Reminder to myself to make everything weirder.


Reminder to myself to make everything weirder.

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  1. mf four sticksJune 22, 2016 at 9:25 AM

    Phantom Empire? It was weird serial.

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  2. Casey G.June 22, 2016 at 9:28 AM

    Yep. Gene Autrey's first I think.

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  3. Arnold K.June 22, 2016 at 12:41 PM

    ALWAYS PREP WEIRD. It's easy to tone down the weirdness when you're playing, or to come up with mundane stuff, but the inverse is not true.

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  4. Larry LadeJune 22, 2016 at 5:03 PM

    "The serial film is about a singing cowboy who stumbles upon an ancient subterranean civilization living beneath his own ranch that becomes corrupted by unscrupulous greedy speculators from the surface."

    Why did I not know this was a thing?!

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  5. Casey G.June 22, 2016 at 5:07 PM

    It's all on YouTube I think.

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  6. Casey G.June 23, 2016 at 6:24 AM

    Further research reveals the top panel is from a movie called The Dancing Lady and the woman is Joan Crawford. I'm thinking it's a burlesque dance number. The robots were re-used for The Phantom Empire the next year. I guess it was just good luck they look like they're wearing cowboy hats?

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