Todd’s Serial Blog

There is a big debate going on over at the Serial Squadron on the best medium to watch serials on.  To give you a clue about how heated it is getting, the title of the thread is DVD: The Root of All Evil?  Apparently watching DVD’s is not the right way to enjoy serials,  but on a movie screen from actual film, anything else detracts from they way they were intended to be viewed, which is a nice nostalgic viewpoint, but hardly practical these days.  Personally for me, I like watching them on DVD, just like I enjoyed them on VHS.  I really like the portability of DVD’s, there is nothing like the experience of people’s reactions when you go to the break room during your lunch hour and fire up a couple of chapters of Superman, Flaming Frontiers or The Tiger Woman on a portable player while chowing down on Subway.

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After much deliberation I’ve decided to get back to posting on the message boards.  Bill Cline once told me that if a person has no one to share an interest with, they wiil eventually stop being interested in it too, and I would’nt want that to happen.  I have always said that I dropped off the boards because of all the cliques that cause infighting among the fans, but that wasn’t the only reason.  A big major factor is that I am lazy, and I mean laaaaaaaaaaaaazy. It kind of breaks down to I would like to go on a message board but I have laundry to do, but before I do that I need to work on the next update to my site, oh hey look, there’s Doctor Who marathon on Sci-Fi and there goes that day.

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I see that the Serial Squadron is pushing forward with their production of The Mysteries of Myra, based on the shooting script of the lost serial. Though it is being made as a silent serial, it will be in monochromatic color and have a musical score.  So it won’t be the homage to serials that Cliffhanger Productions’ King of the Park Rangers or Dangers of Deborah were. Still it is good to see new serials being made, and just because it’s a silent movie doesn’t mean that modern audiences won’t enjoy it, Captain Celluloid vs the Film Pirates (1966) is still the best of the independently produced serial homages made. I do have to wonder if the new footage Eric shot to cover the missing footage in The Masked Rider (1919) was a trial run to see if he could actually makke one on his own.  I also wonder if he is having problems getting funds together as from what I can gleam from the Squadron’s message boards, Eric is doing the serial one chapter at a time, instead of fillming the whole thing and then editing it into a completed serial.  Guess we will have to wait and see.

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