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And now for your friendly daily nightmare. This is a 1912 ad for a thing called "Ventriloquist Double Throat," which I scanned from Taschen's "All-American Ads 1900-1919" (click image for 600X447 bigger and creepier version.)
Against all appearances, this is not a ventriloquist's dummy, but the ventriloquist himself. Shiny, happy people, everybody. Someone should tell him to stop or his face will stay that way.
From the ad:
"Lots of fun for a dimeMillions dead of fright.
Ventriloquist Double Throat
Fits roof of mouth; always invisible; greatest thing yet. Astonish and mystify your friends. Neigh like a horse; whine like a puppy; sing like a canary. and imitate birds and beasts of the field and forest. Loads of fun. Wonderful invention. Thousands sold."
2 comments:
first you see the impossible rictus of the mouth, stretched painfuly, then the eye wanders upward, to the eyes.....those twin windows into hell, filled with soul-less mirth that drives home the final shock and damage. That's some powerful gris-gris.
It's the male version of Stepford wives!
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