{"id":1994,"date":"2018-02-02T01:00:47","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T08:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/?p=1994"},"modified":"2024-12-31T19:58:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T02:58:04","slug":"scrappy-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/02\/scrappy-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrappy at Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Let\u2019s face it: In movie theaters, Scrappy was not particularly stiff competition for Mickey Mouse or Popeye in terms of sheer star power. But the old-time home-movie cartoon business had a curious leveling effect. I\u2019m not sure if it raised the profile of second-stringers or diminished the lustre of iconic characters\u2014maybe both\u2014but anyone who was enough of a name brand to appear on a home-movie box was a star.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And Scrappy beamed from box art for years, long after his cartoon series was history.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/scrappy-movies.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1994]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"863\" height=\"1283\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/scrappy-movies.jpg?resize=863%2C1283\" alt=\"Scrappy movie boxes\" class=\"wp-image-2003\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/scrappy-movies.jpg?w=873&amp;ssl=1 873w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/scrappy-movies.jpg?resize=202%2C300&amp;ssl=1 202w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/scrappy-movies.jpg?resize=768%2C1142&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/scrappy-movies.jpg?resize=689%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 689w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/scrappy-movies.jpg?resize=101%2C150&amp;ssl=1 101w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/scrappy-movies.jpg?resize=400%2C595&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 863px) 100vw, 863px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oddly enough, even though I&#8217;ve owned several Scrappy home movies for years, I&#8217;ve never seen any of them, since I don&#8217;t have a projector handy. But Friend of Scrappy Jason Fiore (who is, incidentally, 12) has done us all a favor by digitizing two examples, adding Scott Joplin soundtracks, and putting the results on YouTube.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s Excel&#8217;s <em>Stage Struck<\/em>, a cut-down version of <em>The Concert Kid<\/em> (1934):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"863\" height=\"486\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r9RnOW-d9cQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And this is Exclusive Movie Studios&#8217; <em>Bucking Horse<\/em>, better known to you and me as an extract from <em>Scrappy&#8217;s Pony<\/em> (1936):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"863\" height=\"486\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U6hqU_84g3k?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I never thought of Scrappy cartoons as being overly burdened by complex plots. But both of these silent short-shorts are less than half as long as the theatrical shorts they&#8217;re derived from, and in both cases, whoever did the editing accomplished it in part by chopping off roughly the first half, eliminating lengthy set-ups which explain how Oopy came to be onstage with a violin and where Scrappy got his pony. The results still feel like Scrappy cartoons, albeit ones that have been denuded of a fair amount of both coherency and charm. The lack of of dialog, music, and sound effects is also a bigger deal than I might have guessed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I doubt that the people who watched these in the comfort of their own homes decades ago were overly critical, though. And there was a time in my life, before the advent of home video, when I&#8217;d have been pretty pleased by them myself. Actually, I still am. Thanks, Jason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s face it: In movie theaters, Scrappy was not particularly stiff competition for Mickey Mouse or Popeye in terms of sheer star power. But the old-time home-movie cartoon business had a curious leveling effect. I\u2019m not sure if it raised the profile of second-stringers or diminished the lustre of iconic characters\u2014maybe both\u2014but anyone who was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/02\/scrappy-at-home\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scrappy at Home<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartoons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2D9Zl-wa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5072,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions\/5072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}