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Posted By: Joann

There is a 1941 Disney short cartoon starring Mickey and Minnie called "The Nifty Nineties" (about the 1890's). In the opening scene, Mickey is walking along a path in a park to the soundtrack of whatever that "Merry Merry Month of May" song is.

Right along the path is a billboard that advertises an upcoming Bloomer Girls Baseball game at this same park. Very very cool.

It is drawn with cartoonish exaggeration, but otherwise it's composition is very consistent with the many Bloomer Girl postcards from ~1910 when BG postcards were most prominent. Shows a standing row of players in uniform with equipment.

The billboard is not hidden at all - it takes up much of the center screen for several seconds as Mickey goes past in front of it whistling.

I just saw this within the past month and about fell out of my chair. I even thought that I would just love love love to have a cell (or whatever they are called) of that scene, but I suspect that's impossible.

Not exactly movies, and not exactly cards, but still a neat embedded reference to the hobby.

J