Kellogg's Pep

[Chuck Jackson]

Still, the photo is of some of the original Our Gang kids,

"They call me Chubbsie-Wubbsie"!!!

Is that Farina in the bell? I love those movies/shorts. Not PC enough for today.

[LoyalTubist]

This was not PhotoShop. They didn't have that in 1931! They used a real sousaphone for the ad and it was originally photgraphed. There were probably just as many rain catchers at that time as there were recording bell models, although, I think they stopped making the rain catchers sometime in the mid 1920s (varied according to manufacturer).

Thanks for sharing, Wade!

[David Richoux]

This was not PhotoShop. They didn't have that in 1931! They used a real sousaphone for the ad and it was originally photgraphed. There were probably just as many rain catchers at that time as there were recording bell models, although, I think they stopped making the rain catchers sometime in the mid 1920s (varied according to manufacturer).

Thanks for sharing, Wade!

They did have airbrushing, tinting and other photo "touch-up" artists that could be almost as effective as Photoshop. I learned some of the basic techniques in design school (mid 1970s) that were not much changed since the 1930s.

That image probably was a stock photo of the Raincatcher that was simplified and the figures were added in. Not the highest quality job, looking at the reduced JPEG, but good enough for an ad or cereal box.

[David Richoux]

This was not PhotoShop. They didn't have that in 1931! They used a real sousaphone for the ad and it was originally photgraphed. There were probably just as many rain catchers at that time as there were recording bell models, although, I think they stopped making the rain catchers sometime in the mid 1920s (varied according to manufacturer).

Thanks for sharing, Wade!

if it was photographed, why edit out all the braces, lower mouthpipe, extend the first slide, remove the main slide, the bell screws, and the entire first branch?

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My guess is that the touch-up person didn't really know what was important or not - "Just make it look like a big brass tuba thing, dammit" - so some minor details get covered up in the spray and assembly of the finished art (the process usually involves cutting a masking paper to expose what will be sprayed.)

I have been collecting tuba/Sousaphone art (as opposed to photographs) for many years - it is amazing how much detail can be lost in making the art!

[UDELBR]

Retouched photo or giant model used for the shoot? Interesting to ponder.

Doesn't look like a photo at all to me; more the ultra-realistic Norman Rockwell type of 'art'.

[Chuck Jackson]

Joe, can that thing be cut to CC or should I wait for the Chinese clone? Better yet, it seems upon further examination that it would make a perfect CIMBASSO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chuck"the possibilities are endless"Jackson

[eupher61]

that's a cornetto!

[David Richoux]

Somebody is asking way too much for some of those toys on eBay!

They are just oversize kazoos...