Monday, March 2, 2009

Happy Fingers

Spot illustration by Flora
Columbia Records Coda booklet, June 1943

Production still (actor Tommy Rettig)
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T
the only non-animated motion picture
based on characters created by Dr. Seuss
(who was born on this day in 1905)

2 comments:

Ernie said...

Ummm, is that Death standing in the doorway of that castle? I think it is! Hold me, I'm scared...

Irwin Chusid said...

I believe that's a felt-tip indelible marker, placed there for scale. It's a very small castle. Then again, I met The Grim Reaper once and he's shorter than you'd expect.