Captain Jim Kaiser of the Manifest Destiny

A project for the '1950s television section' of Honours U.S. History.
It's SUPPOSED to be this bad so that it's corny, campy - all of the best things of the '50s. Basically, I took Gumby and Flash Gordon and put them to-gether, along with elements I gleaned from a book about WWII war stories, Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940), and even some things from the Magic Portal and Solitary (brickfilms).
It's a weird combination of stop motion animation and live action (with a lot of use of kaleidoscope shots) - that's from Buck Rodgers by the way, as seen in THX 1138 (1971). The universe is basically army men. Jim Kaiser is an air force guy I got from my grandpa, and Richthofen (like the Great War pilot) is actually Han Solo. The Niadins are the Indians from a set of wild west men. Sets and props are cardboard, paper, dominoes, playing cards, guitar picks, and, of course, LEGOs.
Hopefully, you hate this as much as I do; that's for what it is meant.

Names: Paul Bresseur - ha, yeah, that's me, don't ask how I got it
Mark Lipsett - '2187', Arthur Lipsett, 1963, not sure about the Mark though
Bill Nash - everyone needs a Bill! Nash was from Crosby, Stills & Nash, but ironically, Zarkov from the Flash Gordon show was played by a Mr. Nash
Don Welles - Don of the Everly Brothers (I was using music for inspiration), Welles from Orson

Jim Kaiser - no clue, he was also the subject of my migrant journal for the same class however
Richthofen - yeah, Manfred
Zole - see Calculator Narrative (3702)
Edward Gray - Edvard Grieg and Dorian Gray (which I finished to-day)

Ober moon - some influence from the moon of Endor, but mostly Oberlin college. Go OHIO!

Note for raters: rate this inversely. Id est: if it looks really bad, rate it highly. If it looks too clean, rate poorly.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Honours
• United
• States
• History
• Honors
• Jim
• Kaiser
• Gumby
• Flash
• Gordon
• stop
• motion
• animation
• LEGO
• Magic
• Portal
• Solitary
• Buck
• Rodgers
• THX
• 1138
• Richthofen
• Han
• Solo

[justmusicandme]

An entertaining effort on your part. Good luck in your future endeavors.

[dbrauer43]

Thanks! It was indeed entertaining. Watching those old serials really showed how entertainment has changed. I think that was the whole idea.

[namarupa]

you ought to just tell your story without all the apologies about making it.

There was nothing "terrible" or "bad" about TV/cinema in the 50s actually. It was the best effort available given what the folks you tried to emulate had at their disposal.

So, I'd say stop looking in the rearview mirror to find a direction forward.

Just tell us what you want to say through saying it, not apologizing for it. Be an artist. It's OK... you don't have to explain. Let your work speak, not you.