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jetpack_monkeyTitle: Right Round
Song: Right Round by Flo Rida feat. Ke$ha
Additional music: Flash Gordon Main Title by Clifford Vaughan
Source: Classic Hollywood Cliffhanger Serials
Length: 3:23
Warnings: Physical triggers
Summary: Spend the Saturday matinee with your favorite heroes (and a few unfamiliar ones) as they run, jump, struggle, fight, and drive through the latest thrilling chapter of a cliffhanger serial.
Youtube embed:
Vimeo (password: nextweek):
Download the MP4 (right/ctrl-click and "Save as...")
Notes:
Premiered at the Vividcon Premieres Show in 2015.
If you're wondering WTF all of these sources are, they're all from classic movie serials that played as part of matinee movie showings in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. They were basically like Saturday morning television before there was Saturday morning television. Each week, Our Hero fought The Villain and each week, Our Hero ended up in some peril that would certainly spell his doom. At the beginning of the next chapter, Our Hero would escape, often through very cleverly having *already* escaped, either through judicious usage of time compression in the previous episode or straight-up cheating.
This is one of those vids that happened because of other vids. Specifically, I ended up using a lot of movie serials footage in both my Starships remix and Electric Avenue. I became fascinated with their construction and their sheer trope-tastic-ness. At the same time, I was looking for a good source to pair with Flo Rida's Right Round after multiple viewings of Pitch Perfect earwormed me on that song. About three weeks before the Premieres deadline, there was a clicking sound in my head and away we went.
Many thanks to my betas/cheerleadersthirdblindmouse, echan, kuwdora, elipie, jmtorres, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
diannelamerc, and lizbetann
Sources:
When I'm working on a concentrated area like this, I like to divide my sources into primary and secondary. The primary sources contain the bulk of the elements I want to pull from and the secondary sources provide additional context or examples. Serials marked with a * are recommended (with the caveat that almost all of these contain rampant sexism, racism, and other similar bullshit).
Primary Sources:
Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941)
Atom Man vs. Superman (1950)*
Batman (1943)
Batman and Robin (1949)
Captain America (1944)
Flash Gordon (1936)*
Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938)
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940)
The Green Hornet (1940)
The Green Hornet Strikes Again (1941)
The Perils of Nyoka (1942)*
Radar Men from the Moon (1951)*
Spy Smasher (1942)*********
Superman (1948)
The Tiger Woman (1944)*
Zorro's Black Whip (1944)*
Secondary Sources:
Buck Rogers (1939)*
The Crimson Ghost (1945)*
Dick Tracy Returns (1938)
The Fighting Devil Dogs (1938)
Jack Armstrong (1947)
The Manhunt of Mystery Island (1945)
Mysterious Doctor Satan (1940)*
Secret Agent X-9 (1945)
The Secret Service in Darkest Africa (1943)*
The Shadow (1940)
By the way, the multiple asterisks by Spy Smasher are not the result of a typing error. That serial contained more awesomeness in its first chapter than some of the serials I clipped had in all of their chapters combined -- and somehow it managed not to run itself into the ground. It took a huge amount of effort on my part not to make the vid an all-Spy Smasher all the time affair.
Conversely, if it wasn't for the recognizable lead characters, I would've tossed the 1943 Batman serial in a trash bin, put that trash bin in a dumpster, fired that dumpster into space, then launched ground-to-cosmos missiles at the dumpster. The rampant, unapologetic racism was rage-inducing.
Song: Right Round by Flo Rida feat. Ke$ha
Additional music: Flash Gordon Main Title by Clifford Vaughan
Source: Classic Hollywood Cliffhanger Serials
Length: 3:23
Warnings: Physical triggers
Summary: Spend the Saturday matinee with your favorite heroes (and a few unfamiliar ones) as they run, jump, struggle, fight, and drive through the latest thrilling chapter of a cliffhanger serial.
Youtube embed:
Vimeo (password: nextweek):
Download the MP4 (right/ctrl-click and "Save as...")
Notes:
Premiered at the Vividcon Premieres Show in 2015.
If you're wondering WTF all of these sources are, they're all from classic movie serials that played as part of matinee movie showings in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. They were basically like Saturday morning television before there was Saturday morning television. Each week, Our Hero fought The Villain and each week, Our Hero ended up in some peril that would certainly spell his doom. At the beginning of the next chapter, Our Hero would escape, often through very cleverly having *already* escaped, either through judicious usage of time compression in the previous episode or straight-up cheating.
This is one of those vids that happened because of other vids. Specifically, I ended up using a lot of movie serials footage in both my Starships remix and Electric Avenue. I became fascinated with their construction and their sheer trope-tastic-ness. At the same time, I was looking for a good source to pair with Flo Rida's Right Round after multiple viewings of Pitch Perfect earwormed me on that song. About three weeks before the Premieres deadline, there was a clicking sound in my head and away we went.
Many thanks to my betas/cheerleaders
thirdblindmouse, echan, kuwdora, elipie, jmtorres, diannelamerc, and lizbetannSources:
When I'm working on a concentrated area like this, I like to divide my sources into primary and secondary. The primary sources contain the bulk of the elements I want to pull from and the secondary sources provide additional context or examples. Serials marked with a * are recommended (with the caveat that almost all of these contain rampant sexism, racism, and other similar bullshit).
Primary Sources:
Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941)
Atom Man vs. Superman (1950)*
Batman (1943)
Batman and Robin (1949)
Captain America (1944)
Flash Gordon (1936)*
Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938)
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940)
The Green Hornet (1940)
The Green Hornet Strikes Again (1941)
The Perils of Nyoka (1942)*
Radar Men from the Moon (1951)*
Spy Smasher (1942)*********
Superman (1948)
The Tiger Woman (1944)*
Zorro's Black Whip (1944)*
Secondary Sources:
Buck Rogers (1939)*
The Crimson Ghost (1945)*
Dick Tracy Returns (1938)
The Fighting Devil Dogs (1938)
Jack Armstrong (1947)
The Manhunt of Mystery Island (1945)
Mysterious Doctor Satan (1940)*
Secret Agent X-9 (1945)
The Secret Service in Darkest Africa (1943)*
The Shadow (1940)
By the way, the multiple asterisks by Spy Smasher are not the result of a typing error. That serial contained more awesomeness in its first chapter than some of the serials I clipped had in all of their chapters combined -- and somehow it managed not to run itself into the ground. It took a huge amount of effort on my part not to make the vid an all-Spy Smasher all the time affair.
Conversely, if it wasn't for the recognizable lead characters, I would've tossed the 1943 Batman serial in a trash bin, put that trash bin in a dumpster, fired that dumpster into space, then launched ground-to-cosmos missiles at the dumpster. The rampant, unapologetic racism was rage-inducing.
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