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davlghry	Re:Batman serial	#21	[-]
Oct 21 05 7:22 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Is anybody here young enough to remember when this was released theatrcially in 1966 as AN EVENING WITH BATMAN AND ROBIN to cash in on the BATMAN TV series that debuted a couple months before? Like a lot of us Bat-fans I was thrilled that there was an actual BATMAN show on TV featuring the classic villains and I watched it devotedly but even as a 12 year old kid I was dismayed by the campy, comical approach. In some ways I liked the '43 serial better but wished that it, too, would have used the comic book villains. John Carradine as the Joker? Gale Sondergaard as the Catwoman? Eric Blore as the Penguin?
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Jimchig	Re: Re:Batman serial	#22	[-]
Oct 22 05 4:56 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Pretty nifty costumes!
Count Gamula	Re: Re:Batman serial	#23	[-]
Oct 22 05 5:52 PM Burgomaster Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I didn't see the whole Batman serial at the movies in the '60s, but I did see chapter one a few years later as part of a Columbia shots hodgepodge released theatrically in the '70s. It was called THREE STOOGES FOLIES or something. The Stooges headlined, but there were also shorts from others like Edgar Kennedy and maybe Leon Errol and that chapter of Batman was thrown in too. Pretty hilarious seeing them fight in fast mostion in those clunky costumes, but still the highlight of the show for me since I'd never seen any of the serial before. *Kerry Gammill*
Jimchig	Re: Re:Batman serial	#24	[-]
Oct 22 05 6:37 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Funny you should mention that. I first saw (one episode only of) the Batman serial at a local college film festival. This included several Stooges cult favs, including Violent is the Word for Curly, my favorite. Also included was Python's Holy Grail, and assorted other goodies.
davlghry	Re: Batman serial	#25	[-]
Oct 22 05 7:38 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Juat to get things a lot crazier... on the IMDb, Edwin Parker is identified as Lewis Wilson's stunt double in the '43 BATMAN. If that's true he sure looks big enough to have doubled the Frankenstein monster that same year. I'll check him out for chin clefts!
DonM435	Re: Re:Batman serial	#26	[-]
Oct 22 05 10:18 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* Is anybody here young enough to remember when this was released theatrcially in 1966 as AN EVENING WITH BATMAN AND ROBIN to cash in on the BATMAN TV series that debuted a couple months before? I saw it, all four hours, and went back to watch it a second time. First serial I'd seen (other than the Flash gordon chapters on Saturday afternoon TV) and I was fascinated. I was a big fan of Batman from the comic books, and was apalled at the Adam West slapstick version. The serial was sloppy, but sincere.
catmandu7	Re: Re:Batman serial	#27	[-]
Oct 23 05 7:20 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I saw it at The Delta Theatre and enjoyed it very much.They were always showing serial chapters,B Westerns and B Horror Films. I started going there at 10, in 1960 when they were still releasing three year old Joe Bessers as new. And the Movies they showed were not all that old. I was lucky to have grown up being able to see these films, while they were still fairly fresh.
Pa Stark	Re: Re:Batman serial	#28	[-]
Oct 24 05 9:51 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Yes, I saw the show in December 1966 with two of my best friends. As I remember, the Batman TV show didn't premier until a month or so later. It was one of the two greatest evenings I spent at the movies, the other was at a storefront film society where we saw Laurel and Hardy's two greatest features, SONS OF THE DESERT and WAY OUT WEST. The sequence in WOW where Stan and Ollie try to break into Jimmy Finlayson's saloon in the middle of the night was the hardest any of us ever laughed. Part of what was so funny was the person sitting in front of us had a laugh that sounded like a dog barking, his laugh was an "arf arf." We were laughing at the film and at his laugh. I was laughing so hard, my stomach was really in great pain.
brianfett	batman 43 serial	#29	[-]
Oct 28 05 1:30 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I have heard this dvd is an edited version with diffferent dialog? is this true?
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Count Gamula	Re: batman 43 serial	#30	[-]
Oct 31 05 1:00 AM Burgomaster Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	It may have a few wartime racial terms removed, but I haven't noticed anything specific that is missing. It does have the original announcer's voiceover at the end of most of the chapters, not the re-recorded ones done in the '60s. *Kerry Gammill*
brianfett	batman 43 serial	#31	[-]
Oct 31 05 2:13 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Well I read that alot of the dialogue has been changed and very obviously with an obvious overdub. Is it that bad?
Chesterbelloc	Re: batman 43 serial	#32	[-]
Oct 31 05 5:55 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I've watched the first five chapters, and I didn't see any overdubbing. The film's outrageous dialogue is here in all of its "glory". I don't think anything was changed.
Count Gamula	Re: batman 43 serial	#33	[-]
Nov 1 05 3:23 AM Burgomaster Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* Well I read that alot of the dialogue has been changed and very obviously with an obvious overdub. Is it that bad? That may be referring to the announcer at the end of one chapter. For some reason the voiceover of a single chapter ending was replaced with a different voice. *Kerry Gammill*
catmandu7	Re: batman 43 serial	#34	[-]
Nov 19 05 7:21 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I got my copy from a place in Toledo called Shar/Ken,and they took it right from 16MM. I will have to watch the Chapter Endings again.I am sure that this is the Original Narration,as I bought it years ago,maybe 1985.
BijouBob8mm	Re: Batman serial	#35	[-]
Dec 12 05 6:34 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I did compare the GoodTimes tape(s) to the DVD of the 1943 serial, prior to giving the tapes to a buddy who's using his VCR more than I am, and the sound and picture indicate different prints were used for the DVD. As long ago as it's been since the GoodTimes release of both serials (and the second serial was given a VHS release from Columbia since then), who knows what may have happened to the source material they used. I've seen 16mm and Super 8 prints of the serial circulate among collectors since the 1970s, and even those formats differed from each other. (Columbia put out the Super 8 version, I forget where the 16mm prints came from.) Some chapters (or even brief snippets) look as if the serial had to be pieced together in certain spots. Overall, though, this is much closer to the original release version than most of us have seen.
killer meteor	Re: Batman serial	#36	[-]
Mar 7 07 5:09 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Has anyone ever seen a copy of Chapter 2 with the Next Episode preview on it - be unusual if there wasn't one
Doctor Daka	Re: Batman serial	#37	[-]
Mar 19 07 4:29 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Yes the end of chapter 2 was intact, on the old collectors vhs tapes that went around back before the Goodtimes VHS release (about 1989 or so). The end was intact, but you coulds see the source film was very tattered at that spot. When they showed it on AMC in 1990 or so, they had the end of chapter 2 trimmed out, as it is on the DVD. Hope that helps.
killer meteor	Re: Batman serial	#38	[-]
Mar 20 07 8:18 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Thank you, honourable Daka San! And damn you Sony!!!
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