Silent Shadow of the Bat-Man #1 - Retro 1920s Dark Knight

(Part 1 of 5) Parts one and two are halves of a 12 minute short depicting the origin of "The Bat-Man" and introducing his amazing skills and abilities... Bob Kane and Bill Finger drew on a lot of silent films to create Batman, and I've always wanted to give the story a try using silent film techniques. What with that whole copyright/waste of time thing, you'll have to settle for this collage. Here are the original influences re-arranged to tell Bruce Wayne's story and his 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.

Make sure and check out part two conveniently located at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByTfwmyHr3Q for the Rogue's Gallery: 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! All this and pulsepounding, teethgrinding excitement as "The Bat-Man" falls into the Joker's trap - literally.

The followup, "Arkham After Midnight" - is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD4XqYT1-JU
Chapter One: "Mark of The Mad Hatter"

Sources used:
THE BAT (1926)
THE MAN WHO LAUGHS (1928)
THE CABINET OF DOCTOR CALIGARI (1920)
Edison's FRANKENSTEIN (1910)
THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ (1910)
BATMAN (1943 for Ghul and Wayne in Lab)

A quick two day collage by Andre Perkowski. Music by Kristin Palker & 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:

http://geniusboyfiremelon.blogspot.com/2008/08/1920s-batman-arkham-after-midn...

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• experimental
• Batman
• Dark
• Knight
• Joker
• Penguin
• Catwoman
• 1920s
• silent
• retro
• found
• footage

[multicomicbookgeek]

wait a minute . the bat was made in 1926 and the first batman comic came out in 1939 , also in a interview with bob kane he said that the inspiration came from the 1926 the bat

[terminalpictures]

@multicomicbookgeek See my response to ziggycat999 below for the astonishing answer.

[ziggycat999]

How was this by Bob Kane when he was 12 years old? And Bill Finger too? Kinda bull#hit here going on here!

[terminalpictures]

@ziggycat999 Hey, Columbo -- maybe you'll crack the case if you learn how to fuckin' read. They didn't have synthesizers in the 20s, either.

[superhamzah85]

Silent Shadow?

Might as well be a loud shadow, they don't make sounds.

[terminalpictures]

@superhamzah85 It's called "a metaphor to describe the silent film influences shadowing Batman's creation, Mr. Wizard"

[shadowclaw46]

just to let every one know, this movie was originally called the bat. It was the inspration for batman, and it's not about the batman that we all know. The batman in this movie is a killer who dresses up as a bat and the bat symbol in this movie is used by the killer to frighten his victems before he comes in for the kill.

[multicomicbookgeek]

@terminalpictures oh now i get it you got these films together and made a little short film . that is cool

[multicomicbookgeek]

@terminalpictures i dont get it

[multicomicbookgeek]

@terminalpictures i dont get it

[MegaKelly000]

strange!!!! :)

[DavePlissken]

It's me or Bruce Wayne's mother is really really older than his father?

[mp01juve]

Fantastic effort. taht music is eerie and fits well with the theme