{"id":568,"date":"2009-04-20T12:25:40","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T19:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepulp.net\/PulpBlogs\/YellowedPerils_test\/?p=568"},"modified":"2011-07-30T00:32:51","modified_gmt":"2011-07-30T07:32:51","slug":"speaking-of-the-pulps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/2009\/04\/20\/speaking-of-the-pulps\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of the pulps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1937, Warner Bros., purveyors of those classic Loony Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons, put out a short called \u201cSpeaking of the Weather.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/files\/2009\/04\/speakingoftheweather.jpg?resize=200%2C146&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"Speaking of the Weather\" width=\"200\" height=\"146\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1315\" \/>The actual toon seems rather dated these days. It&#8217;s just a musical number \u201cperformed\u201d by a variety of cartoon characters.<\/p>\n<p>But what makes this interesting for the pulp fan is that the toon is set on a magazine rack. <!--more-->You see a range of contemporary magazines, many real and others fictional; from <em>The Etude<\/em>, <em>Popular Mechanics<\/em> and <em>Woman\u2019s Home Companion<\/em> to \u201cpulps\u201d <em>The Gang Magazine<\/em>, <em>Jungle Stores<\/em>, <em>The Spider<\/em>, <em>Operator 5<\/em> and other \u201cSweet &amp; Smiff\u201d magazines.<\/p>\n<p>What I like about this cartoon is that it puts the magazines in context of their times. The average movie-goer then probably was very familiar with the magazine stand and those magazines.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s like a glimpse into a time machine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> The video has been removed from YouTube.com for copyright violations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1937, Warner Bros., purveyors of those classic Loony Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons, put out a short called \u201cSpeaking of the Weather.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_has_post_settings":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies-tv-radio","category-pulps"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2qgXO-9a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1314,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions\/1314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}