Mickey Mouse's Spaceship Pencil Box (1935)

 

A fun piece of ephemera today, a Mickey Mouse Pencil box from 1935.  People forget about the craze for Mickey Mouse in the 1930s, but they also forget how the revolutionary idea of rockets taking people into space was also a current "fad". This captures in a whimsical way for children how people could travel into space.  There were a series of similar Dixon Mickey Mouse pencil boxes on different topics but this one particularly caught my eye (of course).

From the Weston's label inside they may have been a promotional/premium item with these crackers.

Man in Space (Disney) (1957)

I have a deep love for the 1955 Walt Disney's "Man in Space" feature film. I have blogged about other things I have found about it including a comic book:

http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2009/07/man-in-space-science-feture-from.html

and a classroom guide:

http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2017/02/man-in-space-disney-classroom-guide-1958.html

This is another neat item, a listing of the film in a Japanese film program.  When Man in Space made it to the theaters it was shown in Japan with the movie Bambi.  At the time a movie program for Bambi was sold and there was a a section about the Man in Space feature film.

I am supposing that the picture from "The Earth to the Moon" reflects the history of space flight in film.

 I am sorry it is not easier to translate Japanese but this is still a fun piece of ephemera.

Mickey Mouse to the Moon (1960)

Happy"blogiversary" to me!

This is beginning my 9th year of blogging about these space books. I am now up to over 1.1 million pageviews! 

This a 1960 Japanese "reprint" of Mickey Mouse and His Spaceship (1952). I have blogged about the 1956 Portuguese edition of this book here:
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2013/06/viagem-lua-travel-to-moon-1956.html.

In this version it was converted to a series of pictures from the book and  contained a record reading the story to the viewer as they flipped through the 16 cards. It was evidently #4 in this series of Disney stories

 Stunning lunar views

 Early lunar geological exploration

Disneyland Guide Book "Tomorrowland" (1956)

As the holidays approach I wanted to go back to an older piece of Disney ephemera that I found. I love the whole concept and style of how Walt Disney and Disneyland explored and promoted spaceflight and the future.

This was the complete guide you could purchase at the park.  I have skipped most of the other sections but the depiction(s) of Tomorrowland still inspire me.

I am so fascinated that I copied out the listing of the attractions to be found there, including my favorite "lost" ride: Space Station X-1! See America from a Space Station.

See you at the "Space Bar" next week with my holiday post!

"Mars and Beyond" Disney classroom guide (1958)

Mars and Beyond is the last of the classroom guides I found.

Mars and Beyond appeared on Disneyland December 4, 1957.  It was also a comic book and a 1959 classroom text.

 "Suggested for upper and secondary level science; also business, industry and the general public..."