{"id":3123,"date":"2021-07-17T22:19:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-18T05:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/?p=3123"},"modified":"2024-12-31T20:25:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T03:25:05","slug":"scrappy-is-ninety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/17\/scrappy-is-ninety\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrappy is Ninety"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Charles Mintz, creator of Krazy Kat for the screen, has just produced another cartoon comedy character. The new animated cartoon is called \u201cScrappy.\u201d Instead of the usual animals featured in the current cartoons, the central figure will be a mischievous little character called \u201cScrappy.\u201d Most of the comedy will be pantomime, but interpolated dialogue, music and sound effects will play an important part in the short.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">\u2014\u201cStar Dust\u201d newspaper column, June 14, 1931<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you went to the movies 90 years ago\u2014on July 16, 1931, to be precise\u2014you might have ended up as one of the first people in the world to see a Scrappy cartoon. That\u2019s the day that the first one, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/29\/scrappy-yelp-wanted\/\"><em>Yelp Wanted<\/em><\/a>, debuted, unleashing Dick Huemer, Sid Marcus, and Art Davis\u2019s creation on the world. Thanks to the miracle of YouTube, here it is again:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 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\/VSzW7RXru3M?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>It shouldn\u2019t come as a shock to anyone that Scrappyland is marking Scrappy\u2019s first nine-tenths of a century by sharing his first cartoon. But here\u2019s something you probably woudn\u2019t have anticipated seeing here: a <em>new<\/em> Scrappy cartoon. As far as I know, it\u2019s the first time anyone has animated Scrappy and Oopy since 1941\u2019s <em>The Little Theater<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qaXjHIB2I6A?si=Y3cSB15I0nExpcAy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Scrappy\u2019s 90th Anniversary<\/em> was produced by Noah Stone and a bunch of other Scrappy fans, all credited at the short\u2019s end; I think them for relighting the torch after so many decades. I\u2019m sorry that my friend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/01\/remembering-dr-richard-huemer\/\">Dr. Richard Huemer<\/a> isn\u2019t around to see it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s a Scrappy\/Oopy drawing\u2014also made to celebrate the anniversary\u2014by Noah:<\/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\/2021\/07\/1DB26C54-17FA-4897-8708-4E5DFA880A6A.png?ssl=1\" rel=\"lightbox[3123]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"863\" height=\"528\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1DB26C54-17FA-4897-8708-4E5DFA880A6A.png?resize=863%2C528&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1DB26C54-17FA-4897-8708-4E5DFA880A6A.png?resize=1024%2C626&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1DB26C54-17FA-4897-8708-4E5DFA880A6A.png?resize=300%2C183&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1DB26C54-17FA-4897-8708-4E5DFA880A6A.png?resize=768%2C470&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1DB26C54-17FA-4897-8708-4E5DFA880A6A.png?resize=1536%2C939&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1DB26C54-17FA-4897-8708-4E5DFA880A6A.png?resize=150%2C92&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1DB26C54-17FA-4897-8708-4E5DFA880A6A.png?resize=400%2C245&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1DB26C54-17FA-4897-8708-4E5DFA880A6A.png?w=1858&amp;ssl=1 1858w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1DB26C54-17FA-4897-8708-4E5DFA880A6A.png?w=1726&amp;ssl=1 1726w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 863px) 100vw, 863px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>When Scrappyland <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/21\/scrappyland-is-15\/\">debuted in 2005<\/a>, Scrappy was a mere 73. Now it seems quite possible that this site will be around to mark his 100th birthday in 2031. Or at least I hope it will: I certainly have enough material to keep going, and it would be sad to think that the world might run out of Scrappyana to rediscover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s been great fun helping to keep Scrappy from being entirely forgotten, and it seems fair to say that he\u2019s at least a little less forgotten than he was when I came up with the odd idea of devoting a website to him. May the great Scrappy resurgence continue unabated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, and a footnote: It wasn\u2019t until this very night that I realized that my wife was born on the anniversary of <em>Yelp Wanted\u2019s<\/em> release. That\u2019s right\u2014I married someone who shares Scrappy\u2019s birthday. Now I\u2019m horrified at the thought that it could have been any other way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Mintz, creator of Krazy Kat for the screen, has just produced another cartoon comedy character. The new animated cartoon is called \u201cScrappy.\u201d Instead of the usual animals featured in the current cartoons, the central figure will be a mischievous little character called \u201cScrappy.\u201d Most of the comedy will be pantomime, but interpolated dialogue, music &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/17\/scrappy-is-ninety\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scrappy is Ninety<\/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":[3,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartoons","category-charles-mintz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2D9Zl-On","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123","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=3123"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4925,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123\/revisions\/4925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}