Flash Gordon

Japanese: 《Flash Gordon》(英語表記)FlashGordon
Flash Gordon

...The serials of the 1930s and 40s were action-packed, dialogue-light, and aimed primarily at the "Saturday matinee kids," with many of the characters and themes borrowed from newspaper comic strips and comic magazines. The most popular talkie serial was the space-adventure fantasy Flash Gordon (1936), starring Buster Crabbe (1907-1983). It was the most expensive serial, costing $350,000 to make, about three times as much as most serials, and spawned two sequels in 1938 and 1940. With the Second World War, films with anti-Japanese imagery such as "Drums of Fumanchu" (1940) and the anti-Nazi "Jungle Queen" (1941) were produced, and after the war, films such as "Superman" (1948) and "Batman and Robin" (1950) were produced. However, the quality gradually declined and the films continued to get worse and worse, and by the mid-1950s they had fallen out of fashion and were used to fill gaps in programming. Eventually, the genre moved to television, and the last true action series was Columbia's "Blazing the Overland Trail" (1956).

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Flash Gordon" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…1930年代および40年代の連続活劇は,台詞が少なくアクション中心の,もっぱら〈土曜のマチネーの子どもたち〉を対象にしたもので,人物や趣向の多くは新聞連載の劇画や漫画雑誌からの借りものであった。もっとも人気を集めたトーキー連続活劇は,バスター・クラブBuster Crabbe(1907‐83)扮するフラッシュ・ゴードンを主人公とした宇宙冒険ファンタジー《超人対火星人Flash Gordon》(1936)で,ふつうの連続活劇の約3倍にあたる35万ドルというもっとも費用をかけた作品であり,その後も38年と40年に2本の続編がつくられた。第2次世界大戦とともに,イメージの上で反日的な性格を持った《フーマンチューの太鼓Drums of Fumanchu》(1940)とか反ナチ的な《密林の女王Jungle Queen》(1941)などがつくられ,戦後は《スーパーマンSuperman》(1948)や《バットマンBatman and Robin》(1950)などがつくられたが,しだいに質が低下して粗悪化の一途をたどり,50年代半ばにはすたれて番組の穴埋めに使われるようになり,やがてこのジャンルはテレビに移行,本来の連続活劇はコロムビアの《ブレージング・ゼ・オーバーランド・トレイルBlazing the Overland Trail》(1956)が最後のものになった。…

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