Posted on 04/19/2014 8:25:45 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
WASHINGTON, March 28 –The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s (CEI) animated short film, “I, Pencil” about the free-market wonders of making the common pencil won first place at a prestigious film contest this month co-hosted by Canada’s Manning Centre and the Free Thinking Film Society. The award was presented at the 2014 Manning Networking Conference, held February 27 - March 1, 2014, in Ottawa. The films were evaluated by a three-judge panel and featured themes on conservatism, liberty, free markets, and democracy.
CEI’s 6 minute long “I, Pencil” film was adapted from the 1958 essay by the late economist Leonard E. Read and produced by Drew Tidwell of Passing Lane Films. The film is accompanied by a series of five extended video commentaries featuring Carden and fellow libertarian luminaries Deirdre McCloskey, Larry Reed and Walter Williams, each discussing different themes of the story's narrative.
Runners up in the Manning Centre and the Free Thinking Film Society competition included:
Don't Cage My Speech! A Student Schools His College by FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FU6ePK9KCk Tax freedom day 2013 by Fraser Institute http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKDHiepBDr0 Stealing from the Poor to Give to the Rich by Learn Liberty http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDZvTNtVWbw Ollie and the train by the Sutherland Insitute http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W_MuIqVYHQ&feature=youtu.be Don't Eat Your Dog by the American Enterprise Institute http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NfLUCBZ1is The film previously won first place in the Reason Video Prize, as well as Best Short Documentary and Audience Choice at the Anthem Film Festival.
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I always thought I, pencil was a Milton Freidman article. I know I heard him read it.
It truly is a wonderful film and deserving of awards for the way it tells the wonder of free markets and free men.
But were they lead to choose the movie, or was it just a pointed gesture?
Awesome short and simple videos!!!
Although the Left can certainly point to it and deceptively say, “See? King Obama TOLD you ‘You didn’t do that by yourself!’”... but hopefully the main point any LIV might take from it is that no one person, or board, or government, could ever make all those millions of decisions that are required to make that pencil. They can only get in the way. Nothing more, nothing less.
For years I read this essay with high school AP Writing students.
Which, apparently, Obama and his minions were never exposed to.
At this point, the clueless O and his flying monkeys are genetically incapable of absorbing the simple, clear message.
Government coercion can accomplish the identical same results in half the time at half the cost. All it takes is thousands of "5-year" plans.
Somehow, half parasites and half producers doesn't quite seem to ever accomplish the same results.
But "insanity" prevents them from attempting the same asinine thing over and over, and over...
This should be required reading by every student suffering through the Common Core curriculum.
The Conservative message can be delivered succinctly. No Pandering.
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