From the Thomas B. Sawyer YouTube page:
"8mm footage of a party given by Leonard & Betty Starr at their Central Park West apartment. The guests include many celebrated artists, writers, National Cartoonist Society/Society of Illustrators members & other personalities (w/spouses) of that era, including Mell Lazarus, Bill & Gloria Overgard. Alfred Andriola, Otto Soglow, Warren & Nadine King, Holly & Tom Sawyer, Jerry Robinson, Len Steckler, Howard Post, Frank Bolle, Irwin Hasen, John Prentice, Tex Blaisdell, Bobbie Shaw, Don Philips. Frank & Barbara Jacobs, Lee Falk, & others.
"Camera: Tom Sawyer (to request a set of head-shots identifying most of the attendees, email from the Contact page at www.thomasbsawyer.com)"
This is the only video at the Thomas B. Sawyer channel and the link to his site does not work, sadly. There is no sound. What a nice slice of those times despite not being exactly sure who's who all the time.
I'm not sure, but suspect that the movie was shot by the illustrator Thomas B. Sawyer, whose 2022 book, The Art of the REAL Tom Sawyer, is highly recommended.
For the record, that Tom Sawyer got his start as an artist at Atlas comics (eg for Stan Lee) under his birth name, Scheuer (https://www.atlastales.com/creator/123) and then went on to Hollywood with a name change (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0768226/bio/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm). Should further note that his comic art was really good. It was pretty much like Neal Adams/Stan Drake's. Worth a post!
ReplyDeleteForget to add: The dearth of material at the YouTube channel may be because Sawyer was born in 1930 and YT likely wasn't all that much of a thing before he passed. I assume the estate hasn't been inspired to do more than post a single clip. Whether there's more, who knows. Beyond my pay grade to even speculate.
DeleteAlso forgot: After Atlas, he provided the illustrations for that famous book of clip art. Can't find a link, but some of things here look like it came from the clip art book.
Yet also forgetting: He did time at Johnstone and Cushing which is to say also had comics running in Boys Life.