Halco-- the forgotten Halloween Costume Maker

Hepcat · October 25, 2019, 11:10:41 PM

Quote from: Mike Scott on October 25, 2019, 09:42:08 PMArrrgh! The fools! How many TV episodes/series were taped over to save (literally) a couple of bucks!

Evidently many or maybe all of shows survived in B&W since B&W tapes of the show were distributed for telecasting to local NBC affiliates all over the country. But the master tapes that were filmed in colour were all taped over to save a few thousand dollars.

Mike Scott · October 26, 2019, 02:32:42 AM

Quote from: Hepcat on October 25, 2019, 11:10:41 PM
Evidently many or maybe all of shows survived in B&W since B&W tapes of the show were distributed for telecasting to local NBC affiliates all over the country.

I don't mind watching them in b/w.

Hepcat · October 26, 2019, 01:03:56 PM

Well then here's one in B&W from 1961:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qONgwRpoZ-g

And one in colour from Las Vegas circa 1970:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA1UHiAl8Bg

Shari Lewis was the consummate mistress of ventriloquism!

Hepcat · October 28, 2019, 12:05:45 PM

Here are a couple of shots of the wild cool Halco Droopy costume from the early 1950's:

I understand that our very own Devlin is behind the mask in the first picture!

Droopy was created in 1943 by Tex Avery for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the theatrical cartoon Dumb-Hounded and starred in 24 cartoons in all between 1943 and 1957. He was also featured in an ongoing strip in Tom and Jerry comics:

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Hepcat · October 31, 2019, 08:56:28 AM

Here are a couple of shots of the rad Halco Winky Dink costume from the 1950's which like the others from this time period included a full head mask made of fabric:

Devlin · November 01, 2019, 06:14:37 PM

Had I not already posted that shot of me in my Droopy costume a few pages ago, Hepcat? This thread's years old, so I may well not have.

Hepcat · November 01, 2019, 09:56:45 PM

Hey, you did indeed, almost 6 1/2 years ago on 5 May 2013 on the third page of this thread!

But I somehow didn't notice that picture of you in the Droopy costume when I quickly scanned through this thread earlier in October. When I did an image search for Halco costumes and was delighted to find a Droopy costume, I therefore didn't realize that it was you inside the costume!

curseofthewerewolf · October 15, 2020, 05:42:23 PM

HALCO 1969 catalog pgs:

curseofthewerewolf · October 15, 2020, 05:53:55 PM

More HALCO costumes:

Hepcat · October 15, 2020, 08:27:40 PM

Great stuff!

Quote from: curseofthewerewolf on October 15, 2020, 05:53:55 PM
More HALCO costumes:

And I just checked Little Honey-Moon:

Quote from: dicktracy.fandomHoneymoon Tracy (sometimes "Honey Moon" or just "Honey") was the daughter of Dick Tracy Jr. (Junior Tracy) and the first visitor from the Moon to Earth, Moon Maid.