Oh, and while while we’re talking about De Guard...
This is from the Los Angeles Public Library collection. Photograph caption dated March 10, 1954 reads, "Philip De Guard, North Hollywood artist, shows his version of desert meeting between George Adamski, lecturer-author, and flying saucerman from Venus. Scout ship hovers over meeting place as mother ship soars in distance. In foreground is silhouette of six witnesses." Doesn’t quite look like his work on Duck Dodgers does it?
Hmmm. I guess all flying saucers look a little alike, but I'd say this concept has more than a passing resemblance to the design of the space ships for the 1967 TV show THE INVADERS.
ReplyDeleteIt *does* look like a saucer from " The Invaders ". Every time this cartoon would air on our local television station back in the sixties, in school the next day, some wise guy kid would wind up yelling at the top of his lungs; " THE SHROPSHIRE SLASHER!!!!!"immediately followed by a visit to the Principal's office. Yep....those were the days.
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De Guard's painting appears to have been done roughly at the same time he would have been working on "Jumpin' Jupiter", which was started prior to the 1953 studio shutdown and completed after its reopening. It doesn't look like the flying saucer used in that cartoon -- Chuck liked his flying saucers with rounded bottoms -- but I suppose it could have been a design concept somewhere along the way (Bob Givens and not Noble gets layout credit on the Porky-Sylvester effort).
ReplyDeleteIt works nicely as a stand-alone. Too bad WB didn't make CinemaScope cartoons.
ReplyDeleteIt's just a depiction of the George Adamski UFO photos from 1952. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ca/d6/99/cad699871b67a0a02bac1d8889cbd433.jpg
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