Batman Serial - 8mm B/W Silent - Vintage 1943 - 2 x 400’ Reels - 6 Chapters

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Batman Serial - 8mm B/W Silent - Vintage 1943 -
2 x 400’ Reels - 6 Chapters
Batman serial from 1943 from Columbia Pictures.
His debut appearance on film!
Lot includes:
2
-
400’ reels
8mm
B/W
Silent
Plenty of fights, car chases - and a cliffhanger at the end of each chapter.
Each Chapter is silent with subtitles - not all 15 Chapters are included.
Reel 1
1
The Electrical Brain
2
The Bat's Cave
5
The Living Corpse
Reel 2
6
Poison Peril
14
The Executioner Strikes
15
The Doom of Daka
The Chapter number on these reels do not agree with the 15 chapters listed on Wikipedia.
Condition
Overall Very Good condition.
Film appears to be fresh, clean; not faded, brittle or fragile.
Batman (serial)
From Wikipedia
Release date
July 16, 1943
Running time
15 chapters
The Batman is a 1943 American 15-chapter theatrical serial from Columbia Pictures, produced by Rudolph C. Flothow, directed by Lambert Hillyer, that stars Lewis Wilson as Batman and Douglas Croft as his sidekick Robin. The serial is based on the DC Comics character Batman, who first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939. The villain is an original character named Dr. Daka, a secret agent of the Japanese Imperial government, played by J. Carrol Naish. Rounding out the cast are Shirley Patterson as Linda Page, Bruce Wayne's love interest, and William Austin as Alfred, the Wayne Manor butler.
The serial's story line involves the Batman, a secret U. S. government agent, attempting to defeat the schemes of Japanese agent Dr. Daka operating in Gotham City at the height of World War II. Serving Daka are his American henchmen.
Batman is notable for being the first appearance on film of Batman and for debuting story elements that quickly became permanent parts of the Batman character's mythos, such as the "Bat's Cave" and its secret entrance through a grandfather clock inside Wayne Manor. The serial also changed the course of how Alfred's physical appearance was depicted in future Batman stories. At the time Batman was released in theaters, Alfred was drawn as a portly gentleman in the comics. Subsequent issues suddenly depicted Alfred as slim and sporting a thin moustache, following actor William Austin's appearance.
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