Sailing to America, Thanks to Maurice Noble

“It wasn’t so long ago in the history of man’s voyage toward a better world that ships were carrying eager passengers toward the shores of a new nation that was just in the building.” So says narrator Macdonald Carey in the John Sutherland industrial cartoon It's Everybody's Business (1954).

Maurice Noble provided the art direction for this cartoon, funded by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. Here are portions of the opening pan as the ship sails from Europe across the Atlantic.



Finally, they are about to each America.



Noble does a beautiful job with this cartoon. The background artist is not identified (Joe Montell may have been at the studio at that point) but the animators are Bill Higgins, Abe Levitow, Emery Hawkins and Bill Melendez.