This shows a snowy background in a way that Allen & Ginter could never have dreamed possible, not drawn, but an actual photograph. Yet I much prefer the old ways, the skilful delineation, the knowledge that every stroke I am looking at was breathed into its life entirely by the touch of someone`s hand.
The set is split between examples of Disney animation, which form most of them, and photographs, or rather film stills.
The first of these, and it needs noting if you are into cars, is card 44, for that is Herbie, the VW Beetle.
Card 46 is "Blue Heron", not sure where he comes from.
I think our photo on card 48 comes from a 1970 film called "Snow Bear", in which a cub is befriended by an Eskimo child, sent out to learn to hunt. Needless to say I have never seen it; I am too much an empath for any animal movie there ever was, for they always end the same way, and it is not pleasing.
And card 50 is "The Incredible Journey", not seen that either, never will.
This set is described in our British Trade Index part III as :
Wonderful World of Disney. 80 x 35. 24 cards, numbered 2, 4, 6, 8, 11, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 37, 39, 42, 44, 46, 48 and 50. Disney wallchart supplied for 30p, with spaces for the 24 cards, 26 more printed on chart. Competition form supplied with chart, offer expiring 1st January 1976.
Now the code here is prefixed SUM. That is because in the trade Indexes at that time we listed Typhoo as Sumner`s Typhoo Tea. Sumner comes from the founder of Typhoo, who was called John Sumner, and he was born in February 1856 in Birmingham, to a family who ran a grocery business there.
And this set is too recent to be in our updated Trade Index which ends at 1970.