Tangible Media: Removable Storage of Image, Sound, Motion and Data
Tangible Media: Removable Storage of Image, Sound, Motion and Data
Tangible Media: Removable Storage of Image, Sound, Motion and Data
Chemistry
Tom Mix TV Viewer

Title:

Daughter Elopes

Date:

1949

Material:

Cellulose acetate

A premium for Ralston breakfast cereals. The viewer came with five discs, including The Tom Mix Show, Lou Costello, U.S. Jet Planes in Action, The Marx Brothers and Kukla, Fran and Ollie, among others. This one shows a cartoon elopement in which the mother volunteers to help her daughter's suitor get her out of the house. This particular disc isn't one of the Tom Mix subjects, which is probably fortunate, because Tom Mix's daughter Ruth actually had eloped at the age of 17 in 1930. The marriage was annulled in 1932. There were many different Ralston premiums with his name attached so he may not have reviewed every one of them.