Optical Toys and Stuffed Animals: At Home with Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!

Public Presentation by Dr. Kevin Sandler

This talk reveals how optical toys like Give-A-Show Projector and View-Master attempted to cultivate a deeper investment among children by extracting the Scooby-Doo cartoon’s storyworld into another medium. The talk also highlights the hazardous construction of Scooby-Doo stuffed animals prior to the creation of the Consumer Product Safety Commission in 1972.

Full Description Here: https://www.depts.ttu.edu/museumttu/events/DrSandler.php

Attendees will get the opportunity to interact with a diverse display of optical toys from the 70’s before and after the lecture.

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Dr. Kevin Sandler is an associate professor in the Film and Media Studies program at Arizona State University. He specializes in the contemporary U. S. media business, with a particular focus on censorship and animation. He is the author of Hanna and Barbera: Conversations (University Press of Mississippi, 2024), The Naked Truth: Why Hollywood Doesn't Make X-Rated Movies (Rutgers University Press, 2007), the co-editor of Titanic: Anatomy of a Blockbuster (Rutgers, 1999), and editor of Reading the Rabbit: Explorations in Warner Bros. Animation (Rutgers, 1998). He also has published in several anthologies, journals, and public-facing outlets including Cinema Journal, Animation Journal, and Slate. His upcoming books are Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (Duke University Press) and The Hanna-Barbera Anthology(University of Texas Press).

Any questions regarding this lecture, contact: Dr. Francisco Ortega (francisco.ortega@ttu.edu)

This lecture is part of the activities related to the exhibit "Animation as Art" currently on display at the Museum of TTU.