Object Details
maker
Animal Behavior Enterprises, Inc.
Description
This blue three-ring binder contains sheets of instructions on several products of Animal Behavior Enterprises, including:
1. Bird Brain
2. Capsule Vendor
3. Dancing Chicken
4. Bat Bird
5. Drumming Duck
6. Basketball Chicken (also known as Basketball Act)
7. Fire Chief Rabbit
8. Kissing Bunny
9. Postcard Vendor
10. Henda, the Fortune Teller
11. The Piano Playing Duck
12. Charley Chance
The material was received with an example of the Bird Brain, 2004.0075.01. The documents are undated.
Also included under this index number are three dated documents. They are:
1. A pamphlet entitled The Kissing Bunny – 1954
2. A sheet entitled Welcome to my Show on Keller Breland’s Educated Animals, 1976
3. A December 23, 1980, U.S. trademark registration for the Bird Brain. This is registration number 1,143,966. It reports that the term “Bird Brain” was first used by Animal Behavior Enterprises for a coin operated apparatus in November of 1975 and first used in commerce in January of 1976. The trademark was filed November 21, 1977.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Gift of Robert E. Bailey
date made
1954-1980
ID Number
2004.3022.02
catalog number
2004.3022.02
nonaccession number
2004.3022
Object Name
documentation
Measurements
overall: 29.7 cm x 25.8 cm x 4.2 cm; 11 11/16 in x 10 5/32 in x 1 21/32 in
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Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Entertainment
Psychology
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_1273386