Green Hornet outtakes, clap-board/slate takes

Here is a series of outtakes from the 1966-67 series "The Green Hornet" starring Van Williams and Bruce Lee as Kato. These clips feature scenes involving the Black Beauty, a '66 Chrysler Imperial modified by Dean Jeffries.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Green
• Hornet
• Black
• Beauty
• Van
• Williams
• Kato
• Bruce
• Lee
• Dean
• Jeffries

[OtterPubes]

great stuff!!

but why did the Green Hornet always have to ride in back? didn't that make his sidekick/best friend Kato subservient?

My apologies if I'm overthinking things

[APennyW]

Bruce Lee in a letter dated 6/21/66 to William Dozier voiced his concerns that Kato should be an equal to The Green Hornet. He wrote "...what I like to express here is regarding the relationship between the Green Hornet and Kato. True that Kato is a house boy of Britt, but as the crime fighter, Kato is an "active partner" of the Green Hornet and not a 'mute follower'."

[APennyW]

In the early episodes of the '66 TV series there was a privacy glass seperating the front from the rear of the Black Beauty. The Green Hornet spoke to Kato through an intercom system from the back seat, like in a normal limo. This glass was later removed and they spoke directly. Also remember that The Green Hornet has various controls and gadgets in the back seat area that he controlled while Kato was driving.

[punkKid62]

@OtterPubes Pick up a copy of Green Hornet Year One if you haven't. Britt sees Kato as an equal but because Britt saved his life and Kato was raised by the way of samurai (the comic follows his original origin of being Japanese, which was changed due to the Pearl Harbour attacks) so because of that he wishes to serve Britt a life debt. Which Britt sees as pointless as he accepts as a friend, nothing more and nothing less

[raulcitraro]

@OtterPubes , Bruce Lee was a class-act. He and Van Williams were good friends and he wanted Lee to have more screen time since he understood or were smart enough to visualize what the audience wanted,and that was a lot of action scenes. Williams was an excellent partner as well and unselfishly wanted Bruce Lee to have more dialogue. The ABC executives were the ones who killed the franchise when they did not want to extend it from the 1/2-hour format to the 1 -hour format.

[OtterPubes]

@raulcitraro From what I understand Bruce L was a very cool guy. I've never heard or read that he insisted on being treated above and beyond everyone else because he had superior driving skills. Your back seat theory is equally curious. You're saying that you're less distracted when making your order at 'In-N-Out Burger' if you crawl into the back seat? I'll have to give that a try.

[d4seasons]

@OtterPubes my guess is THE GREEN HORNET can get a better view of what's going on.

[aregal]

Holy crap! I walk through the buildings at 2:10 every day!

[TheStupedCat]

Great clips thanks for posting..

[NoInfringementIntent]

I didn't realize the first piece of music in this video was the theme from "The Green Hornet" when I first heard it in "Kill Bill Vol. 1"; that explains why Uma Thurman's character was wearing the black and yellow striped outfit: it was a reference to Bruce Lee [who played Kato in Green Hornet] from one of his movies (can't remember which one, though; I think it was "Game of Death" or something like that...I'm not really sure). :-)

[nellen17]

@clearcombat @PantherCamaro Hi . Here is what Van Williams just sent me about the 'movie'

"Green Hornet Movie has been made. Google It. Seth something got ahold of it and made it a comedy. Everyone that has seen the trailors hatex.it

People I KNEW & worked with were NOT the least bit racist .. told you .. Bruce's English was very difficult to understand . but he was wonder . had lunch with him almost daily . You like someone .. that is it .. race does NOT matter!

N. Ellen

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[nellen17]

@OtterPubes .. that is the way it was written .. Bruce was very close to Britt or VAN on the show & in real life .. Both wonderful men and good friends . Van always will be one of my best friends .. Bruce would have been given more dialogue .. Van wanted them to do it .. but he was hard to understand and when filming TV . you do not have time (money) to do take after take .. thus .. KATO spoke little .. Van was not pleased but nothing he could do . HAD the fans watched it at the time Perhaps!

[nellen17]

@clearcombat .. I believe Universal put it out . but not sure . not in the film business anymore and know little of what is going on ...