Mars is used as a stand in for the Soviet Union, the red planet just so happens to have a Stalin-esque dictator and a cult of personality just as the Soviet government at the time did.
Damn, didn't notice that
Why'd you think it was called the RED planet?
But the thing is, USSR also had oil industry that was not based on competition, so that makes message of the cartoon kinda meaningless.
@@hasan6698 Cold war propaganda getting basic facts wrong? Naaaah
But I do love the foreshadowing of the US-backed coups to reach more oil reserves
@@hasan6698 There's also slight allusions to it being China as well as the USSR. It also seems to have taken inspiration from 1984's Big Brother style of dictatorship. I think it's just one grand "the other"
Competition was a pretty cool thing, before all the little guys got stomped out and the big guys started colluding with each other.
The big oil companies are not colluding. They are acting exactly like rivals.
Felt the same thing when we stopped having para-military militia groups and started having centralized nations with unified army
@@astk5214
Tbf, decentralized armies tend to have a bad record when it comes to success against centralized armies.
Napoleon wiped the divided HRE, The Mongol empire declined after it decentralized and France was weaker under the baron-state friendly Capet kings than they were under the more unitary and authoritarian Bourbon kings. Britain too had a very incompetent and despotic army under the commission system when they paid people to create their own regiments but the army improved greatly when the authority to create regiments was centralized.
The USA is probably the best example of the effectiveness of central professional armies over militia. Prior to the mobilization of the US army and creation of the legion of the US, the US militia performed poorly against the natives which led to St. Clair's defeat in the battle of Wabash.
Centralized markets have a lot of major cons that make adopting monopolies a very debatably bad idea. Centralized armies on the other hand are just plain better than non centralized armies historically.
@@retardcorpsman centralized army's are more effective than decentralized? Like monopoly is stronger than any other ? No way! But tell me.. what's the difference?
@@retardcorpsman There is one upside to decentralized armies: they're better when you're the little guy and on the defence. Wiping out one resistant faction can't provide you any information on unrelated groups.
This cartoon is brought to you by Camel cigarettes: " Camels, smoke em!"
Cosmic's spaceship makes a hole in the cigarette poster during his descent on Earth.
"Yet America's crude reserves have kept increasing steadily." Ugh, it's no wonder our people have gotten so stupid growing up on this. Did people actually believe that finding an oil reserve that you didn't know existed before meant that it was limitless? Well, I guess so, because they still seem to be under that impression.
It's not limitless but there definitely a lot
Well, it literally worked for the whole average lifespan of the viewers of this video...
@@MegaMementoMori Well, you literally ignored what I said in favor of defending something that wasn't at issue. It actually didn't "work" that there was a limitless supply of oil. There is the oil that has been discovered since and has yet to be used, and probably still left to be discovered. That isn't the same, it isn't limitless. We're using it far faster and in much larger quantities than can be replaced.
@@he-mememan359
I think a lot of oil use will be replaced in the near future by hydrogen and alcohol (alcohol in chemical terms covers a lot more than just the type of alcohol people get drunk on). Existing engines can be converted in a lot of cases so a plus there.
@@he-mememan359 that’s actually a myth. We are finding oil at a MUCH higher rate than it is being used. The supply is, for all practical and intensive purposes, limitless.
This comment section will be a great discussion of the impact of oil on socie-
Oh, it's all about how they have functioning technology without oil
Because the oil companies of Russia and Saudi Arabia are famous for their competition and democracy ;)
Thomas L don't forget the US
Thomas L you do realize that ALL oil companies do have to compete in global market right?
And for the love of fk, stop confusing democracy and freedom.
Russia and Saudi Arabia are neither particularly democratic or particularly free? And they both run their oil companies as state-owned businesses, like the vast majority of oil companies to some extent (even if say, the Iraqi oil companies state-owner used to be Britain).
I was just laughing at the idea of oil companies selling themselves as anti-tyranny freedom dispensers, when oil companies are _famous_ for helping prop-up regimes. It's not all like that - the nordic countries use their oil money to create their liberal utopias or w/e. But when I think oil, I think Russia and Saudi Arabia.
They're not, because they're lacking that second element: competition. The resource and the system depend on each other. You're not proving it doesn't work just by pointing out that Russia and Saudi Arabia have oil.
a pure democracy is a pure evil, even the founding fathers said that, and anyways like majic said they have to compete with the global market, and those countries still give you the freedom to buy and sell products, but im sure Saudi has like a limit on erotic or similar products
I like how it’s called Ogg MEMORIAL Stadium like they already plan to kill him.
that's one way to look at it. another is he's THAT egotistical. it's not entirely unheard of for people, usually those not popular in public eyes [yet rich and high in social status] to build/dedicate their memorials BEFORE their death.
I love this type of content it helps me to understand the mindset of the era and how it influenced the further generations. Thanks for sharing this part of history.
I think it's a bit unfair. I hope I'm not judged after someone watches TikTok videos.
@@nekad2000 Oof. Hm. Well, it is a part of the picture. But yeah you do have a point, it doesn't necessarily represent everything and everyone
Note that they didn't picture the martians actually finding any oil. That's because there is none on Mars. Their planet will devolve into anarchy and starvation, and they will welcome back the rule of Ogg, having to endure a future of hundreds of years of hardship and gulags. Such is life in Mars.
@Heofonfyr25 well, it certainly sounds like you don’t know much about it, at least.
@Heofonfyr25 I think the burden of proof lies with you. The movement of celestial objects doesn’t effect the personality of humans because there is no proof other than “ancient people said so”. Not to mention courage and self assurance are such common traits that pretty much anyone can have/claim to them hence why some people believe in this bullshit because the traits are so common (and usually positive) that people will think “oh yeah that’s totally me” even if the traits don’t actually match them. People will believe any lie as long as it’s a complement.
@Heofonfyr25 yeah, that’s not how this stuff works. the burden of proof is on the person providing the claims in the first place lol
Though, they are also a sentient species, implying a history of life to which creates hydrocarbon sources.
@@baseduck That's not how you treat claims either.
Usually you ask for a source of a claim or atleast make a counter-claim to disprove it.
In this case you didn't bring anything to the table so, as a not-so-wise person once said, "it certainly sounds like you don't know much about it, at least."
There’s a problem with the oil industry that doesn’t get discussed very much. Many plastic products are made from petroleum when they should be made from cellulose.
They should be made from hemp.
Well get a loan and start a company that makes products from cellulose or hemp for the other guy.
Was just thinking, they're bragging about how everything is made from petroleum, but being reliant on one source of energy is bad enough..
@@Koppu1doragon not a bad idea, I think that's legal in my state now. Banks can be bitches though.
@@Koppu1doragon Go try and get a loan. Do you have any idea how difficult it is to acquire funding for a company if you aren't already wealthy?
Wait if they have an energy crisis, then what is powering their lasers, and why can't they use that as a power source rather than blowing things up with dynamite? How in the hell did this civilization get this far?
Yep exactly
@@Mrpersonman0 Lack of turbines to harness and send the energy in a meaningful direction, lack of lubricants prevents a lot of basic machinery.
Something like the "Laser" gun can be excused as a one and done weapon that warps quickly from overheating as it's used, utilizing a normally overwhelming source that's just good for a quick burst of destructive energy, but inefficient in anything reliable or useful.
They're basically running on rapidly burning kegs of gunpowder that can only go as long as the short lived battery lasts.
Also because it's fiction and they didn't dive that deep into building the suspension of disbelief. The martians also lack farms.
@@katlicks It's a children's propaganda film from the 50s, you don't need to put this much effort into defending it... 😂
@@Mrpersonman0 Let me reiterate, lack of turbines that can deal with the use of mini nukes, even if they don't catch fire with treadmill machines.
How they hell did our civilization get this far?? We are slowly running out of oil, and when we do run out were going to be asking this same question..
No lubricants? Seeing as the entire population appears to be male, it would have been a chaffing problem.
Ahaaaaa, hahaaaa! Amazing. You made my day.
We were all having a good day.
We were all Vibing and Having a Laugh until you did this shit.
and today we now understand that half these Martian males had uteruses & xe/xer pronouns.. despite this it's still easier for 1/3 of Martian "penis havers" to find oil on Mars than a clitoris..
😮
Really nice of them to label Mars (you know, in case people forgot what planet it was).
Since Ogg is so self-aggrandizing, it makes sense he would demand that the name of the planet be done up in lights to be visible from space, as seen in 0:50
Gotta make sure the prole children this cartoon was made for never get confused, ever
To be fair I thought this was a planet in another star system and I didn't see the large mars sign until he went back
Like all the people in America with American flags on their lawns. We get it, you're in America.
"In the USA anyone who is willing to risk it can drill for oil" - or rather anyone with the money to splash on the expensive survey, land rights, well and distribution and so on, as he mentioned it earlier. Actually anyone already super rich and already in the industry and willing to risk it can drill for oil.
Also I love how gasoline specifically is mentioned as the most efficient power source for automobiles on earth when diesel already existed, was largely used (mainly with trucks and semis but diesel cars were not that rare even in 1950s - Mercedes, Fiat, Peugeot and Austin were all heavily invested in diesel as a fuel and are pretty much responsible with VW who jumped on that bandwagon in 80s for the fact that majority of Europe is now driving diesel cars) and is by nature just more efficient (not less harmful, it is more harmful since it releases higher amounts of CO2, PM and NOx but you get more energy out of it by conventional means). Like... there were literally 2 widespread fuels at the time for cars and they pick the less efficient one. LOL.
does that upset you? does that make you angry that they didn't pick the thing that Europeans use?
@@beans1215 Why are you pressed by this comment to the point of being defensive lmao
@@beans1215 looks like someone's engine isn't firing on all cylinders, if that's your takeaway.
Are you telling me this was already aged by the time it was released!? wow... this is even more dated than I thought!
@@beans1215 Ahem, American semis and industrial trucks would like a word
I mean in the perspective of a person in the 50s oil was pretty cool.
I'd still rate oil.. to this day
It still is
yeah its a cool way of destroying the planet, super great.
you know almost every cent you pay to oil nowadays, ends up in a terrorists pocket, so... yeah oil is great.
like Allah, now die infidels. >.>
Oil is required for the production of almost every device you use. So get off your iPhone and play with a stick or shut that hypocritical mouth of yours sir.
I see autism is still doing great here on youtube.
Damn now I really want to create an oil company and start polluting the environment and lobbying laws to protect myself from anti-monopoly regulations
That's the spirit
5:30 fantastic smooth; I think we can all agree that the resulting brain damage through added lead was totally worth it
20 iq points from the general populace for the better part of a century but that cheap gas be hittin though!
@@overtoast1105 More like 3-4 generations... Lead doesn't just go away. There's a reason why only within the past decade support for unions and better living conditions have increased. It's because the generations born just before or after leaded gas was phased out and banned have been coming of age and instantly realized how sucks everything is. They even tried to brain wash us in school like they did all the previous generations, but it didn't work, son! Why do you think they tried keeping lead polluted water supplies under the wraps?
@@RingingResonance There are studies that document the effect lead gasoline had on populations. There is a drop of like 20 iq points in the populations and times affected by the lead poisoning, and there is not in more recent generations. As wack as iq is, it is a reasonable estimate for generalization purposes.
I won't dispute that there's a lot of shit in the environment that is suboptimal for humans to consume, but lead dosed gasoline is very much a superheavyweight to microplastics or what lead is in our water now's mediumweight.
@@overtoast1105 Yeah I totally agree with you, just trying to flesh it out more to those who aren't in the know or just don't get it. It's a very real thing.
Tetraethyl lead moment
I wonder if he would have told people to convert to Islam if he landed in Saudi Arabia.
HomersIlliad Just imagine if he landed in Venezuela
Luis Colin what about the USSR
That sounds like a plot to an _interesting_ sci-fi B movie XD
Mashallogg. xD
Diesel actually has a higher energy density than gasoline so gas isn't the most efficient. Furthermore diesel engines don't require spark plugs which put a parasitic load on the engine.
Unfortunately after VW’s Dieselgate - EPA cheating, diesel engines in automobiles are probably a deadend venture.
You also get less diesel per volume of crude, diesel engines have to be a lot more complicated to be very efficient and they are tougher on oil and themselves in the long run due to the way diesel combusts unevenly and generates lots of suit to pollute the oil. Diesel also needs lots of extra cooling, which puts a similar, if not greater parasitic load on the engine than spark plugs. You also have to contend with idling a diesel destroys the engine over time, and that they are not great at higher RPM and have more sluggish acceleration.
Both gasoline and diesel have downsides to consider, doubly so if you want a clean diesel, which destroys all economy.
@@kauske To be completely honest, I have not seen a diesel engine need a repair in more than 20 years that my family had diesel cars. But gasoline engines break every 7 years on average from what i've experienced. I do not understand why lower RPM with higher mommentum would result in slower acceleration - it does not really make sense considering the speeds involved. The only real downside of Diesel I can think of is that it's louder.
@@kompatybilijny9348 You haven't? You must not have seen many diesels, big trucks get absolutely ravage by how much they get idled, same with stationary diesel generators. No matter how good the engine, diesels suffer horrible blow-by at idle, which adds tons of soot to the oil, which acts as an abrasive.
I've seen plenty of petrol engines last ages, the biggest issue is they took all the diesel high-compression tech and crammed it onto gas engines, making them operate at ludicrous compression while making them out of the least metal they possibly can.
Before high efficiency, high compression gas engines, gasoline cas would last every bit as long, if not longer, they also had big cast iron block engines, just like diesel, but don't detonate fuel erratically like compression detonation does.
If we built gasoline engines like diesels, they would last just as long. You also have the issue that diesels make problematic ozone and NOX pollution due to their huge compression, not to mention the soot. You either have to eat the pollution (which is bad for health and infrastructure), or fit them with filtration systems, which rob performance and add operating costs.
Both engine types have their issues, just as electric has its issue with batteries that obliterates the fact that modern electric motors blow the lid off everything performance and efficiency wise. It's an all-around loose when you're talking about cars, no matter what you do, you have a downside, you just have to pick your poison.
@@Cleveland.Ironman diesel gate?
Those martians are gonna be pissed when they don't find any oil
So power on this version of Mars is based around people running on treadmills and firecrackers, yet they arm their police with directed energy weapons sent a spacecraft to earth and back?
The worldbuilding of this video is subpar to say the least.
I want those treadmills and firecrackers as well, they seem to have 10000000000000000% efficiency.
@@bramvanduijn8086 Yeah. Just make the treadmilling more equitable and invest in wireless power transmission and their energy storage and transmission problems are _solved_.
10:13 "The magic of research" That pretty much sums this video up.
for some reason a part of me keeps wishing that just once i would find a peace of propaganda that brings up the downsides of what ever they are preaching this time. but then it wouldn't be propaganda. that being said, these old cartoon style propaganda films are really interesting to watch
I think it exists but likely later in history. It’s propaganda for a reason I do agree
@@MustacheDLuffy interesting
You should check out USSR propaganda about USA. ITs literally 100% truthful
@@skyisreallyhigh3333 "propaganda" "100% truthfull"... you okay mate? Were you hit at birth in the head with a bat?
Starting a democracy is harder than ending a monarchy
@@smeggiamagarwine what's the difference?
@@smeggiamagarwine still a dictatorship by a technical standard
It should be constitutional monarchy. The king can be held responsible. In democracy for a blunder. How many heads will you point at ?
Maintaining a democracy is ever more difficult than starting one.
@@vikaschopra652 What constitutional monarch is the sovereign held responsible for policy? In constitutional monarch the sovereign has extremely limited power and their crown is mostly ceremonial.
I like how this also doubles as anti-communist propaganda
Ah yes, everyone knows that Oil is great at toppling dictators
God, it feels like something you’d see on a TV in GTA
Or in Fallout
No, it feels like something that should be taught in school, so there aren't as many little quislings running around acting like spoiled brats who don't appreciate what they have or where it came from.
@@FireBeamdo you know what the word propaganda means?
@@FireBeam Surprise, it probably was! And see what the outcomes were :)
The idea of oil companies praising competition is so utterly hypocritical that I would be laughing if I weren't so disgusted by them.
All I can see is the mayor from Powerpuff Girls' long lost relatives
Good God, but I can’t get enough of these 50’s and 60’s propaganda cartoons. The unrelenting positivity is just wonderful!
You must never confuse positivity for intelligence; all these cartoons result in people being lead into stupid Alt right retardation.
@@sylvann7501 Huh?
@@sylvann7501 I mean yeah, what did you expect from propaganda
Can't wait for things to get better and that to return. ONWARDS!
Competition: brought to you by the very organization that made sure there was no competition.
This being paid for by a company that was once part of the Standard Oil Monopoly, Very ironic. Still funny.
@@notsaying7838 yeh, API is the lobby organization, it specifically represents the entire industry. they did a piece a few years ago on "all the jobs we create" , also totally bogus.
cuz competition is capitalist and capitalism is opposite of communism, and "communism" always is run by autocrats. ignoring that this is, well, a propaganda cartoon, it's realistic in the rather cherry-picked scenario presented here that the explorer comes back with "competition is great" because that's the free market capitalist culture of america in a nutshell. especially at the times of this cartoon, saying there are some VERY nasty side effects of every man for himself as a lifestyle wouldn't be very popular and you might face jail/trials for being a "commie". [the latter part is ironic in itself, we've conducted witch-hunts and ruined the lives of people solely for being [suspected of] supporting/preaching/spreading communism, something those communist dictators themselves would proudly do to [suspected/alledged] capitalists]
well, this was amusing to watch.
@@notsaying7838 it really does seem that was the intention.
*speaks flawless, fluent English the entire time*
"Uhhh, the, Yew Knighted Staits of Am Erica" like it's suddenly Egyptian or some other language he's completely unfamiliar with
Other than that, I really gotta hand it to these animators, I can't imagine how long it took to draw this, I love the world design and the details, and that the martians aren't little green men. It's seemingly unique for the time and is very well-done.
*Son*: Wow, mommy, do they really have communism on Mars? *Mother*: No sweety, that's not true! Am I right, Ron? *Father*: *FLASHBACKS*
Autobot-Jedi-Iron-man No son Captain Cosmic took care of that mess.
Autobot-Jedi-Iron-man seriously? that is fascism, which is far from communism
+Tesseract 14 no its not, its pretty much the same thing, and take it from the founder of fascism, Benito Mussolini, he never said fascism was right winged, also that was very communistic, b/c in fascism you can still have capitalism and competition, the market is still free, but in this case it was the state that made and held everything, so this was communism
big balls vital Both recent living examples of facism, i.e. ww2 germany and italy, had heavy state control of business, rather far from a free and open market.
big balls vital communism however there is no control on the market because everyone has everything which is why communism would not work outside of the theoretical level
"Hey, Ogg, that 'Earth' thing is loaded with cheap oil -- let's go liberate the FUCK out of it!"
This reminds me of that scene off of Futurama where they're talking about global warming and putting ice in the ocean
And the little girl is like but Mr. What happens when...
But Mr. Alien what happens if they can't find anymore oil
"Just like daddy puts in his drink every morning!" :D
"And then he gets mad." :(
You have to love how this was sold to the public, as if there really were thousands of oil companies and not a few big ones dividing up the market between them. I wonder if the makers of this video ever heard of Standard Oil?
There’s a good chance they used to be a part of it
And so the Martians achieved incredible success in running their society on oil for all of a couple generations before all of them died out from pollution and their planet became a barren lifeless rock :3
Mars lore.
It'll happen faster than you think given the fact that Mars likely has no oil so they probably realized they had to go back to their old tech until they could import it.
@@Koppu1doragon it was a dig at OUR society being so eager for oil and not caring that fossil fuels are literally causing a very slow apocalypse.
@@doddthedodo7435 Do you have a better solution?
@@Koppu1doragon ….Yes. Stop using fossil fuels. Oil can be used for the rest of that other stuff, so long as we stop spewing pollution into the atmosphere.
I like how they felt like they needed to explain 'lubricated'.
I arrived at Earth to this place called the United States, there i found out that A baby named Jesus had killed these creatures called dinosaurs 3000 years ago and turned them into oil, so that America can use it to make cars and trains and rule the Earth and crush all before them. God Bless Oil, and may Baby Jebus Bless The Untied States of Merica.
I love this episode of Rick & Morty
Boi
@@mjbgames4963 a little late aren’t you?
@@SP-sy5nq no I’m a little late
I read this as Destruction Earth at first and was really about confused why oil companies would use that title for propaganda
it would be the sweetest irony
a Freudian Slip perhaps
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Can we talk about how they travelled to another planet and back and had invisibility tech without the use of oil?
No! That's exactly what the Commies want you to focus on!
Such glorious abandon for any future consequences! Rejoice!
I was more referring to the actual process of drilling oil and the negative consequences it has on land arability as well as the ultimate wastage of all produced products, but yeah, carbon emissions are relevant too. Also, isn't anyone else amazed that the Martian Dictator had created such an advanced civilisation without the use of fossil fuels? We should have been spying on them!
whendric so umm...the only people who can do that are the 1%-ers....
Well who knew we would or could make any changes to the world. I'm still in disbelief myself, considering the geological events known as volcano eruptions spewing millions of tons or CO2 into the air and a load more thing far more immediately worse
Blade Vamp? have you look you in the world? like doo you know the amont of oil driled up and brund of?
cose the number is not hard to calulate and wolcanos may be bick.
but theres 7 BILION people on this planet, can you count to a bilion? if you count 10 nubers per sec, you would be don in 3 years 89 days and 9 houres form now.
and then do that 7 times. but nooo... surely so many people can leve no inpact on the world, oh wait we also ned to multy ply that nuber whit at least 5 or somting as theres alos alot of people how not alive anymore.
I'm going to write what I think personally, I'm not uneducated, I'm not ignorant, and Calling me names will do nothing but prove you're immaturity and inability to argue in a logical fashion. Reading this whole thing would be far beneficial to you, and I would recommend it before you attempt to dissect anything I've stated.
Ok your grammar could use some work, and your spelling as well. I don't know what you're talking about, but I'd assume you're talking about emissions from cars and people today. And yes Volcanos are BIG they have the ability to change the area around them in the time span of a few minutes to a few years. While people like Al Gore said that by 2016 all the ice caps would have melted or mostly melted in his movie "An Inconvenient Truth". That tells me he didn't assess his data very well, and I have found that the only accurate factual information we have to rely regarding climate change (funny how it was "Global Warming" now the term is "Climate Change") on is what levels CO2 and the possible temperature of the earth was in the past, via ice samples.
Volcanoes have the ability to end life on earth, the possible Super Volcano under Yellowstone could end all life in the Americas possibly. Then alter the globe thus killing all life. That's a super volcano mind you, but Volcanoes release millions of tonnes of CO2 when they erupt at times. One geologist came to the conclusion through measurements of the size of the volcano, and the calculated size of the plum of ash from the eruption that he observed had released more CO2 into the atmosphere than mankind has ever in it's ENTIRE existence on Earth.
Global Warming could very well be occurring...but I still do not have sufficient hard evidence to prove that Humans are causing it. Unless someone can assemble hard recorded evidence, with observable results to come to a conclusion that we are causing it then I will stay unpersuaded. Simply saying "The earth is warming! Your an idiot! Can't you see the arctic is melting! Isn't that proof?" doesn't prove anything. The Earth is warming, but scientists all over the globe have theories as to why. Some say Earth has been doing it sense the stabilization of the surface, some say solar flares can affect the atmosphere and it's ability to reflect light and UV rays, some say it's due to a change we have not yet discovered. Simply saying "There's a bunch of people on earth then it must be true." isn't accurate. It's like stating...
All those birds go to that tree because it's their favorite, why else would only those birds nest there.
When in reality the tree has small thorns to fend off predators on the ground.
The scary emotional notion of the Earth ending shouldn't force everyone into this one singular explanation. Especially if it's only CO2 levels are increasing, green house gases, and etc... When we can't record, observe, or factually come to the conclusion that CO2 is in fact the cause. And we can't reach that conclusion because the Earth is just so massive, it's extremely difficult to prove! I'm all for reducing emissions, smog sucks, its harms people with breathing problems, we pollute the beautiful Earth. But I'm not entirely sold on Al Gore's so far inaccurate claims of when things would occur.
I love that the Martian Astronaut sounds like Phil Hartman. Gives it that classic Troy McClure vibe.
If Americans had found oil on Mars, you bet we would be doing some "nation building" up there.
I hope you know this, but bringing something from space costs WAAAAYY more than its weight in oil.
@@newwaveinfantry8362 The joke:
You:
@@newwaveinfantry8362 If there was oil on mars we would be creating space elevators, sligshots, etc for efficient travel to and from. But yeah alot of groundwork would have to be layed before it's a net profit.
@@DoABarrelRol1l It can never be net profit, at least with the science that we know, because each kilogram of any material takes more than the cost of a kilogram of oil to transport, even with all that technology.
Democracy
It's funny cause Cosmic killed Ogg since he stood in the way of progress and change, I'm sure the oil industry wouldn't want this video that they made getting around too much today.
Billionaires: "We'll just escape the climate disaster produced by an over-reliance on fossil fuels and the ever increasing need for consumption under capitalism by going to mars!"
Mars: " Yeah, about that... uh, we saw your whole 'oil' and 'capitalism' thing and got a bit carried away here as well. Sorry."
Based on all the alien-UFO disclosure books and other materials I'm reading, this is literally, exactly, how they really behave on Mars. - Ha, at the end, he merely turns the dictator invisible! That's pretty accurate, too.
Could you share some of those "alien-UFO disclosure books and other materials" with us? Preferably along with whatever it is you're smoking, lol
@@generalrubbish9513 he cant because they dont exsist. Aliens as far as we know don't exsist but morons who believe it provide the perfect cover for military bases.
They left out the part in which oil companies pumped the atmosphere full of lead from the gasoline.
Thing is, unleaded gasoline has always existed, but not cheap unleaded octane boosters. As such, unleaded gas was often 80 octane, and it's car manufacturers' fault for making engines that demanded 87 octane back in the '50s, when engines like the Model A's needed no such additive.
So Ogg came to the USA and ran for US Senator in the State of Delaware.
7:45 - They literally just put that oil rig right next to an aquifer. I’m sure that’s not gonna cause any problems.
nyaa it wont it gives a little flavor to the water, added bonus.
Ogg is Kaiser Wilhelm lmao
I thought I was the only one thinking that!
"ever increasing supply of oil"
Yeah, chief... That one didn't age so well.
this feels like something out of fallout 4
It's exactly what Vault Boy is a parody of
Imagine if they did find oil on Mars. I mean, not only would that prove life existed at some point, but we'd probably land a person there, like, by 2018.
Am i the only one who was waiting for the leader guy to take the second book on competition and casually throw it away , no questions asked...
@12:50 Ahh yes, Oil companies bring freedom and democracy. I'm sure the peoples of Nigeria, Iraq, Indonesia, and pretty much the entire rest of the world would agree.
So you think:
When war starts: "we go to war for their oil!"
When war ends: "nah, we think it's better to leave the oil right there, in the ground"
Those wars weren't about oil.
as dull as Captain Cosmic looked at the start, he's really sharp and apparently spontaneously literate in interplanetary languages.
it is baffling to me how they can defend competition as if it's 1700s. No industry has had considerable competition since the first world war, industry giants have always tried to and somewhat achieved monopolization or oligopolization.
Guess you have never worked in a business were you had to work to keep your costumers happy then. Trust me. Competition is real. That is why when I worked with a small corporation we managed to out compete several corporations that was way larger than us.
@@Cloud_Seeker You missed the point so much that that the entire American continent could lodge between what you fought was said and what was actually said.
Let me spell it out for you, INDUSTRY. I-N-D-U-S-T-R-Y. Now tell me, what kind of small industry compete with any big industries to the point were they are considered competition? Do you think theres like, people building their own car factories and suddenly they sell as much than Volkswagen?
@@jeanmarc6517 Just because you can say something doesn't make what you say real.
@@Cloud_Seeker Just because youre wrong doesnt mean you have to deflect it by making even more unrelated statements. A simple "my bad" could have done the trick
@@jeanmarc6517 The problem is that I am not wrong. You are making a false dichotomy where everyone must be able to be a competitor with everyone in literally everything if you are going to accept that competition exist.
I am not a pro-athlete that can get anywhere close to a Olympic medal. I most likely never had that ability. By your logic. Sports can not have competition as not everyone can compete for the absolute top spot.
8:20
And only 100 companies in the world are responsible for 71% of atmospheric pollution and subsequent climate change.
...care to take a guess what those companies specialize in?
"gasoline is the most efficient fuel source"
the biosphere: am I a joke to you?
uranium: am I a joke to you?
rivers: am I a joke to you?
the sun: am I a joke to you?
aged like fine milk
It was back in the 50s
On which planet is “the biosphere” a fuel source?
@@klimmensus6962 they are likely talking about bio fuels and any form of power that comes from animals.
Not to forget the Sterling Engine, either.
Stirling engines are actually very inefficient, but their size used to be convenient.
Mars gravity is lower than Earth's. Travelling to space is easier from there. That is why probably was easier to search for ideas elsewhere in space rather than try to come with your own.
That and because probably nobody expected an Ogg underling to return lol.
I love this channel thanks for the upload!
You are welcome bullsfan847. Thank you for watching.
nice i love the old propaganda thanks!
You are welcome finger diddler. Thank you for watching.
finger diddler agreed
:)
I saw this on the X Files:
US SPACE SURVEILLANCE CENTER CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN, CO
MALE OFFICER #1: Sir? Sorry to disturb you sir. But we just picked up an unidentified bogey. I think you should see the replay for yourself. (both officer and chief walk toward info area)
MALE OFFICER #1: It tripped the fence at 23-17 off the coast of Connecticut, sir.
CAPTAIN KORETZ: Initial trajectory was north by northwest. Then it started going crazy.
COLONEL CALVIN HENDERSON: What about other craft in the area...missile testing?
CAPTAIN KORETZ: Sir. No known aircraft can maneuver like this.
MALE OFFICER #1: Well, whatever it was dropped of the screen at 24-18 sir. Hit ground just west of Lake Michigan outside Townsend Wisconsin.
CAPTAIN KORETZ: The tracking and impact team predicted impact calculated at over 800 miles an hour.
MALE OFFICER #1: I've instructed Chief Koretz to start her report right away...
COLONEL CALVIN HENDERSON: Negative. What she tracked was a meteor. Its aberrant movement was obviously due to instrument malfunction.
CAPTAIN KORETZ: But sir...
COLONEL CALVIN HENDERSON: Your report will reflect these facts. Is that clear?
MALE OFFICER #1: Yes sir.
COLONEL CALVIN HENDERSON: Good. (Colonel exits, walks to deserted corner. Dials cell phone)
COLONEL CALVIN HENDERSON: Code indigo delta echo niner. I have a confirmed fallen angel in sector 87. Mobilize Operation Falcon Immediately.
The cartoon ended right before the Martians conducted a bloody purge of the former leader’s loyalists.
4:16
The King's finger moves several spaces back, and loses its glove.
Meanwhile in North Korea
No way, the soundtrack for this is also used in the ArmaLite-Fairchild promotional video for the AR-10!
That was actually a common thing with short films in the 1950s and 60s, they shared a common library of stock music and film footage for financial reasons.
Yeah the competition between BP, Exxon and Shell is truely remarkable 😆🤣😂😅😢😥😭
You don't understand companies.
Which phone/computer brand you use to post that comment? Did somebody down the street build it? No?
Because you went to a company that's dumped BILLIONS into research, development, advertising, and production.
@@FireBeam 🤦♂️ there is a competition between Apple, Samsung, Huawei etc. But the oil corporations are a cartel...
terdiam
Funny how technology has made finding them incredibly easy
Really reminds me of Gendy Tartakovsky's art style. (Dexter's Lab, Powerpuff Girls, Samurai Jack, Clone Wars, Primal, etc)
I love this style of hand-hade animation.
Me too
Yes, it's totally 1950s-style. A studio named UPA pioneered this abstracted look which quickly caught on throughout the animation industry. (Compare a 1940s Bugs Bunny cartoon to one made in the '50s.)
Ahh yes. Mars always had a big sign saying mars.