Part 2 (of 3 so far) - The first two entries in this series are halves of a 12 minute short depicting the origin of "The Bat-Man" - Bob Kane, Bill Finger, and Jerry Robinson drew on a lot of silen...
Part 2 (of 3 so far) - The first two entries in this series are halves of a 12 minute short depicting the origin of "The Bat-Man" - Bob Kane, Bill Finger, and Jerry Robinson drew on a lot of silent films and pulp to create Batman and his enemies: here they are re-arranged to tell us about Bruce Wayne's crusade against crime. A bit of fun not intended for sale or commercial exploitation... what with the huge commercial value of silent films and everything.
Featuring the Joker... Oswald Cobblepot, AKA The Penguin... The Cat-Woman! The unspeakable horrors of the Scarecrow! The scientific genius of R'as Al Ghul!
Be sure to check out part one for the story of how young Bruce Wayne got into such a weird racket anyway.
Jack Pickford as Bruce Wayne Conrad Veidt as The Joker Werner Krauss as The Penguin Olga Baclanova as The Catwoman George Beranger as The Scarecrow J. Carrol Naish as R'as Al Ghul Louise Fazenda as the Woman of Ill Repute
"Arkham After Midnight" Chapter One: "Mark of the Mad Hatter."
The Darkest, Most Depressing Knight!
Written and Edited by Andre Perkowski. Music by Kristin Palker and Andre Perkowski.
What? You want MORE? Grant Morrison expert and astute comic pundit Timothy Callahan just put up an endless interview with some jerk about the cobbling together of these forbidden experiments in animating the flesh of the silent dead:
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Joking because you saw The Man Who Laughs? No! I am serious! Bob Kane said in an interview years ago that he got his inspirations from many of the silent horror movie classics. If you don't believe me, take a really good look at films like The Man Who Laughs and The Bat Creeps. I am telling you they led to the creation of The Joker and The Batman.
When Bob Kane and Bill Finger created The Joker, Finger supplied Kane with a movie still of Conrad Veidt from "The Man Who Laughs" as a model for Kane to draw from. There's a panel in Batman #1 that looks like it was copied directly from the still. Finger kept a file cabinet of movie stills to use as backgrounds and models.
Looks like bandcouver agrees with me. Just watch a few old horror movie classics from the silent era of the 1920s. I'm sure even Lon Chaney's memorable performance as The Phantom Of The Opera inspired a comic book villain for someone else like The Man Who Laughs and The Bat Creeps did for Bob Kane.
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at least he's not wearing a granny underwear
Go and be decent!
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