#wc fields

[citizenscreen]

The great W. C. Fields was #botd in 1880.

“If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.”

[oldshowbiz]

1966.

The W.C. Fields Memorial Electric String Band released this single on Hanna Barbera Records a few months before they played the Griffith Park Human Be-In.

The Human Be-In was held exactly 57 years ago today

[mudwerks]

(via Nos infréquentables | POUR 15 MINUTES D'AMOUR)

WC Fields, Dorothy Lamour, Martha Raye et Shirley Ross - The Big Broadcast of 1938 

[thursdaymurderbub]

Screenland magazine, March 1938

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) took 3 years, 750 artists, and nearly 2 million separate paintings to complete. The approximately 750 artists comprised about 32 animators, 102 assistant animators, 167 'in-betweeners,' 20 layout artists, 25 watercolour background artists, 65 effects animators, and 158 female inkers and painters.

Disney famously undervalued(s) the work of these artists and used the profits from Snow White to expand the studio and install luxuries such as a restaurant, gym, steam room etc that were only accessible to a very limited group of executives and head writers/animators. Individual departments were segregated from one another and heavily policed against fratranisation or perceived slights to the company. Employees were expected to work long overtime without compensation and the pay renumeration scheme was uneven and disorganised, with workers being paid substantially more or less for the same work due to internal politics and/or disorganisation. All this led to the animator's strike of 1941, which of course featured placards of the highest quality:

This photo likely shows John Garfield supporting the protest!

The animators were eventually allowed to form a union to protect their rights moving forward.

[ghassanrassam]

1942 short stories tied by a formal dinner jacket..many stars

[jhsharman]

old fashioned

Shift on a decade and a half and figure how far forward we go on "old fashioned things". They bring in some campaign buttons for 1940 and 1952, and an old television. Funny that we still have Mickey Mouse. Kind of.

Is there a subtle shift with "rules" getting downgraded to "ideas"?

[vintage-tech]

A poster for a 1940 movie with a funny by today's standards title ("dick" = detective or guard) featuring W.C. Fields, a whole bunch of people that are not remembered, and the fourth Stooge.

[frenchcurious]

Affiche suédoise du film de Norman Z. McLeod, ''It's a Gift'' (''Une riche affaire'', Paramount, 1934). - Source Heritage Auctions.

[buckrogersinthe20thcentury]

[megan-the-artoonist]

Egbert P. Waddlefoot makes another appearance to celebrate WC Fields’ birthday.

[waiting-eyez]

You can't cheat an honest man.

(W.C. Fields)

[citizenscreen]

Two of my favorite funny people, W.C. Fields and Gracie Allen. They are pictured in Edward Sutherland’s INTERNATIONAL HOUSE (1933).

[oldshowbiz]

Coo Coo for W.C. Fields Puffs

[dailylooneys]

Cracked Ice

(1938, Frank Tashlin)

[thursdaymurderbub]

Silver Screen magazine

[fashioninpaper]

WC Fields ftom Tom Tierney’s book “Thirty from the Thirties”