My Financial Career

My Financial Career is a Canadian animated short film directed by Gerald Potterton from the year 1962.

Action

A man confesses that bring him entering a bank and banking generally quickly out of the concept. One day he walked into a bank to open an account. On this he wanted to pay $ 56 and then $ 50 per month. Because he thought that this was so common, he initially wanted the manager speak "alone" That's why it took him for a detective and later for a millionaire's son. When the man claimed to prefer to create an account to be paid out $ 56, he was immediately referred to one of the tellers from the Managing Director.

Here the man opened an account. In order to become important before the other customers, then he filled out a check, which he wanted to take off six U.S. dollars from his newly opened account. However, in thought, he wrote $ 56 on the check. On the switch When the officer asked him if he really wants to stand out all the money, the man could not go back without losing face, and was sämtliches money to pay off the account. Beaten he left the bank and now thinks to have since then never set foot in a bank: his notes he collects in pockets and the coins in stockings.

Production

My Financial Career is based on the short story by Stephen Leacock, 1910 in Leacock's collection of humorous stories, Literary Lapse, appeared. The original was taken verbatim in the film in many areas.

Narrator of the film is Stanley Jackson.

Awards

My Financial Career in 1964 was nominated for an Oscar in the category " Best Animated Short Film ", but could not prevail against The Critic itself.