Friday, July 11, 2014

From Chic Silber #1


 Hi Buckles
This logo with the 4 characters was 1st used in 69

 Each of the characters had a name I don't recall

7 comments:

Chic Silber said...


This was the disputed turnover

year as shown by the credits

(Only 1 Feld listed) & a very

interesting mixed team effort

When the dust settled it was a

very different vision

Chic Silber said...


Written history depends on who

has published the textbooks

I enjoy reading or hearing the

gospel from folks who weren't

participants or really there

Chic Silber said...


"Ring" & "Ling" ring a bell so

to speak but I'm not so sure

about the other 2 Mike

Jerry Cash said...

According to the 1969 Annual Report the names were:
Ring, the Gorilla
Ling, the Tiger
Baby Barnum, the Elephant and
Bumble Bailey, the Clown.

Unknown said...

I was on the Red Unit in '69 and was in the tiger costume for the promo pictures. I know the character names, but am not totally sure of which was which. I believe they were: Gorilla-"Ring",Tiger-"Ling",Elephant-"Barnum", and Clown-"Bailey". Very imaginitive,yes?

Chic Silber said...


"Production Supervisor" clearly

wasn't Irvin's 1st choice but

it only lasted that 1st year

Unknown said...

The costumes for all of these 4 characters appear in the View-Master set of reels that was photographed on the Red Unit in 1969. (Those images were posted on the Blog some years ago and should be in the archives.) The Felds had hopes of these four characters appearing in a Saturday morning cartoon show that make them as famous as Mickey, Donald, Goofy, etc. Nothing ever came of it, however.