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A short-lived (I imagine, given what I can find on it) series of slim kid’s books/magazines, these featured two kids, Tobi and Terri, a boy and girl with twin-style features, going on wilderness/farming adventures. Basically it seems to be promoting a more humble and eco-friendly lifestyle to kids. The one here seems to involve a red cabin, as will other art throughout the film.
It’s major function in the picture seems to be the way it interacts with the mirrorform. The book is hiding behind the doctor for the entire vision-investigation scene, and on the opposite side of the movie, Jack is springing out from his hiding spot to axe Hallorann. As previously discussed, Trapper’s Camp relates to Hallorann’s murder. Jack is the trapper, and this is his camp. His Teenie Weenie camp.
Also, speaking of that other red cabin and the mirrorform, that painting disappears from the backward action approximately 1 second before the forward action cuts from Danny’s bloodfall vision to the scene of the doctor inspecting his eyes. And actually, that means that we would be hearing her say, “Now hold your eyes still so I can see” for some small amount of time while that other red cabin is flying past BJ Well Wendy. At this moment, my leading theory is that that painting is by an artist named Winfield Scott Clime, and Hallorann is murdered standing only twenty/thirty feet from a poster of Dr. Julius Winfield Erving. So if we can figure out if the painted red cabin has some special significance, like if it was a real cabin of some historic importance, we might gain a deeper insight.
Returning to the kid’s book, the name also rings a hard bell for anyone who remembers The Teenie Weenies, an old comic strip that ran for about 50 years, which included a character named Danny Dunce, who was a cowboy. The Teenie Weenies were two-inch tall people, like The Borrowers, who lived off the enormity of all the things we think of as being small. So, like Tony, the “little boy who lives in [Danny’s] mouth”, the Teenie Weenies could slip around unbeknownst to us gigantic humans. Also, of all the Snow White stickers Danny could’ve put on his door, he chose Dopey, which speaks to the “Danny Dunce” cowboy. Also, Danny is the only one to see Remington’s The Cowboy illustration in the games room. Food for thought.
I also like to think of “Teenie Weenie Adventures” being a kind of shorthand for all the tiny shifts and tricks that happen throughout the movie, several of which take place in this room. I’ve written a whole section on those, in case you’d like an exhaustive review.
Next literary reference: Gingerbread Man
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