Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Hagenbeck-Wallace #10

2 comments:

Richard Reynolds said...

Center panel has a drawing of Popeye and Olive Oil. Not sure if I've seen this before. I wonder if the show got permission to use it becaues the cartoon is copyrighted.

Right now there is a flap between Popeye's Chicken and the owner of the trademark, a subsidiary of the Hearst Corporation.

Roger Smith said...

Street parade historians might enjoy Emmett Kelly's account of painting these panels. Few may recall Kelly was a gifted cartoonist--from this he created his Weary Willie character. In his book CLOWN (page 119), he recalls that Jess Adkins revived the H-W street parades in 1934. Kelly painted this Popeye panel, plus sides for Red Riding Hood, Peter Pumpkin Eater, the Three Bears, Mary and Her Lamb, and get this--Disney's characters in a work titled "Mouseville", which he signed "With apologies to Walt Disney." Talk about copyright questions--but somehow Kelly, Adkins, and Hagenbeck-Wallace pulled it off.