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...Love That Chimp." Producer Katzman's most successful serial is his Superman, which grossed more than $1,000,000, and was so popular in South America that the whole 31-reel cliff-hanger-5 hours 10 minutes long-was run off as a single feature. Sam pre-tests the plots and chapter endings on his 15-year-old son Jerome and playmates. "If they guess how the guy gets out of the predicament each week, it goes out immediately and we rewrite until they can't guess...
...producers take advantage of this setup to create suspense. Almost in the manner of a Saturday afternoon serial story, the action flits about different situations as Commander Brennan and his men track down the squad that has been engaged in a series of explosions. No dialogue is wasted, no character is without a function...
Holding the much lighter Bunny team to only four first downs, Eliot made 13 of its own, mostly on the ground. The Elephants totaled 229 yards in scrimmage to Leverett's meager 52, while the vaunted Bunny serial attack also failed to materialize. Eliot passed for 82 yards to 46 for Leverett...
Riding High. Director Koolish had a life story as full of ups & downs as a movie serial. He got his start with the K. & S. Co., founded with a Chicago partner in 1915, to sell cameras, jewelry and novelties by mail. Sometimes K. & S. mailed out unsolicited merchandise, gambled that enough people would send in their money to turn a profit. Often Koolish mailed out punchboards, furnished the merchandise prizes for the lucky winners. He spread out to candy (Chicago Mint Co.), counter devices such as peanut vendors and handgrip measurers (Pierce Tool & Manufacturing Co.), silk stockings and insurance. Koolish...
Lieut. Gennady Mishin, Soviet Air Force Serial No. 25054, is the only definitely identified Russian casualty of the Korean war. On Sept. 4, 1950 (eleven days before MacArthur's amphibious stroke at Inchon), Mishin's twin-engine bomber was shot down in the Yellow Sea, near the 38th parallel, by fighters from the U.S. carrier Valley Forge. A destroyer got Mishin's body from the wreckage before it sank. According to the U.S. report, the Red-starred Russian plane flew "toward the center of the U.N. [naval] formation in a hostile manner," eventually opening fire...