Toons In Toyland

Author : Tim Hollis
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781626745001

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Toons in Toyland by Tim Hollis Pdf

Every living American adult likely prized one childhood toy that featured the happy image of an animated cartoon or comic strip character. There is an ever-growing market for these collectibles, and stacks of books pose as pricing guides. Yet Tim Hollis is the first to examine the entire story of character licensing and merchandising from a historical view. Toons in Toyland focuses mainly on the post–World War II years, circa 1946–1980, when the last baby boomers were in high school. During those years, the mass merchandising of cartoon characters peaked. However, the concept of licensing cartoon characters for toys, trinkets, and other merchandise dates back to the very first newspaper comics character, the Yellow Kid, who debuted in 1896 and was soon appearing on a variety of items. Eventually, cartoon producers and comic strip artists counted on merchandising as a major part of their revenue stream. It still plays a tremendous role in the success of the Walt Disney Company and many others today. Chapters examine storybooks (such as Little Golden Books), comic books, records, board games, jigsaw puzzles, optical toys (including View-Master and Kenner’s Give-a-Show Projector), and holiday paraphernalia. Extending even beyond toys, food companies licensed characters galore—remember the Peanuts characters plugging bread and Dolly Madison snacks? And roadside attractions, amusement parks, campgrounds, and restaurants—think Yogi Bear and Jellystone Park Campgrounds—all bought a bit of cartoon magic to lure the green waves of tourists’ dollars.

Author : Jose Bellido
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509904679

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Landmark Cases in Intellectual Property Law by Jose Bellido Pdf

This volume explores the nature of intellectual property law by looking at particular disputes. All the cases gathered here aim to show the versatile and unstable character of a discipline still searching for landmarks. Each contribution offers an opportunity to raise questions about the narratives that have shaped the discipline throughout its short but profound history. The volume begins by revisiting patent litigation to consider the impact of the Statute of Monopolies (1624). It continues looking at different controversies to describe how the existence of an author's right in literary property was a plausible basis for legal argument, even though no statute expressly mentioned authors' rights before the Statute of Anne (1710). The collection also explores different moments of historical significance for intellectual property law: the first trade mark injunctions; the difficulties the law faced when protecting maps; and the origins of originality in copyright law. Similarly, it considers the different ways of interpreting patent claims in the late nineteenth and twentieth century; the impact of seminal cases on passing off and the law of confidentiality; and more generally, the construction of intellectual property law and its branches in their interaction with new technologies and marketing developments. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the development of intellectual property law.

Author : Jared Bahir Browsh
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476675794

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Hanna-Barbera by Jared Bahir Browsh Pdf

With careers spanning eight decades, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera were two of the most prolific animation producers in American history. In 1940, the two met at MGM and created Tom and Jerry, who would earn 14 Academy Award nominations and seven wins. The growth of television led to the founding of Hanna-Barbera's legendary studio that produced countless hours of cartoons, with beloved characters from Fred Flintstone, George Jetson and Scooby-Doo to the Super Friends and the Smurfs. Prime-time animated sitcoms, Saturday morning cartoons, and Cartoon Network's cable animation are some of the many areas of television revolutionized by the team. Their productions are critical to our cultural history, reflecting ideologies and trends in both media and society. This book offers a complete company history and examines its productions' influences, changing technologies, and enduring cultural legacy, with careful attention to Hanna-Barbera's problematic record of racial and gender representation.

Author : Enid Blyton
Publisher : Hodder Children's Books
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781444930139

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Tales of Toyland by Enid Blyton Pdf

A timeless collection of 21 Toyland stories to read and share by Enid Blyton, one of the world's best-loved children's authors. Jolly the sailor doll and Tiptoe the fairy doll have had enough. The other toys are terribly mean and don't like it when Jolly sings his jolly sailor songs. They decide to leave and take the express train to Toyland where they will meet all sorts of extraordinary characters like the Wobbly Mr To-and-Fro and the funny Clockwork Clown. Ideal for reading aloud or for confident readers to enjoy alone. Enid Blyton has been delighting readers for more than seventy years with her endless summers of magic, fun and adventure. Enid's best-loved characters include Noddy the wooden boy, Timmy the dog from The Famous Five and the mischievous twins Pat and Isabel O'Sullivan from the much-loved boarding school series St Clare's! The Toyland Story Collection was first published in 1944 (also called Tales of Toyland). This edition contains the original text and illustrations by Grace Lodge. The collection contains the following 21 stories: The Poor Fairy Doll, Off to Toyland, Toyland at Last!, Tiptoe and Jolly Give a Party, The Unlucky Clockwork Clown, Where Has Jolly Gone?, Jolly is a Sailor, Mr To-and-Fro's Birthday Party, How Bruiny Came to Live Next Door, A Grand Visitor, We Don't Want to Go to Bed, Mr Put-Em-Right, What Wonderful Adventures, The Girl Who Was Afraid of Dogs, A Tin of Yellow Polish, The Lost Motor Car, The Strange Butterfly, A Present for Granny, The Quarrelsome Bears, The Toy Telephone, Toy Town Adventures

Author : Malcolm Cook,Kirsten Moana Thompson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030279394

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Animation and Advertising by Malcolm Cook,Kirsten Moana Thompson Pdf

Throughout its history, animation has been fundamentally shaped by its application to promotion and marketing, with animation playing a vital role in advertising history. In individual case study chapters this book addresses, among others, the role of promotion and advertising for anime, Disney, MTV, Lotte Reiniger, Pixar and George Pal, and highlights American, Indian, Japanese, and European examples. This collection reviews the history of famous animation studios and artists, and rediscovers overlooked ones. It situates animated advertising within the context of a diverse intermedial and multi-platform media environment, influenced by print, radio and digital practices, and expanding beyond cinema and television screens into the workplace, theme park, trade expo and urban environment. It reveals the part that animation has played in shaping our consumption of particular brands and commodities, and assesses the ways in which animated advertising has both changed and been changed by the technologies and media that supported it, including digital production and distribution in the present day. Challenging the traditional privileging of art or entertainment over commercial animation, Animation and Advertising establishes a new and rich field of research, and raises many new questions concerning particular animation and media histories, and our methods for researching them.

Author : David Perlmutter
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781538103746

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The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows by David Perlmutter Pdf

This volume highlights North American animated television series broadcast between 1948 and 2016, providing credits for their original broadcast period and significant members of the cast and crew, as well as short descriptive and critical analyses.

Author : Jose Bellido,Kathy Bowrey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108485913

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Adventures in Childhood by Jose Bellido,Kathy Bowrey Pdf

This book shows how intellectual property turned the family into a market while, simultaneously, the market became a family.

Author : Patricio Sáiz,Rafael Castro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000549386

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The Brand and Its History by Patricio Sáiz,Rafael Castro Pdf

This book delves into the origins and evolution of trademark and branding practices in a wide range of geographical areas and periods, providing key knowledge for academics, professionals, and general audiences on the complex world of brands. The volume compiles the work of twenty-five prominent worldwide scholars studying the origins and evolution of trademarks and branding practices from medieval times to present days and from distinct European countries to the USA, New Zealand, Canada, Latin America, and the Soviet Union. The first part of the book provides new insights on pre-modern craft marks, on the emergence of trademark legal regimes during the nineteenth century, and on the evolution of trademark and business strategies in distinct regions, sectors, and contexts. As industrialisation and globalisation spread during the twentieth century, trademarking led to modern branding and international marketing, a process driven by new economic, but also cultural factors. The second part of the book explores the cultural side of the brand and offers challenging studies on how luxury, fashion, culture associations, and the consolidation of national identities played a key role in nowadays branding. This edited volume will not only be of great value to scholars, students and policymakers interested in trademark/branding research, but to marketing and legal practitioners as well, aiming to delve into the origins of modern brand strategies. The chapters in this book were originally published as two special issues of the journal, Business History.

Author : Timothy (Tim) L. Hollis
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439678336

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Lost Attractions of the Ozarks by Timothy (Tim) L. Hollis Pdf

Discover the Famous Attractions of Days Gone By When you think about vacationing in the Ozark Mountains, Li'l Abner comic strip characters at Dogpatch USA or scores of their generic cousins elsewhere probably come to mind. But that would be only the beginning. The Ozarks region has scores of attractions to offer tourists and locals alike. From the early music theaters of Branson to the kitschy tourist traps of Lake of the Ozarks, it is a unique part of the nation. Author Tim Hollis details the businesses that no longer exist, from abandoned roadside relics along Route 66 to the concrete prehistoric monsters of Arkansas' Dinosaur World.

Author : Mark J.P. Wolf
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315442662

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The Routledge Companion to Media Technology and Obsolescence by Mark J.P. Wolf Pdf

While so many books on technology look at new advances and digital technologies, The Routledge Companion to Media Technology and Obsolescence looks back at analog technologies that are disappearing, considering their demise and what it says about media history, pop culture, and the nature of nostalgia. From card catalogs and typewriters to stock tickers and cathode ray tubes, contributors examine the legacy of analog technologies, including those, like vinyl records, that may be experiencing a resurgency. Each essay includes a brief history of the technology leading up to its peak, an analysis of the reasons for its decline, and a discussion of its influence on newer technologies.

Author : Dan Dietz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781442251663

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The Complete Book of 1970s Broadway Musicals by Dan Dietz Pdf

The 1970s was an exciting decade for musical theatre. Besides shows from legends Stephen Sondheim (Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, and Sweeney Todd) and Andrew Lloyd Webber (Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita), old-fashioned musicals (Annie) and major revivals (No, No, Nanette) became hits. In addition to underappreciated shows like Over Here! and cult musicals such as The Grass Harp and Mack and Mabel, Broadway audiences were entertained by black musicals on the order of The Wiz and Raisin. In The Complete Book of 1970s Broadway Musicals, Dan Dietz examines in detail every musical that opened on Broadway during the 1970s. In addition to including every hit and flop that debuted during the decade, this book highlights revivals and personal-appearance revues with such performers as Tony Bennett, Lena Horne, Bette Midler, and Gilda Radner. Each entry includes the following information: Opening and closing dates Plot summaries Cast members Number of performances Names of all important personnel including writers, composers, directors, choreographers, producers, and musical directors Musical numbers and the names of performers who introduced the songs Production data, including information about tryouts Source material Critical commentary Tony awards and nominations Details about London and other foreign productions Besides separate entries for each production, the book offers numerous appendixes, including a discography, filmography, and published scripts, as well as lists of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, black-themed shows, and Jewish-themed productions. A treasure trove of information, The Complete Book of 1970s Broadway Musicals provides readers with a comprehensive view of each show. This significant resource will be of use to scholars, historians, and casual fans of one of the greatest decades in musical theatre history.

Author : Jeff Lenburg
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 155783671X

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Who's who in Animated Cartoons by Jeff Lenburg Pdf

Looks at the lives and careers of more than three hundred animators.

Author : Toby Bluth
Publisher : Ideals Publications
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0824981499

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Babes in Toyland by Toby Bluth Pdf

"Journey through Toyland with characters from Mother Goose as they battle to save the town from the evil clutches of Mr. Barnaby. Tom-Tom, the Piper's son, Simple Simon, and Little Bo Peep are just a few of the nursery rhyme favorites who appear in this colorful, fun-filled adventure"--Back cover

Author : Tony Wolf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Toys
ISBN : 0760723109

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Alex in Toyland by Tony Wolf Pdf

Author : Tim Hollis
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781628467260

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Ain't That a Knee-Slapper by Tim Hollis Pdf

There was a time when rural comedians drew most of their humor from tales of farmers' daughters, hogs, hens, and hill country high jinks. Lum and Abner and Ma and Pa Kettle might not have toured happily under the "Redneck" marquee, but they were its precursors. In Ain't That a Knee-Slapper: Rural Comedy in the Twentieth Century, author Tim Hollis traces the evolution of this classic American form of humor in the mass media, beginning with the golden age of radio, when such comedians as Bob Burns, Judy Canova, and Lum and Abner kept listeners laughing. The book then moves into the motion pictures of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, when the established radio stars enjoyed second careers on the silver screen and were joined by live-action renditions of the comic strip characters Li'l Abner and Snuffy Smith, along with the much-loved Ma and Pa Kettle series of films. Hollis explores such rural sitcoms as The Real McCoys in the late 1950s and from the 1960s, The Andy Griffith Show, The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, Hee Haw, and many others. Along the way, readers are taken on side trips into the world of animated cartoons and television commercials that succeeded through a distinctly rural sense of fun. While rural comedy fell out of vogue and networks sacked shows in the early 1970s, the emergence of such hits as The Dukes of Hazzard brought the genre whooping back to the mainstream. Hollis concludes with a brief look at the current state of rural humor, which manifests itself in a more suburban, redneck brand of standup comedy.