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Paramount Shorts 1934
by jerry
June 19, 2007 8:24 am


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Here’s a killer item on ebay.

If I could afford it, I’d buy this. Since I can’t I might as well post it here and maybe one of our rich readers will get it and make a high rez scan for me.

06/19/07  10:00am
Del Walker says:

“Tis a nice item Jerry! The page with the theatrical poster grabs is fascinating. Of particular note are “Red Hot Mama” and “Betty In Blunderland” both of which are quite striking. I wonder if either still exists in a private collection somewhere…..

06/19/07  11:49am
Tommy Day says:

Pretty cool, Jerry! Did you check the seller’s other items? He/She’s got a copy for the Three Little Pigs sheet music from 1933, as well as funny Mickey Mouse Post Toasties cutouts!

06/19/07  12:15pm

That’s pretty cool…..does anyone have any historical information on ‘Wild Oysters’, the stop-motion short that Charley Bowers did for Paramount?

06/19/07  12:31pm
uncle wayne says:

Holy ____! What a catch!!

06/20/07  7:12am
Jim Reid says:

I have a booklet that’s like that only from MGM. It promotes the Hal Roach comedy shorts, the Fitzpatrick travelogues and The Ub Iwerks Flip the Frog cartoons.

06/20/07  7:39am
FP says:

6 pages of the 8-page booklet are on the ebay page as pretty good scans. The price is right.

Here’s the Popeye Page

06/20/07  2:45pm
Keith Paynter says:

I’ve used ebay as an excellent resource for rare and vintage 16mm cartoons. In what must be million to one odds, I’ve just won 2 (count ‘em, 2) Private Snafu shorts in less than a week (and these things are scarcer than hen’s teeth). They’ve been added to my upcoming Cartoons For Victory film festival scheduled for November.

(Now that I’ve given away my secret, I’ll have to fend of a few more zealous collectors!!)

06/21/07  10:57pm
Paul Mular says:

Bummer, I got out bid in the last 30 seconds or so of the auction. I was hoping to reproduce the booklet for fellow animation fans as a way to preserve this rarity from getting lost to history. Maybe the winning bidder will have similar thoughts.

06/24/07  10:19am
jerry says:

Update: Happy ending , folks! A friend of mine purchased this item and will be scanning it very high rez so I can use it for future potential publishing projects.

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