My Financial Career

My Financial Career is a 1962 Oscar-nominated animated short directed by Gerald Potterton and produced by Colin Low and Tom Daly for the National Film Board of Canada.

The cartoon is based on a story of the same name from one of Stephen Leacock's collections of short stories, Literary Lapses (1910). It takes a humorous look at a young man's attempt to open a bank account.

Awards

 * Golden Gate International Film Festival, San Francisco: First Prize, Animated Film, 1962
 * American Film and Video Festival, New York: Blue Ribbon, Literature in Films, 1964
 * 36th Academy Awards, Los Angeles: Nominee, Best Short Subject, Cartoons, 1963