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His Pen-and-Ink Live For Laughter…
by amid
December 28, 2007 10:20 am


Below is an Eastman Kodak ad I spied recently in a 1950 edition of The Hollywood Reporter. I love the headline copy — “His Pen-and-Ink Live For Laughter…” — juxtaposed against the angriest illustration of an animator I’ve ever seen (click for a larger view). I realize the animator is angry because he’s working out the expression he’s drawing, but it still strikes me as funny. Regardless of its humor value, it’s still a kind of cool historical curio.

Eastman Kodak ad

12/28/07  12:45pm
Chuck R. says:

Very cool ad. Great find…even though —and I know I won’t be the only one to say this—they are confusing their cartooning disciplines.

12/28/07  2:47pm
jordan reichek says:

yep….that about sez it all.

hope NY is treating you well, amid!

12/28/07  3:53pm
Jim says:

Not only that but the animator resembles a young, pissed Frederick March.

12/28/07  5:48pm
David says:

Thanks for posting that wonderful vintage ad, Amid.

I’m looking at the animator’s face and all I can think of is Ned Sparks and his “sour puss” persona , so beautifully caricatured in Avery’s “Hollywood Steps Out” .

Ned Sparks:
“You boys having fun? ”

Boris Karloff, Arthur Treacher, Buster Keaton, and
Mischa Auer
answer (deadpan):

“Yes!”

12/28/07  7:18pm
:: smo :: says:

hooray for rochester!

12/28/07  10:42pm
Lucy says:

Lol, he’s mad because he just saw the still from American Dog….

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