May 03, 2007
Ward, don't you think you were a little hard on the Beaver?
When you see characters reading something in a play or a film, they're usually pretending to read -- acting! -- and most definitely not referring to actual text in their sweaty hands.
But sometimes they are.
Thanks to the wonders of modern science, someone grabbed a screenshot from a 1958 episode of Leave it to Beaver and was able to read the letter sent home by the school principal.
Kevin Kelly, over at TV Squad, captures the appeal of this Eisenhower-era ephemera.
You can just imagine this writer sitting in a warm office somewhere, a desk fan blowing tepid air around the room. He has his shirtsleeves rolled up and a pencil behind one ear and is pounding this letter out on a typewriter to take to the set. The baseball game is playing on a radio in the corner, and for some reason I picture this all in black and white. Nowadays, they'll probably just have a PA punch something up using a Lorem Ipsum generator.
File this one under "Useless reminders of afternoons with my grandparents spent watching old sitcoms."
Check out the rest of Shorpy's blog; it's a fascinating collection of old photos.
Posted by Mike Lief at May 3, 2007 01:18 AM
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Gee, Dad, you think we can not tell Mom about this or somethin'? Wally told me if I mowed the lawn for a year, Mom wouldn't even find out...waaadaya think Dad?
Posted by: The Beav at May 4, 2007 01:46 PM