Under the elevator - from Batman serial (1943)

Batman gets pushed into an elevator shaft in this scene from Chapter 8 of the movie serial Batman (1943).

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Film & Animation

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• film
• movie
• serial

[classyfilms]

You would think that gangsters would carry at least one gun with them.

[JoeTyler85]

Dude, this serial is EXTREMELY dated now, but it's still the most faithfull adaptation of the original Bob Kane's Batman...

[sudoraba]

dude Batman and Robin just got the ever loving crap kicked out of them

[rathraven1313]

2:17 like how the bad guy takes his time getting out that laurdy basket.

[Skeletonwitharaygun]

@NikeAurrs45

Did you even watch the video? lol!

[bsbob52]

Nothing like a good dummy falling for my buck ! Ouch, that would hurt, love it !

[TheFrontrowkid]

I'm surprized none of you Bat aficionados have commented about the darkness of the film print. Columbia did not spend a lot of money, making the serials. They were shot on a tight budget with assembly line production. These prints were sent around to film distributors who returned them after their initial run. Republic on the other hand felt that the serials were an important product for them and took time and money to make them. Radio announcer Knox Manning did the intros and endings.

[man975dog]

@JoeTyler85 My apologies. When I said "notorious", I meant 2 say "famous". Sorry if I used the wrong word about this movie version of Batman and Robin.

[man975dog]

@JoeTyler85 It was only a few years ago when I found out that Batman and Robin was a movie series from the 1940's. It's really nice and I like it, however, it's possible that not 2 many people remember this version of Batman since the 1960's TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward was notorious.

[retromansss]

i wonder how they were able to survive this long as crimefighters

[ArchivesMLS]

Jack and John can similarly have crude connotations, so why don't you disparage those popular names as well into contrived obsolescence.

[ArchivesMLS]

Like Keith Olbermann, your opportunistic misuse of Dick as ersatz slang is childish and foolish. Ever wonder if Keith ever calls his boss Ebersol by his first-name with similar intentions?

Makes you wonder if Keith ever burst out laughing during his formative years when he was assigned to read Dick & Jane in public school, Moby Dick in junior high school, and Charles Dickens novels in high-school. Hilarious!

[ArchivesMLS]

Then how do you explain why Dick Tracy was also so named? Hint: Dick was slang for "detective" in the 1930s, the same decade that Batman & Robin were created, so your crude connotation is unwarranted and an anachronism. Do you equally apply the same crudeness to All-American legends such as Dick Clark and Dick Enberg as well?