Western classic science fiction that paved the way to Westworld and Firefly

With Hollywood adapting to the Talkie era in the early 1930s, studios were heavily based on His Majesty the auditory plays and the bliss of mice of spiral comedy to dazzle the masses. The future of the Motion Entertainment reached almost overnight, and movie makers were somewhat sure that they knew what the film’s pioneers wanted. When it comes to a loud voice, people lined up to hear huge bullets and geese in both gang and western films; They were detonated across the back of the theater Frequencing King Kong roar It is afraid of the ridiculous screams of the victims of Count Dracula.

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This type of science fiction, which is still young in the early voice era, should have flourished, but the studios and the public have generally watched the tales of the dreams of Jules Verne, the mercury wells, and Edgar Rice Borruz as things for children. Though Fritz Lang in 1927 “Metropolis” It is seen today as a medium masterpiece, and they found it silly and/or driving. They were equal to the same extent of “amazing things” William Cameron Minses, which is the Wales air conditioning that many critics and cinematographers believe that they are the first great science fiction feature.

For this reason, science fiction was generally deported to the world of series, which was revealed in weekly parts of 20 to 30 minutes and used a prize prize to attract the fans for the next batch. Teenagers detonated their allowances to keep pace with the large screen exploits of Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers, then spent the week between the chapters to speculate with their friends on how to escape the hero some death.

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The Westerners were also huge with young cinema pioneers, who did not escape the notice of the actor of cinema, writer and producer Wallace McDonald. If some adventure scenarios can dream in one way or another west with a science fiction visualization, they may be sitting on the box office mine. But McDonald was not even found himself under the influence of gas laughter while withdrawing the teeth, as he discovered how the two types were successfully united – a approach, after many decades, Michael Krishton’s imagination will release Widon.

“The PHANTOM EMPIRE” is one of the best series of its time because it plays exactly This type of unlikely spinning, Schoolkid with boredom will dream of awakening during the algebra separation. He also has a good fortune for being the first car of rural singer Jin Utre, who turns the act of lyric cowboy into an experienced idol.

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The series begins with a sad theft, apparently ends at the opening of the Autry radio program. Society loves him, but no one loves him more than teenagers, Frankie Daru and Petsey King Ross, who play in their spare time, and he is believed as bad, small thunder. The cyclists are based on the legend of a secret civilization under the ground. In the first chapter, Autry and children learn that thunder passengers are not a legend because they were kidnapped and slid about 18,000 feet below the soil. There, they found themselves at the mercy of Queen Tika, the governor of Mauria.

More than 12 episodes (which, combined, runs 245 minutes), Autry and children must compete not only with TIKA but also with criminals who wander the hot side to steal the wealth of Radium Moria and the rebels who are eager to overthrow the queen. Is it ridiculous? Glorious like this. Its future combinations are still great in the back in the old school, and the non -shiny paintings work wonderfully in our richly imagined world. “The Phantom Empire” is incommressive to the extent that, when I was a child, I fell hard on the parked version of the story when 1979 CBS “Cliffhangers” selection chain Show it as the “secret empire”. (You can see currently The whole season On YouTube.)

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Certainly, there is an opportunity for “Westworld” from Michael Krishton and Jos Widdon “Firefly” without the dream of the head of the dentist in McDonald. This is also true of John Favrio, “Cows and Foreigners”, “ But let’s not put this evil on the “fake Empire”.