{"id":898,"date":"2013-02-20T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/?p=898"},"modified":"2013-02-20T16:53:47","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T21:53:47","slug":"caricatures-donated-to-college-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/2013\/02\/20\/caricatures-donated-to-college-archives\/","title":{"rendered":"Caricatures Donated to College Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI just recall a man making the rounds of the fraternities and quickly drawing many of the members,\u201d recollects Dick Debevoise, Class of 1946.\u00a0 We know no more than this about how and why George Pal came to Williams to draw student caricatures in 1946.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2013\/02\/Tefft-Stanley-200-pixels.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-900\" style=\"margin-left: -5px; padding-right: 15px; margin-top: 7px; border: none;\" title=\"Caricature of Stanton Tefft\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/vintagepoints\/files\/2013\/02\/Tefft-Stanley-200-pixels.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a>Happily two of Pal\u2019s drawings survived and were gifted last year to the Williams College Archives.\u00a0\u00a0 Mr. Debevoise\u2019s portrait was received as one item within the larger donation of the Debevoise Family Papers.\u00a0 Several months later, the drawing of Stanton Tefft (<em>left<\/em>), Class of 1947, came as a single piece, the generous gift of his widow, Marie Elaine Tefft.<\/p>\n<p>Pal\u2019s caricatures are fascinating in the manner in which they capture aspects of the sitter.\u00a0 Mr. Tefft, for instance, was known as the drummer for the college\u2019s V-12 (Navy College Training Program) Swing Band.\u00a0 The exuberance with which he is portrayed reflects the enthusiasm he brought later to his law career and his many varied life interests.<\/p>\n<p>Pal, as it turns out, was not known for his caricatures (as artistic and entertaining as ours may be).\u00a0 He is, however, legendary for the science fiction films he directed and produced at Paramount.\u00a0 He won Academy Awards for special effects work on &#8220;The War of the Worlds&#8221; (1953) and &#8220;The Time Machine\u201d (1960), among others.\u00a0 Before these live-action films\u2014and at the time he was drawing the caricatures\u2014he was a pioneer of stop-action animation.\u00a0 His Puppetoons\u2014a term he coined from a combination of &#8220;puppet&#8221; and &#8220;cartoon&#8221;\u2014used wooden puppets and stop-action photography to create a style of animation that Americans had never before seen.<\/p>\n<p>The caricatures are only a small part of the visual holdings in the College Archives.\u00a0 Our collections include photographic prints, early photographic processes (daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes), lithographic and woodcut prints, drawings and paintings depicting college life and our region.\u00a0 You can find a small sampling of the Archives&#8217; image collections by visiting the <a title=\"Williams Memory Project\" href=\"http:\/\/drm.williams.edu\/collections\/wmp\/\" target=\"_blank\">Williams Memory Project<\/a>. &ndash; <span style=\"color: #993300;\">SKB<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Shown is George Pal&#8217;s 1946 pastel and chalk caricature of Stanton Tefft, Class of 1947 (accession # 2012.112)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI just recall a man making the rounds of the fraternities and quickly drawing many of the members,\u201d recollects Dick Debevoise, Class of 1946.\u00a0 We know no more than this about how and why George Pal came to Williams to draw student caricatures in 1946. 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