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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes pic!
Since I featured the early Batman TV Show yesterday I felt it only right that I hit up the BTS folders for a look at George Reeves’ Superman show.
This photo has everything you’d expect from a 1950’s shoot! Giant equipment, men in business suits and everybody smoking a cigarette. Oh, and it also happens to have Superman and Noel Neill’s Lois Lane in fantastic color!
Enjoy!
If you have a pic you think should be included email me. I’m looking for the iconic, the rare or the just plain cool behind the scenes shots to feature here.
In celebration of how awesome Harrison Ford looks in Cowboys and Aliens I think tomorrow’s pic might just have center around the man.
-Quint
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Previous Behind the Scenes pics:
- Alien
- Big Trouble In Little China
- Clash of the Titans
- Dr. Strangelove
- Sesame Street
- The Birds
- The Dark Knight
- Batman (1989)
- Batman: The TV Series
- Stephen King’s IT
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- Superman
- The French Connection
- Tron
- The Road Warrior
- Ghostbusters
- King Kong (’33)
- The Empire Strikes Back (Luke with Slate)
- Rebel Without A Cause
- Taxi Driver
- Metropolis
- The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
- Tommy Chong Meets The Blues Brothers
- The Empire Strikes Back (Filming the Crawl)
- John Carpenter’s The Thing
- Jaws
- Die Hard
- Aliens
- Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man
- The Howling
- Revenge of the Creature
- The Empire Strikes Back (Vader & Luke Duel)
- The Godfather
- Rambo III
- Vertigo
- Planet of the Apes
- Pan’s Labyrinth
- Labyrinth
- RoboCop
- The Adventures of Robin Hood
- Marathon Man
- Young Frankenstein
- Viva Las Vegas
- The Empire Strikes Back (Han driving a snow cat)
- Rio Bravo
- Giant
- Back to the Future
- The Time Machine
- War of the Worlds (1953)
- Alien (Chestburster)
- On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
- Dr. No
- The Twilight Zone
- Once Upon A Time In The West
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Star Trek: The Original Series
- The Empire Strikes Back (Luke in Wampa Cave)
- Edward Scissorhands
- The Warriors
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Requiem for a Dream
- The Princess Bride
- Hard Boiled
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
- They Live
- The Empire Strikes Back (Tippet with Wampa)
- Dirty Harry
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
- Blade Runner
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (Periscope Ride)
- 1941
- The Godfather (Coppola & Brando)
- The Lady Eve
- 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
- Godzilla
- The Empire Strikes Back (Bald Vader)
- Mary Poppins
- Alien 3
- Total Recall
- The Pink Panther
- Fawlty Towers
- The Trouble With Harry
- Beetlejuice
- The Shining
- Thriller
- An American Werewolf In London
- The Gate
- The Fly (1958)
- Halloween
- Army of Darkness
- Frankenstein
- Seed of Chucky
- Psycho
- John Carpenter’s The Thing (Bottin)
- Creature From the Black Lagoon
- Friday the 13th (1980)
- A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)
- Creepshow
- Night of the Living Dead (’68)
- Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man
- Silence of the Lambs- The Exorcist
- Alien (crouching alien)
- Alfred Hitchcock being awesome
- Son of Frankenstein
- The Mummy (1932)
- Re-Animator
- Nosferatu (1979)
- Nosferatu (1922)
- War of the Worlds
- Vincent (Tim Burton)
- Evil Dead II
- The Evil Dead
- The Shining (Kubrick Self Portrait)
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
- Casablanca
- Sahara (1943)
- Pumpkinhead
- Back to the Future
- Inception
- MacBeth (1948)
- Superman
- Twilight Zone (Nightmare at 20,000 Feet)
- The Public Enemy
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
- Barbarella
- Ghostbusters II
- The Thin Man
- Faust
- Batman TV Show
Readers Talkback
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Reeves looks half pissed...heh-heh...
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...in Dark Knight Rises, so says the nets.
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...the more I look at that, the funnier it gets....
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"Hey! No hitting below the belt!" "Wow. What's left?" "My face...wait! NOT THE FACE!"
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It is odd to see a SuperMAN, not a SuperTiger Beat Pin up who looks 20.
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Too soon?
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Shit!
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If your belt is more than 3 inches from your pecks, you're doin' it wrong...<br><br>I never understood that era's weird fascination with pants that just needed a little more fabric to be a jumpsuit
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I don't understand this generation's weird fascination with wearing pants that are too small, wearing a teeny tiny belt under a huge gut and then blousing the shirt out at the waist hoping no one will notice the fatness. <p>Higher waisted pants gave Largeass-Americans dignity.
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Used to watch this every day when I was a kid (re-runs of course). Despite its obvious technological and budgetary limitations, it was a damned good TV series that has stood the test of time. I prefer Reeves' serious Clark Kent to Reeve's bumbler. I hope they play him straight in Godfather Nolan's version.
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"..the bordello where his bullet riddled body was found."
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If the show was going to be shot in B&W. Or am I remembering wrong. It was B&W right?
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funny shit.
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Even though few people had color sets
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One of his super powers is knowing that he's in a TV show.
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All of the Noell Neil episodes were in color. I think there was only one B&W season (which was the best one with the better and HOTTER Lois)
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Reeve did it to at the end of every Superman movie.
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a velour Superman suit? Looks comfy heh Boogel, yes it was in B&W early on, but you could still tell differences in color. One would be darker than another. If he was flying around in a pure white suit, it would have been strange
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...and smiled.
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Nov. 17, 2010, 1:54 p.m. CST
Yeah, those high waisted pants were insane
by HarryKnowlesNonExistentInceptionReview
Hard to believe people thought that looked good. You still she old guys in their 80's here in Florida (where America comes to die) with their pants pulled up to their armpits.
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When it first started I was indifferent but it's an amazing window into the old days (recent and way back). Good on you once again Quint.
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God she was annoying as hell
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its probably those red granny panties.
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Recycled crushed-velvet track suits
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Nov. 17, 2010, 3:32 p.m. CST
The series was only shot in color the last three seasons
by Cheif Brody
but those "color" episodes didn't AIR in color until it was syndicated in 1965. <p> This is why Ben Affleck's costume in "Hollywoodland" portraying George Reeves was seen in the monochromatic brown, gray & white version.
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...is still the hottest Lois Lane in screen history, just pipping Teri Hatcher there. She had a fantastic 50's style.</p> And Reeves would often wink to the camera at the end of the episodes! My favourite was when Jimmy asked, "Gee, Mr. Kent, how did you get here so fast?!" and he replied, "I flew." [smiles, winks to camera]
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Shouldn't he be peeping through a window?
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the writing got more and more campy...and the scripts were lightened in tone considerably. <p> The cost of shooting in color also was way more expensive...thus, less takes and zero reshoots. You'll notice alot more spoken mistakes/and other bloopers in the last three seasons, as the editors were forced to use whatever shots/takes the daily rushes had in them. <p> Th reason for color episodes not appearing til its second run syndiaction, was the same reason some shows aren't shot in HD right now. Not enough households had color TVs to warrant the extra cost to broadcast it in color at the time. <p> By 1965...the cost had dropped enough on the "new" color TVs, that more & more people had them in their homes...and everyone wanted to see Supes in Blue, Red & Yellow.
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wait a min... He was.
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..the first 2 seasons she was in, the black and white eps, were by far the best. Film noirish and more mature plots with dangerous criminals instead of the dis, dat, dose buffon crooks we got in the color eps. Classic first season eps include: "The Stolen Costume", "Night of Terror", "The Evil Three' and "The Human Bomb". Superman is my comfort show. When you got a bad cold, stretch out on the lounge with a cup of hot soup and hit play all on your Supes dvds. Guaranteed to make you feel better.
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Love the conclusion to that episode. All superheroes whose secret identities are discovered - take note!
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Was he really Christopher Reeves father?
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If he had a son named Chrstopher he was. If he changed his last name to Reeve and had a son named Christopher he also was.
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I'll take that as a no.
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Eh? Eh? C'mon!!! What, too soon?
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Ah, the 50's.
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This is the definitive screen Superman for me. What a great show. I don't see any men in business suits in that pic though.
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That's the kinda Superman that Nolan should go for. Christopher always delivered his lines with a laugh, like he couldn't believe the shit he was saying.
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It was pure, unadulterated joy for me when I was a kid. I can still repeat the opening from memory. Of course, I don't need to because I have the entire series on DVD. The black and white episodes were darker, more film noirish. The later episodes were more cartoony and got sillier as they shot in color. Despite all of that, I still love it. Phyllis Coates was sexier, but Noel Neill is always the first Lois I think of, even though she was a redhead. I may have to watch some of The Adventures of Superman tonight.
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And the way you could see him start to drop through the air whenever he leaped out of a window.
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You know it to be true.
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Noel Neille SUCKED!
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...except for the tights of course. But that probably explains why, to me, there's always something fatherly about Superman.
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I've never understood why, especially with the whole "truth justice and the American way" thing, that more creators didn't color Superman's suit the same dark navy blue as the US flag. It looks way better than that psuedo torquoise/royal blue that we get most of the time.
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On that series, they played Clark as the casual personality, with Superman being stiffer, maybe more dignified. Not that I mind the bumbling nerdy character, but I think Clark works better if that's the identity that lets him relax and be "normal".
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empire waist dresses
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Would punch Obama in his commie balls while smoking a Lucky Strike.
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He looks like more of an oddly dressed ballet dancer than a Superhero....BUT it had to start somewhere and he would probably think all the stars today playing him were pretty boys.
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Well, Superman only put them on that mountain temporarily. It was their stupid idea to try to climb down. So, he didn't really kill them...or DID he!
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Nov. 18, 2010, 4:12 a.m. CST
WAY TO GO, QUINT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by JonChambers
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Dear 'Scallywagthedog', I just wanted to say thank you for that post. That was the funniest thing I've read for ages. What a hoot. And thank you to Quint for the picture. Made my day. Now I must get back to work (but am still chuckling to myself).
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when a crook would be shooting at Supes he would stand there and let the bullets bounce off his chest, but then with the gun empty, the crook would throw the gun at him...<p>and he would duck to avoid being hit by the gun?
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That's an old myth... never happened. Watch the show will you?
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George REEVES. Christopher REEVE. <p> Jesus, how many decades has it been? <p> Of course it won't stop you all from picking on tiny perceived continuity details. Fanboys eh?...
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Despite the popularity of the TV show, the comic-book Superman of the 1950s stays pretty true to the non-George Reeves look that Christopher Reeve would eventually be discovered to match uncannily.
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