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FIVE THOUSAND
DOLLAR JOB
GOES BEGGING
by Homer Croy
'OULD you like pleasant indoor work, with hours nine to five, at
one hundred dollars a week and a chance to advance ?
If interested, read on.
The job is hunting - you just as eagerly as you are hunting the
job. All you will have to do is to animate cartoons—the newest
profession and the only one in the world that is not overcrowded. In fact,
instead of being overcrowded it cannot get enough men!
Just make these simple little drawings that look so much alike. That's all
there is to it—and you get your pay every Saturday.
It has all come about on account of the movies. When a bear takes after a
IF IT TAKES FOUR OF THESE DRAWINGS FOR THE ARTIST TO GET LITTLE JEFFS
HAND OUT OF HIS POCKET-
man and the man takes a long run and jumps to the moon, it is probably an animated
cartoon. Anything in the world can happen in an animated cartoon; in
fact, the whole untouched possibilities of the universe are at the command of the
pen-and-ink man.
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