UK summer holidays in the 70's Flash Gordon, Champion the wonder horse, The whirly birds, The lone ranger, Skippy, why don't you, Flipper, The Banana splits, Zorro................Good times.

@stanleymcewen1952

Жыл бұрын

Brings back memories of 1960's. My brother I would play sick from church to watch "The Flash". OMG, how the technology of movies have changed. But I still enjoy the amateur looking acting and filming. Priceless

@user-on5hf3kr5z

4 ай бұрын

Hector's house , the wooden tops the magic roundabout bill and ben , Andy Pandy marine boy, captain scarlet Thunderbirds, sting ray, also a sci-fi programme called SKY , also space maiden's, the Munsters the Adams family, the lone ranger champion the wounder horse ,

As a VERY young kid back in the early 60s I used to get up extra early on Sunday mornings to tune in a UHF channel so full of static you could hardly make anything out, that ran Flash, Buck, Commando Cody and few of the other old serials. To this day they are still some of my favorite Sci-Fi videos. --- Now (THANKS TO YOU!!!) I've turned my GRANDSON on to them. He claims he likes them even better than Star Wars!!! Now ain't THAT a real KICK!!! == THANK YOU FOR SHARING!!!

I went to a local theatre every Saturday for years to see the next episode. 20 years later, I watched it on local TV. Thanks for this edit

brilliant.my dad ,born 1926,used to go to saturday cinema to watch this.first time around.

This was so far ahead of the time. Loved the series.

Terrific job of re-editing the footage. Far better than either of the previous, official edits. Thank you, so much!

Buster Crabbe was an ardent scuba diver. I had a cousin who dove with him a number of times. One time, Buster took him and others on a dive in an upstate reservoir. When they got out of the water, they were greeted by a Federal Game Warden who promptly gave Buster a ticket for diving in a reservoir which is prohibited by law. The warden knew who Buster was, but showed no favoritism. I don't think Buster ever paid the ticket. One thing about these od movies, they ALWAYS managed to find the most beautiful leading ladies. Jean Rogers and Priscilla Lawson are absolutely gorgeous.

@rogerwhite9484

5 жыл бұрын

TY for sharingthat story about the scuba diving & have to agree vv/you about the leading ladies of the time

@konglives4453

3 жыл бұрын

I hope Buster paid the fine. The leading ladies (Were) gorgeous, I agree.

@1951michaelw

2 жыл бұрын

He was also an Olympic swimmer! That's hoe he got cast in the 1933 Tarzan and the Trappers...really built back then, and that Tarzan "costume" left VERY little to the imagination (it was made before the odious "code" was put in place!)

Excellent work! And a fine production it is, for its day.... Most enjoyable to see how close the 1980 movie is, especially Lord Voltan.

As a boy I used to watch these with my Mum. The local PBS channel aired them on Saturdays with the Rathbone/Bruce Sherlock Holmes films as family friendly Sat. PM entertainment. Loved them both! Seems like yesterday but that was more than a half century ago.

THIS SERIES HAD US YOUNGSTERS ENTHRALLED IN THE 50S WHEN IT WAS AIRED ON UK TV. WE DIDN'T REALISE IT WAS MADE IN THE 30S.

ya got to love the side pipes on the rocket ships. that way you know it's fast.

@immrnoidall

5 жыл бұрын

Who am I Really it was the height of technological breakthroughs of the times. LOL

@glenjarnold

5 жыл бұрын

Where's the furry dice hanging in the windscreen?

@bigniper

4 жыл бұрын

@Kevin McDougall Don't forget Dale Ardon.

@sebastianjuarez5385

4 жыл бұрын

Castellano

@conveyor2

4 жыл бұрын

They had a secret gunpowder recipe

MING THE MERCILESS - most magnificent monarch of mean! As to this, NONE could top him!

@larrytoomey1591

4 жыл бұрын

Yes. Ming was played well. He played the part very straight against the overall campiness of the serial. His greatest scene is probably where during his escape he retreats into the cave of the dragon god. The music plays, he ascends the altar, fog rolls in, the gates close. Just as Flash arrives Mings high priest announces, ,"the emperor Ming is no more!!".

Thank you for this upload! I just love this old time sci fi.

Great edit, thanks for sharing it. Surprised how well this holds up after all these years.

This takes me back to school hols that would be late seventies early eighties they’d show an episode every day,loved it then and still great to this day- those spaceship 🚀 excellent

@diptastik5651

5 жыл бұрын

Me to , I think it first came on at Christmas , I loved it .

@raydexter9013

5 жыл бұрын

You left out the part where Zarcough shoots down a rocket ship with a revolver but other then that, LOVED IT

@paulaburrows8660

5 жыл бұрын

I was just about to post this same comment. BBC 2 every week day in the summer hols brilliant. Happy memories.

@JesusIsaFlatEarther

5 жыл бұрын

Though I think NASA's modern Hollywood space travel looks much better, I miss the days when I thought space travel was real and we went to the moon. I have to blame Eric Dubay's 200 proofs Earth is not a spinning ball, video for ruining everything.

@DrMoorehen

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, i agree...me too

Nicely done. Thank you so much!

What a treat to see this old serial again after seeing it 62 years ago in Shreveport La. as a boy. Thanks so much for all your work on this upload with a fine edit. I enjoyed it very much~!!

I got 12 minutes in, and nobody'd been thrown through an office building, turned evil, or doubted his purpose in being. What a gyp!

Boy! You have no idea how many decades I've waited to the immortal line... "IT'S THUN! AND HIS LION-MEN!!!" Thanks for this great bit Saturday afternoon nostalgia! I used to watch this on WGN-TV in Chicago, IL. It used to be 'sponsored', by the "Bert Weinman Ford" dealership.

@williambeyer4757

6 жыл бұрын

And Bert Weinman's spokesperson, Lynn Burton.

@edwardrodrigues768

5 жыл бұрын

Black drama movies

@tuckermoreland147

5 жыл бұрын

yeah flash gordon and commando cody sunday morning on wgn. that was back in the late 50s

@robertonline6543

4 жыл бұрын

@@tuckermoreland147 I don't remember that... I do remember watching these on ray Rayner before school.

@virginiaspeciale8641

3 жыл бұрын

I watched it too, in the 50’s.

Thank you Ethan, it was wonderful!

@ethanzobian

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you liked it!

Very good, I caught the show back in the 70's really great memories - thank you.

Thanks for this love the suspense and theatrics

thanks for taking the time on this timeless classic. who would have thought that rockets as these actually were our future.

Great edit, keeps the momentum going and loses some of the 1930's cringeworthy attitudes that were superfluous to the story anyway. Not sure the original edits it so well, but I love the half second it takes Zarkoff to go from ' we can hold out indefinitely' to 'ooops, maybe not if they cut the power'. Thanks for taking the time to cut this together, well done!

Thanks for edit/compiling a while series, groovy. First saw these in “Serial” form at the “New Victory” film theatre in the 1950’s. Cleveland, Ohio

Hey Ethan! Thanks for posting this! I used to watch this when it was on morning TV (can't remember which channel) every summer holiday back in the '70's! The memories are coming flooding back! Great to see those rocket ships again! They've got as much character as a VW "Splittie!" (and make as much noise!) I'll watch the rest over the coming days. Thanks again Ethan!! God Bless KZread!

@beyondlimitationsvideo

3 жыл бұрын

Check out out our upcoming KZread series SPACE HEROES inspired by Flash Gordon: www.indiegogo.com/projects/space-heroes#/

I bought a 1936 Ford Truck so I was looking for archival footage of Ford products, and your 1936 Flash Gordon video showed up. It was a wonderful movie, thank you very much.

one of the best sci-fi , been a fan sense 1970's watching on TV as a kid. Larry the buster crab, also stared in buck Rodgers

@sebastianjuarez5385

4 жыл бұрын

Castellano

@pheresy1367

4 жыл бұрын

@Giovanni Pincoletti What reservoir? Silverlake? Seriously would love to know. He was also an Olympic Gold Medalist Swimmer, in 1932 games.

@sarasarah1810

4 жыл бұрын

He also played buck Rogers and Tarzan..the only man to play all three on screen.😊

@sarasarah1810

4 жыл бұрын

@@pheresy1367 indeed he was...

All this needs is an opening credits sequence with a Queen soundtrack.

@andrewtate4897

4 жыл бұрын

God no that soundtrack was not Queens finest moment

what a good idea... thanks for the good work!!!!

Thank you so much for all your work on Buster Crabbe's Videos! I am a huge fan! I remember watching the serials on one of our local TV networks -- we had only 2 channels when we bought our 1st TV set in a large mtro area -- on Saturday Morning! I remember several of Buster's TV series and his appearance on Buck Rogers in '79 or 80(?). I heard (or read) Buster and Johnny Weissmuller friends and were fellow recipients of Olympic Medals! Buster won the Bronze in '28 and the Gold in '32 and Johnny participated in the '24 and '28 Olympics (Buster and Johnny swam together in the the '28 Olympics) and he won 1 Bronze and 5 Gold Medals! I've played one of the videos for our Grand Children. Take care.

Ethan, THANK YOU, that was a real treat!

Great *Memories!* Much Thanks, My Good Man!

TY ! I remember backin the 1970's as a kid that theyd shovv Flash Gordon on TV here in NYC, sometimes on channels 5, 9 & 11 depending vvhich station decided to fit it & vvhen. Savv a lot of great B&VV classics back then & this brings back such fond memories. TY for posting !

@dwightpowell6673

4 жыл бұрын

What's wrong with your w's

I watched all three serials, and then I watched your edit. Yours is more coherent. Thank you for sharing it.

Thank you for creating and posting.

Pretty good edit. There was a lot of repetition in the original four hours, I'm sure, so that must've helped a lot in paring it down. It flows pretty well as a continuous story now!

Thank you, great stuff :)

Absurd and seemingly self-aware as to how surreal it all is - but undeniably entertaining. Thanks for posting this.

I enjoyed the full two hours, thanks!

Almost 100 year old VIDEO special effects. Impressive considering they filmed this with stone knives and bearskins :) I remember a marathon of these back in the late 70's. I was born in 72. Thankyou for making this available.

Addictive Saturday Morning Pictures in the 40's and 50's......but we saw through all the plot/dialogue holes!

I'm checking this out largely because someone who's watched just about every version of this says that the best portrayal of Ming was done in this one!

thank you...great memories

@joejose8433

4 жыл бұрын

Man I love those old-style movietone voice actors oh, it's something that just can't be duplicated by today's young punks when all we got to do is take that shirt off and then they put him in a movie these people are mostly from the stage in theater so they do have the voice project and radio of course that old style of speaking man it just can't be done anymore but I can understand oh, that's the way it was for that time.

Used to go to Saturday Matinee in Westgate Kent in the late 40's Flash Gordon was our weekly treat and added to our play till the next Sat.

@MzuMzu-nx1em

5 жыл бұрын

These must be sweet and funny memories .

@tonyduncan9852

5 жыл бұрын

I too watched this regularly on a Saturday morning in the late forties-early fifties, but in Barrow-in-Furness. I thought it was dumb at the time - but still fun. Ming was such a bastard. . . .

@rogerwhite9484

5 жыл бұрын

Simon & Tony .God bless you both & grant you many years of happiness more . My grandparents intoduced me to this serial back in the 70s on TV & I still enjoy it , Im hoping to introduce it to my youngest nephevv in a fevv months

@pensylvania65000

5 жыл бұрын

Carton would of been the perfect little venue to watch these. Jealous!

@binarybox.binarybox

4 жыл бұрын

I ,also, went to the ABC Minors on a Saturday morning around 1950. Also on was Dick Barton, Hopalong Cassidy and The Lone Ranger. This film was shot in 1936 and notice that the Televiewer was wall mounted and had a roughly 16x9 aspect ratio just as we have today.

Awesome upload! Thanks a lot!

thank you flash gordon is one of my favorite heroes ever in any generation of him

Now that is first class -- wicker seats AND a parachute under every seat. Boy, those were the good old days.

@Stacie45

4 жыл бұрын

Reminded me of flying to Seattle on Alaska Airlines. "You may bail out now..."

@timdowney6721

4 жыл бұрын

And no idiots trying to carry on a TV

@LandersWorkshop

3 жыл бұрын

All we get now are some crappy oxygen masks and a life-preserver jacket!

@guystaats6160

3 жыл бұрын

I flew Allegheny Airlines a few times: the co-pilot had to wind the rubber band first and the planes all had a kickstand...

@favoriteone8636

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely they were!

Very good! Flash was one of my favourite heroes! Thanks! Keep safe!

Fantastic!! Thank You Very Much for sharing.

thanks for posting this movie,it was my favorite i watched it with the host rusty baker who advertised winder bread.

As a kid I love watching Flash Gordon and I'm now 73 and I still like Flash Gordon. I have always been sort of a science-fiction freak especially as a teenager if I heard as an example there was a science fiction will be out where was good bad or indifferent I had to see it it was called science fiction.

High Level. Takes me back to the eighties..the NJN days! Along with syndicated Dark Shadows!

Thanks l thought l would never see the rest after episode one , a classic movie. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

This Classic at the time it aired from Movie Theater to TV my father would have been 3, giving him and the family one of the many Science Fiction stories that sparked the imagination to create for generations to come. In short of radio broadcast may we create stories to pass down to be loved and remembered.

We love it! Good job!

Used to watch this on T.V. reruns in the early 70's so primitive yet cool!

Love the bits of Wagner's Parsifal in the music score. And that wonderful rocket, "jetting" around space at about 35 miles an hour. "Come... I will show you a secret passage that leads to the palace." "Destroy it with the melting ray. Can't you see I'm busy?"

nice work this was my childhood, went to movies in Lancaster ca. in the 1940s for 10 cents, got TV in 1949 i was born jan 1942, Christmas presents were my birthday gift.

Good job. It's fascinating to me that in the 1930's, the future of space adventure looked medieval. :)

@timetravellerregisteredtra850

4 жыл бұрын

far enough away from us in time in any direction all turns to fairy tale. :)

@dreammerchant4442

4 жыл бұрын

Left over props from Ben hur

@howardkerr8174

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, they fly around in spacecraft, but fight with swords? And apparently fabric was in short supply as all but the military wore shorts and the military wore suits of metal that made them look like robots.

@vernalc2449

3 жыл бұрын

BUT, they had such SPACIOUS spaceships! As Hyacinth would say, "Room for a swimming pool and a pony." (British comedy "Keeping Up Appearances".)

@1951michaelw

2 жыл бұрын

Well, you look at the rash of sci-fi flicks (and TV shows) made in the 1950'sand '60's and THEY look medieval to US now! Very naive stuff! Remember "When Worlds Collide" where they thought we'd need to use a huge SLED for a rocket with WINGS on it to catapult it into place. Always makes me laugh!

So hokey, so cheesy ….and so very, very good!!

@noisemarine561

3 жыл бұрын

I love it

This is so cool. I'm German and we could see this becaucse of the american army networks in the 1970. I was fascinated by the tricks. In the 90ies I was at Universal Studios where IT's shown how Flashs spaceship flies. Tank you for the Upload. It Brings back a lot of childhood memories.

Great. Thank you for that.

I first saw the Flash Gordon serials on Cleveland's WJW- Channel 8 back in 1976 or so, when I was about 14. Aura and Dale caught my attention in a big way!

Just love watching the old classes. Boy this takes me back to the Saturday morning picture shows in the 1960s Larry buster Crabbe. Boy did I have a crush on Jean Roger's ❤️. Oh happy days. Still great Nealy 100 years on. Sam Jones was great in the 1980 remake. Fantastic 👍😁

Kala the Undersea Kingdom is always snipped in these compilations. I LIKED that part!

@jerobriggs6861

2 жыл бұрын

I liked it too, but it was pretty irrelevant to the rest of the story, that's why it's always snipped.

@Yourdeadmeat69

2 жыл бұрын

@@jerobriggs6861 Monster of the week. (Nevertheless a REAL poster for Chapter 4 "Battling the Sea Beast") is worth $36K, the last one sold 6/2000.

Thanks mate.

Dale (huba-huba) Arden & Princess Aura....Yowser!!!!

@larrytoomey1591

4 жыл бұрын

Yup. Jean Rodgers suffered hand burns in the second serial and Buster Crabbe smothered the flames with cloth. Rodgers was not eager to do the third serial and asked to be released from the contract. Others say that het replacement Carol Hughes was brought in for the third serial due to audience backlash to Rodgers" hot sexiness.Whether that sexiness was intentional or not is up for debate. I liked Vulcan. Cool character. Charles Middleton did a great job as Ming. I thought he played it very straight against the overall campiness of the serial. I thought the music was better in Flash Gordon Conquers The Universe. Great Saturday afternoon movie entertainment in the early 1950s. Larry Toomey, Philadelphia

Now here is some horrible acting, yet I can't stop watching. Love it!

Thanks for putting this together. It kind've pisses me off that billionaire's like George Lucas who owe EVERYTHING to this series, won't fork out some money to have them restored and re-scanned in HD to blu-ray. Even for archival reasons alone.

@Neville60001

3 жыл бұрын

SpockBoy, the _Flash Gordon_ movies are the responsibility of Universal Pictures and King Features Syndicate/Hearst Media; it's those two entities that should be doing any restorations.

@spockboy

3 жыл бұрын

@@Neville60001 All those guys are in foundations that preserve films.They could easily influence Universal to do it.

@Neville60001

3 жыл бұрын

@@spockboy, Universal and King Features/Hearst has to _want_ to do it, not just get money from whoever to do it (also, there has to be a shitload of _customer_ interest to justify there being a restoration of these serials.)

@Neville60001

3 жыл бұрын

@@spockboy, it's up to _Universal_ and Hearst Media to do it, and nobody else. Stop being such a butthurt little boy over this, and get a life.

@robertpease259

3 жыл бұрын

Its easier than that. Just download it and burn your own copy. But don't try to sell it.

Excellent, here,s a parachute, no training and jump!

@carolynhughes8364

5 жыл бұрын

The British SOE didn’t make practice jumps for it agents,to much of a chance getting hurt in training.

@slappy8941

5 жыл бұрын

And the chick's hair didn't even get messed up.

@kurtsoderberg

4 жыл бұрын

I got a 2 houre instruktional course, then a kick in the back side, that was my first jump. Swedish green barades 1988

Great fun to watch. Thanks

Great job!!

Fabulous edit 🕊❤️❤️🦉

Hay thanks been a long time since I have watched the flash.

Ethan Zobian - I saw this as a chapter play in a family owned movie theater in Jackson, MS in the early '60s, at Saturday matinees. This, newsreels from the '40s and '50s, a cartoon and then the movie. Just like my parents did. You did a fine job.

The quality of the imaging is amazing.

This was absolutely the best!!!!! Star Trek and Star Wars can’t touch this😁😁😁😁😁 My wonderful childhood memories.

@Alandstormie

4 жыл бұрын

Star Wars without a doubt copied "Flash". Right down to the light bridges, and screen changes, a pretty lady playing opposite and a host of other things than appear in later episodes. Nobody wants to admit this.

This is a super production. I have the old VHS tapes and this beats them

@dwightpowell6673

5 жыл бұрын

Do you want to sell them?

love this old school stuff. better than any thing today.

Charles Middleton, one of my favourite villains! GO Ming, Go! Harummp, I can beat the Masked swordsman of Mongo with one hand tied behind my back..LOL Good job on the edit Ethan, I enjoyed it very much! Cheers mate!

Thanks! These episodes aired on swedish television in the 1970s.

"Why, it's from my son FLASH". Who names their son Flash. Wonder if he cleans baths without scratching!

None of the subsequent films were as good as this series. In the 50s they ran horrible 16mm copies on tv. The image was terrible and had so many splices in the film. The audio had loud hiss. These new copies are terrific! Thanks for your edit and post!

Land? Go around again Zarkov... make that a couple times! Loved watching these as a kid sunday mornings in the 60's!

Love the get up of king Vulcan. Although its doubtful given the size and weight of the king whether those wings could dynamical support his bulk. Dale Arden, is indeed very beautiful, when has a eight year old boy watching these series, I had either forgotten about her or thought her irrelevant. Times have changed. My congratulations to the wardrobe directors on their selections of sartorial elegance. The props are outrageously ingenious.

In the 60s my parents would drop me and friends off at Fox theatre in my hometown on Saturday afternoons and then pick us up a few hours later (this was very common, and no parents thought twice about the safety of doing so at that time). Flash Gordon was always a treat when featured.

Back in 1952 when I was a 4th and 5th grader, I would rush home from schools to see these episodes.

Good job of editing.

Nice job!

I grew up watching the Old Republic Pictures Serials. I loved this serial.

FLASH! AHAAAA...HE'LL SAVE EVERYONE OF US!!

Ned Kelly would have been delighted at the helmets of the guards at the beginning. Thank you for posting. Of course, almost 90 years on we can have a good laugh, but nevertheless enjoyable and well done for its time.

Love it.

Fantastic

WOW. EXCELLENT IMAGINATION FOR THOSE DAYS

@bingola45

4 жыл бұрын

Did people in the 1930s not have much imagination? I wonder how they invented so many things, then?

They need to do a Flash Gordon remake set in 1937 , they should use the retro futuristic ships like in this , would be awsome

Love how an ordinary soldier knows where the “secret” chambers are. 😄

ROCKETMAN Flash Gordon was part of my childhood in Lancashire. (during the bleak years of 1945 - 1953) Far better than the rather weaker but still enjoyable Commander Cody serials. Thanks to Universal and Republic studios for a treasure of ghost - monster - science fiction films and serials.

Well done for putting this together, I love it, it's science fiction at it's best.

@binarybox.binarybox

5 жыл бұрын

The televiewer on the wall is just like the present wide screen TVs we have today, 80 years later.