Unsold 1960 TV Pilot About Western Artist Charlie Russell Starring Fess Parker and Beverly Garland

 Via WesternsontheWeb:

"'Russell' western TV series episode starring Fess Parker, Jay C. Flippen, Paul Carr and Beverly Garland. This is the pilot episode of a suggested TV series titled Russell from about 1960. 

"... Borden Chase was hired in the early 1950s by United Artists to write a screenplay about Charles M. Russell's life. In July of 1955 United Artists announced Audie Murphy was to star as Charlie Russell. In a movie to be titled The Charles Russell Story. But the project was delayed and never happened. Then in the late 1950's or early 1960's Glenn Ford arrived in Montana scouting locations for the production and he was to star as Charlie. But again the production was stalled and never happened. So as another effort this pilot was made to try to produce a TV series about Charlie Russell. And again a production to be done about Charlie stalled out because the series was not picked up by a sponsor. So this episode never aired on television. This episode is a very fictitious story about Charlie and only has a few things in common with the real life Charles Marion Russell the Cowboy Artist. If you are interested in learning more about the Real Charles M. Russell there are several great books about the Cowboy Artist. The Charles M. Russell Book by Harold McCracken, Charles M. Russell by Frederic G. Renner, The 100 Best Illustrated Letters of Charles M. Russell by Brian W. Dippie, Charles M. Russell Printed Rarities from private collections by Larry Len Peterson, Romance Maker The Watercolors of Charles M. Russell by Rick Stewart and the Massive 400 page Charles M. Russell - Sculptor also by Rick Stewart which was a 5 year project for Rick and is an Amazing in depth look at the artists sculptor work. In this episode Charlie is very much in charge of things in real life Charlie was very young during his days as a cowboy and was called Kid Russell. But true to life Russell is a night herder. Also true to life Charlie draws his artwork on everything. Straying from reality to create excitement the episode makes Charlie a fast gun, Charlie was never known to be a fast gunfighter. But this is a fun enjoyable TV western episode from the most magnificent age of TV Westerns. 

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From the Dick Buchanan Files: Gag Cartoons in Color 1943 - 1957

Here are some great old timey gag cartoons from the major magazines during the golden age of gag cartoons. These are some relatively rare color cartoons that my friend Dick Buchanan has saved and clipped for us to enjoy lo these many decades later.

Thanks and take it away, Dick!

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GAG CARTOONS in COLOR

1943 – 1957

Gag cartoons were published in black and white.  But several of the mass circulation magazines, especially Collier’s, The Saturday Evening Post, and Esquire published some cartoons in color. Many years have passed and, somehow, a bunch of these aging cartoons wound up in the Cartoon Clip File.  Here, arranged almost completely at random are a few of these color gag cartoons. Take a look . . .


1.  MARTHA BLANCHARD. The Saturday Evening Post  August 6, 1948.

2.  REAMER KELLER.  Collier’s  March 31, 1951.

3.  TED KEY.  The Saturday Evening Post  November 5, 1949.

4.  CORKA.  (Jon Cronin)  Collier’s  March 24, 1951.

5.  HARRY LYONS.  The Saturday Evening Post  January 5, 1957. 

6.  JAN & STANLEY BERENSTAIN.  The Saturday Evening Post  July 24, 1948.

7.  IRVING ROIR.  Esquire  February, 1952.     

8.  JOHN RUGE.  The Saturday Evening Post  April 18, 1959

9.  JERRY MARCUS.  The Saturday Evening Post  June 22, 1957.   

10. DAVID GERARD.  Collier’s  November 12, 1949.

11. ED NOFZIGER.  The Saturday Evening Post  December 10, 1949.

12.  JERRY MARCUS.  The Saturday Evening Post  June 8, 1957.

13.  KATE OSANN.  Collier’s  March 11, 1950.

14.  FRANK BEAVEN.  Collier’s  August 14, 1943.

15.  HANK KETCHAM.  Collier’s  March 31, 1951. 

- From a blog entry of January 23, 2020

Dorothy Waugh's National Park Service Posters

 

Dorothy Waugh's 1924 passport photo.

Dorothy Waugh (1896 - 1996) was best known for creating a series of posters promoting national and state parks in the 1930s. Her graphics were influential in the early use of art by the National Park Service to promote public lands. Until the other day, I had not heard of Ms. Waugh. I wanted to share some of her graphics here. 

Originally born in Vermont, her Dad was landscape architect. She would sit in on his classes at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.  She would study at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Massachusetts School of Art, the Museum School of the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Ecole des Beaux Arts d'Orleans, the John Herron School of Art. and the Trenton School of Art.

 Wikipedia:

 

"Conrad Wirth had studied with Waugh's father Frank while earning his Bachelor of Science degree in landscape gardening from Massachusetts Agricultural College (now the University of Massachusetts Amherst).^[14] Wirth joined the National Park Service (NPS) in 1931.^[15] With the coming of the New Deal, he supervised the service's Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) program in the state parks. Many CCC participants could not interpret blueprints or the accompanying directives.^[15] To address this he hired Dorothy Waugh in August 1933^[15] to develop simplified diagrams and instructions for constructing basic park structures.^[14] Waugh produced Portfolio of Comfort Stations and Privies (1934) and Portfolio of Park Structures and Facilities (1934).^[16] During this time she also drew color illustrations for Recreational use of land in the United States: Part XI of the Report on land planning (1934).^[1]

"Due to the scale and importance of this effort for the CCC, Waugh went from being the sole NPS employee working on the project to hiring and leading a team of male draftsmen. Additionally, the government hired architects to supervise the building projects who added their own drawings as needed.^[17] This meant that her portfolios were followed by manuals in which Waugh had an advisory role, but no longer was contributing drawings.^[1]

"In 1933, the Roosevelt administration designated 1934 as the 'National Parks Year.'^[18] This allowed for a small budget to create a marketing campaign for the National Parks. Waugh designed posters for the campaign, although she was hampered by the small budget for materials that required her to execute her design on the first try.^[19] By late summer of 1934, she had produced 'a set of six colorful posters depicting national park scenes.'^[20][21] In 1935, Waugh produced another five posters, with recreation the theme for two, cultural heritage for two, and wildlife preservation for the fifth.^[1]"

 

 

Some Cartoons from Cartoon Capers Volume 3, Number 2 April 1968

When there were lots of magazines that had gag cartoons in them, there were a lot of gag cartoonists who plied their trade. The cartoonists who submitted in person would start on Sixth Avenue in Midtown. That was where the prestige, national magazine offices were and those mags paid the best. Eventually, a cartoonist travel to to the lower-priced markets with his batch of submissions, hoping for a $10 or $15 sale. One of these mags was Cartoon Capers, which had a big appetite for cartoons since it was pretty much mostly "Loaded! with Cartoons, Girls, Joke, Fun, Gags." Here are some of the risque (for the 1960s) magazine cartoons from the April 1968 Volume 3, Number 2 issue of Cartoon Capers. 

 

Dick Buchanan's Gag Cartoon Heritage Consignment

 

There are some great gag cartoon originals for auction at Heritage Auctions from my friend Dick Buchanan. Take a look and consider bidding. These are hard to find by some of the masters of 20th century magazine cartooning (Hank Ketcham, George Booth, Barbara Shermund, Gahan Wilson, Virgil "VIP" Partch). Here are a few screengrabs. 

You can view and bid on his entire consignment in the Wednesday Comic Art & Illustration Select Auction #322547 at the following link: https://comics.HA.com/c/search.zx?saleNo=322547&collection=89&FC=0&type=friend-consignorlive-notice