"Silent Shadow of the Bat-Man" - retro 1920s short

[terminalpicture]

Hiya, new to the board and I didn't notice this group - initially posted it in Bat-World as that looked appropriate. Apparently rather than being moved it just got deleted, so I assume its ok to put it here then? If not, an explanation would be nice!

In any case... enjoy:


"Silent Shadow of the Bat-Man" - A retro 1920s Dark Knight short film

Part One:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_bjAhynSrY

Part Two:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByTfwmyHr3Q

A 12 minute short depicting the origin of "The Bat-Man" and introducing his amazing skills and astounding abilities... Bob Kane and Bill Finger drew on a lot of silent films to create Batman, and I've always wanted to give the story a try using silent film techniques. What with that whole copyright/waste of time thing, you'll have to settle for this collage. Here are the original influences re-arranged to tell Bruce Wayne's story and his crusade against crime. A bit of fun not intended for sale or commercial exploitation... what with the huge commercial value of silent films and everything.

Make sure and check out part two for the Rogue's Gallery: featuring the fiendish Joker!
Oswald Cobblepot, AKA The Penguin... The Cat-Woman! The unspeakable horrors of the Scarecrow! The scientific genius of R'as Al Ghul! All this and pulsepounding, teethgrinding excitement as "The Bat-Man" falls into the Joker's trap - literally.

Jack Pickford as Bruce Wayne
Conrad Veidt as The Joker
Werner Krauss as The Penguin
Olga Baclanova as The Catwoman
George Beranger as The Scarecrow
J. Carrol Naish as R'as Al Ghul
Eddie Gribbon as Inspector Gordon
Louise Fazenda as the Woman of Ill Repute

http://youtube.com/terminalpictures for more film and video madness guaranteed to destroy your will to live.

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feedback would be great, as I'm tinkering around with another version and a followup. Hope you folks like it, tho I doubt as much as I did making it...

 

[MrShifty]

haha that's pretty sick. Very creative.

 

[The Geek Vault]

dude that's reallly cool!

 

[dozer2025]

Very cool, but if you want it realistic, only use piano music. The theaters back then played live piano, not pre-recorded insturmentals. Here's an idea:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZzoktZhVw4

Keep up the good work!

 

[terminalpicture]

Planned on that at first and recorded some, but synth piano or organ sounds are far too cheesy. The drone works better for a morbid mood... the tinny synthetic piano hammerings were pretty distracting and broke the spell.

 

[terminalpicture]

Well, this went over pretty good! Like 23,000 hits in a coupla days and miles of drooling emails! I'm working on another section with "The Clay-Face," The Bat-Gyro, and a quick tour of Arkham. Oh the pain!

 

[Andy C.]

Great movie, man. Can't wait to see what you do next with it.

 

[terminalpicture]

Next thing is chugging along nicely, Marv Wolfman commented that its a shame you can't do a story so I took it as a challenge and tried to do one... with dozens more films from the obvious to the utterly obscure. Ended up being thirty minutes long so I'm breaking it up into a three part serial, "ARKHAM AFTER MIDNIGHT."

Oooo its a good 'un. Cutting out the fat and jacking up the creepiness and vague deja vu nightmare quality. Should have the first part up late sunday or monday.

 

[Prison Mike]

I saw this on youtube (surfing the web and stumbled on this by accident) and I was amazed. I was wondering who did this and I just want to say you did a wonderful job. Pretty creepy and entertaining. I loved it.

 

[terminalpicture]

Next installment is ready:


Nonstop retro 1920s Dark Knight anti-action, smothered in silent sauce!

"Arkham After Midnight"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD4XqYT1-JU

Chapter One:
"Mark of the Mad Hatter."

The Darkest, Most Depressing Knight! A new/old retro 1920s silent serial... Now that the origin story is out of the way with "Silent Shadow of the Bat-Man," I'm still having fun with this found footage-soaked, uncommercial concept strictly for educational and sporadically recreational purposes. Getting more interested in slicing and dicing more material in service of a strange story of sorts... so, grown fresh from our beloved Terminal Pictures garden, here then is the first slice: wherein we get big globs of setup concerning Arkham Asylum... madness! surreal delirium! Hallucinations! Screaming lunatics! Obsessive supervillains! That amazing triumph of conceit over technology, the incredible "Bat-Gyro." All this and the trippiest final two minutes you ever needed to see, absolutely, positively, frothing-at-the-mouth free.

Slow down your internal clock and ingest whatever diet supplements and substances required by State and Federal authorities before viewing.