{"id":436,"date":"2012-08-12T06:25:25","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T06:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/?p=436"},"modified":"2012-08-12T17:50:42","modified_gmt":"2012-08-12T17:50:42","slug":"scrappy-and-pokie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/12\/scrappy-and-pokie\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrappy and Pokie"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of the many wonders to be found at the Internet Archive is a run<\/a> of the Film Daily<\/em>, a now-defunct, Variety<\/em>-like publication for the movie trade. It did a remarkably good job of documenting the world of Scrappy, and I'm going to share a lot of stuff from it. (Variety<\/em> itself, however, rarely mentioned the guy.) <\/p>\n

The ad above is from the Film Daily<\/em> for July 27, 1931, right when the Scrappy series was getting going. The art, I feel certain, is by someone in Columbia's promotion department rather than a Mintz artist. And even for Scrappy, the scene depicted — a black-eyed Scrappy cheerfully assaulting three other boys at once — is strange.<\/p>\n

Also strange: The ad refers to Scrappy's dog as “Pokie,” a moniker I've never heard before. Even in the first short<\/a>, Yelp Wanted, <\/em>the pooch was named Yippy (or, if The Film Daily<\/em> was right, Yippi. Then again, Mintz had a casual attitude towards names: Oopy was sometimes Oopie or Vontzy, and Margy was occasionally Margie. It's a wonder that Scrappy himself was never called anything else…as far as I know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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