Why Jack?
What's with the calling people Jack in the 30s?
Joseph A Gayek (effects) was called Jack Gayek...
And here are three directors:
John Frederick Hannah was called Jack Hannnah...
James Patton King was called Jack King...
John Kinney was called Jack Kinney...
[Addition 2019: John W. Cutting became Jack Cutting...]
And I guess there were several others! But why?
Joseph A Gayek (effects) was called Jack Gayek...
And here are three directors:
John Frederick Hannah was called Jack Hannnah...
James Patton King was called Jack King...
John Kinney was called Jack Kinney...
[Addition 2019: John W. Cutting became Jack Cutting...]
And I guess there were several others! But why?
Labels: Ponderings
posted by Hans Perk at 6:00 AM
8 Comments:
There were also Jack (John Morin) Bradbury (animator/comic book artist) and Jack (Carlton) Boyd (effects animator).
Don't forget Jack (John) Mercer.
And John Eichelbaum became Jack L. Warner! According to Wikipedia, "Jack" was originally a nickname for John and Jacob, and traditionally refers to a sailor, as in "Jack tar", or any other non-specific labourer, as in "lumberjack" and "Jack of all trades".
John becomes Jack, like Richard becomes Dick, and James becomes Jim, William becomes Bill.. the English have a strange way of abbreviating names.. doesn't make a lot of sense to me!
groetjes
Ah, Boris - but Dick is SHORT for Richard, Jim is SHORT for James and Bill is SHORT for William. Jack can never be short for John...
(Groetjes terug!)
Oh Thad... "Jack" Mercer was actually Winfield Mercer.
Also WB animator John Carey was consistently referred to as "Jack" Carey.
Hit the road, Jack!
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