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This turned up today on a pop-cult group on FarceBook -- you'd think some twisted FurAffinity member with a perverted, diseased imagination had re-lettered it in Photoshop ... but I gather it's 100% the real deal! Could even Disney have been so naive that nobody noticed the double meanings? Or has English changed that much since the late 1920s?
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Disney was certainly not on top of the situation when it came to marketing and media tie-ins. They lost several fortunes, that way ... and no doubt that's why they were so tight-assed in later years. Nobody was going to take one red cent from Walt Disney ever again, nosiree! Not even break-even day-care centers with an amateur painting of Winnie the Pooh on the wall... $800 license fee, Ma'am, or paint over it. Anyway, somebody wrote the text for this ad, and while a more adult sensibility did obtain during the 20s and 30s, I have to be skeptical about whether the doube entendres in this particular ad were intentional.
Disney produce a lot of materials other than the things we are used to seeing. There is a video made by disney to explain puberty in girls from the 50's I think on youtube.. There is also word that there is some "other" materials out there also, but I cannot verify any of it, but its plausable that it does exhist.
I've been reading quite a bit of 1920s and 1930s fiction recently and have been amazed at some of the things I've run across, language-difference-wise. The word "gay" is an obvious one, and crops up often, but I nearly spit my coffee across the room when the narrator of one story referred to an elderly lady as "a nice old pussy".
I grew up with the words "gay" and "fag" -- neither one of them had anything to do with being gay. "Gay" might have been current in the homosexual subculture, but in general usage. It meant "jolly," "happy" or "pretty." Similarly, a "fag" was a cigarette. In the UK it was also a verb, ie" fagging", that had something to do with boy's schools -- a younger boy serving an older one, maybe. How far this may have also strayed into sexual activity, I'm not sure. But I think "fagging" didn't necessarily imply it.
Then there's "making love." All it meant to most people in 1961 was what we mean by "making out."
Of course, I was 11 or 12-years-old, so I may have been missing certain overtones ... still, you saw these words in contexts that suggested that I wan't.
Then there's "making love." All it meant to most people in 1961 was what we mean by "making out."
Of course, I was 11 or 12-years-old, so I may have been missing certain overtones ... still, you saw these words in contexts that suggested that I wan't.
Dont forget the recent films that were altered with subliminal messages from lion king to the mermaid and there are even a few others what were not Disney films... I remember a movie where the woman next door was quited to be an old leather boned woman,, Thats some funny mess there. But I agree the context of words used in the 30s is soo lost now. Some words and phrases I just wont say for fear of being offensive.
If anyone else bothered to check and see if the dairy was still in operation, I took the liberty to Google the address -- the result is surprisingly coincidental.
It seems the new occupant of the address in the advertisement is nothing less than the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, MI.
The Mouse is EVERYWHERE....
It seems the new occupant of the address in the advertisement is nothing less than the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, MI.
The Mouse is EVERYWHERE....
Love their movies especially "The Big Store" even though there is a bit of a creepy part in it! Timeframe 3:35 to 5:02 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa8tP_LCJ-8
Yep! Language changes over time just as much as fashion and such. Just listen to all those old radio shows from the first half of the 1900's. Was listening to one of the Dragnet radio shows and at one point they said they interrupted a local gangsters gay party.
You can listen to those Dragnet shows here thought the site has a lot more of radio shows - http://archive.org/details/Dragnet2
You can listen to those Dragnet shows here thought the site has a lot more of radio shows - http://archive.org/details/Dragnet2
see...I absolutely understand the sentiment they're trying to make with those statements, but I think everything was just so much more innocent back then...like, taking those sentences at face value, it's fine, but with years of entendre and dirty humor under my belt, there's no escaping the chuckle.
Ok this is from a profile site on Disney:
"But the late 1930s and early 1940s were tough times for American businesses. Disney made it through the Great Depression and World War II by dedicating much of his new studio to producing health, education and propaganda films for the U.S. government. It also produced short comedies aimed at boosting national morale. To raise additional money, Disney took his operation public in 1940."
http://entrepreneurs.about.com/od/f.....waltdisney.htm
More than likely the pic was more of like stationary/ advertisment for local companies of the era.
Oh as for me commenting to the dragnet on tv... mild oversight.. It was supposed to be dragnet from the radio days.
"But the late 1930s and early 1940s were tough times for American businesses. Disney made it through the Great Depression and World War II by dedicating much of his new studio to producing health, education and propaganda films for the U.S. government. It also produced short comedies aimed at boosting national morale. To raise additional money, Disney took his operation public in 1940."
http://entrepreneurs.about.com/od/f.....waltdisney.htm
More than likely the pic was more of like stationary/ advertisment for local companies of the era.
Oh as for me commenting to the dragnet on tv... mild oversight.. It was supposed to be dragnet from the radio days.
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