Here we have an image from a Scrappy filmstrip designed for use with a tiny toy projector. Again, you can’t really say that Scrappy and Oopy are drawn on-model–if there is such a thing as drawing them on-model–but you also can’t say that the drawing fails to capture their essence. And that’s one swell pumpkin in the foreground.
Next we have the box that the filmstrips came in–Set 60, to be exact, from a company with the wonderully prosaic name Durable Toy & Novelty Corp. (Then again, the box and films are in excellent shape, seventy years later–guess they earned that moniker.)
The set included Holiday Land, Scrappy’s Birthday Party, Toy Shop (2 reels), and Babes in the Woods (2 reels). Mysteriously, the strips include the credit “Directed by Ted Eshbaugh Studios.” Perhaps the Eshbaugh shop, which is famous today only for being obscure, provided the filmstrips’ artwork.
The filmstrips were accompanied by 78rpm records–yes, Scrappy records! We have some in the Archives, but haven’t had the courage (or the 78rpm turntable) to play them as of yet.
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Are ALL of these images in black and white or have you banned color from the site?
Not sure that filmstrip artwork captures the essence of Scrappy’s visual identity, but of course the hairdo helps a lot. All in all they both look rather grotesque, maybe apt for Halloween though, on the other hand the artist does indeed do a nice expressive pumpkin, or at least the one in the foreground.
Yep, this site, like almost all of Scrappy’s cartoons, is proudly monochrome.