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Understanding 9/11tv Dr. Seuss Collection CSPAN January 7, 2017 12:29pm-12:42pm EST
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generation of mexican american scholars had to fight and the trenches and they were called intellectuals. i ride on their shoulders. we don't just head to be black and right. if you read my book read it for the pictures. you might just learn something. you might just learn something. learning more about the city. in front of those as you may know him dr. seuss. we take you as we learn more about the san diego favorite. see mac i think some of the first things that come to mind when people hear the words dr. seuss are the amazing range of book titles that they
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probably have read to their children possibly had read to themselves by their parents and what a whimsical person he probably was. theodore was not born in this area a course he was born in massachusetts started coming to san diego on visits and the late 1920s eventually moved to san diego continued to live there for over 40 years. they continue to reside there today. the two of them were very active when they began which was not until 1960. they were very involved with the medical school and then eventually and this is after ted died mrs. guys out has been very much involved with the university library here now called guys a library.
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thinking he would be a writer. majored in was literature. he happened to be very adept at dried and did lots of drying for the jack-o'-lantern and the newspapers. at that time he actually used his own name. he and some of his friends have a little run in with the dean once because they drink a bit too much and he was banned from working on the papers. so he could get his little cartoon into the paper. sis was actually his middle name. and since was his mother's main name. he became more and more interested in drying and one
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of the wonderful things that we have here and the collection is the notebook from oxford in international. you can see he spent a lot of time in class making little cartoons and doodling down his page perhaps more of that that he was taking notes. i think he and his first wife they came back when they came back to this country and try to make it as an artist. the first children's book that he published was to think that i saw it on mulberry street the cat and the hat came out in 57 quite a few years later of course.
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that was probably his most popular bucket that he did. but he did do illustrations for other authors early on. it wasn't as his own books that he did. i think the cat and the hat really thought his publishing career was get to good to take off. it made people think about a different way of teaching of how children learn to it was very different from a lot of the children's books that were popular at the time such as the kind that i may have read when i was a child. his work of course the cat and the hat was much more initiative and appealed to the child and adults as well as to the children who are reading it. we have the dr. seuss collection here which was a gift from mrs. guys all. in 1995.
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ted have died but it was his wish that that materials be here for his devoted fans worldwide to be able to come and use these materials and to have his legacies preserved. it's about 18,000 of his original drawings. it spans early years some of the earliest known drawings. all the way up until the last children's book that he published and then most recently of course some other drawings were discovered at the house so those are now being published by random house the longtime publisher. and now is a fun part and i'm in and show you some of the things that are actually and the dr. seuss collection. i am using the cat and the hat as an example because i think that as a is a title that most people are familiar with these
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are some of the earliest sketches. you can see that they are very rough sketches as he is working out the story. he treated these just like sort of on his desk. you can see how rough the sketches are. and just as he's getting an idea of how it's gonna look on the page you can see when you get over here that he is always working on a two-page spread. he has his words at the time cut out from other paper and pasted here where he thinks they might go on the page then, when he graduated from the rough sketches he would tend to make more finished drawings in ink, black and white and i think you could see the difference.
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there is a very rough sketch of the house. the sun did not shine. it was too wet to play. so we sat and the house, cold wet day. then, he was happy with that. he has added what would be called a color overlay to the storyboard and this tells the printer what color to use and what percentage of the keller to use. this would be 100% blue, 100% red. here is another storyboard you see the black and white drawings. it's only going to get 40% red as opposed to that 100% fred down here. it's quite familiar. these are some of the earliest
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known drawings by dr. seuss these are from the 1920s you can see this is again he has used ink and pencil this is kind of a tuft dragon. it looks quite evil i think. it's a very funny sketch. there goes the wolf. we have no idea for what purpose these were drawn other than perhaps his creative urge. they're not in any books. but one of my favorite things and the collection is dr. seuss' notebook from when he was a graduate student at oxford and the 1920s after he graduated from dartmouth. you can see these are just a couple of pages we have taken
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care to preserve them. you can just see while he was taking a few notes here he was really actually quite happy drying all kinds of different dogs and hounds down the page. here is another one where he is just drying birds and making doodles on all sorts of things. and you can see even within the colors of the notebook itself all sorts of wonderful little doodles and drawings that he made. i have also put out some of his political cartoons he worked as an editorial cartoonist. before he himself went into the army. during world war ii. and a lot of these are quite
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funny this one was the nazi spy being dropped from an airplane into the jungles. you will immediately marry some young brazilian palm tree. my invasion of south america is practically and the bag. i think the cartoons although the earliest ones are still mostly bridging the war efforts the anti- war america first initiatives a lot of the later cartoons i think are as appropriate today as they were and the 1940s when they have to do with do-nothing congress is high taxes inflation.
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i think the collection attends that there really the original collection. they can come in and use them whether it's a faculty member who might be teaching a class in children's literature or someone who is teaching american history's that might want to use the political cartoons that he did and the 1940s. but i think most of all this is uc san diego. it was a very heavy science and medicine campus. i think having those here also adds an element again and non- science and you can think of the cat and the hat kind of running around to all of these. and maybe causing a little bit of mischief. i think dr. seuss is important to the history of literature. he wrote a new kind of children's book. they had been translated into
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many different languages i think sometimes that loses a little bit in translation. it's sort of throws the scheme off. but i think his genius will endure. >> one what we guess led the first european expedition. in september 1542 he sailed into today's san diego bay. the national monument located near his leaning point was erected in 1913 to commemorate his discovery. i'm next we consider -- continue our luck with as we speak with local author. on my people use profanity and what it says about us and our language. >> the words themselves aren't bad if the cultural beliefs
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