Vulgar modernism sounds like an insult. I'd say it's pure Americana. My favorite flavor!
Enjoy!
Talk to you soon.
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Showing posts with label Walt Disney. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Walt Disney. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Whitney Museum and More Vulgar Modernizm!
The Whitney Museum of Art Comic Art show covered the gambit of cartooning from comic strips to comic books to todays topic, animation.
Vulgar modernism sounds like an insult. I'd say it's pure Americana. My favorite flavor!
Enjoy!
Talk to you soon.
Vulgar modernism sounds like an insult. I'd say it's pure Americana. My favorite flavor!
Enjoy!
Talk to you soon.
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Walt Disney's Christmas Parade 1963 - Christmas Comic Book Blitz!
Continuing my Christmas Comic Book Marathon, here's a Gold Key gem from the year I was born. Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge and Huey, Dewey and Louie and Christmas all around.
I think I should have mentioned this before, but the mind plays tricks and assumes when it's busy. All the comic book scans I've posted here for the holdiays have been scans I've glommed over the last dozen or so years off of Usenet, or the Internet. The best thing about the digital age to me, is the accessability of all the things I love, even from earlier ages. Old Time Radio, Comic Books, classic Television, classic Film, Comic Strips, Music, etc...I capitalize them all purposefully to underline their importance. All these things were things you could only get hints of in the stone age of pre-1995 unless you were very wealthy or spent vast amounts of time, and even then you would only be privy to a minor percentage of all that's out there.
I want to thank all the original scanners of and posters of the huge digital library of these things who've always been generous enough to share them all with the masses.
And I want to wish a very Merry Christmas to them all. There are some of us out here who truly appreciate it.
And to all the great comic book blogs out there who continue to add to this digital library and add even more with insightful commentary and insight, the same goes out to all of you. I shall be contributing more and more as time goes by. My scans for my Sunday posts of "Nemo: the Classic Comics Library" are only part of my payback to all of you.
Now...dig in!
Talk to you soon.
I think I should have mentioned this before, but the mind plays tricks and assumes when it's busy. All the comic book scans I've posted here for the holdiays have been scans I've glommed over the last dozen or so years off of Usenet, or the Internet. The best thing about the digital age to me, is the accessability of all the things I love, even from earlier ages. Old Time Radio, Comic Books, classic Television, classic Film, Comic Strips, Music, etc...I capitalize them all purposefully to underline their importance. All these things were things you could only get hints of in the stone age of pre-1995 unless you were very wealthy or spent vast amounts of time, and even then you would only be privy to a minor percentage of all that's out there.
I want to thank all the original scanners of and posters of the huge digital library of these things who've always been generous enough to share them all with the masses.
And I want to wish a very Merry Christmas to them all. There are some of us out here who truly appreciate it.
And to all the great comic book blogs out there who continue to add to this digital library and add even more with insightful commentary and insight, the same goes out to all of you. I shall be contributing more and more as time goes by. My scans for my Sunday posts of "Nemo: the Classic Comics Library" are only part of my payback to all of you.
Now...dig in!
Talk to you soon.
Friday, December 3, 2010
Vic & Sade and Walt Disney's Christmas Party - OTR Friday
OTR ear candy time again and time to smile with America's Home Folks in the little house halfway up on Virginia Avenue.
Beginning our chronological listent to the surviving "Vic & Sade" shows of 1940, are two gems which feature all the ear-marks of Paul Rhymer's wonderfully tectured writing of mid-western characterization and humor.
From January 2, 1940, Vic gets a letter from the "Starry Knight's of the Milky Way" lodge headquarters in Chicago, offering a service to have his portrait painted for the lodge hall for $50. Showing Vic's love of the pomp and circumstance of lodge life and Sade's opposing view of wasted money, the show also highlights Rush's frustration with being ignored by his elders as he tries to relate a story about Smelly Clark. This show also makes the running gag message of the $2 bill from Kleeburger's which Vic habitually ignores.
Dig in!
The show from January 9, 1940 features another of the show's running gags, with Vic trying to finish up some office work at home, this time soliciting Rush's help. While hurrying to get the chore done before Fred and Ruthie Stembottom arrive to take them for an evening drive to Chenoa, Sade opens her heart and reflects on her hot and cold relationship with Miz Scott.
A lot of indepth character studies for a daily 15 minute radio show meant to be heard only once. Genius.
Enjoy!
I finished sharing the 12 part "Speaking of Radio" documentary on "The Jack Benny Program" with you last week. So why not a little Christmas fun...
CARTOONS ON THE RADIO? Radio was so cool, they could pull this off. From December 23, 1934 and "The Heinz Hall of Fame", here's a special Christmas Party with Walt Disney and all his pals!
They really are all here. Walt (also supplying the voice of Mickey Mouse), Clarence "Ducky" Nash (as Donald Duck) and Pinto Colvig. Although Goofy has not fully been established as a major character in 1934, Pinto does the voices he originated as The Big Bad Wolf, The Practical Pig and The Grasshopper from "The Grasshopper and the Ants".
A young Walt...showman supreme:
Mickey in his black and white glory days. Though Walt does announce in this show that soon all Mickey Mouse shorts will be in Technicolor from here out:
Mickey's Yoo Hoo, little Minnie Mouse:
The Three Little Pigs:
Pluto the Pup:
Donald Duck:
Clara Cluck:
Horace Horsecollar:
And Walt brings along the Silly Symphony Orchestra to do a string of hit songs from the series with the original singers...
"Who's Afraid of The Big Bad Wolf?" from "The Three Little Pigs":
"The World Owes Me a Living" from "The Grasshopper and the Ants":
"The Waltz (from Lullaby Land)":
One of my favorites..."You're Nothin' But a Nothin'" from "The Flying Mouse":
"The Love Duet" from "Who Killed Cock Robin?":
and "Highdy Hade"from "The Goddess of Spring":
Beginning our chronological listent to the surviving "Vic & Sade" shows of 1940, are two gems which feature all the ear-marks of Paul Rhymer's wonderfully tectured writing of mid-western characterization and humor.From January 2, 1940, Vic gets a letter from the "Starry Knight's of the Milky Way" lodge headquarters in Chicago, offering a service to have his portrait painted for the lodge hall for $50. Showing Vic's love of the pomp and circumstance of lodge life and Sade's opposing view of wasted money, the show also highlights Rush's frustration with being ignored by his elders as he tries to relate a story about Smelly Clark. This show also makes the running gag message of the $2 bill from Kleeburger's which Vic habitually ignores.
Dig in!
The show from January 9, 1940 features another of the show's running gags, with Vic trying to finish up some office work at home, this time soliciting Rush's help. While hurrying to get the chore done before Fred and Ruthie Stembottom arrive to take them for an evening drive to Chenoa, Sade opens her heart and reflects on her hot and cold relationship with Miz Scott.
A lot of indepth character studies for a daily 15 minute radio show meant to be heard only once. Genius.
Enjoy!
I finished sharing the 12 part "Speaking of Radio" documentary on "The Jack Benny Program" with you last week. So why not a little Christmas fun...
CARTOONS ON THE RADIO? Radio was so cool, they could pull this off. From December 23, 1934 and "The Heinz Hall of Fame", here's a special Christmas Party with Walt Disney and all his pals!
They really are all here. Walt (also supplying the voice of Mickey Mouse), Clarence "Ducky" Nash (as Donald Duck) and Pinto Colvig. Although Goofy has not fully been established as a major character in 1934, Pinto does the voices he originated as The Big Bad Wolf, The Practical Pig and The Grasshopper from "The Grasshopper and the Ants".
A young Walt...showman supreme:
Mickey in his black and white glory days. Though Walt does announce in this show that soon all Mickey Mouse shorts will be in Technicolor from here out:
Mickey's Yoo Hoo, little Minnie Mouse:
The Three Little Pigs:
Pluto the Pup:
Donald Duck:
Clara Cluck:
Horace Horsecollar:
And Walt brings along the Silly Symphony Orchestra to do a string of hit songs from the series with the original singers...
"Who's Afraid of The Big Bad Wolf?" from "The Three Little Pigs":
"The World Owes Me a Living" from "The Grasshopper and the Ants":
"The Waltz (from Lullaby Land)":
One of my favorites..."You're Nothin' But a Nothin'" from "The Flying Mouse":
"The Love Duet" from "Who Killed Cock Robin?":
and "Highdy Hade"
A genuinely fun and spriteful listen...it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
Talk to you soon.
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