Supercar - The Vanishing Professor (Bell Films)

Heres a slide show of one of the Supercar stories that Bell Films released back in 1962. It was for a small toy projector that projected the images to a wall. The film itself is 16mm in size. Working Bell projectors are hard to come by now, so heres the next best thing. I scanned the film frames into a slide show & added music backing from Barry Gray's soundtrack. Enjoy!

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• SUPERCAR
• GERRY
• ANDERSON
• BARRY
• GRAY
• THUNDERBIRDS
• SUPERMARIONATION
• BELL
• FILMS
• FIREBALL
• XL5
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[slinky460]

Also I seem to remember that there was a 78 RPM record that came with the film strips that had the sound track and voice, There was a little bell on the recording that would ding and you would advance the film strip. If you missed the bell, everything was out of sync and made no sense at all. You had to start over. As I say, when we got the TV in 1959, it hit the trash can. 

[MrJim]

@slinky460

Supercar was made between 1960/62. The Bell Film strips where released in 1961/62. They didn't have a record that went with them. Your thinking of the Supercar Club flexidisc by National Petroleum. It had a little bell to indicate key words to note down for a competition. Fun stuff.

MrJim.

[masterstarfox]

where did you get the music from?is there mp3s of the music?

[MrJim]

The music comes from the Supercar & Fireball XL5 Soundtrack CD. You can get it from Fanderson.

[aiaiaustin]

Really nice to see this "rescued" in a digitally available form. Well done Jim.

[MrJim]

Thank you Austin. I'm currently on the look out for more to do. I have managed to find two other stories & will do them soon too.

[masterstarfox]

@slinky460 i have that on my full boost dvd.of course it didint have the bell with it.it just rang everytime.i wondered why it rang.

[masterstarfox]

@MrJimi have a flexidisc adenture called "sabotage" from national benzoln for the supercar club as well as the "flight of fancy" adventure on my full boost vertical dvd.

[masterstarfox]

i've made a photo gallery of colour photos by cecil and madge stavordale.sadly a vast number of these are lost.check it out sometime.

[slinky460]

I think I had one of these projectors back about 1955 - 58. The film was just 16 mm strips just a few inches long that you ran through one frame at a time with a little knob, It was not too good, but it did work. I remember seeing color cartoons most of the time. You could buy different cartoons to run through them. It would project on a wall, but very dim and you had to have all the lights off. When we got a TV in 1959, it hit the trash can.

[masterstarfox]

that was "calling charlie queen!"

[masterstarfox]

oh yes i remember that.that was the one where mike dr beaker mitch and the guy who sounds like gordan on thunderbirds have shrunk.