LMFAO
At 08:19 PM 6/18/2009, Evan Zweifel wrote:
I think I have the original Mexican Lobby Card Set from this!
Great job!
Evan
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From: "Captain Bijou" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 9:21:38 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain
Subject: [MOPO] The serial you never saw....
Forty years ago, I was a drama student at the
University of Houston (--Randy Quaid was a
classmate of mine and we even appeared in a
training film together for the Houston Police
Department--), an avid comic book collector and
a fan of the old movie serials...just like we
used to see at our local bijous on Saturday mornings.
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I was also an aspiring filmmaker. I made 8mm and
Super 8mm short "ama-films" for years. Sadly,
most of those films have been lost through years.
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However, I did manage to hold on to my final
film, Captain America, Â which featured friends
and fellow students at the U of H in a heartfelt
 homage to the old movie serials. On weekends
and evenings -- whenever I could get a cast and
enough rolls of black and white film together --
we'd travel to such exotic locals as the Houston
Ship Channel, the air conditioning plant at the
University of Houston or Todd Shipyards in Galveston to shoot our serial.
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Unlike today, when broadcast quality movies can
be created on one's laptop, we had only an
inexpensive camera, a guillotine splicer -- to
make tape splices that would not generally show
up when projected -- and equal amounts of
enthusiasm and imagination. Primitive the result was, to be sure.
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Years later, I added a musical track from a
portable cassette player and narration which I
improvised on the spot. Given the time and
inclination, since the technology is already on
my computer, I could now tighten up the edits,
add dialogue and sound effects and re-score the
music. One day maybe, I will...
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Naturally, I was Captain America....after all, I
owned the suit and tights!! For a time, I
aspired to be a stuntman and even knew some of
the best in the business: Yakima Canutt, David
Sharpe, Jock Mahoney and Tom Steele. To make the
fights seem realistic, I had only to call upon
my experiences growing up on the Houston's
northside. I had, as they say, plenty of
opportunities to perfect my technique!!
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Anyway, here it is for you to enjoy. If nothing
else, it's proof positive that we were all
younger and innocent once upon a time.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4tHIyvs82Y
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Earl Blair
CAPTAIN BIJOU
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