We created this unique business card for the Credit Counselling Society by reproducing a plastic credit card and then cutting it in half. The name of the client and telephone number were embossed on the business card in the same way they would appear as a card holder’s name and credit card number on a real credit card.
2011. november 24., csütörtök
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8mm Found Footage of 1939 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
8mm Found Footage of 1939 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
By on November 24, 2011Tom Pappalardo of Standard Design recalls that he found this 8mm reel of the 1939 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade at a western Massachusetts junk shop. He held onto it for a decade, unwatched, until this year when he began viewing all his “mystery reels” and found the parade footage. That year’s parade featured larger-than-life characters like the Fisher Price Snoopy Sniffer pull toy, a Pinocchio with an enormous nose, the Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz (which was released that year), Old King Cole, Uncle Sam, a tied-down Gulliver and more.
A couple of interesting notes about the (first televised) 1939 parade from the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade history site created by students at The College of William & Mary:
…In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt launched the celebration of Thanksgiving a week early, on the next-to-last (instead of the last) Thursday in November. The purpose was to extend the Christmas shopping season and thus stimulate the economy. Legally, his proclamation only applied to Washington, D.C., but several state governors followed suit and adopted his proclamation in their own states. There was much confusion that year and the following year about when to celebrate Thanksgiving. Macy’s held its 1939 parade on the 23rd of November instead of the 30th, and thus participated in the prolonging of the Christmas season.
The 1939 parade also demonstrated important advances in technology that the country was experiencing. For the first time, there were no horse-drawn vehicles in the parade. Instead, tractors towed the floats down the streets.
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
Reflections
The Parade: A Reflection of Current Events
From year to year, the various features of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade are heavily influenced by the social and political climate of the country and are shaped after the current events taking place in the nation. Were a knowledgeable observer to witness a bygone Macy’s parade, through its various elements he or she would ascertain volumes about the cultural context thereof.
In the 1930s civilian Zeppelin dirigibles reached their zenith. During the beginning of the 20th century, these giant rigid airships were used for commercial passenger transport and for military purposes. Their non-rigid successors which can still be seen today are commonly called “blimps.” [1]
In Macy’s 1930 parade, Santa rode to Herald Square on a model Zeppelin dirigible.
The USS Los Angeles flying over southern Manhattan
via web.wm.edu
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