*Spoiler/plot- Superman, 1948. An alien baby is sent to Earth and develops superpowers. He hides his identity as a newspaper reporter to do good for his adopted planet and human race.
*Special Stars- Kirk Alyn, Noel Neil, Tommy Bond, Pierre Watkin, Carol Foreman, Doodles Weaver.
*Theme- American values are good.
*Trivia/location/goofs- B & W, Theatrical serial. 15 episodes. Rocky area locations was courtesy of Iverson Movie ranch, Chatsworth California. Watch for the live action Superman fly through animation. Noel Neil was kept for the famous George Reeves TV show in the 50's.
*Emotion- I just found this VHS double tape 40's matinée serial and thoroughly enjoyed viewing it. Great to see the WW2 vintage cars and clothes fashions of this fine show. It was well edited, shot, written and expertly acted. Great and interesting Superman/Kent casting. I always felt that in the 50's Superman TV show, the actor's Clark being the same actor as Superman was a mistake, but it worked. Also I found out that the makers of Superman copyright sued and won against the copyright holders of Captain Marvel. It was a battle against Superman was lost and as part of the Superman winning settlement was that Capt Marvel took a cash settlement to stop making it's projects. Captain Marvel disappeared from the popular minds. Republic Pictures is back and re-releasing their archive of films. The home studio of early John Wayne, Roy Rogers, and other matinée serials was in the present CBS Radford studio lot in Studio City, CA. The flying figure on a wire of CM was done and the same as Republic's 50's Commander Cody's rocket pack shows. The show still manages to hold-up in today's superheroes and was refreshing to see the stunt work and physical special effects and NO over used CGI.
*Special Stars- Kirk Alyn, Noel Neil, Tommy Bond, Pierre Watkin, Carol Foreman, Doodles Weaver.
*Theme- American values are good.
*Trivia/location/goofs- B & W, Theatrical serial. 15 episodes. Rocky area locations was courtesy of Iverson Movie ranch, Chatsworth California. Watch for the live action Superman fly through animation. Noel Neil was kept for the famous George Reeves TV show in the 50's.
*Emotion- I just found this VHS double tape 40's matinée serial and thoroughly enjoyed viewing it. Great to see the WW2 vintage cars and clothes fashions of this fine show. It was well edited, shot, written and expertly acted. Great and interesting Superman/Kent casting. I always felt that in the 50's Superman TV show, the actor's Clark being the same actor as Superman was a mistake, but it worked. Also I found out that the makers of Superman copyright sued and won against the copyright holders of Captain Marvel. It was a battle against Superman was lost and as part of the Superman winning settlement was that Capt Marvel took a cash settlement to stop making it's projects. Captain Marvel disappeared from the popular minds. Republic Pictures is back and re-releasing their archive of films. The home studio of early John Wayne, Roy Rogers, and other matinée serials was in the present CBS Radford studio lot in Studio City, CA. The flying figure on a wire of CM was done and the same as Republic's 50's Commander Cody's rocket pack shows. The show still manages to hold-up in today's superheroes and was refreshing to see the stunt work and physical special effects and NO over used CGI.