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Mechanix Illustrated

Issue: Dec, 1941

Posted in: Sports, War

Tags: cartoons, food, Jai Alai, World War II

Posted: 04/17/2012

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Captain Marvel Troops for America! (Dec, 1941)

Apparently the only thing it takes to turn characterless, shiftless hillbillies into go-getting super soldiers is a proper diet and Jai Alai. Jai Alai, as any Mad Men viewer will tell you, is the sport of the future(video).

Captain Marvel Troops for America!

“Super Shock Troops” For The Army Will Soon Be In Action! Vitamins Are The Magic That Produce Them!

by W. M. Kimball

THE gray-clad ship moved into the quiet evening shadows of the secluded cove near Willapa Bay.

Three boats dropped from the davits. In each of them 20 men sat straight, alert on the thwarts. Purring motors beached the boats silently. The shadows were blackening, but the 60 men leaped ashore sure-footedly, their cat-eyes piercing the gloom. They were assured men—tall, lean, brown, certain of every movement.

An observer might have whistled in awe to look at them—and with good reason. For these were the United States Army’s “super-shock troops” going into action! The Captain Marvels of America!

Mechanix Illustrated

Issue: Feb, 1959

Posted in: Entertainment, Useless Tech

Tags: art, cartoons, Rube Goldberg

Posted: 02/15/2012

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Meet Rube Goldberg (Feb, 1959)

Meet Rube Goldberg

His name is the common term for the goofy gizmo but this world-famous artist-inventor is a rube in name only.

By Wilson Curry

ONE of the world’s most famous inventors has just completed his 2,001st gadget. In honor of the occasion he offers his latest creation free to his fellow Americans. Anyone who wants to mass-produce it may do so, royalty-free.

It’s a method for getting a dull comedian offstage. Here’s how it works: 1. A barber shop quartet sings a sad song. 2. It’s so sad a little man standing nearby cries big tears into a flower pot.

Popular Science

Issue: May, 1941

Posted in: War

Tags: cartoons

Posted: 10/04/2011

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MAGIC-LANTERN CARTOONS TRAIN ARMY MECHANICS (May, 1941)

MAGIC-LANTERN CARTOONS TRAIN ARMY MECHANICS

Magic lanterns have joined the Army.

Projectors that are direct descendants of the parlor lanterns of a generation ago are now being used to train rookies in the mechanics of modern motor vehicles.

They are used with what are known as “educational reading slidefilms,” because this has been found to be the speediest and most effective means of training mechanics. And speed is necessary, because by this coming June the Army expects to have 190,000 motor vehicles.

Modern Mechanix

Issue: May, 1930

Posted in: DIY

Tags: cartoons

Posted: 06/10/2011

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Animated Cartoons for the Amateur Cameraman (May, 1930)

Animated Cartoons for the Amateur Cameraman

by HI SIBLEY

With your amateur movie camera you can make amusing animated cartoons which will give a new zest to home entertainments. In this article Mr. Sibley tells you just how to go about it to produce creditable animated cartoon films.

THE amateur movie cameraman has a broad field of experiment before him, and trying out animated cartoons will afford no little amusement.

Of course, the comical little figures we see in the theatres, with their exaggerated but still lifelike movements, are the result of long and painstaking experience, but the amateur, by beginning with the simplest ideas will eventually develop very creditable skill in this unique work.

Mechanix Illustrated

Issue: Jun, 1941

Posted in: Advertisements

Tags: cartoons

Posted: 05/04/2011

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Draw Me! (Jun, 1941)

Draw Me!
TRY FOR A FREE ART COURSE
Copy this girl and send us your drawing — perhaps you’ll win a COMPLETE FEDERAL COURSE FREE! This contest is for amateurs, so if you like to draw do not hesitate to enter.

Prizes for Five Best Drawings — FIVE COMPLETE ART COURSES FREE, including drawing outfits. (Value of each course, $185.00.)

Modern Mechanix

Issue: Mar, 1931

Posted in: How to, Movies

Tags: cartoons, disney

Posted: 11/15/2010

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Making Mickey Mouse Act for the Talkies (Mar, 1931)

Making Mickey Mouse Act for the Talkies

How do they make those animated movie cartoons of Mickey Mouse and his animal relatives which have proved so popular? In this article the author explains the tedious process by which cartoons are brought to life.

by Gordon S. Mitchell
Mr. Mitchell is a member of the Sound Department of Universal Pictures Corporation, and is well qualified to write on technical phases of movie production.

THE next time you drop into your favorite theater and watch Mickey Mouse, Oswald the Rabbit, Krazy Kat, or any of their familiar cartooned brethren scamper across the screen in a series of animated musical episodes, stop and ponder for a moment on these weighty facts:

Physical Culture

Issue: Mar, 1922

Posted in: Advertisements

Tags: cartoons

Posted: 01/28/2010

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CARTOONISTS MAKE BIG MONEY (Mar, 1922)

CARTOONISTS MAKE BIG MONEY

Every time Sid Smith makes a stroke of his pen, mil-ions of people laugh. Every laugh means money for the man who creates it. Andy and Min earn big money for Sid Smith every day.

Mechanix Illustrated

Issue: Mar, 1949

Posted in: Automotive

Tags: cartoons

Posted: 03/30/2009

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Charles Addams: Car-toonist (Mar, 1949)

Charles Addams: Car-toonist

THE day that Charles Addams drew the strange skiing cartoon at the left he became famous. That ski sketch even became a test for insanity—if you could see nothing wrong, the keeper had a nice padded place for you. But the day for Charlie was the one a year ago when Playwright Philip Barry gave him a beat-up Mercedes-Benz.

Popular Science

Issue: Jan, 1941

Posted in: Movies, Music

Tags: cartoons, disney

Posted: 04/20/2008

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Mickey Mouse Goes Classical (Jan, 1941)

Mickey Mouse Goes Classical

By ANDREW R. BOONE

MOVING sound has been added to moving pictures to bring greater realism to the screen. Accompanying Walt Disney’s newest Technicolor creation, “Fantasia,” in which Mickey Mouse and a host of new companions perform to the rhythms of classical music, this latest Hollywood invention made its first public appearance a few weeks ago at the Broadway Theater in New York.

Modern Mechanix

Issue: Dec, 1930

Posted in: Sign of the Times

Tags: cartoons, Rube Goldberg

Posted: 10/29/2007

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Nutty Inventions Paid Me A Million – by Rube Goldberg (Dec, 1930)

Nutty Inventions Paid Me A Million

by RUBE GOLDBERG
Famous Cartoonist as told to Alfred Albelli

Four hundred inventions a year, all of them of exceedingly “nutty” brand, qualify Rube Goldberg, the famous cartoonist, as one of the country’s most prolific and best paid inventors. The fact that his inventions never get beyond the pen and ink stage doesn’t prevent him from “cleaning up” from them.

“How did you get that way? How do you do it? How do you get away with it? How do you get them to fall for your stuff? How are you, anyway?”

There you have the barrage of questions which are popped at me every day of my life, including days when the game is called on account of rain. It’s a good thing a humorous cartoonist has got a sense of humor. Or I might borrow from that jolly English expression and say, “It’s fortunate my humor is not bad.”

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