hey Earl - that was good stuff n .. the footage looks cool.
That Ford is a Hoot
good stunts
best, Tom
Captain Bijou wrote:
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.
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.
However, I did manage to hold on to my final film, Captain America,
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.
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.
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...
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!!
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.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4tHIyvs82Y
Earl Blair
CAPTAIN BIJOU
www.captainbijou.com <http://www.captainbijou.com>
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