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This was for a gal's surprise 50th birthday and they wanted something comical. It's a chocolate cake decorated in buttercream. Leaf and flowers are fondant. I want to thank Daria for her instructions and encouragement. It is not even close to the expert job on "Sexy Adam" but the birthday girl apparently LOVED this cake. Thank you again Daria.
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Young and old alike will be fascinated by the incredible LEGO models throughout the park. From comical camels to fearsome fire-breathing dragons, world landmarks to musical pirates, it's amazing what can be built with LEGO bricks - nearly 55 million of them!
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Young and old alike will be fascinated by the incredible LEGO models throughout the park. From comical camels to fearsome fire-breathing dragons, world landmarks to musical pirates, it's amazing what can be built with LEGO bricks - nearly 55 million of them!
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Cadishead and Irlam Guardian, 7, March, 1925.
THEN AND NOW.
EIGHTY NOT OUT. "MANY HAPPY RETURNS OF THE DAY."
TRIBUTE TO IRLAM'S RETIRED VICAR.
NOW AN OCTOGENARIAN.
"Guardian" special.
My first words this week must be words of congratulations to a typical English gentleman and his wife, who have spent the greater part of their lives in Irlam, and Irlam to-day is the better for the Rev. Robert Martin, D.D., and Mrs Martin having been residents for more than half a century.
"Many happy returns of the day" was my hearty greeting to the retired and revered Vicar of Irlam, who received me most genially at his residence, and I am sure the older residents of the district especially, who know him best, will echo this sincere wish on the celebration of his eightieth birthday. The Rev. Dr. Martin was born in Little Hulton on February 21st 1845. Thus on Saturday last Irlam's late Vicar became an octogenarian. Small in stature, but large in mind and in heart, Robert Martin can look back with pardonable pride upon his fifty years activities in the best and highest interests of Irlam and Cadishead.
Cadishead for many years was under the spiritual direction of the Vicar of Irlam, The parish of St. John's extending from Barton Moss to Glazebrook Bridge - an area something like fifteen square miles.
"Martin" a Household Word.
The name of Martin was a household word in a torirer? generation in the Walkden, Little Hulton and Tyldesley districts, just as it had been in Irlam during the last half-century. Dr. Thomas Martin was a well known physician and surgeon, and two sons, Dr. William Young Martin and Dr. Edward Johnson Martin, upheld the family tradition in the profession for the cure of the body, whilst Robert, the third son, "called after" his grandfather who was an eminent surgeon in the Tyldesley district, was intended "for the cure of souls," and it is no exaggeration or flattery, to say there are few clergymen with a better record.
Young Robert had private tuition, and was much handicapped by the loss of his father when he was fifteen years of age. Four years later, however, he entered the University at Oxford, where he had a brilliant career, and graduated. He gained his B.A. and S.C.L. in 1867, his M.A. in 1871, and B.D and D.D. together in 1886.
Ordination and Marriage.
He was ordained in 1868, and married the same year to Elizabeth Emton Hall, daughter of the late Mr. Robert Hall, of Oak Mount. Half Edge Lane, Eccles, whose memory is perpetuated in that borough by the generous gift of the public clock at the Town Hall.
His first curacy was at Croston, near Southport, under the Rev. Oswald Master, a representative of a well-known county family in those days. The Bishop of Whatley is the present rector. After a stay of two years the young curate went into Cheshire, and had only been at St. George's, Altrincham, for fifteen months when he was offered and accepted the living of Irlam, as successor to the The first Vicar was the Rev. T. L. Beddoes, who was previously the Rector of St Mary's Manchester, he died on 25th November 1880 in his 49th year he was buried in the churchyard. ,Church being consecrated in 1866.
Prior to that year a curate from the Parish Church at Eccles conducted divine services in the Endowed School. Irlam at this time forming part of that ancient parish.
The school was built a few years before the church - in 1854 to be exact (in 'The History of Education' Cyril Wheaton predates this date with more information than in this news article.) - and endowed by the late Mr. John Greaves, who was a justice of the peace, and resided at Irlam Hall, the same benefactor leaving money for the building of the church and vicarage and the land upon which they stand.
Irlam's First Schoolmaster.
The late Mr. Joshua Jones was the first head master - and a wonderful schoolmaster he was - always gaining splendid results, and the salary was the princely sum of £80 per annum. He was succeeded by the late Mr. Peter Farrell and the late Mr. Thomas Parker, who faithfully upheld the traditions of the school.
There was no St. Mary's Church or School at Cadishead for many years after. The whole population of the parish only numbered 2,700 when the young vicar was installed. There were only ten communicants, and not more than fifty Sunday school scholars. The church, of course, provided accommodation very greatly in excess of the needs of the parish for very many years, and the Archdeacon, during one of his visitations suggested the use of a screen in the church.
St Mary's, Cadishead.
It was not until 1891 that St. Mary's School - Church, Cadishead, was built, at a cost of less than a thousand pounds, which was considered a very big scheme in those days. The Revs. A. Ditchfield, W.H. Austwick,A. Floyd, Thomas Lever, A.F. Finch, G.J. Ash, C. Smith, are the names of curates who have served St. Mary's, prior to the Rev. H.R. Bakker taking charge some years ago.
The first wardens at St. John's, after the Rev. Dr. Martin came to the parish, were the late Mr. James Platt, who built Moorfield and resided there for some years, and the late Mr. Spencer Barlow, farmer, Fairhills Road. There were no sidesmen in those days.
A Hard-working Vicar.
The care of such extensive, though for a very long period sparsely populated parish, was no child's play, but the zealous and hard-working Vicar found time to serve the interests of the parish as representative on the Barton Board of Guardians, in which capacity he succeeded the late Mr. Charles Garlick, who resided at Longfield Lodge, Cadishead.
It was a vastly different Irlam then than it is to-day. Liverpool Road was not the light railway it is now, and means of travel were less convenient.
The Old Coach Days
Old inhabitants will remember old Harris's Coach, which used to ply at regular intervals between Hollins Green and Patricroft.
Irlam and Cadishead had neither town's water nor gas, and there was no drainage of any description. The Rev. Dr. Martin has witnessed a remarkable transformation in the district, which he attributes principally to the effects of the Manchester Ship Canal.
There was nothing but fustian-cutting and farming for many years after he took up his residence at the Vicarage. The "good old days" were days of low wages, but he was inclined to think there was much happiness and contentment with it all, there being fewer needs and less calls than there are to-day.
Strikes and Lock-outs Unknown.
The terrible conflicts between capital and labour, such as have occurred in recent years with almost alarming frequency, bringing discontent and distress in their wake, were almost unheard of in the Rev. Dr. Martin's early days. And this phase of industrialism is not one of which we can congratulate ourselves. On the whole people were not badly behaved in the old days, though he must confess there had been improvement in manners and in morals, due in a great measure to the progress of education, "and" I added - the venerable Vicar being too modest to say so - "the good work in which you and other ministers have been engaged for so long a period."
Dr. Martin has united in matrimony perhaps more couples than any other clergyman in Lancashire, including many of those whose baptisms he had performed in their infancy.
Guide, Philosopher and Friend.
Irlam's Doctor of Divinity has indeed been guide, philosopher and friend in a very real sense to a host of people. He loves Irlam and is beloved by a legion of friends in Irlam, and in nearly all parts of the world.
He is the most modest of men and has always shrunk from appearing in the limelight. There is no phase of Irlam's public life in which the Rev. Dr. Martin has not taken an active share, and it was with much reluctance on his own part and the deep regret of the parishioners of all shades of thought when he took off the armour and relinquished the vicariate he had faithfully occupied just two years ago.
In Good Health and Spirits.
I was delighted to find him in good health and spirits after reaching his eightieth birthday. His devoted wife who has for long shared her husband's joys and sorrows, is still as active as many a younger lady, and I am sure "Guardian" readers will wish, with me, that their later years may be among their best. A Cheery optimism has pervaded the whole of his life. He has been remarkably free from serious illnesses and rarely been absent from a Sunday service at the church, during the whole of his 50 years vicariate. Proverbs may well be quoted: "Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace."
Reminiscences.
I intend in future articles to record some reminiscences of the venerable retired Vicar, which I am sure, will be read with great interest in the locality in which he has laboured for so long and lovingly for the uplift of the people.
Cadishead and Irlam Guardian, March 14, 1925
THEN AND NOW
A VENERABLE RETIRED VICARS RECOLLECTIONS
THE OLD COACH AND PACKET DAYS RECALLED
REMINISCENCES OF THE REV. DR. MARTIN.
"Guardian" Special.
"Yes, Irlam and Cadishead were far different places in 1872, when I came to Irlam, than they are to-day. I have used the plural, though Irlam and Cadishead were always combined in the same parish and later in one urban district, because people always maintained a separate and distinct entity."
Thus declared the Rev. Robert Martin. D.D., for fifty years vicar, in the course of an interview I had with him upon the attainment of his eightieth birthday, the first instalment of which appeared in the "Guardian" last Saturday.
Not what it would seem.
"It was not the great inconvenience it would seem to-day to be without gas, a public water supply and a proper drainage system. The absence of these essentials to a well-regulated community must, of course, be a very big drawback in any locality, but it is surprising how people adapt themselves to the circumstances and conditions in which they are placed.
You have an example close at hand in the parish of Rixton-cum-Glazebrook, where the inhabitants are bestirring themselves in regard to a public water supply."
Water and Gas Big Boons.
If my memory serves me right, there was nothing like the same agitation in Irlam for a public water or gas supply. They seemed to come in the natural order of things - water first, then gas light. I well remember we had a very good well at the vicarage, and what seemed almost an inexhaustible supply of good water.
The farmers would come off the Moss with their churns and carts and take supplies to last them a day or longer. There were no wells at all on the moss. There was another good well down Fairhill, but that at the Vicarage was the most popular.
There were only 2,700 people in Irlam and Cadishead - farmers and their labourers and fustian cutters. And there were many good-hearted folk among them, too.
A big advancement has been made upon those days in many respects. You don't see the womenfolk to-day carrying water in buckets - one in each hand, and occasionally a pail on the head. This task devolved more upon the women than the men: and the supply of good water, always ready to hand, by the Manchester Corporation has been and is to-day an inestimable boon.
Drudgery Days Disappear.
"Washing days" are not the drudgery days they used to be. The water we get to-day is both better for drinking purposes, as well as washing. The present generation of women folk do not realise what their mothers and grandmothers endured.
There is more truth in the statement than appears on the surface when it is made as it often is by a grandmother or mother, to her daughter or granddaughter, "that women to-day don't know they are born." It simply means that the lot of women is much easier than it used to be, even in the discharges of ordinary domestic duties. And it is perfectly true.
How many women, for example, would like to go back to the days of carrying water, candle and oil lamps? Why, to-day washing, ironing and sewing are delightful tasks compared with what they used to be, in hard water and poor flickering lights.
No, the "good old days" have very little to commend them, except, perhaps, greater simplicity, fewer wants and less bustle and excitement than to-day.
"Dark" Days But Happiness and Contentment.
For the most part, people were happy and contented, but education was sadly lacking. There were not so many accidents in the "dark" days. They were dark days in a dual sense. It was common practice for folks to carry candle lamps after nightfall. They were not very serviceable in rough, windy weather, but serious personal collisions were rare.
Liverpool Road was more like a long country lane with high hedges and ditches on both sides, and stretches of cobble stones here and there, and traversed by farmers carts and an occasional vehicle from Manchester or Liverpool.
The mail coach also passed through morning and night between the two cities. But contrast this with the busy thoroughfare to-day. Motor vehicles, of course, were unheard of. The advent of the bicycle even caused quite a commotion - first the old-fashioned velocipede, and later the safety bicycle. What a development had taken place in transport!
There are few farmers to-day who have not their own motor-lorry for conveying produce to market. The horse is being slowly but, it would seem surely elbowed off the road altogether. There is even much ploughing done now in the district by motor-plough.
Advent of the Railway: One of the First Passengers.
The advent of the railway has facilitated travelling a great deal. Though it was in July, 1866, that an Act of Parliament was passed to construct a railway 36 and a half miles in length from Cornbrook to Garston, through Irlam, being afterwards extended from Cornbrook to Manchester Central and from Timperley to Glazebrook. Dr. Martin well remembers travelling on this first train from Irlam station accompanied by the late Mr. James Platt, who built and resided at "Moorfield," and was one of his first churchwardens.
Harris's bus which ran between Hollins Green and Patricroft was well patronised. Mr. Harris was his own driver, and a rather comical man he was too. He drove a pair of horses sometimes three at week-ends and they were by no means thoroughbreds. He was a careful driver and I cannot recall any serious accident ever taking place, though the state of the road was anything but conductive to safe vehicular travelling.
When the "Packet" Used to Sail.
Then there was the "packet" on the old river which I am not as familiar with. I often utilised Harris's coach for the journey to Patricroft. The "packet" was drawn by two horses, and there were regular daily sailing between Howley Wharf, Warrington and Old Bailey, Manchester. It was boarded at Jack's Lock, Irlam, which was located somewhere near where the Steelwork's offices are to-day.
It was a long journey from Irlam to Manchester, occupying something like four hours. Every first of May was a big day for the "Packet." The horses were gaily caparisoned and the boat too was nicely decorated and people used to flock to Jack's Lock to see the decorations.
I cannot think there was a Royal Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in those days, for the drivers used to whip the horses unmercifully sometimes, and they were anything but choice in their vocabulary.
Education Facilities.
The Endowed School, Irlam, and the Wesleyan School, Cadishead, were the only public elementary schools. Boys and girls used to come long distances to the Endowed School. Parents did not think as much then as they do to-day in sending their children long distances to school.
Many old Cadisheadites, as well as Irlamites, will revere the memory of the late Mr. Joshua Jones, who was one of the finest schoolmasters of his day. The late Mr. Adam Gatenby was schoolmaster at the Wesleyan school, Cadishead, and Mr. Gatenby and I were always the best of friends.
There was a boarding school at the rear of Longfield Lodge, kept by the late Mr. Charles Garlick, who served the parish as Guardian for many years, and whom I succeeded.
Service as a Poor Law Guardian.
The Rev. Dr. Martin served a number of years as local representative on the Board of Guardians for the Barton-upon-Irwell Union, and was chairman of the Rural Sanitary Authority when the main drainage scheme for Irlam and Cadishead was decided upon and carried out.
This phase of public service appealed to him more than representation on the District Council, though there is no department of the local government or life of the community in which the venerable retired vicar has not taken his due share.
In fact, 50 years of his life have been bound up with the progress and development of the locality which he has done so much to mould socially, morally, and spiritually.
More to follow.
Arty thought it would be comical to dress up in Dory's clothes today!
ODC-Comical
123/365: The 2015 Edition
CARL BARKS
Walt Disney's Comics and Stories 309
Carl Barks (March 27, 1901 – August 25, 2000) was an American Disney Studio illustrator and comic book creator, who invented Duckburg and many of its inhabitants, such as Scrooge McDuck (1947), Gladstone Gander (1948), the Beagle Boys (1951), The Junior Woodchucks (1951), Gyro Gearloose (1952), Cornelius Coot (1952), Flintheart Glomgold (1956), John D. Rockerduck (1961) and Magica De Spell (1961). The quality of his scripts and drawings earned him the nicknames The Duck Man and The Good Duck Artist. Writer-artist Will Eisner called him "the Hans Christian Andersen of comic books."[1]
In 1987, Barks was one of the three inaugural inductees of the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.
Professional artist
At the same time Barks had started thinking about turning a hobby that he always enjoyed into a profession: that of drawing. Since his early childhood he spent his free time by drawing on any material he could find. He had attempted to improve his style by copying the drawings of his favorite comic strip artists from the newspapers where he could find them. As he later said, he wanted to create his own facial expressions, figures and comical situations in his drawings but wanted to study the master comic artists' use of the pen and their use of color and shading.
Among his early favorites were Winsor McCay (mostly known for Little Nemo) and Frederick Burr Opper (mostly known for Happy Hooligan) but he would later study any style that managed to draw his attention.
At 16 he was mostly self-taught but at this point he decided to take some lessons through correspondence. He only followed the first four lessons and then had to stop because his working left him with little free time. But as he later said, the lessons proved very useful in improving his style.
By December 1918, he left his father's home to attempt to find a job in San Francisco, California. He worked for a while in a small publishing house while attempting to sell his drawings to newspapers and other printed material with little success.
Disney
In November 1935, when he learned that Walt Disney was seeking more artists for his Studio, Barks decided to apply. He was approved for a try-out which entailed a move to Los Angeles, California. He was one of two in his class of trainees who was hired. His starting salary was 20 dollars a week. He started at Disney Studios in 1935, more than a year after the debut of Donald Duck on June 9, 1934 in the short animated film The Wise Little Hen.
Barks initially worked as an inbetweener. This involved being teamed and supervised by one of the head animators who did the key poses of character action (often known as extremes) for which the inbetweeners did the drawings between the extremes to create the illusion of movement. While an inbetweener, Barks submitted gag ideas for cartoon story lines being developed and showed such a knack for creating comical situations that by 1937 he was transferred to the story department. His first story sale was the climax of Modern Inventions, for a sequence where a robot barber chair gives Donald Duck a haircut on his butt.
In 1937 when Donald Duck became the star of his own series of cartoons instead of co-starring with Mickey Mouse and Goofy as previously, a new unit of storymen and animators was created devoted solely to this series. Though he originally just contributed gag ideas to some duck cartoons by 1937 Barks was (principally with partner Jack Hannah) originating story ideas that were storyboarded and (if approved by Walt) put into production. He collaborated on such cartoons as Donald's Nephews (1938), Donald's Cousin Gus (1939), Mr. Duck Steps Out (1940),Timber (1941), The Vanishing Private (1942) and The Plastics Inventor (1944).
Unhappy at the emerging wartime working conditions at Disney plus bothered by ongoing sinus problems caused by the studio's air conditioning, Barks quit in 1942. Shortly before quitting, he moonlighted as a comic book artist, contributing half the artwork for a one-shot comic book (the other half of the art being done by story partner Jack Hannah) titled Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold. This 64-page story was adapted by Donald Duck comic strip writer Bob Karp from an unproduced feature, and published in October 1942 in [Dell] Four Color Comics #9. It was the first Donald Duck story originally produced for an American comic book and also the first involving Donald and his nephews in a treasure hunting expedition, in this case for the treasure of Henry Morgan. Barks would later use the treasure hunting theme in many of his stories. This actually was not his first work in comics, as earlier the same year Barks along with Hannah and fellow storyman Nick George scripted Pluto Saves the Ship, which was among the first original Disney comic book stories published in the United States.
After quitting the Studio, Barks relocated to the Hemet/San Jacinto area in the semi-desert inland empire region east of Los Angeles where he hoped to start a chicken farm.
When asked which of his stories was a favorite in several interviews Barks cited the ten-pager in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #146 (Nov. 1952) in which Donald tells the story of the chain of unfortunate events that took place when he owned a chicken farm in a town which subsequently was re-named Omelet. Likely one reason it was a favorite is that it was inspired by Barks' own experiences in the poultry business.
But to earn a living in the meantime he inquired whether Western Publishing, which had published Pirate Gold, had any need for artists for Donald Duck comic book stories. He was immediately assigned to illustrate the script for a ten-page Donald Duck story for the monthly Walt Disney's Comics and Stories. At the publisher's invitation he revised the storyline and the improvements impressed the editor sufficiently to invite Barks try his hand at contributing both the script and the artwork of his follow-up story. This set the pattern for Barks' career in that (with rare exceptions) he provided art (pencil, inking, solid blacks and lettering) and scripting for his stories.
The Victory Garden, that initial ten-page story published in April, 1943 was the first of about 500 stories featuring the Disney ducks Barks would produce for Western Publishing over the next three decades, well into his purported retirement. These can be mostly divided into two categories:
Ten-pagers, comedic Donald Duck stories that were the lead for the monthly flagship title Walt Disney's Comics and Stories, whose circulation peaked in the mid-1950s at 3 million copies sold a month.
Humorous adventure stories, usually 24-32 pages in length. In the 1940s these were one-shots in the Four Color series (issued 4-6 times a year) that starred Donald and his nephews. From the early 1950s Barks undertook the quarterly adventures of Uncle Scrooge and the duck clan in Scrooge's own title.
He surrounded Donald Duck and nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie with a cast of eccentric and colorful characters, such as the aforementioned Scrooge McDuck, the wealthiest duck in the world; Gladstone Gander, Donald's obscenely lucky cousin; inventor Gyro Gearloose; the persistent Beagle Boys; the sorceress Magica De Spell; Scrooge's rivals Flintheart Glomgold and John D. Rockerduck; Daisy's nieces April, May and June; Donald's neighbor Jones, and The Junior Woodchucks organization.
People who work for Disney generally do so in relative anonymity; the stories only carry Walt Disney's name and (sometimes) a short identification number. Prior to 1960, the creator of these stories remained a mystery to his readers. However, many readers recognized Barks' work and drawing style, and began to call him the Good Duck Artist, a label which stuck even after his true identity was discovered by John and Bill Spicer in 1959. After Barks received a 1960 visit from Bill and John Spicer and Ron Leonard, he was no longer anonymous, as his name soon became known to his readers.[2]
Barks stories (whether humorous adventures or domestic comedies) often exhibited a wry, dark irony born of hard experience. The 10 pagers showcased Donald as everyman, struggling against the cruel bumps and bruises of everyday life with the nephews often acting as a Greek chorus commenting on the unfolding disasters Donald wrought upon himself. Yet while seemingly defeatist in tone, the humanity of the characters shines through in their persistence despite the obstacles. These stories found popularity not only among young children but adults as well. Despite the fact that Barks had done little traveling his adventure stories often had the duck clan globe trotting to the most remote or spectacular of places. This allowed Barks to indulge his penchant for elaborate backgrounds that hinted at his thwarted ambitions of doing realistic stories in the vein of Hal Foster's Prince Valiant.
Carl Barks retired in 1966 but was persuaded by editor Chase Craig to script stories for Western. The last new comic book story drawn by Carl Barks was a Daisy Duck tale ("The Dainty Daredevil") published in Walt Disney Comics Digest issue 5 (Nov. 1968). When bibliographer Michael Barrier asked Barks about why he drew it, Barks' vague recollection was no one was available and he was asked to do it as a favor by editor Chase Craig.
He wrote one Uncle Scrooge story, three Donald Duck stories and from 1970-1974 was the main writer for the Junior Woodchucks comic book (issues 6 through 25). The latter included environmental themes that Barks first explored in 1957 ["Land of the Pygmy Indians", Uncle Scrooge #18]. Barks also sold a few sketches to Western that were redrawn as covers. For a time the Barkses lived in Goleta, California before returning to the Inland Empire by moving to Temecula.
To make a little extra money beyond what his pension and scripting earnings brought in, Barks started doing oil paintings to sell at the local art shows he and Garé exhibited at. Subjects included humorous depictions of life on the farm and portraits of Native American princesses. These skillfully rendering paintings encouraged fan Glenn Bray to ask Barks if he could commission a painting of the ducks ("A Tall Ship and a Star to Steer Her By", taken from the cover of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #108 by Barks). This prompted Barks to contact George Sherman at Disney's Publications Department to request permission to produce and sell oil paintings of scenes from his stories. In July 1971 Barks was granted a royalty-free license by Disney.[3] When word spread that Barks was taking commissions from those interested in purchasing an oil of the ducks, much to his astonishment the response quickly outstripped what he reasonably could produce in the next few years.
When Barks expressed dismay at coping with the backlog of orders he faced, fan/dealers Bruce Hamilton and Russ Cochran suggested Barks instead auction his paintings at conventions and via Cochran's catalog Graphic Gallery. By September 1974 Barks had discontinued taking commissions.[4]
At Boston's NewCon convention, in October 1975, the first Carl Barks oil painting auctioned at a comic book convention ("She Was Spangled and Flashy") sold for $2,500. Subsequent offerings saw an escalation in the prices realized. The buyer of this painting, Jerry Osborne, quickly became one of Barks' close friends. Barks even painted Osborne into the scene of his 1976 "July Fourth in Duckburg." Jerry Osborne delivered the eulogy at Barks' funeral at Grants Pass, Oregon.[citation needed]
In 1976, Barks and Garé went to Boston for the NewCon show, their first comic convention appearance. Among the other attendees was famed Little Lulu comic book scripter John Stanley; despite both having worked for Western Publishing this was the first time they met. The highlight of the convention was the auctioning of what was to that time the largest duck oil painting Barks had done, "July Fourth in Duckburg", which included depictions of several prominent Barks fans and collectors. It sold for a then record high amount: $6,400.
Soon thereafter a fan sold unauthorized prints of some of the Scrooge McDuck paintings, leading Disney to withdraw permission for further paintings. To meet demand for new work Barks embarked on a series of paintings of non-Disney ducks and fantasy subjects such as Beowulf and Xerxes. These were eventually collected in the limited-edition book Animal Quackers.
As the result of heroic efforts by Star Wars producer Gary Kurtz and screenwriter Edward Summer, Disney relented and in 1981, allowed Barks to do a now seminal oil painting called "Wanderers of Wonderlands" for a breakthrough limited edition book entitled Uncle Scrooge McDuck: His Life and Times. The book collected 11 classic Barks stories of Uncle Scrooge colored by artist Peter Ledger along with a new Scrooge story by Barks done storybook style with watercolor illustrations, "Go Slowly, Sands of Time". After being turned down by every major publisher in New York City, Kurtz and Summer published the book through Celestial Arts, which Kurtz acquired partly for this purpose. The book went on to become the model for virtually every important collection of comic book stories. It was the first book of its kind ever reviewed in Time Magazine and subsequently in Newsweek, and the first book review in Time Magazine with large color illustrations.
In 1977 and 1982, Barks attended the San Diego Comic Con. As with his appearance in Boston, the response to his presence was overwhelming, with long lines of fans waiting to meet Barks and get his autograph.
In 1981, Bruce Hamilton and Russ Cochran, two long-time Disney comics fans, decided to combine forces to bring greater recognition to the works of Carl Barks. Their first efforts went into establishing Another Rainbow Publishing, the banner under which they produced and issued the award-winning book, "The Fine Art of Walt Disney´s Donald Duck by Carl Barks", a comprehensive collection of the Disney duck paintings of this artist and storyteller. Not long after, the company began producing fine art lithographs of many of these paintings, in strictly limited editions, all signed by Barks, who eventually produced many original works for the series.
In 1983 Another Rainbow took up the daunting task of collecting the entire Disney comic book ouvré of Barks—over 500 stories in all—in the ten-set, thirty-volume Carl Barks Library. These oversized hardbound volumes reproduced Barks´ pages in pristine black and white line art, as close as possible to the way he would originally drawn them, and included mountains of special features, articles, reminiscences, interviews, storyboards, critiques, and more than a few surprises. This monumental project was finally completed in mid-1990.
In 1985 a new division was founded, Gladstone Publishing, which took up the then-dormant Disney comic book license. Gladstone introduced a whole new generation of Disney comic book readers to the wondrous storytelling of such luminaries as Barks, Paul Murry, and Floyd Gottfredson, as well as presenting the first works of modern Disney comics masters Don Rosa and William Van Horn. Seven years after Gladstone's founding, the Carl Barks Library was revived as full-color, high-quality squarebound comic albums (including the first-ever Carl Barks trading cards) - the Carl Barks Library in Color.
Barks relocated one last time to Grants Pass, Oregon near where he grew up, partly at the urging of friend and Broom Hilda artist Russell Myers, who lived in the area. The move also was motivated, Barks stated in another famous quip, by Temecula being too close to Disneyland and thus facilitating a growing torrent of drop-in visits by vacationing fans. In this period Barks made only one public appearance, at a comic book shop near Grants Pass.
From 1993 to 1998, Barks' career was managed by the "Carl Barks Studio" (Bill Grandey and Kathy Morby—They had sold Barks original art since 1979). This involved numerous art projects and activities, including a tour of 11 European countries in 1994, Iceland being the first foreign country he ever visited. Barks appeared at the first of many Disneyana conventions in 1993. Silk screen prints of paintings along with high-end art objects (such as original water colors, bronze figurines and ceramic tiles) were produced based on designs by Barks.
During the summer of 1994 and until his death, Carl Barks & his studio personally assigned Peter Reichelt, a museum exhibition producer from Mannheim, Germany, as his agent for Europe. Publisher "Edition 313" put out numerous lithographs. In 1997, tensions between Barks and the Studio eventually resulted in a lawsuit that was settled with an agreement that included the disbanding of the Studio. Barks never traveled to make another Disney appearance. He was represented by Rev. Ed Bergen, as he completed a final project. Gerry Tank and Jim Mitchell were to assist Barks in his final years.
During his Carl Barks Studio years, Barks created two more stories: the script for the final Uncle Scrooge story "Horsing Around with History", which was first published in Denmark in 1994 with Bill Van Horn art. The Barks outlines for Barks final Donald Duck story "Somewhere in Nowhere", were first published in 1997, in Italy, with art by Pat Block.
Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein curated and organized the first solo museum-exhibition of Carl Barks. Between 1994 and 1998 the retrospective was shown in ten European museums and seen by more than 400,000 visitors.
At the same time in spring 1994, Reichelt and Ina Brockmann designed a special museum exhibition tour about Barks' life and work. Also represented for the first time at this exhibition were Disney artists Al Taliaferro and Floyd Gottfredson. Since 1995, more than 500,000 visitors have attended the shows in Europe.
Reichelt also translated the Michael Barrier Barks biography into German and published it in 1994.
Steven Spielberg and George Lucas have acknowledged that the rolling-boulder booby trap in the opening scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark was inspired by the 1954 Carl Barks Uncle Scrooge adventure "The Seven Cities of Cibola" (Uncle Scrooge #7). Lucas and Spielberg have also said that some of Barks's stories about space travel and the depiction of aliens had an influence on them. Lucas wrote the foreword to the 1982 Uncle Scrooge McDuck: His Life and Times. In it he calls Barks’s stories "cinematic" and "a priceless part of our literary heritage".
Carl Barks has spent most of his life drawing, illustrating, painting and telling stories about ducks. He was editor and artist for the Calgary Eyeopener until he joined the Disney Studio in 1935. Barks wrote and drew thirty six early Donald Duck cartoons. Walt Disney was supervisor to his "duck unit". In 1942 he dedicated himself to the art form that made him famous: writing comics books and drawing them. Carl became the preeminent Disney comic book artist and remains so to this day. In 1996 his timeless work has been reprinted worldwide. He is known as the father of Donald Duck as well as the creator of the miserly Uncle Scrooge. Duckburg and most of the duck clan owe their existence to his pen and paintbrush. In 1968 Carl began a new career capturing the duck family in oil paintings. Many Disney Bark's products have been created from his work including silk-screens, lithographs, bronze and porcelain figurines. At 93 Barks went on an eleven country museum tour with his oil paintings. From Iceland to Poland forty of his paintings were received to rave reviews and huge crowds. In Denmark the 3rd grade was let out to meet Barks at the boat. When asked what he would most like to be remembered for he answers "storytelling."
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Young and old alike will be fascinated by the incredible LEGO models throughout the park. From comical camels to fearsome fire-breathing dragons, world landmarks to musical pirates, it's amazing what can be built with LEGO bricks - nearly 55 million of them!
LEGO Star Wars Miniland Experience - Take a trip to a galaxy far, far away at the UK’s only indoor LEGO® Star Wars™ Miniland Experience at the LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort. Enjoy seven of the most famous scenes from the six live-action Star Wars movies, as well as a scene from the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars™ all made out of 1.5 million LEGO® bricks built in 1:20 scale. Follow the chronological path through the Star Wars timeline and retrace the major events of the beloved Saga featuring 2,000 LEGO® models, authentic sounds and lighting effects in the ultimate LEGO® Star Wars experience. Open March 2012.
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Be prepared to laugh as excitedly as your children when you enter one of the new LEGOLAND Windsor Resort Hotel’s themed rooms.
Young and old alike will be fascinated by the incredible LEGO models throughout the park. From comical camels to fearsome fire-breathing dragons, world landmarks to musical pirates, it's amazing what can be built with LEGO bricks - nearly 55 million of them!
LEGO Star Wars Miniland Experience - Take a trip to a galaxy far, far away at the UK’s only indoor LEGO® Star Wars™ Miniland Experience at the LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort. Enjoy seven of the most famous scenes from the six live-action Star Wars movies, as well as a scene from the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars™ all made out of 1.5 million LEGO® bricks built in 1:20 scale. Follow the chronological path through the Star Wars timeline and retrace the major events of the beloved Saga featuring 2,000 LEGO® models, authentic sounds and lighting effects in the ultimate LEGO® Star Wars experience. Open March 2012.
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From watching Buzzards above the moors near Harden Moss to following a heron on the canal with a few comical goats thrown in I didn't have a bad weekend really. The Buzzards seemed to appear out of nowhere as usual, moving fast and flying high they took a bit of tracking. The heron on the other hand took an hour to walk from the other side of the reservoir to a point close to me. it stopped at an awkward angle for me to photograph it without me moving and being seen. It then did a short flight to the canal, I moved and sat on a parapet wall above a deep drop in to a canal lock. The heron skipped over the canal and came so close that I had to lean back as far as I could without actually moving and being seen just to get the bird in the frame. At times I could only get partial shots. It them flew past me, almost brushing me and landed nearby on the towpath. Fortunately on this Saturday evening it was quiet and as it walked along the towpath I shadowed it at a distance, it flew in to the canal and was eventually frightened off by dogs. My arms were killing me I'd been holding the lens and camera in front of me non stop for an hour, fighting the cramp in my left arm. The things we do.
The goats on the wall top were a bit of a distraction as I followed three Buzzards messing around in a field near a farm in the afternoon and I snatched a few shots, the one behind was headbutting the others from behind to make them keep moving, very comical.
Today's uploads are all from the archive - recent scans from my slide collection. This Hoary Marmot lived near Helen Lake, in Banff National Park, Alberta. I photographed it on one of my very last rolls of Kodachrome, before switching over to the then new Fujichrome emulsions.
Why do we find rodents comical? I keep wondering. This one watched me set up my tripod, down on my knees to get an eye level view, and then let out a single, long, shrill, piercing whistle. At that instant I released the shutter. The whistle is a warning cry... maybe it didn't want its picture taken that day. 300 mm lens.
Scanned from the original Kodachrome 64 slide, August 1991.
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Young and old alike will be fascinated by the incredible LEGO models throughout the park. From comical camels to fearsome fire-breathing dragons, world landmarks to musical pirates, it's amazing what can be built with LEGO bricks - nearly 55 million of them!
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Thomas James Rodoni was born in 1882 at Hotham East, Victoria, to Swiss and Irish parents. While living in Sydney in August 1914 as a man of 31, Rodoni joined the first Australian Imperial Force that would engage in the
Great War: the Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Force.
A week after enlisting, Rodoni’s company embarked on the HMAS Berrima and sailed
to German New Guinea among a fleet with orders to seize two wireless stations and to disable the German colonies there.
Rodoni’s unofficial photographs – many of them “candid” shots, captured in the moment – are a rare glimpse of this pivotal moment in Australia’s
history. He has documented the energetic atmosphere of prewar Sydney and its surrounds, from civilian and military marches to battleships docked in Sydney Harbour, with accompanying crowds of people brought together for these special events. His camera voyaged with him on the expedition to
the Pacific region, taking images both from the ship’s deck and then again on dry land after disembarking.
Rodoni was stationed in New Guinea for five months with the AN&MEF after the successful capture of territory from the German forces. His striking
images are testament to his ease with the camera, and the ease of his fellow servicemen around this avid amateur photographer. He used his camera to record daily events and significant moments in the expedition, and made several group portraits of the officers and soldiers in his company. Yet his images also suggest a genuine curiosity for the foreign people and places where he was stationed, and a love of the photographic medium in which
he practiced during this early period of the war.
After leaving New Guinea with the AN&MEF and returning home to Australia in January 1915, Rodoni left the force to work in a Small Arms Factory
manufacturing munitions for the war. He soon married and settled in Newcastle with his wife, Catherine Annie Wilson, and had four children:
Thomas, Mary, Jim and William (Bill).
The wider collection of glass plate negatives – over 600 in total and with many views of Newcastle and its surrounds is an incredible legacy to Thomas Rodoni and his family.
Rodoni died in 1956 as a result of a car accident in Waratah, Newcastle.
The original negatives are held in Cultural Collections at the Auchmuty Library, University of Newcastle (Australia).
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"I'm a big boy now, aren't I, Mama?"
No, wee one, not by a long shot. :)
They're the cutest little bundles & quite comical - aren't all baby animals though? If you look on the outline of his back, you can see the longer black guard hairs that looks like a blue-black haze against the mother's fur. When I saw it on the camera's screen, I had wondered why it looked out of focus - just adorable baby fuzziness!
Sweet Mama's kits are more nervous than Gertrude's. I think it might be from a heightened sense of fear of whatever was the reason for the loss of her other two kits. I've never had any kits quite so scared & nervous as these. If Gertie's kits see me, they'll come around the door handle, leaning on it, trying to look in or do their best to peer into the kitchen window. It's sort of "Hey, it's the Lady! Maybe she has some grapes or a cookie for us!"
But these little guys? It's more like "Runnn!! It's the Scary Monster!!" Sometimes I can sneak up quietly to watch them but if one happens to catch a glimpse of me, he'll for a fraction of a second seem startled & then tear off to safety. The other two will either look up, see me & race off to join their sibling. Or just as often, if one runs, the other two will follow no matter if they see me or not. Sweet Mama will watch them run off but stay. Maybe she's puzzled at their fear.
There is sad news about her though which I sort of hate to share.
A few days back, she was limping. She wouldn't put any weight on her right front paw & I thought maybe it was a minor thing. But she still can't put weight on it & doesn't use it to pick up any food either. I've taken lots of photos of her paw & checked them over carefully. There's a minor mark on the wrist section but that's all & no blood or crusting. I really hope she hasn't broken anything. There's nothing I can do as there are no rehab places that care for raccoons here except a long way off on Vancouver Island. Nor could I try to get her to help as it would mean the kits would be left alone - far far too young & helpless. So for now, I'm making sure she & her kits are provided enough food & hope it mends.
And that horrible problem some of the raccoons have had with their eye (Gertrude's got one bad eye) is now developing in Sweet Mama too. All my hunting for information about raccoon eye diseases, parasites that affect the eyes or anything else has turned up a blank. I've got one last place to check. There's a wildlife rescue/rehab centre in Nova Scotia that had a TV non-fiction series done about it. In conjunction with this centre, NS first accredited wildlife veterinary hospital opened recently. The hospital's vet was featured in a number of the shows. They've had many raccoons, mostly orphaned kits, pass through this centre so I'm going to email them with my concerns & let them know I have clear photos of the different raccoons' eyes. I hope they can tell me something.
Right now, I'm more concerned wit Sweet Mama's injured paw. The loss of sight, even if in both eyes, though sad, isn't a major concern as sight isn't as important to them as touch, smell & hearing. When & if I hear from this centre about their eye problems, I'll post about it.
M4H - "Raw":
The comical thing here is that we nearly had to eat it raw. While this was roasting in the oven, our power went out (for the third time in 2 weeks...so aggravating!). Thankfully, we have nice neighbors who let us use theirs. I mean, we HAVE to get the bacon crisp, people! BTW...this was a really great recipe...and that bacon smells as good raw as it does cooked. lol.
Young and old alike will be fascinated by the incredible LEGO models throughout the park. From comical camels to fearsome fire-breathing dragons, world landmarks to musical pirates, it's amazing what can be built with LEGO bricks - nearly 55 million of them!
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Staying in a fully LEGO themed hotel is a truly unforgettable experience you really can't get anywhere else...open your curtains and you're right in the heart of LEGOLAND!
Whether you stay and explore the park or stay on a room only basis, the Resort Hotel promises to be a short break paradise for any LEGO fan!
Be prepared to laugh as excitedly as your children when you enter one of the new LEGOLAND Windsor Resort Hotel’s themed rooms.
Young and old alike will be fascinated by the incredible LEGO models throughout the park. From comical camels to fearsome fire-breathing dragons, world landmarks to musical pirates, it's amazing what can be built with LEGO bricks - nearly 55 million of them!
LEGO Star Wars Miniland Experience - Take a trip to a galaxy far, far away at the UK’s only indoor LEGO® Star Wars™ Miniland Experience at the LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort. Enjoy seven of the most famous scenes from the six live-action Star Wars movies, as well as a scene from the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars™ all made out of 1.5 million LEGO® bricks built in 1:20 scale. Follow the chronological path through the Star Wars timeline and retrace the major events of the beloved Saga featuring 2,000 LEGO® models, authentic sounds and lighting effects in the ultimate LEGO® Star Wars experience. Open March 2012.
Staying in a fully LEGO themed hotel is a truly unforgettable experience you really can't get anywhere else...open your curtains and you're right in the heart of LEGOLAND!
Whether you stay and explore the park or stay on a room only basis, the Resort Hotel promises to be a short break paradise for any LEGO fan!
Be prepared to laugh as excitedly as your children when you enter one of the new LEGOLAND Windsor Resort Hotel’s themed rooms.
Young and old alike will be fascinated by the incredible LEGO models throughout the park. From comical camels to fearsome fire-breathing dragons, world landmarks to musical pirates, it's amazing what can be built with LEGO bricks - nearly 55 million of them!
LEGO Star Wars Miniland Experience - Take a trip to a galaxy far, far away at the UK’s only indoor LEGO® Star Wars™ Miniland Experience at the LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort. Enjoy seven of the most famous scenes from the six live-action Star Wars movies, as well as a scene from the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars™ all made out of 1.5 million LEGO® bricks built in 1:20 scale. Follow the chronological path through the Star Wars timeline and retrace the major events of the beloved Saga featuring 2,000 LEGO® models, authentic sounds and lighting effects in the ultimate LEGO® Star Wars experience. Open March 2012.
Staying in a fully LEGO themed hotel is a truly unforgettable experience you really can't get anywhere else...open your curtains and you're right in the heart of LEGOLAND!
Whether you stay and explore the park or stay on a room only basis, the Resort Hotel promises to be a short break paradise for any LEGO fan!
Be prepared to laugh as excitedly as your children when you enter one of the new LEGOLAND Windsor Resort Hotel’s themed rooms.
Young and old alike will be fascinated by the incredible LEGO models throughout the park. From comical camels to fearsome fire-breathing dragons, world landmarks to musical pirates, it's amazing what can be built with LEGO bricks - nearly 55 million of them!
LEGO Star Wars Miniland Experience - Take a trip to a galaxy far, far away at the UK’s only indoor LEGO® Star Wars™ Miniland Experience at the LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort. Enjoy seven of the most famous scenes from the six live-action Star Wars movies, as well as a scene from the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars™ all made out of 1.5 million LEGO® bricks built in 1:20 scale. Follow the chronological path through the Star Wars timeline and retrace the major events of the beloved Saga featuring 2,000 LEGO® models, authentic sounds and lighting effects in the ultimate LEGO® Star Wars experience. Open March 2012.
Staying in a fully LEGO themed hotel is a truly unforgettable experience you really can't get anywhere else...open your curtains and you're right in the heart of LEGOLAND!
Whether you stay and explore the park or stay on a room only basis, the Resort Hotel promises to be a short break paradise for any LEGO fan!
Be prepared to laugh as excitedly as your children when you enter one of the new LEGOLAND Windsor Resort Hotel’s themed rooms.
Young and old alike will be fascinated by the incredible LEGO models throughout the park. From comical camels to fearsome fire-breathing dragons, world landmarks to musical pirates, it's amazing what can be built with LEGO bricks - nearly 55 million of them!
LEGO Star Wars Miniland Experience - Take a trip to a galaxy far, far away at the UK’s only indoor LEGO® Star Wars™ Miniland Experience at the LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort. Enjoy seven of the most famous scenes from the six live-action Star Wars movies, as well as a scene from the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars™ all made out of 1.5 million LEGO® bricks built in 1:20 scale. Follow the chronological path through the Star Wars timeline and retrace the major events of the beloved Saga featuring 2,000 LEGO® models, authentic sounds and lighting effects in the ultimate LEGO® Star Wars experience. Open March 2012.
Staying in a fully LEGO themed hotel is a truly unforgettable experience you really can't get anywhere else...open your curtains and you're right in the heart of LEGOLAND!
Whether you stay and explore the park or stay on a room only basis, the Resort Hotel promises to be a short break paradise for any LEGO fan!
Be prepared to laugh as excitedly as your children when you enter one of the new LEGOLAND Windsor Resort Hotel’s themed rooms.
It was almost comical how Aaron and I were doing things to not disturb or spook this Screech Owl. When it came down to it....it really did'nt even bat its eyelashes. These little Owls are absolutely beautiful....now all i need is a red phase!
Young and old alike will be fascinated by the incredible LEGO models throughout the park. From comical camels to fearsome fire-breathing dragons, world landmarks to musical pirates, it's amazing what can be built with LEGO bricks - nearly 55 million of them!
LEGO Star Wars Miniland Experience - Take a trip to a galaxy far, far away at the UK’s only indoor LEGO® Star Wars™ Miniland Experience at the LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort. Enjoy seven of the most famous scenes from the six live-action Star Wars movies, as well as a scene from the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars™ all made out of 1.5 million LEGO® bricks built in 1:20 scale. Follow the chronological path through the Star Wars timeline and retrace the major events of the beloved Saga featuring 2,000 LEGO® models, authentic sounds and lighting effects in the ultimate LEGO® Star Wars experience. Open March 2012.
Staying in a fully LEGO themed hotel is a truly unforgettable experience you really can't get anywhere else...open your curtains and you're right in the heart of LEGOLAND!
Whether you stay and explore the park or stay on a room only basis, the Resort Hotel promises to be a short break paradise for any LEGO fan!
Be prepared to laugh as excitedly as your children when you enter one of the new LEGOLAND Windsor Resort Hotel’s themed rooms.
French postcard. Edition Pathé Frères. Photo A. Bert.
Charles Prince (1872-1933), aka just ‘Prince’ ,was a French film actor, director and writer. He was famous for his countless comical shorts with his alter ego Rigadin.
Charles Ernest René Petitdemange - better known as Charles Prince - was born at Maisons-Laffitte (Yvelines) on 27 April 1872 – though some mention his birthplace as Petitdemange, near Paris. Prince’s father was a manufacturer of artificial silk and had planned for his son to study commerce and assist him. Prince chose otherwise. He had his theatrical debut in 1896 at the Theatre de l’Odéon in the play La Bodinière, using a first pseudonym: Seigneur. Around the turn-of-the-century Charles took the stage name of Prince and became a popular boulevard theatre star, cherished for his comic performances at the Theatre des Variétés, as in Ma Tante de Honfleur. After a decade Pathé Frères managed to hire him in 1908 to act in their films. Right from the beginning almost of his films were directed by Georges Monca, mostly for the Pathé subsidiary SCAGL (Société Cinématographique des Auteurs et Gens de Lettres). Already in 1909 Prince acted in almost 20 shorts such as a few with Mistinguett (e.g. Fleur de pavé, Michel Carré/ Albert Capellani 1909). This number greatly increased in the subsequent year 1910, when Prince introduced his character of Rigadin: ¾ of his film performances that year – over 30 films - were as Rigadin. Monca also directed all of the Rigadin shorts. While in 1911 Prince played in some 23 Rigadin comedies, 1912 was a top year with some 45 Rigadin shorts. In 1913 some Prince did some 30 Rigadin shorts and in 1914 22 ones despite the outbreak of the First World War and the temporary collapse of the French film industry then. In the early 1910s Prince/Rigadin was extremely popular throughout the world, rivalling with – the now better known - Max Linder. What both actors helped, was that they worked for Pathé, the first multinational in film history, which had a clockwork production output, massive distribution and promotion around the globe, and even its own global network of cinemas. In Germany Rigadin was known as Moritz, in Britain and the US as Whiffles, in Italy as Tartufini, in Spain as Salustiano, and in Russia as Prenz. Prince/Rigadin had a remarkable face with a curling lip showing his teeth and an upturned nose, which he even mocked himself in Le Nez de Rigadin (1911).
As Rigadin, Prince often played the bourgeois who gets in trouble with authorities or with love interests, because of his timidity and clumsiness. Just like Prince’s previous stage performances, the Rigadin comedies thus mocked pre-war bourgeois drama and their main topic of amour, even if Prince himself occasionally acted in these bourgeois dramas as well. In contrast to the previous anarchic comedy at Pathé and other companies, Rigadin was inspired by vaudeville and light stage comedy, and so Prince’s character stuck to ‘white collar’ respectability and convention, while being pestered by mother-in-laws or his own mistresses. In Rigadin n’aime pas le vendredi 13 (1911) for instance, Rigadin has a dinner with his fiancée and her parents, but it is Friday the 13th and Rigadin is so superstitious that everything goes wrong. In La Garçonnière de Rigadin (1912) Rigadin lends his bachelor flat to his future father-in-law, not knowing ‘papa’ is going to use it for his secret rendez-vous. In contrast to Linder, Prince also made Rigadin do countless transformations in all kinds of professions, from domestic, cook, chestnut seller, poet, singer and explorer to the president of the French Republic and Napoleon. In Rigadin peintre cubiste (1912) Prince mocked avant-garde art by having Rigadin and his model wear angular clothes. In Rigadin aux Balkans (1912) Prince played a war cameraman who fakes scenes for the camera in France. During the First World War the number of Rigadin comedies went down from some 20 films in 1915, to 16 in 1916, 13 in 1917, and 11 in 1918. Still, all in all Prince must have acted in some 200 shorts as of 1908, mostly Rigadin comedies. Prince also experimented with the exchange between stage and screen. In the war revue show Nouvelle Revue, shown at the Paris Theatre Antoine in 1915, a notary Rigadin from the countryside is appalled about a film poster suggesting he has an affair with a girl and visits a Parisian cinema. There he speaks to the Rigadin on the screen, until the other turns around and starts to speak with him. When the notary tries to pursue him, he is suddenly within the film…
In all of these years, the number of films in which Prince wasn’t Rigadin was really small. As of 1913, Prince acted in long(er) features as well, mostly dramas. In 1913 he thus acted opposite Léon Bernard and Suzanne Demay in the SCAGL production Les Surprises du divorce, directed by Monca. Then followed Le Bon juge, Le Coup de fouet, Ferdinand le noceur, Le Fils à papa and Monsieur le directeur, all co-directed in 1913 by Monca and Prince himself. Subsequent long films co-directed by Prince were in 1914 Les Trente millions de Gladiator, Bébé, La Famille Boléro, La Femme à papa (all co-directed by Prince) and Les Fiançés héroïques (Monca 1914), in 1915 L’Auréole de la gloire and La Main dans le sac (both by Monca), in 1916 La Mariée récalcitrante (Monca, Prince). In 1919-1921 Prince played in a few feature-lenghth comedies, again all directed by Monca, such as Les Femmes collantes (1919-1920) and Madame et son filleul (1919). One last time he played in a Rigadin short, probably mocking his own dissatisfaction or that of the spectators, as the title was Prince embêté par Rigadin (1920). By the early 1920s, though, not only the popularity of Rigadin but also that of Prince had faded, and for years Prince didn’t act in film anymore. After one last silent film in 1928 (Embrassez-moi by Robert Péguy and Max de Rieux), he did have an active career in early French sound cinema between 1930 and 1933, but now in supporting roles, as in Maurice Tourneur’s Partir (1931) and Pierre Colombier’s Sa Meilleure cliente (1932), starring Elvire Popesco and René Lefèvre. Prince died at Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (Val-de-Marne) on 17 July 1933. Unfortunately his tomb was destroyed.
In 1900 Prince was married to vaudeville and film actress Miss (Aimée) Campton (1882-1930), whose original name was Emily Strahan Cager. They had one daughter Renée (1901-1993). In 1914 Prince married his second wife Gabrielle (1883-1974). Campton was the cousin of Paul Derval, director of the Folies-Bergères. Prince's great-grandson is French film director Cris Ubermann.
Sources: IMDB, French and English Wikipedia, Bibliothèque du Film, Richard Abel, The Ciné Goes to Town, The Bioscope (thebioscope.net/2007/09/07/slapstick-european-style-part-1/), Eva Krivanec (in the volume Theatre und Medien/Theatre and the Media), Adrien Vernardin (Le Musée du Music-Hall), various obituaries in newspapers.
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Date Taken: February 23rd, 2024
Subdivision: CPKC North Toronto Sub
Train ID: CPKC 100 (Port Coquitlam, BC - Toronto, ON)
Consist: CP 9773 (AC4400CW), CP 62xx (SD60), CP 85xx (AC4400CW)
Nicht meine Art von Puzzles, eigentlich - ich hatte wohl gerade gar nichts mehr zum Legen, als ich das vor 10 Jahren kaufte. Foto nicht von mir - leider habe ich früher keine Fotos gemacht, bevor ich sie verkaufte.
Deutscher Titel: Land unter. Verkauft bei ricardo.ch für Fr. 25.--! (Neupreis war CHF 16.--)
February 22, 1999.
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Sorry, not a very sharp photo, it is not mine because I did not take one before I sold it for CHF 25.-- (about $ 24) - I paid CHF 16.-- when I bought it:)
2026 in IPDb meine Zeit zu bestehenden Eintrag hinzugefügt. Jetzt mal angenommen, es sei dieselbe Ausgabe.
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"I wish my town had this kind of weirdness!"
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In downtown Hazleton, Pennsylvania, on September 14th, 2020, buildings on the north side of West Broad Street (Pennsylvania Route 93), west of North Wyoming Street.
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