{"id":1473,"date":"2011-12-29T12:04:58","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T16:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=1473"},"modified":"2011-12-29T12:04:58","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T16:04:58","slug":"buck-rogers-first-appearance-in-film-yep-from-before-the-serial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/29\/buck-rogers-first-appearance-in-film-yep-from-before-the-serial\/","title":{"rendered":"Buck Rogers’ first appearance in film – yep, from before the serial"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Buck\n
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Badass Digest<\/em> has dug up the very first appearance of Buck Rogers on the movie screen<\/a> in a short film produced for the 1933-34 Chicago World’s Fair that you can now view in all its rough-hewn glory.<\/p>\n

\"Doctor<\/a>Notable is the space battle, featuring bunches of miniatures that could just be<\/em> the same toy rocket ships that were part of the Buck Rogers<\/em> merchandising empire.<\/p>\n

Here we see Doctor Huer, musing at some (interminable) length about the mystery behind the attack of the Tiger Men of Mars.<\/p>\n

I think there may be a couple of mistakes in the accompanying text – for example, the Just Imagine<\/em><\/a>\"\"\n rocket ship was reused in the Flash Gordon<\/em> serials, and I can’t think of any sets or miniatures from that film that showed up in Buck Rogers<\/em>. Though admittedly, I might also be wrong. It’s certainly true that all<\/em> of these serials recycled some of the same sets and costumes that were warehoused and rented out after the collapse of the silent epics of the twenties.<\/p>\n

It’s the space battle that really stands out here: I was amused to find the same grinding propeller sound effects for the rockets that we heard a few years later in the serial – or was that Doctor Huer’s cosmic television tuner? – but all in all they didn’t do badly for a low budget effort from 1933.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n[tags]buck rogers in the 25th century, film, serial, chicago worlds fair, science fiction[\/tags]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Badass Digest has dug up the very first appearance of Buck Rogers on the movie screen in a short film produced for the 1933-34 Chicago World’s Fair that you can now view in all its rough-hewn glory. Notable is the space battle, featuring bunches of miniatures that could just be the same toy rocket ships […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-on-the-web"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}