Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe: Chapter One, Part 1 of 3

1st of 3 files of Chapter One of the classic 1940 Saturday matinee serial. Part 2 is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3h6niSnzWE

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[Deltapsycho]

are you kidding me?

[ThrillingWonderLLC]

@Deltapsycho About what?

[LivefromHollywood]

The music is Les Preludes by Franz Listz.

It's about 15 minutes of "long hair" music.

[ThrillingWonderLLC]

That's neat to know. Maybe I'll buy a copy, although I know I'll never be able to listen to it without thinking of this serial... like how the William Tell Overture never stops making me think of the Lone Ranger.

[MrWaterfighter]

Mings troops are dress like theater ushers, and please NASA provide more seats in your rockets.

[UFO000100]

Youtube has the music. Search for Les Preludes. You'll recognize the theme about 2:30 into it.

[smacker57]

@7Tweede7PimpernelE2 :The cave had doors which opened as they approached I think, or some sort of door thing maybe the same colour as the cave to make it hidden.

[smacker57]

@7Tweede7PimpernelE2 : I don't think it's this one. I know they wore black and had capes and rode horses and hid out in a cave underground and I remember a lightening bolt as their symbol. The series was in black and white, like all before colour tv. Was in the 60's maybe 63-64ish. And they wore full helmets of metal maybe silver colour.

[7Tweede7PimpernelE2]

@smacker57 There was a 1940 serial called "Phantom Empire" starring Gene Autry. The empire was underground. Is this the one you're looking for?

[4thekidsTV]

It's been a long time since I've seen the opening of the first chapter of the third and last "Flash Gordon"movie serial..and with the original opening titles.

[HermanDerGerman]

Dang this is same music Hitler used in his newsreels!

[SamuelConcepcion]

Isn't this funny? They are not sitting and wearing seatbelts while flying in their rocket ships! They are just freely standing inside the rocket ships without any harnesses. Unbelievable!

[jcghooker]

@smacker57 You might be thinking of Phantom Empire with Gene Autry, released by Mascot in 1935. The kids had a thunderiders club. Condensed version is called Radio Ranch

[purplepimpernel]

This music was on 2 disks when I found it. It is about 1/3 thru the 1st disk. A lot of folks wanted to know who wrote the music a couple of years ago. Curiously the piece is quite short.