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@1950smouseketeers
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Walt Disney’s Official Mouseketeer Mousecaps
If you would like to see how popular the original Mickey Mouse Club was, look no further than the many advertisements like this that were published on catalogs and newspapers of the time!
A poster I did last year, when I suddenly felt a rush of inspiration to do something on Darlene Gillespie. I wound up watching An Evening with Darlene, a showstopping Fun with Music Day skit from the second season, on random and I wondered if I can do an old-timey poster. Plus, I haven't done much on the uber-talented Darlene - why not make something worth her Mouseketeer icon status?
The part I had the most fun making was the sort-of centerpiece of Darlene inside a circle where the text around her shone. I really liked that shadow effect on the "Darlene" in script, and I hope to revisit that. Also, this was a masterclass in "making the best out of rather low-quality screenshots" that I typically do, just to have some photographs to promote the "show" that this "promotes". Also note that she did have various impressions that were showcased throughout the piece
(side note: imagine if she went through variety shows in the 60s onward if there was any opportunity for her... would have loved to see that) Another good piece done, and there was a recent edit through correcting Red Skelton's surname. I really thought it was "Skeleton" when I originally posted this in the MMC Fans FB page. I'm not that great with names :(
If there is someone I call my favorite Mouseketeer, it's definitely Bonni Kern. While she only had one season to prove herself out there, her sleek dancing skills and shy yet charming presence earned a small yet appreciative fandom over the years. Not everyone may know her name but she was certainly a prominent presence and cannot leave people's minds.
I have done a few pieces dedicated to Bonni with the skills I've accumulated as a designer, and this was my latest on her. This actually has a more modern reference: the NewJeans 2024 Season's Greetings (specifically the desk calendar and diary portions of the set). I can go on about that K-Pop girl group in my other blog, but essentially what I liked about the art direction in that specific project was the contrast between clean fonts and layouts - especially with the heavy use of Helvetica - with carefree doodles. I wanted to present Bonni with that contrast, and I also had fun with making this.
Hopefully, I can present more of my new "Mouseketeer Edits" as we usher in a new era of the blog.
THE MICKEY MOUSE CLUB
(S1.E11 Fun With Music Day, aired on Oct 17, 1955) Darlene Gillespie as Mary, Mary Quite Contrary and Tommy Cole as Little Boy Blue singing "Do Mi So" // "I Am Not Now and Never Have Been in Love" (?)
Tommy Cole is deemed among the strongest singers of The Mickey Mouse Club, and these records (together with Darlene Gillespie) form proof of his singing prowess. His singing was a great factor in his eventual Red Team status, and he has been remembered for that aspect throughout his Mouseketeer career. Note that the clip from The Mickey Mouse Club Story (made in 1995) was made at a time when Gillespie sued the Disney corporation so Cole could not exactly mention her name at that point when describing her participation in "I Am Not Now and Never Have Been in Love")
Oh hi again!
This one has been pretty inactive, but its spirit lives on and I want to reintroduce this Tumblr tribute to the original Mickey Mouse Club! I'm Pia, and when I was in my teens, I started @1950smouseketeers to have a space for my love of that show. The Mickey Mouse Club was an intense hyperfixation for me as an autistic girlie, and for a good three or four years this blog was a stepping stone to put my creative energies into something worthwhile. It was also the birth of my Photoshop skills which later led to a graphic design-related career! I would like to thank the enthusiasm of the Mouseketeers for making me this creative lol. Now that I'm in my mid-twenties, I found myself returning to my Tumblr roots and while the MMC hasn't been my main focus for quite a while, I still go back to it from time to time. There were some changes to how I consumed media related to the show - the OriginalMMC website (my savior, including the guy behind it who was very gracious to give me some pictures that have been posted here since) has not been operational for years (when it was active, it was the place to get rare clips from the show if not on YouTube), there has since been a Facebook group where a lot of fans would come together to post memories, and there have been footage from Disney Channel recordings and VHS tapes that have been saved in the Internet Archive. No matter what, my appreciation for the things I gathered about the show has still been strong and I hope to get back to this in a place I call my lovely Mouseke-space.
1950smousketeers, we are so back. Also, if you ever wonder about other things outside of this realm - follow me at @themaartedossier to get to know more about me and my other interests. I'm trying to be more out there which I hadn't been when I was starting out here a decade ago.
Benay-Albee Novelty Co, 1956
Mouseketeer Doreen Tracey with fans, Disneyland 1957.
A beautiful polaroid of Mouseketeer Doreen and fans, probably during one of thise weekends. (And yay, I'm back to posting here so yeah...)
So I have another blog about the Mouseketeers...
(Don't worry, I'll still post here. I feel that my more wordy stance on the mice is better expressed in Wordpress.) Tune in to mouseketeerpost.wordpress.com and see my (so far few) entries. I'll post more when I have more time. (Seriously, life as a tenth grader is really stressful, especially from where I came from...)
Osmeña Highway (with Skyway), Makati, Philippines at early evening.
I made these birthday cards for some Mouseketeers, through the wonders of Photoshop. These were the April and May celebrants!
April 8 - Darlene; April 13 - Doreen; May 19 - Bobby; May 31 - Lonnie
(These are the first edits relating to the Mouseketeers I posted, yay!)
The Red Team and Jimmie Dodd sing another version of Green Grass Grows All Around in Orange in the Orchard, 1955 (Photo courtesy of George Grant of the Original MMC site)
Judy Harriet performs during Talent Roundup Day, 1955 She shared this day with Darlene Gillespie, in a showcase of their vocal strengths... (Photo courtesy of George Grant of the Original MMC site)
It’s pretty much late at night here at my hometown, but I need to announce this. After this posting, it’s gonna return to regular rotation. With so much to post, I can’t wait to make this come alive again. The 60th anniversary of the Mouseketeers may be over, but their legacy continues to this day.
One thing, the blog pages will take some time to function, since I need to shape up some basic HTML knowledge after a long period of time ;)
Welcome back, Merry Mouseketeers. I’ll not leave this alone for a long time.
April 15th 1962: Disneyland After Dark is released
Disneyland After Dark was aired as an episode of Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color. As the title suggests, Walt Disney hosted this tour through Disneyland with musical guests; the Osmond Brothers, Bobby Rydell, Louis Armstrong and former Mouseketeers Annette Funicello and Bobby Burgess. Throughout the show Walt was stopped by guests who wanted his autograph and was continually “delayed” from giving a detailed tour, or so was the running joke of the episode.
Watch episode: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Abp3O8nMM_g
The Disney staff, as drawn by Jack King for the Motion Picture Daily, June 20, 1931. Click to enlarge!
(Walt’s caricature has been unceremoniously clipped between the pages…)
Love these old caricature pages!!!
“Cepea”, 1957
Printed Taffeta Circle Skirt Dress, ca. 1950s
via Mill Street Vintage
