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Title: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 07:36:12 PM
This old thing is just chock-full of win.  It's important screen science fiction history, and required watching for any knowledgeable Star Wars fan.  Give it a look.


Flash Gordon 1936 Chapter 1 / 13 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I0lo42gcgM#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 07:36:36 PM
Flash Gordon 1936 Chapter 2 / 13 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JhrsRRhzFg#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 07:36:59 PM
Flash Gordon 1936 Chapter 3 / 13 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4bwOm6qP0Q#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 07:39:03 PM
Flash Gorden 1936 Chapter 4 / 13 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRWK4Mvzf4g#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 07:39:25 PM
Flash Gordon 1936 Chapter 5 / 13 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aqUFo5vRAU#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 07:45:56 PM
Flash Gordon 1936 Chapter 6 / 13 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ydIOLOeWKo#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 07:46:18 PM
Flash Gordon 1936 Chapter 7 / 13 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCNUuhW4C_Y#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 07:46:38 PM
Flash Gordon 1936 Chapter 8 / 13 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLzjLH6CO_Q#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 07:46:59 PM
Flash Gordon 1936 Chapter 9 / 13 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqVt5NhiMfc#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 07:47:22 PM
Flash Gordon 1936 Chapter 10 / 13 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QckB_T_V6zw#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 07:47:44 PM
Flash Gordon 1936 Chapter 11 / 13 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap8sfb2_W5M#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 07:48:08 PM
Flash Gordon 1936 Chapter 12 / 13 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRYHDkKP_k4#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 07:48:30 PM
See page two of the thread...
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 07:50:56 PM
...for...
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 07:51:44 PM
...the thrilling conclusion! 

-And the sequel, Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars.
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 07:52:27 PM
Flash Gordon 1936 Chapter 13 / 13 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLRkfQPebr0#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 07:56:52 PM
The adventure continues:

Flash Gordons Trip to Mars Chapter 01 of 15 Part 1 of 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ2HUfD0QSw#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 07:57:25 PM
Flash Gordons Trip to Mars Chapter 01 of 15 Part 2 of 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqHmSW7s90k#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 07:58:03 PM
Flash Gordons Trip to Mars Chapter 02 of 15 Part 1 of 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqOMKuqWG2Y#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 07:58:21 PM
Flash Gordons Trip to Mars Chapter 02 of 15 Part 2 of 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-12ZtRkMsms#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 07:58:51 PM
Flash Gordons Trip to Mars Chapter 03 of 15 Part 1 of 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1mWiHxp-Sw#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 08:00:22 PM
Flash Gordons Trip to Mars Chapter 03 of 15 Part 2 of 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mw1i_zQMX4#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 08:01:47 PM
Flash Gordons Trip to Mars-Chapter 04 of 15 - Part 1 of 2.avi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMpDkMljgFA#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 08:03:06 PM
Flash Gordons Trip to Mars-Chapter 04 of 15 - Part 2 of 2.avi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekZZANkmnrE#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 08:03:45 PM
Flash Gordons Trip to Mars-Chapter 05 of 15 - Part 1 of 2.avi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdEO_94vPrY#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 08:04:08 PM
Flash Gordons Trip to Mars-Chapter 05 of 15 - Part 2 of 2.avi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyjLUWc4DfY#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 08:05:44 PM
Flash Gordons Trip to Mars-Chapter 06 of 15 - Part 1 of 2.avi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG8UukmfPSA#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 08:06:11 PM
Reached the video embedding limit.  More on the next page.
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 08:12:19 PM
Hey, was Dale not hotter than hot in that little white dress for a few chapters early in the first serial? 
(click to show/hide)
  You can't go wrong with a tiny waist.

And what was with Vultan showing her the space bear?  He didn't make any threats, ask for anything, or lay any conditions on sending it back out (avec slap on the butt).  It looked like he was just drunk outta his flippin' skull and just plain wanted to show her the bear.

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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 08:15:50 PM
I see I need to go mess with the swear filter; I had to remove an item that was vulking up a video link, and there's the reason I don't like to fool with it - I have to reinsert the spaces after each entry that keep it from messing with a few innocent letters in the middle of words.  It's a pain.
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 08:16:04 PM
Flash Gordons Trip to Mars-Chapter 06 of 15 - Part 2 of 2.avi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxixoyESp_E#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 08:19:50 PM
Flash Gordons Trip to Mars-Chapter 07 of 15 - Part 1 of 2.avi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKYoe9bSy3E#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 08:20:14 PM
Flash Gordons Trip to Mars-Chapter 07 of 15 - Part 2 of 2.avi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9C3oyKHE5c#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 08:21:55 PM
Flash Gordons Trip to Mars-Chapter 8 of 15 - Part 1 of 2.avi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyF-pvh4fkQ#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 08:22:21 PM
Flash Gordons Trip to Mars Chapter 8 of 15 Part 2 of 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4-JPj-t628#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 08:23:06 PM
Flash Gordons Trip to Mars Chapter 9 of 15 Part 1 of 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DTkAmOCAlI#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 08:23:26 PM
Flash Gordons Trip to Mars-Chapter 9 of 15 - Part 2 of 2.avi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKMN-8qdYQ4#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 08:24:19 PM
Flash Gordons Trip to Mars-Chapter 10 of 15 - Part 1 of 2.avi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_auxJL0neoE#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 08:24:49 PM
Flash Gordons Trip to Mars-Chapter 10 of 15 - Part 2 of 2.avi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YfYbsO5CxI#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 08:25:15 PM
Flash Gordons Trip to Mars-Chapter 11 of 15 - Part 1 of 2.avi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIFQYqut_kQ#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 08:26:27 PM
Flash Gordons Trip to Mars-Chapter 11 of 15 - Part 2 of 2.avi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R67pBOp-7Lo#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 08:26:58 PM
Flash Gordons Trip to Mars-Chapter 12 of 15 - Part 1 of 2.avi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY7X9lfGRPE#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 08:27:33 PM
More of our adventure on the next page.
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 08:31:17 PM
-And the beginning of the third and final Buster Crabbe Flash Gordon serial, Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe.  The costumes are by far the most fabulous of the three serials.
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 08:35:59 PM
Dale never again wears anything nearly so hot as the white Mongo-wedding dress from the first serial, but the shorter dark hair she sports in Trip to Mars suits her a lot more than the Jean Harlow look she sported then.  They had to recast the part in the next one, alas, but the new Dale does wear the skater-with-a-cape number pretty well.
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 08:36:13 PM
Flash Gordons Trip to Mars-Chapter 12 of 15 - Part 2 of 2.avi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ1PcYwQjgI#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 08:36:37 PM
Flash Gordons Trip to Mars Chapter 13 of 15 Part 1 of 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmqodtuZcXQ#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 08:37:27 PM
Flash Gordons Trip to Mars-Chapter 13 of 15 - Part 2 of 2.avi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm29C8V8f2w#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 08:37:55 PM
Flash Gordons Trip to Mars-Chapter 14 of 14 - Part 1 of 2.avi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgE76H81xLw#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 08:45:37 PM
Flash Gordons Trip to Mars-Chapter 14 of 15 - Part 2 of 2.avi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p965VUEYgMg#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 08:46:07 PM
Flash Gordons Trip to Mars-Chapter 15 of 15 - Part 1 of 2.avi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzPz4yCGur0#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 08:46:38 PM
Flash Gordons Trip to Mars-Chapter 15 of 15 - Part 2 of 2-Final.avi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bXaB-zjdXY#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 08:51:45 PM
And now: the ultimate entry in our story, Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe!

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe - Episode 1 - The Purple Death (1940) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiZrYTk1r5s#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 08:52:24 PM
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe - Episode 2 - Freezing Torture (1940) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO7jVZpTmFs#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 08:53:17 PM
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe ~ Episode 3 Walking Bombs (1940) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eMECSMePec#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 08:53:41 PM
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe ~ Episode 4 - The Destroying Ray (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRGF28djx_4#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 08:54:40 PM
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe ~ Episode 5 - The Palace of Horror (1940) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZYcpk93_q0#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 08:58:05 PM
The rest of the story on the next page...
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 09:04:47 PM
The theme to this one is Les Preludes by Franz Liszt - a number that sounds exactly like an orchestral arrangement of The Bear Went Over the Mountain, though they didn't use the passage(s) that does.

...It sorta ties together, thematically, with Vultan showing Dale the bear in the first serial...
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 09:07:15 PM
Notice how much nicer tights serve the "space" look than shorts, or rather, how equally well they achieve the look without looking nearly so stupid on grown men.
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 09:07:39 PM
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe - Episode 7 - The Land of the Dead (1940) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7aTuiFN3LU#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 09:08:02 PM
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe - Episode 8 - The Fiery Abyss (1940) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaSWP-MXWdA#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 09:08:19 PM
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe - Episode 9 - The Pool of Peril (1940) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rbxc_W_1TE#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 09:09:10 PM
And aren't the chapter titles beautifully cheesy?

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe - Episode 10 - The Death Mist (1940) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THgCIZgUun8#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 09:09:55 PM
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe - Episode 11 - Stark Treachery (1940) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC1BeUW8GfU#)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 09:10:22 PM
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe - Episode 12 - Doom of the Dictator (1940) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDm6idAv4c8#)
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Post by: Unorthodox on April 10, 2013, 09:14:34 PM
I absolutely adore the prop work on this show.
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Post by: Unorthodox on April 10, 2013, 09:16:27 PM
Just totally awesome: 

http://davelowe.blogspot.com/2009/06/my-useless-weekend-prop-project.html (http://davelowe.blogspot.com/2009/06/my-useless-weekend-prop-project.html)
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 09:19:12 PM
I absolutely adore the prop work on this show.
Do you?  What they did with the model effects is what impressed me.

That's sarcasm.

...

Here's Les Preludes in its entirety - listen at 3:00 for the Bear Went Over the Mountain part.

Franz Liszt - Les préludes, symphonic poem No.3, S.97 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j5zY-h7gOg#)

Liszt was clearly a very handsome man.  That's sarcasm.
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 09:20:44 PM
Just totally awesome: 

http://davelowe.blogspot.com/2009/06/my-useless-weekend-prop-project.html (http://davelowe.blogspot.com/2009/06/my-useless-weekend-prop-project.html)
It is indeed totally awesome.
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Post by: Unorthodox on April 10, 2013, 09:29:40 PM
Do you?  What they did with the model effects is what impressed me.

That's sarcasm.

...

Yes, pick a control panel in Flash Gordon, all the knobs and sticks and guages, all shiny and chromed.  Totally kickass prop work that is infinitely more interesting than the blinking light banks of most scifi.  Original Trek being the beginning of this move to blinking light banks. 
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 09:34:42 PM
It certainly had a look - but one feels confident they followed Alex Raymond and the strip closely in this, as they did in most all other things.  These serials are fairly faithful adaptions.

What chaps me about the model work is all the places that using a slightly high-speed camera to play things back a little slow to give some slight sense of scale would have helped.  I'm not asking for CGI in 1936, or a multi-million-dollar budget, but the model work was plain sloppy.
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Unorthodox on April 10, 2013, 09:50:33 PM
Never said the effects were good. 

Just Flash Gordon was steampunk before steampunk was cool. 
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 09:52:02 PM
Nah, the first steampunk was The Wild, Wild West in the 60s.
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 10:01:32 PM
Here's a particularly good example, but most any episode with Dr. Lovelace -and a lot of the others- will do.

The Night Of The Puppeteer (5) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR74DpTyPN4#noexternalembed)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Unorthodox on April 10, 2013, 10:14:06 PM
Oh lord that is a hilariously bad baldcap job...
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 10:15:26 PM
They didn't know HD would happen someday, did they?
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Post by: Unorthodox on April 10, 2013, 10:20:32 PM
I didn't say it doesn't work.  A bad baldcap on a creepy figure just adds to the creepy.     
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 10, 2013, 10:43:55 PM
Where they recycled big Tao and the dancing girls from - start at 1:29:26.

Just Imagine (full movie) (1930) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eldqx1MChyc#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Zoid on April 13, 2013, 09:07:24 AM
Dale never again wears anything nearly so hot as the white Mongo-wedding dress from the first serial, but the shorter dark hair she sports in Trip to Mars suits her a lot more than the Jean Harlow look she sported then.  They had to recast the part in the next one, alas, but the new Dale does wear the skater-with-a-cape number pretty well.

Well, you can't go wrong with Jean Harlow. Foxy lady! :)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Zoid on April 13, 2013, 09:21:25 AM
(http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsR/14880.gif)

Jean Rogers was actually born Eleanor Dorothy Lovegren, her father was from Sweden (swedish beauty ftw! :D) She won a beauty contest in 1933, sponsored by Paramount, that's how she got into movies...
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Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 13, 2013, 02:42:41 PM
Swedish beauty ftw! Yes!

Instead of how awesome the Flash Gordon serials are,  we're talking about how hot a woman who's been dead over 21 years was.  ;lol

(Check 'er out in the second, third, and forth episodes of the first serial back on page one - hotter in hell.)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Zoid on April 13, 2013, 08:58:30 PM
The fact that Flash Gordon is awesome goes without saying... :D
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 13, 2013, 09:08:50 PM
Say it anyway...
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Zoid on April 14, 2013, 09:08:26 PM
Flash Gordon is AWESOME!!! :)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 14, 2013, 09:12:46 PM
What's with Vultan showing Dale the bear?
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Zoid on April 15, 2013, 04:27:50 AM
I have no idea...
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 15, 2013, 04:37:36 AM
Showing a dolly girl that you're dumb/crazy enough to paint stripes on your space bear ain't gonna get you none...
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 16, 2013, 08:44:21 PM
Where they recycled big Tao and the dancing girls from - start at 1:29:26.

Just Imagine (full movie) (1930) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eldqx1MChyc#)
My bad - I'd already posted this.  Just Imagine was the first feature-length science fiction talkie, I believe. 

I sent it to Mylochka at the same time (for the Great God Tao), and she watched the whole thing and recommends it.  Sez the 1980 it depicts is funny, as it anticipated the drugs everywhere, Thomas Dolby and Madonna.
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Zoid on April 16, 2013, 08:53:37 PM
Looks like a fun movie :) Thx!
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on April 16, 2013, 08:54:11 PM
SCIENCE!
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on August 05, 2015, 04:07:18 AM
Funny thing - when I was promoting the GOG SMACX sale weekend before last, you know who one of the people who finally gave the game a try was?  Ming. ;nod


Where they recycled big Tao and the dancing girls from - start at 1:29:26.

Just Imagine (full movie) (1930) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eldqx1MChyc#)
Did you ever watch this, Zoid?
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Zoid on August 05, 2015, 06:20:14 PM
Where they recycled big Tao and the dancing girls from - start at 1:29:26.

Just Imagine (full movie) (1930) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eldqx1MChyc#) Did you ever watch this, Zoid?


I did now :)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on August 05, 2015, 06:51:12 PM
:D
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Mylochka on August 12, 2015, 04:14:29 AM
Some Flash Gordon art
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Rusty Edge on August 12, 2015, 04:52:50 AM
Cool!

Did you ever do one for Blade Runner?
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on August 12, 2015, 05:42:22 AM
Some Flash Gordon art
*Gasped*
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Mylochka on August 13, 2015, 03:19:55 AM
No Blade Runner yet.  But it is one of my favorite movies...

More Flash Gordon Artwork
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Dio on August 13, 2015, 03:44:35 AM
No Blade Runner yet.  But it is one of my favorite movies...

More Flash Gordon Artwork
The left eye on the Dale Arden picture gives her the appearance of having a lazy eye. Was this particular feature intended? Otherwise, the other pictures are great ;b;.
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on August 13, 2015, 04:49:01 AM
That Dale in Aboria is the best.
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Rusty Edge on August 13, 2015, 06:22:11 AM
No Blade Runner yet.  But it is one of my favorite movies...


I remembered, that's why I asked. I thought you were strictly Star Trek.

These are stunningly beautiful. I didn't give them the praise they deserve. I love Aura's eyes.
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: vonbach on August 14, 2015, 11:45:23 PM
Thats your artwork? Very impressive.
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 21, 2015, 03:33:04 PM
I just noticed this morning that the entire first serial, as embedded at the beginning of this thread, has been taken down.

Fear not; I've found replacements:

Flash Gordon 1936 Chapter 1 / 13 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5MD9cwpyqY#)

This is absolute classic stuff, for all its ancient low-budget, many-easy-special-effects-hadn't-been-invented-yet, poorly-acted, poorly-written clunkiness.  As I said in the OP, you'll NEVER really get Star Wars if you haven't watched the 30s Flash Gordon serials.  -This is where it all began.
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 21, 2015, 03:51:42 PM
I just skimmed the whole thread and I'll have to track down working copies of Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe, too.  It's certainly worth doing.  Flash Gordon's trip to Mars seems to still work.

Flash Gordon 1936 Chapter 2 / 13 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixgNtxpS354#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Rusty Edge on September 21, 2015, 07:21:35 PM
Buncle saves the day!
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 21, 2015, 07:37:20 PM
 :-[

I don't find it wise to over-emphasize, but I have an even more selfish motivation in the mix for various acts of online generosity than building and promoting the community for people to talk to; I get to feel better about myself.  Nothing to be ashamed of, though - I own it freely.  It doesn't end up mattering why people do good deeds to anyone but the people doing them, provided they do them.

Took a break to do my morning innerwebs browse.  The rest should be up quicker, depending somewhat on activity on the boards.

Flash Gordon 1936 Chapter 3 / 12 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxabcTRdDbA#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 21, 2015, 08:25:05 PM
Mylochka just kept me busy on Facebook for half an hour talking about selling masks.  Back to work:

Flash Gorden 1936 Chapter 4 / 12 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RurxD2M3RYo#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 21, 2015, 08:34:28 PM
Ah.  I see Flesh Gordon in the yootoob sidebar.   -I understand it's pron and don't imagine the nekkidity is left in, anyway; just a lot of foul language in the character names, alone.

Flash Gordon 1936 Chapter 5 / 12 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASj6j4jFzX0#)

I will not be posting Flesh Gordon  here.
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 21, 2015, 08:42:51 PM
Vultan made his appearance last time - he sucks by comparison once you've seen Brian Blessed giving it the purest Brian Blessedness imaginable, but you can't miss where Brian Blessed got every single cue as Vultan.  HE'd totally seen this...

Flash Gordon 1936 Chapter 6 / 12 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rHHeypgXLw#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 21, 2015, 08:47:04 PM
...The look's all wrong, but I think we HAVE to give Uno a shot at playing Ming for the personality...

Flash Gordon 1936 Chapter 7 / 12 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1MOvthQYz4#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 21, 2015, 08:52:55 PM
...On the other hand - wanna swap, Uno?  Vultan's more fun, Ming's a lot bigger part, and I think either of us could probably tear up either one...

Flash Gordon 1936 Chapter 8 / 12 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEOR_PsykwM#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 21, 2015, 09:00:48 PM
I neglected to mention, but in the parts previous where Flash Thun and Barin are shoveling in the Radium Pits?  Mylochka and I have laughed ourselves hoarse joking about the sheer size of Barin's shorts.  Richard Alexander was actually an excellent likeness for how Alex Raymond was drawing Barin at the time, pre-Robin Hood look, but the armor did a credible job of covering up that he was just fat - thus the huge shorts, which didn't work as well.  When Barin went Robin Hood in the strips before the third serial, Mr. Alexander was suddenly looking for work...

Flash Gordon 1936 Chapter 9 / 12 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHpbdlS68AY#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 21, 2015, 09:03:25 PM
Flash Gordon 1936 Chapter 10 / 12 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHiW-a-wZDA#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 21, 2015, 09:37:38 PM
Flash Gordon 1936 Chapter 11 / 12 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8LxV9PiEHU#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 21, 2015, 09:39:52 PM
Flash Gordon 1936 Chapter 12 / 12 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8Lut0HNU8Q#)

 ;popcorn
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 21, 2015, 09:42:08 PM
And now: Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (The middle serial Flash Gordon's trip to Mars, starts on p.2 of the thread):

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe - Ch 1: The Purple Death (1940)  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOE8snMq-aE#)

This is (obviously) the biggest-budget of the three Buster Crabbe Flashes, and the clothes are, hands-down, the most fabulous.  -Again, the serials were astonishingly faithful to the strips in at least the character designs and costumes.  The tights served the 'space' look on the men equally well, and don't look nearly as stupid...

-Which is not to say that the cruder first serial didn't have something almost better - sometimes slickness loses something a cruder effort has for energy, almost  sincerity, you might say, and I do think that's the case with the serials.  They got slicker and slicker, but not necessarily better...
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 21, 2015, 10:10:18 PM
I left this one running while I was doing something else - and notice a rather ridiculous amount of guards and such every few minutes giving it the girlish Homer Simpson scream as they get killed...

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe - Ch 2: Freezing Torture (1940)  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp6-CqHbiyA#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 22, 2015, 12:10:45 AM
I read somewhere, around the time I started this thread a couple of years ago, the observation that in the first serial Ming was the Yellow Peril, a Fu Manchu figure (obviously) if played by a white guy.  In Trip to Mars, he Satan.  In this, he's more of a military dictator in a skullcap.

It's true.

! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuyIH8aL80s#)

This installment sees a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo return of the Great God Tao and the writhing dancers...
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 22, 2015, 12:14:13 AM
That's a surprise - I thought I stumbled over and changed the embed limit sometime this summer, and I would have sworn it used to be 10 to a page.  Huh.

Now I have to spam a couple to start a new page.
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 22, 2015, 12:19:36 AM
Good news, though - I don't remember ever knowing about any Flash Gordon between 1940 and 1980 besides the Saturday cartoon that lasted a season (not bad), but there's something on the toob starring not-Buster-Crabbe.

Probably sucks super-hard, but now I have to run down all I can and post.  I've never seen those.  Old enough to be black and white, and I don't know if TV show or another serial or what.
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 22, 2015, 12:23:30 AM
There's at least some of the cartoon, too - most of all I remember of it is a strong use of "Who will save Guinevere" from Camelot (LOVE that show.  Want to play Arthur before I get too old  I would OWN as Arthur, struggling not to do a Richard Harris imitation the whole time) as the melody of the theme music.  Gotta take the time to post all of that I can scrape up, too.

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe - Ch 3: Walking Bombs (1940) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuyIH8aL80s#)

Next page; excellent.
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 22, 2015, 12:43:51 AM
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe - Ch 4: The Destroying Ray (1940) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO2EEiJD4Q0#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 22, 2015, 12:45:00 AM
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe - Ch 5: The Palace of Horror (1940) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz2t7_VQsfU#)
(A.K.A. Flash Gordon's Trip to Uno's House)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 22, 2015, 01:01:24 AM
Have the perspective-scrolling title recaps at the beginning of each installment of this one escaped the notice of any Star Wars fans?

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe - Ch 6: Flaming Death (1940) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBxIiAxqWAs#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 22, 2015, 01:21:33 AM
I could really do without this extra hoop I have to jump through these days of posting to embed, then having to edit to not say "! No longer available" under the video...

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe - Ch 7: The Land of the Dead (1940) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVCo_RnrAwA#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 22, 2015, 02:09:26 AM
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe - Ch 8: The Fiery Abyss (1940)  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ_wF9LTSr0#)(A.K.A. Flash Gordon's Trip to Uno's Migaine
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 22, 2015, 02:11:19 AM
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe - Ch 9: The Pool of Peril (1940)  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS92N4QH6Tw#)(A.K.A. Is That a Klansman Behind Us?)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 22, 2015, 02:14:23 AM
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe - Ch 10: The Death Mist (1940) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1AgFWlpHdE#)(A.K.A. Didn't we already use this title?  These are all starting to run together.)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 22, 2015, 02:37:44 AM
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe - Ch 11: Stark Treachery (1940)  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_ou1jx9eqk#)
(A.K.A. Darn You, Iron Man! - A.K.A. Finally a title that isn't begging for another Uno joke)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 22, 2015, 02:43:54 AM
Now let's look for that non-Crabbe stuff...

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe - Ch 12: Doom of the Dictator (1940) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEb6xAYbWg8#)
(A.K.A. Zarkov says the title of the serial at The End)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 22, 2015, 02:47:49 AM
I think this is the pilot movie for the cartoon, or a consolidation or something, and if I've posted it before, it wasn't in this thread where I should have.

Flash Gordon The Greatest Adventure of All (1979) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6YhSjRiVio#)

INCREDIBLY ambitious work for a Filmation action cartoon.  -Their Tarzan was beautiful, but the animation was really low-rent with the constant recycled walking -for just one example- shots, an off-putting habit they sustained from at least as early as Star Trek to at least as late as He-Man - neither of which were nearly as pretty as this and Tarzan.
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 22, 2015, 03:23:47 AM
The first episode of the series...

The New Adventures of Flash Gordon - 1x01 - A Planet in Peril  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIaeCw88M7s#)

That only LOOKS sorta like Teela -that's Filmation for you- ISTR it's Princess Aura.

Filmation did the Lone Ranger cartoon that came out around the same time, too.  I don't remember it lasting any longer, or much of anything about it, except a vague sense that it was good, within Filmation limits.
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 22, 2015, 07:53:47 PM
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4AGL8-2wyY#)

I just did some cursory research, and this ran a second (apparently dumbed-down) season.  And the Steve Holland as Flash B&W stuff was indeed a TV show - I'll be sure to track down and post what I can find.
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 22, 2015, 07:55:29 PM
Great; this again.  I'll back up and copy/paste the mention of George Lucas in the Wikipedia Flash article while I'm vamping.  Hold on.
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 22, 2015, 07:59:48 PM
Quote
In the 1970s, several noted directors attempted to make a film of the story. Federico Fellini optioned the Flash Gordon rights from Dino De Laurentiis, but never made the film.[26] George Lucas also attempted to make a Flash Gordon film in the 1970s. However, Lucas was unable to acquire the rights from De Laurentiis, so he decided to create Star Wars instead.[26][27] De Laurentiis then hired Nicolas Roeg to make a Flash Gordon film. However, De Laurentiis was unhappy with Roeg's ideas, and Roeg left the project.[27] De Laurentiis also discussed hiring Sergio Leone to helm the Flash Gordon film; Leone declined because he believed the script was not faithful to the original Raymond comic strips.[28][29] Finally, De Laurentiis hired Mike Hodges to direct the Flash Gordon film.[27]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Gordon#Flash_Gordon_1980_film

As I've mentioned several times, Flash Gordon is directly the father of Star Wars, not just a major influence - Darth Vader is actually Flash gone bad, and Luke his son Emperor Ming hadn't hit with an Evil Ray...

Lucas forgetting that was at the heart of what was wrong with the prequels.  Darth Skywalker had been a real hero, and he showed us an unlikable sulky punk instead.
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 22, 2015, 08:01:06 PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Gordon#Flash_Gordon_.281954.E2.80.9355_live-action.29
Quote
Flash Gordon (1954–55 live-action)[edit]

Main article: Flash Gordon (1954 TV series)

Steve Holland starred in a 1954–55 live-action television series which ran for 39 episodes.[4] The first 26 episodes had the distinction of being filmed in West Berlin, Germany less than a decade after the end of World War II. This is notable, given that some episodes show the real-life destruction still evident in Germany several years after the war. The final 13 episodes were filmed in Marseille, France.

In this series, Flash, Dale (Irene Champlin) and Dr. Zarkov (Joseph Nash) worked for the Galactic Bureau of Investigation in the year 3203. The actual timeline was established in one episode, "Deadline at Noon", in which Flash, Dale and Dr. Zarkov went back in time to Berlin in the year 1953. The GBI agents traveled in the Skyflash and Skyflash II spaceships.

The series was syndicated, appearing on stations affiliated with the long-defunct DuMont Network, and many other independent stations in the United States. Stylistic similarities with the Buster Crabbe films are obvious, and may have been desired by the producers.[weasel words] It was recut into a movie in 1957.
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 22, 2015, 08:02:02 PM
The New Adventures of Flash Gordon - 1x02 - The Monsters of Mongo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4AGL8-2wyY#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 22, 2015, 08:17:20 PM
The New Adventures of Flash Gordon - 1x03 - King of the Hawkmen (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJgkcfEYqz0#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 23, 2015, 12:31:34 AM
Trying to calm down from masks panic...

The New Adventures of Flash Gordon - 1x04 - To Save Earth (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SaJX8ef2SY#)
Red-haired huntress cartoon Aura got it goin' on...
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 23, 2015, 12:36:00 AM
The New Adventures of Flash Gordon - 1x05 - The Beast Men's Prey (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsl8--RJ_gY#)

Has anyone watched any of these yet?  I haven't checked the credits, but some of the voices are very familiar.

I'm pretty sure Flash is voiced same as He-Man, and Ming is Skeletor, fittingly enough.  Teela isn't as distinctive, but isn't that her as Dale?  Prince Thun of the Lion Men sounds a lot like Beast Man...

Thank God, no Orko so far.
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 23, 2015, 02:11:16 AM
The New Adventures of Flash Gordon - 1x06 - Into The Water World (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfakFJbQ3_w#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 23, 2015, 02:15:09 AM
The New Adventures of Flash Gordon - 1x07 - Adventure In Arboria (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FaHuIDCCOs#)
I'd swear that in the newspaper strips, Barin was never bald and Robin Hooded at the same time...
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 23, 2015, 02:36:59 AM
The New Adventures of Flash Gordon - 1x08 - The Frozen World (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceBrNxTZeKA#)(A.K.A. Flash Gordon's Trip to My House Last Winter)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 23, 2015, 02:39:31 AM
The New Adventures of Flash Gordon 1x09 Monster of the Glacier (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN1yA930mNI#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 23, 2015, 02:41:57 AM
New Adventures of Flash Gordon - 1x10 - Blue Magic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAA2A0c0rRgThe#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 23, 2015, 02:44:04 AM
The New Adventures of Flash Gordon - 1x11 - King Flash (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRD3f9ewuSw#)(A.K.A. Flash Gordon's Date With the Sorceress of Castle Grayskull
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 23, 2015, 03:08:02 AM
The New Adventures of Flash Gordon - 1x12 - Tournament Of Death (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYQr1KvQ8gI#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 23, 2015, 03:10:01 AM
The New Adventures of Flash Gordon - 1x13 - Castaways In Tropica (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1DssPr3oTU#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 23, 2015, 03:11:29 AM
You know, I can still crack Mylochka up with the opening monologue from the Filmation Tarzan cartoon (that had much in common with this in look and style) and which I mostly still remember 40 years later..
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 23, 2015, 03:14:19 AM
Wasn't Filmation to blame for Superfriends?  I loved it at the time, but no one involved can have been proud...
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 23, 2015, 03:14:46 AM
The New Adventures of Flash Gordon - 1x14 - The Desert Hawk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvS2nDsUkRA#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 23, 2015, 03:46:02 AM
The New Adventures of Flash Gordon - 1x15 - Revolt of the Power Men (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMUnpUsw1LY#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 23, 2015, 03:49:17 AM
The New Adventures of Flash Gordon - 1x16 - Ming's Last Battle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tk19RQ4Dj4#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 23, 2015, 04:12:17 AM
Season two...

The New Adventures of Flash Gordon - 2x01a - Gremlin the Dragon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM4lNRc7fg4&list=PLfp_r1A709h8HAmPqY5Xt0clLkSU2Y3x_#)

The New Adventures of Flash Gordon - 2x01b - Royal Wedding (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrwthWvYD4A#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 23, 2015, 04:14:33 AM
The New Adventures of Flash Gordon - 2x02a - Sir Gremlin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpL26NxDyog#)

The New Adventures of Flash Gordon - 2x02b - Deadly Double (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJMtIP_8VDs&index=4&list=PLfp_r1A709h8HAmPqY5Xt0clLkSU2Y3x_#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 23, 2015, 04:15:38 AM
The New Adventures of Flash Gordon - 2x03a - The Game (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EaHYyeH2CI#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 23, 2015, 04:19:21 AM
The New Adventures of Flash Gordon - 2x03b -The Seed (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuVfV2HKuPA#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 23, 2015, 04:24:38 AM
The New Adventures of Flash Gordon - 2x04a - Witch Woman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa6j_TFkQnU#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 23, 2015, 04:31:12 AM
Man, is that little pink comedy-relief dragon taking up space.

The New Adventures of Flash Gordon - 2x04b - Micro Menace (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnatuLzpArA#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 24, 2015, 12:14:55 AM
Just because.

Flash Gordon HD fight scene! Out on Blu-ray 23rd August 2010! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Mrls-OiVYs#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 24, 2015, 12:53:39 AM
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71ASRs3dz6k#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 24, 2015, 12:55:49 AM
Gaaah.  Cut off early because I didn't pay attention to the a&bs and had to double up the first two posts of season two.  Extra vamping to get to the next page this time.
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 24, 2015, 01:04:58 AM
While I was finding where I broke off last night, I looked at a vid of the openings for the Tarzan/Lone Ranger/Zorro hour - I don't recall Zorro at all, and am amazed I recall Tarzan's opening monologue so well.  The Lone Ranger opening followed the old radio show and the Clayton Moore TV show pretty closely.
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 24, 2015, 01:06:28 AM
The Flash TV show, Mom did remember a little when I asked about it - didn't seem to have impressed her much.
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 24, 2015, 01:08:59 AM
The Flash, on the other hand -the 90's superhero show -long before that was a big trend- starring John Westley Shipp as The Flash in red boots- my grampa, who I don't think ever read a comic book, liked that one.  That one, you can really imagine almost completely unchanged on the WB, though I bet Shipp's too old now.
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 24, 2015, 01:13:00 AM
The New Adventures of Flash Gordon - 2x05a - Flash Back (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71ASRs3dz6k#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 24, 2015, 01:14:29 AM
The New Adventures of Flash Gordon - 2x05b - The Warrior (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H73WuXYcRQk#)

Do you notice how often the &^%$#@! pink dragon shows up in the random freeze frame?  Time to die, all right.
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 24, 2015, 02:02:43 AM
The New Adventures of Flash Gordon - 2x06a - The Freedom Balloon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4MbbhOTaSg#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 24, 2015, 02:04:16 AM
The New Adventures of Flash Gordon - 2x06b - Sacrifice of the Volcano Men (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kx4p5LdXWo#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 24, 2015, 02:13:00 AM
The New Adventures of Flash Gordon - 2x07a - Beware of Gifts (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq2Qt1p5PlI#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 24, 2015, 02:14:29 AM
The New Adventures of Flash Gordon - 2x07b - The Memory Bank of Ming (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJg5MP8r-qk#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 24, 2015, 02:16:27 AM
The New Adventures of Flash Gordon - 2x08a - Survival Game (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8XOtaCRwNA#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 24, 2015, 02:19:02 AM
Lord, was the first season better...

The New Adventures of Flash Gordon - 2x08b - Gremlin's Finest Hour (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBhQY94tOGQ#)

I think this is all.
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 24, 2015, 02:56:19 AM
The 1954 TV show.  This first episode I skimmed did not impress.  But for completeness' sake...

Flash Gordon-The Planet Of Death (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZNKO7mG-hw&list=PL25D0D40C9E13E8F0#)

The more recent Sci Fi channel series --- just sucked.  They should have gone to jail just for using the Queen theme in the first promos and then not delivering - I don't CARE about rights issues.  A colossal disappointment, I want my money back after watching too much for free hoping it would get better, and, like the porno, I will not be posting it here.
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 24, 2015, 03:01:47 AM
Flash Gordon- Akim TheTerrible (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMzaMO-82MM&list=PL25D0D40C9E13E8F0&index=2#)

I don't know what I expected, but -- not this.  The score is not good.  I think I expected something a lot more like the serials, is all.  20 years progress in special effects, and notwithstanding TV budget, the first serial wasn't done on exactly Gone With the Wind money, y'know?  TV doesn't have to mean sucks, is all.
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 24, 2015, 03:07:23 AM
Find a piece of grand-sounding classical music in the public domain if using Liszt's Prelude again is a problem, and why do Flash Gordon stuff without Ming and Mongo and all the great stuff from the strip?  This just as well be Captain Video or something.  They're in the Space Patrol in the 33rd century.  Why?

Flash Gordon- The Claim Jumpers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_pgOrAKWbQ&index=3&list=PL25D0D40C9E13E8F0#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 24, 2015, 03:38:47 AM
Flash Gordon-The Breath Of Death (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bjEyr-kjuU&index=4&list=PL25D0D40C9E13E8F0#)(A.K.A. Flash Gordon's Trip to Green1 Waking Up on a Sunday Morning)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 24, 2015, 04:07:47 AM
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Sf1_bnnse0&list=PL25D0D40C9E13E8F0&index=5#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 24, 2015, 04:08:10 AM
Heavy sigh.
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 24, 2015, 04:10:01 AM
At this point, I'd just go to bed, but want to at least hang 'til midnight to change the default theme back.  -I didn't change it to Halloween until after nine this morning after I'd announced 24 hours.
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 24, 2015, 04:11:55 AM
Flash Gordon- The Return Of The Androids (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Sf1_bnnse0&list=PL25D0D40C9E13E8F0&index=5#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 24, 2015, 04:20:01 AM
Flash Gordon- The Race Against Time (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4crrwA4vgk&index=6&list=PL25D0D40C9E13E8F0#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 24, 2015, 11:29:54 PM
Flash Gordon: Subworld Revenge (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntwxoRheek0&list=PL9A130D709478472A#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 25, 2015, 03:43:41 AM
Flash Gordon- Deadline At Noon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIRxTEG_UfM#)

They time travel to 1954 Berlin, which was still in pretty bad shape, in this one.  Might be worth watching for that, Rusty.
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 25, 2015, 03:49:10 AM
Turns out nobody has these posted in order - and some episodes don't appear to be on the toob.

Flash Gordon - Struggle to the End - Classic TV Series (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgxx-Vfg8HU#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 25, 2015, 03:53:23 AM
Flash Gordon - Witch of Neptune (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tid1hmimFL0#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 25, 2015, 03:58:35 AM
Flash Gordon - The Forbidden Experiment (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVOyQIcYoaQ#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 25, 2015, 04:02:15 AM
Well, this is only about half of them - but getting too hard to track down, and the opening theme music is sapping my will to live...

Flash Gordon - Saboteurs From Space (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGvjjvjlcrM#)

Would you do Holmes without Moriarty?  Batman without the Joker?  What were they thinking??
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 25, 2015, 05:32:56 PM
Flash Gordon: The Brain Machine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4c0Pp6xWAI#)

This is part two of the story that began in The Witch of Neptune and continues in Struggle to the End.
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 25, 2015, 05:39:11 PM
Flash Gordon The Lure of Light (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llEPiYvJuEw#)
Title: Re: Flash Gordon
Post by: Buster's Uncle on September 25, 2015, 06:37:15 PM
To be fair, listening to the poor opening and random sampling of the rest doesn't do the show justice - I sat all the way through Deadline At Noon this morning, and it wasn't hopelessly teh suck.

-I'd still like to sentence everyone who ever said Star Trek's special effects -only 12 years later- or ANYthing about it were "cheesey" to having to watch the entire run of this for a sense of perspective/historical context.  ST makes this show look like a kindergarten play.
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