Friday, March 16, 2012

From Chris Berry #8

Beatty%20Cole%20Menagerie by bucklesw1
Beatty%20Cole%20Menagerie, a photo by bucklesw1 on Flickr.

Although the Beatty-Cole Circus of the mid-1960s did have a healthy supply of wild animals, the menagerie scene depicted here is quite a bit larger than reality.

Posted by Buckles at 3/16/2012 05:39:00 AM

2 comments:

Ole Whitey said...

Chris: I think there's a step between these two posters. You can tell that the Beatty-Cole by Acme was not shot directly off the Cole Bros by Erie.

The old King show, probably in the late forties or early fifties, had a poster done with a "repainted" version of the Cole bill, in other words new artwork copied off the Cole poster. I think that was the poster that Acme shot to produce the Betty-Cole version.

The imprint on the King bill reads "Litho USA" if someone can identify that for us.

16 March, 2012 12:38
Ole Whitey said...

I should have described the first bill as Robbins Bros rather than Cole Bros. As you know Adkins-Terrell and later Terrell used the same artwork for the Cole title as well.

16 March, 2012 12:41

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