Key master setup from the animated special Uncle Sam Magoo
date: label: date made
content: 1970
name: label: performer
content: Backus, Jim
label: Associated Name
content: Christophers
label: depicted (sitter)
content: Ross, Betsy
label: maker
content: United Productions of America
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Key master setup from the animated television special Uncle Sam Magoo. The animation art depicts Magoo in an Uncle Sam costume standing alongside Betsy Ross, sewing an American flag in a Colonial American parlor. The setup includes a cel placed atop a painted background.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Uncle Sam Magoo was a 1970 television special that cast the popular cartoon character in a patriotic pageant of historical events and rendition of traditional American songs. The special was conceived by UPA executive Hank Saperstein to revive the Magoo character, and was sponsored by Maxwell House Coffee. As in the 1960s animated series, Jim Backus voiced Magoo. Uncle Sam Magoo aired February 15, 1970, on NBC and won a Christopher Award, granted by The Christophers, a Christian organization, for media that brings “positive and constructive values into the mainstream of life”.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Burbank
topic: label: associated subject
content: Television
label: associated subject
content: Patriotism and Patriotic Symbols
label: associated subject
content: Revolutionary War
label: associated subject
content: Flags
label: associated subject
content: Animation
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2023.0178.05
label: catalog number
content: 2023.0178.05
label: accession number
content: 2023.0178
objectType: label: Object Name
content: key master setup
label: Object Name
content: cel
label: Object Name
content: animation art
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (cel material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (background material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 21 in; 25.4 cm x 53.34 cm