# Anyone Seen This Video Clip("How to Start a Recession-1958"?)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-this-video-clip-how-to-start-a-recession-1958/505226>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 3, 2009, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-this-video-clip-how-to-start-a-recession-1958/505226 "2009-08-03T22:36:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-seen-this-video-clip-how-to-start-a-recession-1958/505226/1 "2009-08-03T22:36:21Z")

</div>

I can’t seem to find this on youtube. It was a short cartoon video, broadcast on network TV in 1958 (the “Eisenhower” recession). It was the government’s attempts to reassure people-and it flopped. I remember seeing it several times-it was about an old talian guy who ran a hotdog stand. His son comes home from college, and tells the old man there is a "recession’ on-so the the old man buys fewer hotdogs, business drops, he buys fewer hotdgs, and finall shuts down.  
I am surprised it hasn’t been posted on Youtube; any iea where I might look for this?