Four Seasons Gutter Protection
Advertisement, cartoon, flail, foot soldier, Four Seasons Gutter Protection, helmet, mace, pike, shield, soldier, spear, Vic, Victoria, website.
<p>The website and advertisements for Four Season Gutter Protection feature four cartoon medieval foot soldiers wearing helmets and brandishing shields and weapons – flails (a type of mace) and spears or pikes. The heads of the weapons are in the shape of different leaves, and the leaves also feature on the soldiers helmets and shields. The soldiers are evidently protecting your gutters against leaves.</p>
<p>Four Season Gutter Protection are an Australian-wide company based in Victoria.</p>
<p>For their website see <a href="http://www.fourseasonsgutterpro.com.au/">http://www.fourseasonsgutterpro.com.au/</a></p>
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Four Seasons Gutter Protection
2011
© 2011 Four Seasons Gutter Protection. All Rights Reserved.
Website
<em>Arthur! And the Square Knights of the Round Table</em> Children's Cartoon series
Animation, armour, Arthur, Arthurian legend, Black Knight, cartoon, children’s series, chivalry, damsel in distress, dragon, excalibur, Guinevere, jousting, knight, Lancelot, maiden, Merlin, Morgan Le Fay, rescue, round table, song, sword, television, TV.
<em>Arthur! And the Square Knights of the Round Table</em> was an animated Australian cartoon series written by Melbourne playwright Alex Buzo with Rod Hull, Lyle Martin, John Palmer and M. Robinson. It was produced between 1966 and 1968. Based on Arthurian legend, the cartoons feature characters such as King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin, a Black Knight and Morgan le Fay. The opening jingle (available at <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7O7NgjWPeM" target="_self">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7O7NgjWPeM</a>) provides a good overview of the Arthurian themes and motifs in the cartoons, in verse! For example, the pastimes of the hero Arthur – ‘the king of Camelot, who likes to joust a lot’ – are identified as jousting, dragon-slaying, wooing Guinevere, foiling the evil plans of the Black Knight, rescuing damsels in distress, drawing swords from stones, making tables round, and convening meetings of his bravest knights.
Written by Alex Buzo with Rod Hull, Lyle Martin, M. Robinson & John Palmer
Produced by Walter J. Hucker
You Tube
Air Programs International (API)
1966-1968
Air Programs International (API)
URL
‘Eating the Leek’ (Henry V, Act V, Scene I), <em>The Bulletin</em>, 4 March 1893.
Cartoon, Fluellen, Henry V, John Bull, medieval costume, Pistol, political cartoon, politics, Shakespeare, Sir George Richard Dibbs (1834-1904), Sir Robert William Duff (1835-1895), theatre, New South Wales, NSW politics, William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), William Shakespeare (c.1564-1616).
This political cartoon by ‘Hop’ enacts a scene from William Shakespeare’s historical play, <em>Henry V</em>. In the scene, Fluellen the Welshman angrily berates the unfortunate Pistol, a crony of Sir John Falstaff, and forces him to eat a raw leek. The cartoon, Louise D’Arcens suggests, uses this rather cryptic information “to depict the recent appointment of the New South Wales governor Sir Robert Duff by the British Prime Minister Gladstone,” (Louise D’Arcens, <em>Old Songs in the Timeless Land: Medievalism in Australian Literature 1840-1910</em>, Turnhout, Brepols, 2011, p.182). The ‘leeks’ both seem equally unpalatable to the protesting recipient(s): Pistol and the Premier Sir George Dibbs respectively. The fact that Mr Gladstone and Her Majesty’s Government would appoint the next Governor without approval from the NSW Government indicates the lesson in humility that was forced upon the colony by Whitehall. Ironically, the John Bull figure holds a switch with the words ‘Silken Bond’ written upon it. This sounds suspiciously like “an iron fist in a velvet glove” rationale to contemporary ears.
Livingston York Hopkins (‘Hop’)
The Bulletin
The Bulletin
4 March 1893 (Cover)
Public Domain
‘Dam(n)pier as Mephistopheles’
Alfred Dampier (1848-1908), cartoon, Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), devil, Dr Faustus (c. 1590), Faust (I & II), Goethe (1749-1832), ‘Mephisto’, Mephistopheles, Phil May (1864-1903), The Bulletin
‘Dam(n)pier as Mephistopheles,’ is The Bulletin cartoonist Phil May’s humorous pun on actor and theatrical entrepreneur Alfred Dampier’s name (See Louise D'Arcens, Old Songs in the Timeless Land: Medievalism in Australian Literature 1840-1910, Turnhout: Brepols, 2011, p.164). Alfred Dampier first appeared as Mephisto in Faust in 1873 at the Royal theatre, Melbourne. While reasonably successful in his chosen profession (his acting career spanned thirty years), he was generally considered “sound rather than brilliant†by his critics (See, for example: John Rickard, 'Dampier, Alfred (1848–1908)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/dampier-alfred-3360/text5067, accessed 12 June 2012.) Phil May acknowledges Dampier’s competence and durability, albeit with a mischievous gleam in the eye and a knowing flourish of his pen. The literary origins of the legend of Dr Faust date back to the 1580s, and may be based upon a real person who died c. 1540-41 (J. W. Smeed, Faust in Literature, London: Oxford University Press, 1973, pp.1-2).
May, Phil
The Bulletin
The Bulletin
23 October 1886 (p. 7)
Public Domain
Journal (Microfilm)
English
‘The Scaly Monster’
Alderman, ‘Bloody Jack,’ boat, cartoon, democracy, E. Montague Scott (1835-1909), John McElhone (1833-1898), knight, NSW politics, political cartoon, politics, Sydney Municipal Council, respectability
‘The Scaly Monster’ drawing shows an unruffled ‘Bloody Jack’ McElhone boarding a vessel embarking for England. This feisty Sydney alderman had a reputation for forthrightness and ‘fisticuffs,’ which was not always appreciated by others. He was once referred to by Daniel O’Connor as “‘an illiterate mountebank,’ ‘a commercial Shylock,’ ‘an unscrupulous vulture,’ and ‘a political Quilp’” (See Martha Rutledge, 'McElhone, John (1833–1898)',Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, <a href="http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mcelhone-john-4087/text6529">http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mcelhone-john-4087/text6529</a>, accessed 11 June 2012). O’Connor had previously had a run-in with McElhone after calling him a “servile lickspittle”, for which he received a punch below the left eye. It is not entirely clear to whom or what ‘The Scaly Monster of the House’ refers when he states, “I do not care two straws what the public think. I treat the whole matter with contempt”. It is probable that the cartoonist is merely highlighting the typical McElhone response to opposition of any kind. By all accounts he was well-used to causing indignation and political controversy. He was, however, essentially an honest man who frequently asked difficult questions of the government, and as a result “exposed many public wrongs” in the process. A bearded knight charging from behind may be Sir Henry Parkes, or it could be Sir John Robertson who also sported a luxuriant beard and flowing white locks. Either way, the ‘knight’ is a representative “champion of democracy” (Marguerite Mahood,The Loaded Line: Australian Political Caricature 1788-1901,Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1973, p.131), and a visible embodiment of political fairness and respectability.
Possibly MS (Montague Scott)
The Bulletin
The Bulletin
3 May 1884 (p. 13)
The Bulletin
Journal (Microfilm)
English
St. George Dry Cleaners, Perth, Western Australia
banner, banners, cartoons, cartoon, dragon, dragons, lance, Perth, St. George, Saint George, St. George, saint, saints, WA, Western Australia
Images of St George Dry Cleaners at the St Georges Terrace end of Trinity Arcade in the Perth CBD. The wall of the premises features a humorous cartoon representation of St George in armour and carrying a shield mounted on his horse attacking a fire breathing dragon. The lance has a banner hanging from it advertising the services offered by the business.
McLeod, Shane
27 June 2011
No Copyright
<p>McLeod, Shane, "St George Dry Cleaners, Perth," in Medievalism in Australian Cultural Memory, Item #411, <a href="../../../items/show/411">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/411</a></p>
Digital Photograph; JPEG
St George Dry Cleaners, Perth
banners, banner, cartoon, cartoons, dragons, dragon, lance, Perth, St. George, Saint George, saint, saints, St George, WA, Western Australia
Image of St George Dry Cleaners at the St Georges Terrace end of Trinity Arcade in the Perth CBD. The wall of the premises features a humorous cartoon representation of St George in armour and carrying a shield mounted on his horse attacking a fire breathing dragon. The lance has a banner hanging from it advertising the services offered by the business.
McLeod, Shane
27 June 2011
No Copyright
2xDigital Photograph
Meeting of Chamberlain and Eden clad as medieval admirals
Pre-World War II, world war, WWII, war, Chamberlain, Neville Chamberlain, Eden, Mediterranean piracy, piracy, General France, France, submarines, Mussolini, cartoon, caricature, cartoons as political comment, political, politics, Punch, Punch Magazine
A ‘Punch’ cartoon of Neville Chamberlain (Primer Minister of the UK) and Anthony Eden (his Foreign Secretary) depicting them as medieval admirals watching a serpent titled ‘Mediterranean piracy’, saying ‘I say, even in holiday time. I think we shall have to take some notice of this’ was widely reported and held political sway. It urged the UK to act on increasing Italian piracy. News about the cartoon was published in the ‘Cairns Post’ Friday 3 September 1937, ‘Barrier Miner’ (Broken Hill, NSW) Friday 3 September 1937 with headlines ‘Punch Cartoon Urges Britain to Act’, ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ (Thursday 2 September 1937; ‘The West Australian’ Thursday 2 September 1937, ‘Morning Bulletin’ (Rockhampton, Qld.), Friday 3 September 1937, ‘Examiner’ (Launceston, Tas.) Friday 3 September 1937.
Unknown
The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
3 Sept 1937
Public Domain
Newspaper Article
English