#35610 - 02/13/10 08:55 PM
Superglue maybe?
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Michael A.Aquino
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What fascinated me about the Republic serials were the hats. Unlike Indiana Jones, who always has to keep grabbing his fedora, the hats of the good & bad guys in the serials always stayed on their heads as though attached with staple guns. Watch the fistfight at the beginning of this Crimson Ghost episode. Eventually the hero does lose his [though he makes certain to restore it afterwards], but the two crooks get thrown all over the room, hit with furniture, etc. and their hats don't budge. This is some serious LBM at work! [Incidentally, the principal bad guy here is Clayton Moore, who would later wear a mask - and a white hat! - as the Lone Ranger.]
Also illustrated at the beginning of this episode is why there was never any physical violence against women. There was no need for it. All you had to do was touch them and they'd faint.
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#35611 - 02/13/10 10:00 PM
Re: One Step Beyond & Sci Fi Theater
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Fnord
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In the "actual future" of 2010, it's difficult to remember just how rosy and Jetsons-like the future was supposed to be from the perspective of the 1950s.
I wonder about that sometimes...
This country always had some sort of utopia to look forward to that was more or less rooted in the zeitgeist of the day. It was always going to be so much better. These days that positive message seems to have taken a back burner to all of the negative stuff out there.
Not sure which is better.
I love that Disney film... I've watched it youtube about a hundred times over the past few years.
I love advertising art from the 50's and 60's as well... the style of that piece reminds me of some of the stuff on PLAN59. Check out some of the Atomic ranches if you get a chance.
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#35612 - 02/13/10 11:10 PM
Now baste it with 7Up ...
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Michael A.Aquino
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I love advertising art from the 50's and 60's as well... the style of that piece reminds me of some of the stuff on PLAN59. Check out some of the Atomic ranches if you get a chance.
That's a neato-keeno website, and gets a bookmark alongside this one, wherein you can mourn some of the 1950s' cooking that no longer tempts our palates, and the mysteries of women's underwear elastic failure.
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#35613 - 02/13/10 11:16 PM
Re: Superglue maybe?
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Mr Chips
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The effect wasn't just in the Republic serials. As a kid, I noticed that Star Trek's Spock rarely had a hair out of place. The man could have a wool cap jerked off his head... but it wouldn't mess up his hair. I think he went through a wind storm once and had a lock of hair move a little. Great hair spray, I guess... 
Though I'm in my early 40s, I'm familiar with many of the shows mentioned in this thread. Sgt. Preston or The Lone Ranger were early morning favorites in my state during the 70s; I watched those shows every school day morning at 6am while eating breakfast. In fact, we had a B/W set then, and it was only recently that, while watching a rare colorized episode of The Lone Ranger, did I realize Kemosabe's outfit is an interesting shade of blue that probably would have raised eyebrows in the real West.
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#40249 - 07/14/10 03:41 PM
Re: Yo, Rinty!
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Dakota
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This was really freaky to me a long time ago, but I like it so much.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moIblQWM0lo
I want to meet those people, and speak to them. I love freaks so much, I guess it's because I appear so normal yet I am a freak even with the freaks. Ever felt like that, it's like a dualism of freak-ism and normal-ism.
I wanted to kissed this armless girl one time, and I befriended her before she left to Germany. Then I befriended this mentally retarded man, and speak to him when most people ignore him. We were laughing about the porn star Jenna Jameson, since I was a fan of her at the time.
Freaks make the world go round.
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#40255 - 07/14/10 04:27 PM
Kemosabe
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Michael A.Aquino
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... it was only recently that, while watching a rare colorized episode of The Lone Ranger, did I realize Kemosabe's outfit is an interesting shade of blue that probably would have raised eyebrows in the real West.
Well, it was only later in life that the LR learned the meaning of "Kemosabe". 
As for that baby-blue, pre-spandex outfit, they did much the same thing for the poor crew in the first Star Trek movie, in which they all looked like they were running around in their jammies. The uniforms got more high-school-band in subsequent films.
I have to say that I am curious why, in either space or war films, no matter in what environment or what kind of weather, the men always wear full battledress uniforms and the women always wear low-cut tank tops. This must be a variation on the principle in cop movies that in every murder investigation it is necessary to visit a strip club at least once. 
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#40296 - 07/15/10 02:00 PM
Re: Kemosabe
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I have to say that I am curious why, in either space or war films, no matter in what environment or what kind of weather, the men always wear full battledress uniforms and the women always wear low-cut tank tops. This must be a variation on the principle in cop movies that in every murder investigation it is necessary to visit a strip club at least once
Didn't you know? According to almost any professional sf-geek or gamer, the power of a male caracter gets higher the more shiny and fitter the suits get. For women the rule is as follows: the less they wear the stronger they are...
Always have been a fan of retro-horror or SF-movies. I quite liked "The head that wouldn't die". It had something simple yet fascinating. Although the end was a little predictable. The very first film from Alice in Wonderland is quite bizar if being used to the "modern" remakes or disney interpretations.
Edited by Dimitri (07/15/10 02:08 PM)
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