I was just watching the new Netflix show about Yogi Berra and around 10 minutes in a commentator is relating how during WWII Yogi signed on for a secret Navy mission using “rocket boats”. Apparently Yogi was quite a comic book fan and he thought this sounded like a Buck Rogers item. They then showed a cover of a Buck rogers comic book and the background music was that 5 note motive from the intro music in the first Flash serial that recurs several times in the opening credits and wraps up the recap card section. Quite a surprise!
A heads up. There is about a 20 minute interview with Tommy Cook on the you tube site “A Word on Westerns’–The title of the interview is “93 year old Tommy Cook remembers Audie Murphy & Red Ryder! Plus movie with Roy Rogers & Tommy.”
Jungle Girl is not mentioned, but Cook does discuss Republic and Whitney and English and The Adventures of Red Ryder. The interview was on his 93rd birthday. He was still sharp and articulate. The fun movie Tarzan and the Leopard Woman is mentioned. In that one the teenaged Cook was a villain planning to cut out Jane’s heart. A fun interview with I guess the last actor who had important serial roles.
Love your site Jerry. Been a fan of serials since the 1970s. Recently I’ve been having some photos from my collection professionally colorized and retouched and I’d like to share them with you and the site. Let me know if you’re interested.
Thank you, that’d be great! Perhaps you could email them to me and I could post them as Serial Scrapbook entries (“From the Collection of…”). They’d be more visible that way than if they were posted here in the comments. My email is jerryblake2, at juno.com (I neveractuallyput the @ sign in when I post my emailonlin, to make it harder for spammers to harvest it.
I was just thinking about the use of sound effects that identified or were associated with a specific character or place in serials and how they seemed to phase out as time went on. To be included these would have to specifically identify a certain serial and you would know that serial when you heard them. Could be a music cue (I can think of 2) but must be used in only one serial. I’ll start off with The Painted Stallion’s whistling arrow and anyone interested can pick up from there.
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I was just watching the new Netflix show about Yogi Berra and around 10 minutes in a commentator is relating how during WWII Yogi signed on for a secret Navy mission using “rocket boats”. Apparently Yogi was quite a comic book fan and he thought this sounded like a Buck Rogers item. They then showed a cover of a Buck rogers comic book and the background music was that 5 note motive from the intro music in the first Flash serial that recurs several times in the opening credits and wraps up the recap card section. Quite a surprise!
Best wishes to you and yours for a very Merry Christmas, and for a safe and Happy New Year.
A heads up. There is about a 20 minute interview with Tommy Cook on the you tube site “A Word on Westerns’–The title of the interview is “93 year old Tommy Cook remembers Audie Murphy & Red Ryder! Plus movie with Roy Rogers & Tommy.”
Jungle Girl is not mentioned, but Cook does discuss Republic and Whitney and English and The Adventures of Red Ryder. The interview was on his 93rd birthday. He was still sharp and articulate. The fun movie Tarzan and the Leopard Woman is mentioned. In that one the teenaged Cook was a villain planning to cut out Jane’s heart. A fun interview with I guess the last actor who had important serial roles.
Love your site Jerry. Been a fan of serials since the 1970s. Recently I’ve been having some photos from my collection professionally colorized and retouched and I’d like to share them with you and the site. Let me know if you’re interested.
Thank you, that’d be great! Perhaps you could email them to me and I could post them as Serial Scrapbook entries (“From the Collection of…”). They’d be more visible that way than if they were posted here in the comments. My email is jerryblake2, at juno.com (I neveractuallyput the @ sign in when I post my emailonlin, to make it harder for spammers to harvest it.
I was just thinking about the use of sound effects that identified or were associated with a specific character or place in serials and how they seemed to phase out as time went on. To be included these would have to specifically identify a certain serial and you would know that serial when you heard them. Could be a music cue (I can think of 2) but must be used in only one serial. I’ll start off with The Painted Stallion’s whistling arrow and anyone interested can pick up from there.
Mike