Posts Tagged ‘cartoons’
An Auld Alliance
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 14th November, 2008
Brilliant multi-lingual word-play in this old WWI Punch cartoon from the JISC Digitisation Programme Blog.
Mister Ed
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 7th September, 2004
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A fine fellow, Mr Ed Pinsent, and a veritable wolf in sheep’s clothing: mild-mannered archivist by day, but by night he wields a savage crayon in the battle against musical and graphical hum-drummery. Check out The Sound Projector Music Magazine and Windy Wilberforce.
Dustrial inaction
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 3rd October, 2003
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Captions are mine; lots more excellent antique office photos at Officemuseum.com.
Винни Пух
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 6th August, 2003
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Who’s this little fellow? You probably know him in a different guise: it’s Winnie The Pooh in Russian. He certainly doesn’t look much like anything out of Disney, nor the original Shepard drawings. He was created by Fyodor Khitruk in 1969 for the Soviet animation company Soyuzmultfilm in 1969. The stroies are essentially the same; [...]
Ride a white horse
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 2nd August, 2003
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Expect a neolithic day out with Max and Ira tomorrow, taking in Avebury and Stonehenge. And Oxford, which is not quite stone age, I suppose. It probably won’t be as extensive as this trip but I hope we’ll also have time to visit one of the white horses. Does anyone still make chalk horses in [...]
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