Flash Gordon 1936 serial, fan edit - 2 hour movie
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Fan edit of the first Flash Gordon sci fi serial from 1936. 13 episodes (4 hours of footage) edited down to a 2 hour movie. Gets kind of janky when they're escaping from the palace after rescuing Dale from marrying Ming, but other than that I think it turned out good
I don't own the rights to the footage
As a VERY young kid back in the early 60s I used to get up extra early on Sunday mornings to tune in a UHF channel so full of static you could hardly make anything out, that ran Flash, Buck, Commando Cody and few of the other old serials. To this day they are still some of my favorite Sci-Fi videos. --- Now (THANKS TO YOU!!!) I've turned my GRANDSON on to them. He claims he likes them even better than Star Wars!!! Now ain't THAT a real KICK!!! == THANK YOU FOR SHARING!!!
I went to a local theatre every Saturday for years to see the next episode. 20 years later, I watched it on local TV. Thanks for this edit
UK summer holidays in the 70's Flash Gordon, Champion the wonder horse, The whirly birds, The lone ranger, Skippy, why don't you, Flipper, The Banana splits, Zorro................Good times.
Brings back memories of 1960's. My brother I would play sick from church to watch "The Flash". OMG, how the technology of movies have changed. But I still enjoy the amateur looking acting and filming. Priceless
Hector's house , the wooden tops the magic roundabout bill and ben , Andy Pandy marine boy, captain scarlet Thunderbirds, sting ray, also a sci-fi programme called SKY , also space maiden's, the Munsters the Adams family, the lone ranger champion the wounder horse ,
Playing asteroids on the Atari console
brilliant.my dad ,born 1926,used to go to saturday cinema to watch this.first time around.
This was so far ahead of the time. Loved the series.
Terrific job of re-editing the footage. Far better than either of the previous, official edits. Thank you, so much!
Excellent work! And a fine production it is, for its day.... Most enjoyable to see how close the 1980 movie is, especially Lord Voltan.
As a boy I used to watch these with my Mum. The local PBS channel aired them on Saturdays with the Rathbone/Bruce Sherlock Holmes films as family friendly Sat. PM entertainment. Loved them both! Seems like yesterday but that was more than a half century ago.
thanks for taking the time on this timeless classic. who would have thought that rockets as these actually were our future.
In the 60s my parents would drop me and friends off at Fox theatre in my hometown on Saturday afternoons and then pick us up a few hours later (this was very common, and no parents thought twice about the safety of doing so at that time). Flash Gordon was always a treat when featured.
Thank you so much for all your work on Buster Crabbe's Videos! I am a huge fan! I remember watching the serials on one of our local TV networks -- we had only 2 channels when we bought our 1st TV set in a large mtro area -- on Saturday Morning! I remember several of Buster's TV series and his appearance on Buck Rogers in '79 or 80(?). I heard (or read) Buster and Johnny Weissmuller friends and were fellow recipients of Olympic Medals! Buster won the Bronze in '28 and the Gold in '32 and Johnny participated in the '24 and '28 Olympics (Buster and Johnny swam together in the the '28 Olympics) and he won 1 Bronze and 5 Gold Medals! I've played one of the videos for our Grand Children. Take care.
What a treat to see this old serial again after seeing it 62 years ago in Shreveport La. as a boy. Thanks so much for all your work on this upload with a fine edit. I enjoyed it very much~!!
Flash Gordon - Full Movie
(All Chapter 1, 12, 13, and 15)
(Black and White), and (Colorized).
(1936-1938-1940-1966)
1. Flash Gordon (1936) - Full Movie
(All Chapter 1, and 13)
(Black and White), and (Colorized).
Flash Gordon: Spaceship to the Unknown (1936-1966)
2. Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938) - Full Movie
(All Chapter 1, and 15)
(Black and White), and (Colorized).
Flash Gordon: The Deadly Ray from Mars (1938-1966)
3. Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940) - Full Movie
(All Chapter 1, and 12)
(Black and White), and (Colorized).
Flash Gordon: Purple Death from Outer Space (1940-1966)
Flash Gordon: The Peril from Planet Mongo (1940-1966)
I bought a 1936 Ford Truck so I was looking for archival footage of Ford products, and your 1936 Flash Gordon video showed up. It was a wonderful movie, thank you very much.
I saw these movies back in my younger years i always in joy watching these movies 🎥 😊😮bring songs from the movies
Almost 100 year old VIDEO special effects. Impressive considering they filmed this with stone knives and bearskins :) I remember a marathon of these back in the late 70's. I was born in 72. Thankyou for making this available.
Professor he met minutes ago proposes going to a radioactive planet in an untested rocket to try to steer it away from the Earth.
Flash, "Well, it's worth trying."
Buster Crabbe was an ardent scuba diver. I had a cousin who dove with him a number of times.
One time, Buster took him and others on a dive in an upstate reservoir. When they got out
of the water, they were greeted by a Federal Game Warden who promptly gave Buster a ticket
for diving in a reservoir which is prohibited by law. The warden knew who Buster was, but
showed no favoritism. I don't think Buster ever paid the ticket.
One thing about these od movies, they ALWAYS managed to find the most beautiful leading
ladies. Jean Rogers and Priscilla Lawson are absolutely gorgeous.
TY for sharingthat story about the scuba diving & have to agree vv/you about the leading ladies of the time
I hope Buster paid the fine. The leading ladies (Were) gorgeous, I agree.
He was also an Olympic swimmer! That's hoe he got cast in the 1933 Tarzan and the Trappers...really built back then, and that Tarzan "costume" left VERY little to the imagination (it was made before the odious "code" was put in place!)
Boy! You have no idea how many decades I've waited to the immortal line... "IT'S THUN! AND HIS LION-MEN!!!" Thanks for this great bit Saturday afternoon nostalgia! I used to watch this on WGN-TV in Chicago, IL. It used to be 'sponsored', by the "Bert Weinman Ford" dealership.
And Bert Weinman's spokesperson, Lynn Burton.
Black drama movies
yeah flash gordon and commando cody sunday morning on wgn. that was back in the late 50s
@@tuckermoreland147 I don't remember that... I do remember watching these on ray Rayner before school.
I watched it too, in the 50’s.
ya got to love the side pipes on the rocket ships. that way you know it's fast.
Who am I Really
it was the height of technological breakthroughs of the times. LOL
Where's the furry dice hanging in the windscreen?
@Kevin McDougall Don't forget Dale Ardon.
Castellano
They had a secret gunpowder recipe
Hey Ethan! Thanks for posting this! I used to watch this when it was on morning TV (can't remember which channel) every summer holiday back in the '70's! The memories are coming flooding back! Great to see those rocket ships again! They've got as much character as a VW "Splittie!" (and make as much noise!) I'll watch the rest over the coming days. Thanks again Ethan!! God Bless RUclips!
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Would go to Saturday morning matinee back in the 50's to see Flash Gordon. The admission cost was 3 cents. Worth every penny of it.
THIS SERIES HAD US YOUNGSTERS ENTHRALLED IN THE 50S WHEN IT WAS AIRED ON UK TV. WE DIDN'T REALISE IT WAS MADE IN THE 30S.
As a kid I love watching Flash Gordon and I'm now 73 and I still like Flash Gordon. I have always been sort of a science-fiction freak especially as a teenager if I heard as an example there was a science fiction will be out where was good bad or indifferent I had to see it it was called science fiction.
This takes me back to school hols that would be late seventies early eighties they’d show an episode every day,loved it then and still great to this day- those spaceship 🚀 excellent
Me to , I think it first came on at Christmas , I loved it .
You left out the part where Zarcough shoots down a rocket ship with a revolver but other then that, LOVED IT
I was just about to post this same comment. BBC 2 every week day in the summer hols brilliant. Happy memories.
Though I think NASA's modern Hollywood space travel looks much better, I miss the days when I thought space travel was real and we went to the moon. I have to blame Eric Dubay's 200 proofs Earth is not a spinning ball, video for ruining everything.
Yes, i agree...me too
Used to watch this on T.V. reruns in the early 70's so primitive yet cool!
what a treat! i just started it
saw bits in cuban tv in the 1950s, but when the soviruss came they took EVERYTHING. not one Félix El Gato adventure for us. they traded horrible soviet "cartoons" . we called those: muñequitos de palo. unwatchable.
thanks ! some bits i have never forgotten. same as Los peligros de Nyoka .
this is treasure, my friends.
I first saw these in Havana in the 50s every day after school. Then after we were evacuated, our next posting was to Mexico, and I was able to continue. Loved Flash Gordon!
Pretty good edit. There was a lot of repetition in the original four hours, I'm sure, so that must've helped a lot in paring it down. It flows pretty well as a continuous story now!
I'm checking this out largely because someone who's watched just about every version of this says that the best portrayal of Ming was done in this one!
TY ! I remember backin the 1970's as a kid that theyd shovv Flash Gordon on TV here in NYC, sometimes on channels 5, 9 & 11 depending vvhich station decided to fit it & vvhen. Savv a lot of great B&VV classics back then & this brings back such fond memories. TY for posting !
What's wrong with your w's
Thank you for this upload! I just love this old time sci fi.
Fun fact; George Lucas' attempted to acquire the rights to Flash Gordon. However, he was unsuccessful. This motivated him to create his own space drama known as Star Wars. As the rest is history 🤔🫡
Great edit, keeps the momentum going and loses some of the 1930's cringeworthy attitudes that were superfluous to the story anyway. Not sure the original edits it so well, but I love the half second it takes Zarkoff to go from ' we can hold out indefinitely' to 'ooops, maybe not if they cut the power'. Thanks for taking the time to cut this together, well done!
Used to go to Saturday Matinee in Westgate Kent in the late 40's Flash Gordon was our weekly treat and added to our play till the next Sat.
These must be sweet and funny memories .
I too watched this regularly on a Saturday morning in the late forties-early fifties, but in Barrow-in-Furness. I thought it was dumb at the time - but still fun. Ming was such a bastard. . . .
Simon & Tony .God bless you both & grant you many years of happiness more . My grandparents intoduced me to this serial back in the 70s on TV & I still enjoy it , Im hoping to introduce it to my youngest nephevv in a fevv months
Carton would of been the perfect little venue to watch these. Jealous!
I ,also, went to the ABC Minors on a Saturday morning around 1950. Also on was Dick Barton, Hopalong Cassidy and The Lone Ranger.
This film was shot in 1936 and notice that the Televiewer was wall mounted and had a roughly 16x9 aspect ratio just as we have today.
Thanks for edit/compiling a while series, groovy.
First saw these in “Serial” form at the “New Victory” film theatre in the 1950’s. Cleveland, Ohio
one of the best sci-fi , been a fan sense 1970's watching on TV as a kid. Larry the buster crab, also stared in buck Rodgers
Castellano
@Giovanni Pincoletti What reservoir? Silverlake? Seriously would love to know.
He was also an Olympic Gold Medalist Swimmer, in 1932 games.
He also played buck Rogers and Tarzan..the only man to play all three on screen.😊
@@pheresy1367 indeed he was...
Great edit, thanks for sharing it. Surprised how well this holds up after all these years.
Just love watching the old classes. Boy this takes me back to the Saturday morning picture shows in the 1960s
Larry buster Crabbe. Boy did I have a crush on Jean Roger's ❤️. Oh happy days. Still great Nealy 100 years on.
Sam Jones was great in the 1980 remake. Fantastic 👍😁
I watched all three serials, and then I watched your edit. Yours is more coherent. Thank you for sharing it.
I got 12 minutes in, and nobody'd been thrown through an office building, turned evil, or doubted his purpose in being. What a gyp!
Very good, I caught the show back in the 70's really great memories - thank you.
This Classic at the time it aired from Movie Theater to TV my father would have been 3, giving him and the family one of the many Science Fiction stories that sparked the imagination to create for generations to come. In short of radio broadcast may we create stories to pass down to be loved and remembered.
Now that is first class -- wicker seats AND a parachute under every seat. Boy, those were the good old days.
Reminded me of flying to Seattle on Alaska Airlines. "You may bail out now..."
And no idiots trying to carry on a TV
All we get now are some crappy oxygen masks and a life-preserver jacket!
I flew Allegheny Airlines a few times: the co-pilot had to wind the rubber band first and the planes all had a kickstand...
Absolutely they were!
MING THE MERCILESS - most magnificent monarch of mean! As to this, NONE could top him!
Yes. Ming was played well. He played the part very straight against the overall campiness of the serial. His greatest scene is probably where during his escape he retreats into the cave of the dragon god. The music plays, he ascends the altar, fog rolls in, the gates close. Just as Flash arrives Mings high priest announces, ,"the emperor Ming is no more!!".
I first saw the Flash Gordon serials on Cleveland's WJW- Channel 8 back in 1976 or so, when I was about 14. Aura and Dale caught my attention in a big way!
"A-RABS IN FRENZY CHAOS= PROF M.ALLABAR." Well, not much has changed in 90 years.
Very good! Flash was one of my favourite heroes! Thanks! Keep safe!
This was absolutely the best!!!!! Star Trek and Star Wars can’t touch this😁😁😁😁😁 My wonderful childhood memories.
Star Wars without a doubt copied "Flash". Right down to the light bridges, and screen changes, a pretty lady playing opposite and a host of other things than appear in later episodes. Nobody wants to admit this.
Ethan Zobian - I saw this as a chapter play in a family owned movie theater in Jackson, MS in the early '60s, at Saturday matinees. This, newsreels from the '40s and '50s, a cartoon and then the movie. Just like my parents did. You did a fine job.
Ned Kelly would have been delighted at the helmets of the guards at the beginning. Thank you for posting. Of course, almost 90 years on we can have a good laugh, but nevertheless enjoyable and well done for its time.
I enjoyed the full two hours, thanks!
Ethan, THANK YOU, that was a real treat!
thank you flash gordon is one of my favorite heroes ever in any generation of him
Thanks for putting this together. It kind've pisses me off that billionaire's like George Lucas who owe EVERYTHING to this series, won't fork out some money to have them restored and re-scanned in HD to blu-ray. Even for archival reasons alone.
SpockBoy, the _Flash Gordon_ movies are the responsibility of Universal Pictures and King Features Syndicate/Hearst Media; it's those two entities that should be doing any restorations.
@@Neville60001 All those guys are in foundations that preserve films.They could easily influence Universal to do it.
@@spockboy, Universal and King Features/Hearst has to _want_ to do it, not just get money from whoever to do it (also, there has to be a shitload of _customer_ interest to justify there being a restoration of these serials.)
@@spockboy, it's up to _Universal_ and Hearst Media to do it, and nobody else. Stop being such a butthurt little boy over this, and get a life.
Its easier than that. Just download it and burn your own copy. But don't try to sell it.
nice work this was my childhood, went to movies in Lancaster ca. in the 1940s for 10 cents,
got TV in 1949 i was born jan 1942, Christmas presents were my birthday gift.
None of the subsequent films were as good as this series. In the 50s they ran horrible 16mm copies on tv. The image was terrible and had so many splices in the film. The audio had loud hiss. These new copies are terrific! Thanks for your edit and post!
Love the bits of Wagner's Parsifal in the music score. And that wonderful rocket, "jetting" around space at about 35 miles an hour. "Come... I will show you a secret passage that leads to the palace." "Destroy it with the melting ray. Can't you see I'm busy?"
Thank you Ethan, it was wonderful!
Thanks! Glad you liked it!
Back in 1952 when I was a 4th and 5th grader, I would rush home from schools to see these episodes.
Good job. It's fascinating to me that in the 1930's, the future of space adventure looked medieval. :)
far enough away from us in time in any direction all turns to fairy tale. :)
Left over props from Ben hur
Yeah, they fly around in spacecraft, but fight with swords? And apparently fabric was in short supply as all but the military wore shorts and the military wore suits of metal that made them look like robots.
BUT, they had such SPACIOUS spaceships! As Hyacinth would say, "Room for a swimming pool and a pony." (British comedy "Keeping Up Appearances".)
Well, you look at the rash of sci-fi flicks (and TV shows) made in the 1950'sand '60's and THEY look medieval to US now! Very naive stuff! Remember "When Worlds Collide" where they thought we'd need to use a huge SLED for a rocket with WINGS on it to catapult it into place. Always makes me laugh!
thanks for posting this movie,it was my favorite i watched it with the host rusty baker who advertised winder bread.
Addictive Saturday Morning Pictures in the 40's and 50's......but we saw through all the plot/dialogue holes!
Nicely done. Thank you so much!
Thank you for creating and posting.
This is so cool. I'm German and we could see this becaucse of the american army networks in the 1970. I was fascinated by the tricks.
In the 90ies I was at Universal Studios where IT's shown how Flashs spaceship flies.
Tank you for the Upload. It Brings back a lot of childhood memories.
what a good idea... thanks for the good work!!!!
High Level.
Takes me back to the eighties..the NJN days! Along with syndicated Dark Shadows!
I was in love with Jean Rogers and she didn't even know it
Love the get up of king Vulcan. Although its doubtful given the size and weight of the king whether those wings could dynamical support his bulk. Dale Arden, is indeed very beautiful, when has a eight year old boy watching these series, I had either forgotten about her or thought her irrelevant. Times have changed. My congratulations to the wardrobe directors on their selections of sartorial elegance. The props are outrageously ingenious.
glad I have found you.
Fantastic!! Thank You Very Much for sharing.
Great!I used to watch this about 1950 on an aunt's television. We didn't have one at home.😁
Charles Middleton, one of my favourite villains! GO Ming, Go!
Harummp, I can beat the Masked swordsman of Mongo with one hand tied behind my back..LOL
Good job on the edit Ethan, I enjoyed it very much! Cheers mate!
Great *Memories!* Much Thanks, My Good Man!
Ive seen everything and this is one of the most freshly entertaining film and most influential
This is a super production. I have the old VHS tapes and this beats them
Do you want to sell them?
Before He Was Buck Rogers, He Was Flash Gordon
Thanks! These episodes aired on swedish television in the 1970s.
love this old school stuff. better than any thing today.
Thanks for this love the suspense and theatrics
WOW. EXCELLENT IMAGINATION FOR THOSE DAYS
Did people in the 1930s not have much imagination?
I wonder how they invented so many things, then?
The quality of the imaging is amazing.
I grew up with flash Gordon on TV in the 1960s and back then TV showed a lot of stuff from the past that you do not get on TV anymore
I like that the space ship was riveted together.
Thanks l thought l would never see the rest after episode one , a classic movie.
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So hokey, so cheesy ….and so very, very good!!
I love it
Now here is some horrible acting, yet I can't stop watching. Love it!
Awesome upload! Thanks a lot!
Let's see, medieval dinner habibits, a 70 year old dude in booty shorts, Roman Headwear, a guy in a lobster/dragon costume, Egyptian decor, lab equipment from the 1931 Frankenstein movie, those paper costumes, the Norse men with all the hair, poor iguanas with crap glued all over them, a little plastic space ship from a cereal box, space-flight that defys even imagination, and ray-guns with sparklers attached to the ends. Let's see,
Yup, it's all here folks.
Actually Flash is awesome. 👍
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Land? Go around again Zarkov... make that a couple times! Loved watching these as a kid sunday mornings in the 60's!
I was watching flash in the 50’s and loved it
You must be a really old fart lime me because I was watching him too.
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Excellent, here,s a parachute, no training and jump!
The British SOE didn’t make practice jumps for it agents,to much of a chance getting hurt in training.
And the chick's hair didn't even get messed up.
I got a 2 houre instruktional course, then a kick in the back side, that was my first jump. Swedish green barades 1988
thank you...great memories
Man I love those old-style movietone voice actors oh, it's something that just can't be duplicated by today's young punks when all we got to do is take that shirt off and then they put him in a movie these people are mostly from the stage in theater so they do have the voice project and radio of course that old style of speaking man it just can't be done anymore but I can understand oh, that's the way it was for that time.
All this needs is an opening credits sequence with a Queen soundtrack.
God no that soundtrack was not Queens finest moment
Blasphemy
They need to do a Flash Gordon remake set in 1937 , they should use the retro futuristic ships like in this , would be awsome
So Flash gets his freedom and the choice to marry any woman he wants, but imperils his life and Dale's by going back to the enemy's planet Mongo to marry Dale. Uhm...why not just marry Dale right then and there and take off on a honeymoon?
Zarkov says he needed someone to help him pilot the space ship, then once Flash 'n' Dale are on board he flies the thing single handedly!
"Why, it's from my son FLASH". Who names their son Flash. Wonder if he cleans baths without scratching!
I grew up watching the Old Republic Pictures Serials. I loved this serial.
Dale (huba-huba) Arden & Princess Aura....Yowser!!!!
Yup. Jean Rodgers suffered hand burns in the second serial and Buster Crabbe smothered the flames with cloth. Rodgers was not eager to do the third serial and asked to be released from the contract. Others say that het replacement Carol Hughes was brought in for the third serial due to audience backlash to Rodgers" hot sexiness.Whether that sexiness was intentional or not is up for debate. I liked Vulcan. Cool character. Charles Middleton did a great job as Ming. I thought he played it very straight against the overall campiness of the serial. I thought the music was better in Flash Gordon Conquers The Universe. Great Saturday afternoon movie entertainment in the early 1950s. Larry Toomey, Philadelphia