Classic Serial: Flash Gordon - Space Soldiers Conquer The Universe

Zarkov and FlashThis classic Saturday morning movie matinee serial of the 1930's may not have been intended as comedy, but then you see the space ships wobbling through the air (is that a sparkler at the back of the ship? and should they really sound like an electric razor?), normal sized lizards for monsters, characters with turnip heads and some truly jaw droppingly bad dialogue... this isn't just bad, it's brilliantly bad... you will be hooked... Normal sized lizard monster

The serial is filled with characters and plots of perfect cartoon strip dimensions. It's a good old fashioned adventure and at times there are more than a few plot points that made us think of Indiana Jones and Star Wars...

Flash and the boys talk to MingTechnical point: The dimensions of the screen were determined by our video rendering package (Adobe Premiere Version 6.01), had we had an option we would probably have reduced the screen size a little. We chose 128KBps transfer rate (for all but the first episode) to keep the file sizes down. In some of the action sequences the factorization of the picture does become a little bit of an issue. Sorry about this. What you can of course do is reduce the size of the screen in the Windows player if this is annoying. The sound is pretty much as good as we can make it however. But, hey, it's free right... please enjoy it and tell all your friends and keep on coming back to theVoiceofReason.com.

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Classic Serial facts
Released in 1934, 12 parts.
Screen play George H Plympton, Basil Dickey, Barry Shipman
Art Director Harold MacArthur
Photography Jerome Ash, William Skkiner (sic)
Dialogue Director Jacques Jaccard
Edited by Alvin Todfd, Louis Sackin, Joesph Glick
Associate Producer Henry MacRae
Directed By Ford Beebe and Ray Taylor
Supervising Editor Saul A. Goodkind
Cast Larry 'Buster' Crabbe is Flash Gordon, Carol Hughes is Dale Arden, Charles Middleton is Emperor Ming, Anne Gwynneis Sonjia and Frank Shannonis Doctor Zarkov.
Also starring John Hamilton, Herbert Rawlinson, Tom Chatterton, Shirley Deane, Lee Powell, Roland Drew, Don Rowan, Victor Zimmerman, Edgar Edawards, Ben Taggart, Michael Mark, Earl Dwire, Harry C Bradley, Sigurd Nilssen, Mimi Taylor, Byron Foulger, William Royle.
 
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