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Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Great Walt Disney Festival of Hits - Larry Sobel Movie Quiz

Larry Sobel was a newspaper artist who created the drawings for a regular syndicated feature called Movie Shorts Quiz. Among his many entries was this one from 1940. It spotlighted The Great Walt Disney Festival of Hits, a compilation release of five Disney films including Snow White.



The Answers:
  1. L-R: Ferdinand the Bull, The Ugly Duckling, Sneezy, Bashful, Doc, Dopey, Snow White, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Donald Duck, The Three Little Pigs.
  2. Wendell L. Willkie.
  3. Television with coverage of the Democratic Convention and the renomination of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Here's another example of Sobel's work which includes Donald, Mickey, Pluto, and Horace Horsecollar. It's the original cartoon panel art in india ink and stippling on heavyweight paper. The feature appeared in newspapers on July 5, 1940.

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