“The weed of crime bears bitter fruit!” – The Shadow
He Knows…
Magic Carpet of Movietone
Advertisement for Movietone magazine, 1932
The ‘Gray Seal’ Finds His Counterpart
Head of WXYZ Responsible for Putting Program on Air
Little Over a Year Old, Show Is Now One of Most Popular of Its Kind in City.
Golden Age Radio, 1970
Illustrated sleeve featuring Superman, Flash Gordon, Green Hornet’s Black Beauty, Mandrake the Magician, The Shadow and The Lone Ranger. Original transcription disks were 16″ and were pressed at 16-2/3 RPM records, a speed used almost exclusively for spoken word content, particularly the “talking books” used by the visually impaired. For this reason, the inclusion of this speed was required on phonographs in some countries for many years.
The M16A1 Rifle
Do me a favor tiger… Do a quick before-operations check on your rifle before we counter attack
WXYZ: Home of the Green Hornet
The Maccabees Building – A $2,500,000 building in the Art Center of Detroit Michigan, dedicated July 23, 1927, was the first important office building in this section. Continue reading “WXYZ: Home of the Green Hornet”
It’s only a model (shhhh)
Below are several photos of the models used in the the Making of the Green Hornet TV show
Cab Calloway’s Jive Dictionary
From Cab Calloway’s Jive Jubilee of Songs
Zombies on Broadway
Zombies on Broadway, 1945. When former gangster Ace Miller tried to go legit by opening a night club, he hires two inept promoters (Jerry & Mike) who promise that a real zombie will be there at the grand opening… of course it wasn’t that easy (Comedy, Horror)
You’ll Find Out
After a strange musical into with Kay Kyser that lasts about 5 min, the meat of the movie starts. Kay Kyser and his orchestra are invited to a birthday party where nefarious forces are trying to kill the heiress before she inherits it all. (Comedy, Musical, Mystery)