Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Illustration: Uncle Remus Stories 1949
This post is just the tip of the iceberg... see reason number 3 on our The Top Ten Reasons To Support The A-HAA for links to more great posts about 50s children's book illustrators.
On Saturday archive volunteer, Eric Graf brought by another treasure for us to digitize... a 1949 edition of the Disney Giant Golden Book, "Uncle Remus Stories". It features a spectacular cover by Mary Blair and many beautiful interior illustrations by Al Dempster and Bill Justice.
This book is interesting, not just for its relationship to the rarely seen Disney film, Song of the South, but for the material that doesn't appear in the film. Along with the familiar stories about the Tar Baby and Brer Rabbit's Laffin' Place, the book illustrates a dozen other stories like "De Great Rabbit Terrapin Race", "Brer Fox and de Stolen Goobers" and "Why de Cricket Fambly Lives in Chimbleys".
As always, if you'd like to see more of this book, let me know in the comments below.
For more from this book, see Uncle Remus Stories Part Two
For more great Golden Books, see Little Verses Part One, Part Two and The New Golden Song Book Part One , Part Two and Part Three, and Huckleberry Hound Builds A House.
If you would like to volunteer to help out this Saturday, please email me at sworth@animationarchive.org. There are two shifts available, 1:30pm to 5:30 and 5:00pm to 9:00.
Thanks
Stephen Worth
Director
ASIFA-Hollywood
Animation Archive
Labels: al dempster, animation, bill justice, brer rabbit, cartoons, disney, golden book, mary blair, song of the south, uncle remus
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5 Comments:
Stephen.. You deserve a raise! Thanks for your unflagging diligence behind the scanner. The new Golden Book entry is priceless and I get so much out of studying each scan. Serious artists in the L.A. area should be coming into the Burbank archive by the score. You have put together one of the best resources an artist can have and it is greatly appreciated!
I just wandered onto this site because of an interest in Boris Artzybasheff, who i discovered in a stack of old magazines in my parent's basement.
seeing these Golden Book scans (and on to other pages in this site) are quite inspiring. I am a painter who grew with this stuff and it's sort of like coming home to forgotten influences.
many thanks for your efforts
dan
www.danschimmel.org
steve you never seem to run out of awesome things to present. these are absolutely beautiful, WOW
I found a 1971 edition of this book in an antique store, and it set me back $65. It was a purchase I didn't doubt for a moment. Thanks for the scan of the original cover, the one thing my book doesn't have. However, I must say I still prefer Blair's second cover to this first one because on my copy Brer Rabbit and Brer Bear were passed through the Blair filter and they look nothing like the rest of the drawings.
Let us not forget the works of A.B FROST who illustrated the new and revised edition of UNCLE REMUS with over 100 etchings.
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