Ad for the original 1943 serial produced by Columbia pictures.
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Thursday, May 30, 2019
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
Monday, May 27, 2019
Thursday, May 23, 2019
Titano The Super Ape
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Titano The Super Ape was like another King Kong, and the cover blurb compares the comic book ape to the classic movie monster.
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Titano The Super Ape was like another King Kong, and the cover blurb compares the comic book ape to the classic movie monster.
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Monday, May 20, 2019
Black Widow Costume Rides Again
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The costume Carol Forman wore in THE BLACK WIDOW which was reused on THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN had also been worn by Jean Wong in THE CHINESE RING ( 1947 ), a Charlie Chan movie in which she played a Chinese princess.
It would have been a fairly new costume at that time, as THE BLACK WIDOW had been made earlier the same year.
THE BLACK WIDOW
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039193/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
THE CHINESE RING:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039262/
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The costume Carol Forman wore in THE BLACK WIDOW which was reused on THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN had also been worn by Jean Wong in THE CHINESE RING ( 1947 ), a Charlie Chan movie in which she played a Chinese princess.
It would have been a fairly new costume at that time, as THE BLACK WIDOW had been made earlier the same year.
THE BLACK WIDOW
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039193/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
THE CHINESE RING:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039262/
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Saturday, May 18, 2019
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Superman On Television With Serial Costumes
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Superman had a new costume for television, but a number of other costumes used on the show were left over from the serials. The first episode had a number of the inhabitants of the planet Krypton dressed in futuristic costumes from the Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers serials.
Carole Forman:
http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2012/10/carol-forman-and-spider-lady.html
Aline Towne:
https://filesofjerryblake.com/serial-heroines/aline-towne/
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Superman had a new costume for television, but a number of other costumes used on the show were left over from the serials. The first episode had a number of the inhabitants of the planet Krypton dressed in futuristic costumes from the Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers serials.
Robert Rockwell as Jor-El reused the costume worn by
Buster Crabbe in FLASH GORDON CONQUERS THE UNIVERSE.
The guy on the right is wearing
Captain Marvel's costume from the serial,
with a collar taken from one of the costumes from FLASH GORDON and BUCK ROGERS, such as the one worn by this "Kryptonian".
Second man from the left has Captain America's costume from the 1944 serial. Captain Marvel's longjohns can be seen on the third man from the right.
During the same episode, Aline Towne as Lara wore a space girl costume from a Republic serial.
A similar costume was worn by the girl Martian in THE PURPLE MONSTER STRIKES.
It might have been the same costume with slight changes.
Gloria Saunders wore a costume in THE RIDDLE OF THE CHINESE JADE
that had been worn by Carol Forman in THE BLACK WIDOW.
The use of a costume that had been worn by Carole Forman in a serial made it look as if they were trying to sneak a reference to her into the television version, something that I don't think they wanted. The people who were in charge of the production did not try to emulate the Superman serials and did not originally use any of their principal cast members. Noel Neill was only used on the television version when it became necessary to replace Phyllis Coates when she left the series. Although Carole Forman was still working on television, she was never used on THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN at all.
Carole Forman:
http://bennypdrinnon.blogspot.com/2012/10/carol-forman-and-spider-lady.html
Aline Towne:
https://filesofjerryblake.com/serial-heroines/aline-towne/
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