{"id":32949,"date":"2025-12-12T01:03:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T05:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=32949"},"modified":"2025-12-12T23:06:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T03:06:36","slug":"merrie-melodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/merrie-melodies\/","title":{"rendered":"merrie melodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_32951\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/kids-1979.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32951\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32951\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/kids-1979-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-32951\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">a kids&#8217; band c1980 &#8211; photo is too new to be a collectible<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. As a kid at the movies, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Merrie_Melodies\">Merrie Melodies<\/a> meant a cartoon short from Warner Bros. This brought to mind another subset of photos for collectors &#8211; a section on music.<\/p>\n<p>In November, 2003, we had a talk by a friend of Larry Boccioletti &#8211; the late <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phsc.ca\/jazz.html\">Paul Hoeffler<\/a>. Paul was a photographer of jazz musicians, and an SPBQ singer with Larry.<\/p>\n<p>While his photos date back to mid last century, they are also a bit too recent for collectors. They do bring to mind a &#8216;musical&#8217; sub-category for old photos. Paul was a graduate of the college at Rochester. He knew many musicians performing across the lake, sometimes offering them a ride home after a long night (eg. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Billie_Holiday\">Billie Holiday<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Another photographer of symphonies is member Wayne Gilbert, whose photographs are far too recent for consideration by collectors in spite of their charm.<\/p>\n<p>But it is never too soon to begin collecting &#8216;future&#8217; collectibles &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. As a kid at the movies, Merrie Melodies meant a cartoon short from Warner Bros. This brought to mind another subset of photos for collectors &#8211; a section on music. In November, 2003, we had a talk by a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/merrie-melodies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[4837,220],"class_list":["post-32949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-musical","tag-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32949"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32956,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32949\/revisions\/32956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}