Silent Shadow of the Bat-Man #3 - Retro 1920s Dark Knight in "Arkham After Midnight: Mark of the Mad Hatter"

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August 17, 2008

"Arkham After Midnight: Mark of the Mad Hatter" - Down the rabbithole goes Alice and her darkest, most depressing knight! A new/old retro 1920s silent serial... Based on characters and situations ...

"Arkham After Midnight: Mark of the Mad Hatter" - Down the rabbithole goes Alice and her darkest, most depressing knight! A new/old retro 1920s silent serial... Based on characters and situations by Bob Kane, Bill Finger, and Jerry Robinson for DC Comics at some point or another.

I'm still having fun with this found footage-soaked, uncommercial concept strictly for educational and sporadically recreational purposes... so time to slice and dice more material in service of a strange story arc of sorts... grown fresh from our beloved Terminal Pictures garden, here then is the first slice: wherein we get big globs of setup concerning Arkham Asylum... madness! surreal delirium! Hallucinations! Screaming lunatics! Obsessive supervillains! That amazing triumph of conceit over technology, the incredible "Bat-Gyro."

CAUTION: Slow down your internal clock and ingest whatever diet supplements and substances required by State and Federal authorities before viewing. "Scare-Crow Drugged Gas" is not suitable for any sort of children, particularly easily impressionable ones.

Written & edited by Andre Perkowski. Music by Kristin Palker and Andre Perkowski.

SOURCES:
The Penalty (1920)
The Blackbird (1926)
Nosferatu (1920)
The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (1920)
The Golem (1920)
Batman and Robin (1949 serial - having milked The Bat, I'm forced to scavenge, degrade, and repurpose - De-Robin-ing along the way.)
Haxan (1922)
Fantômas - À l'ombre de la guillotine (1913)
Juve contre Fantômas (1913)
Waxworks (1924)
Destiny (1922)
Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (1922)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Alice in Wonderland (1903)
L'Inferno (1911)
Hans Richter 20s films
assorted 20s newsreels

Coming Soon... you know you want it.

Chapter Two: "Riddle Me Deadly."
Bats gassed and interacting in smoky haze with his own demons - not to mention his demons incarnate: The Riddler, Poison Ivy, Mr. Freeze, Solomon Grundy, Killer Croc, and Maxie Zeus - leading to all-out catastrophe and mayhem at the asylum. As per usual, folks.

Chapter Three: "Curse of The Clay-Face."
The epic and remarkably upsetting conclusion will mostly center around "The Clay-Face," a transformation flashback, and the devious Human Penguin wrapping up the story arc in a fine, furious fashion.

Big thanks to Marv Wolfman for being encouraging about the first short and mentioning that its a shame you couldn't tell a story with this method... which the next morning I took as a challenge and got to work. Take that, Syd Field!

Catch up to all the scratchy handcranked action with the original collage short, "Silent Shadow of the Bat-Man" - young Bruce Wayne suffers in the crucible of his parents' murder and pledges to mop up the streets one weirdo at a time.

PART ONE:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=U_bjAhynSrY
PART TWO:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ByTfwmyHr3Q

( Fine Rogue's Gallery tableaux with the original Man Who Laughs... Conrad Veidt as one of the Joker's models)

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:

http://geniusboyfiremelon.blogspot.co...

Category: Film & Animation

Tags:

experimental Batman Dark Knight Joker Mad Hatter Arkham Asylum 1920s silent retro found footage

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I agree with chaingangsergeant00X....WOW... the last 2 minutes!!!!!!!!!!

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what is 8:21 from? can anyone tell me?

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Starting 8:32 you can see the sprocket holes of the film flash on and off at the sides of the screen. Weird!

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the music is great.....the imagery wonderful

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everything with batman was 60s.......
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Amazing!!!

"Alfred, I must go to Arkham, but have gotten piss drunk and I'm a bleeding idiot"

*wtf glare*

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on 5:39-a monkey with bat wings clipped on, LOL...cool stuff for1920's and it probably soiled peoples pant's back then.

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