WHO
“Schwartz’s animated film expresses the mystery and intrigue that lures us similarly into that shadowy world.”
“Now it was late enough to hear THE SHADOW, on the radio. The Shadow was Lamont Cranston, a wealthy man-about-town, who possessed the power to cloud men’s minds and become invisible. By this means he fought crime, “who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?” he said in his invisible voice at the beginning of every program. “The Shadow knows.” And then he laughed a sniggling nasal laugh that made HIM sound evil. That had always bothered me. When the Shadow went into invisible mode, you could tell because his voice sounded as if it were coming through a telephone; this made sense because you couldn’t see people in real life either when they were talking to you on the telephone. But there was something stunted about the Shadow’s adventures. They were no contest. Typically, in a Shadow story, it would take Lamont Cranston a while to realize he was faced with a severe enough crisis to change into the Shadow, Sometimes it would happen that his girlfriend Margo was threatened. The criminals were always stupid and talked with foreign accents or in rough gravelly voices with the diction of the Dead End Kids, They would have guns and shoot wildly, but to no avail. The Shadow would laugh his sniggly laugh and tell them they had missed. Actually I knew that with a tommy gun a smart crook could hold his finger down on the triggering spin around in a 360-degree circle spraying bullets up and down and so have a fair chance of hotting the Shadow whether he was invisible or not, and no matter how far he threw his voice. His invisible blood would run. But they never thought of that.
Listening to programs, you saw them in your mind. From the sound effects you were able to imagine what things looked like and tell from the sound of its engine if a car was sleek and streamlined, of big like a taxi with lots of leg room and a running board. I thought of Margo, Lamont Cranston’s friend, as looking like my mother’s friend Mae but without her glasses, and without Mae’s little jokes. Margo was an attractive woman, but lacking in humor. Cranston himself I thought a little slow-moving to take as long as he did to go into action; he was fairly sedentary, as compared. say with the Green Hornet, who could probably lick him in a fight if they went at it visibly. I didn’t think of the Shadow as being able to jump rooftops or climb ropes or run very fast. On the other had, why should he have to? Also, I wondered about his restraint when he could become invisible anytime he chose. I wondered if he ever took advantage of women, as I surly would.”
‘WORLD’S FAIR’ – E.L. Doctorow
32 seconds.
Shadow Puppet Animation
Halloween 2019
oooo000OOOO00ooooooo…….
Jim,
Researching the history of Detrola (cameras).
Looking for old radio archives that reference Detrola in broadcasts.
https://youtu.be/HBN5-M1Ei5s
WHO
“Schwartz’s animated film expresses the mystery and intrigue that lures us similarly into that shadowy world.”
“Now it was late enough to hear THE SHADOW, on the radio. The Shadow was Lamont Cranston, a wealthy man-about-town, who possessed the power to cloud men’s minds and become invisible. By this means he fought crime, “who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?” he said in his invisible voice at the beginning of every program. “The Shadow knows.” And then he laughed a sniggling nasal laugh that made HIM sound evil. That had always bothered me. When the Shadow went into invisible mode, you could tell because his voice sounded as if it were coming through a telephone; this made sense because you couldn’t see people in real life either when they were talking to you on the telephone. But there was something stunted about the Shadow’s adventures. They were no contest. Typically, in a Shadow story, it would take Lamont Cranston a while to realize he was faced with a severe enough crisis to change into the Shadow, Sometimes it would happen that his girlfriend Margo was threatened. The criminals were always stupid and talked with foreign accents or in rough gravelly voices with the diction of the Dead End Kids, They would have guns and shoot wildly, but to no avail. The Shadow would laugh his sniggly laugh and tell them they had missed. Actually I knew that with a tommy gun a smart crook could hold his finger down on the triggering spin around in a 360-degree circle spraying bullets up and down and so have a fair chance of hotting the Shadow whether he was invisible or not, and no matter how far he threw his voice. His invisible blood would run. But they never thought of that.
Listening to programs, you saw them in your mind. From the sound effects you were able to imagine what things looked like and tell from the sound of its engine if a car was sleek and streamlined, of big like a taxi with lots of leg room and a running board. I thought of Margo, Lamont Cranston’s friend, as looking like my mother’s friend Mae but without her glasses, and without Mae’s little jokes. Margo was an attractive woman, but lacking in humor. Cranston himself I thought a little slow-moving to take as long as he did to go into action; he was fairly sedentary, as compared. say with the Green Hornet, who could probably lick him in a fight if they went at it visibly. I didn’t think of the Shadow as being able to jump rooftops or climb ropes or run very fast. On the other had, why should he have to? Also, I wondered about his restraint when he could become invisible anytime he chose. I wondered if he ever took advantage of women, as I surly would.”
‘WORLD’S FAIR’ – E.L. Doctorow
32 seconds.
Shadow Puppet Animation
Halloween 2019
oooo000OOOO00ooooooo…….