{"id":77,"date":"2012-04-08T04:36:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T04:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/?page_id=77"},"modified":"2017-09-24T01:14:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T08:14:46","slug":"staff","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Mintz Studio Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Meet the Mintz Studio Staff\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/images\/mintz.jpg?resize=349%2C274\" alt=\"Meet the Mintz Studio Staff\" width=\"349\" height=\"274\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>August 2005<\/strong><br \/>\nUntil now, this site has been sadly bereft of any photos of the people behind Scrappy. No longer. We&#8217;re grateful to Dr. Richard Huemer for these photos, which likely date from 1930 or 1931, of the Mintz Studio staff. They&#8217;re wonderfully evocative, and we&#8217;re pleased to present them here.<\/p>\n<p>Here we have the key players at the studio: Composer Joe DeNat, artist Art Davis, Charles Mintz himself, artist Sid Marcus, and artist Dick Huemer. (Click on the picture for a larger version.)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_470\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-470\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/braintrust.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[77]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-470\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/braintrust.jpg?resize=500%2C345\" alt=\"The Mintz Brain Trust\" width=\"500\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/braintrust.jpg?w=668&amp;ssl=1 668w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/braintrust.jpg?resize=300%2C207&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/braintrust.jpg?resize=150%2C103&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/braintrust.jpg?resize=400%2C276&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-470\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dick Huemer circa 1931 with his Mintz colleagues. From left: Joe De Nat, Art Davis, Charles Mintz, Sid Marcus, and Dick<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And here&#8217;s what seems to be a photo of the whole studio staff, including what looks to be a gaggle of ink-and-paint girls. We haven&#8217;t identified any of these folks except for the ones in the first picture&#8211;but we&#8217;re working on it. (Click on the picture for a larger version.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Mintzgroup.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[staff]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-467\" title=\"The Mintz Staff\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Mintzgroup.jpg?resize=500%2C388\" alt=\"The Mintz Staff\" width=\"500\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Mintzgroup.jpg?w=750&amp;ssl=1 750w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Mintzgroup.jpg?resize=300%2C232&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Mintzgroup.jpg?resize=150%2C116&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Mintzgroup.jpg?resize=400%2C310&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those are all the behind-the-scenes pictures we have on hand at the moment&#8230;but we&#8217;re working on getting more. Let us know if you have any you&#8217;d like to share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 2005 Until now, this site has been sadly bereft of any photos of the people behind Scrappy. No longer. We&#8217;re grateful to Dr. Richard Huemer for these photos, which likely date from 1930 or 1931, of the Mintz Studio staff. They&#8217;re wonderfully evocative, and we&#8217;re pleased to present them here. Here we have the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/staff\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meet the Mintz Studio Staff<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-77","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2D9Zl-1f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1891,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions\/1891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}