Phantom killer tracks the terror of 1940s killings in. Hey mkws, was looking for data on doxa movement i was looking at and found your post. Strictly speaking, a serial pattern in music is merely one that repeats over and over for a significant stretch of a composition. It also has the distinction of being the most expensive serial that republic ever made. In germany, kroll snuffed out 14 lives from 1955 to 1976. When i encountered my first serial killer richard cottingham, the times square torso ripper in december 1979, i had never heard of the term serial killer. The movement serial number would suggest it was somewhere around the 1940s.
Information contained herein was compiled from the jeep parts manual, jeep service manual, and various locations on the web and is not guaranteed to be accurate. Marvel was a supplier of lots of parts to most trailer brands. Nov 14, 2019 while the reference numbers started to appear on cases regularly in the mid1940s, the latest serialstamped cases ive seen dated to 19471948. Forgotten women victims of the 1940s grin and bare it the. The adventures of captain marvel serial 1941 12 chapters. A tomb full of mummies, a horde of tarantulas, a chase through the desert at a breakneck pace. What appeared was a mixture of both with lamont cranston the true identity of the shadow, although lamont cranston was only an occasional disguise of the pulp magazine. Most vintage swiss pocket watches did not have serial numbers and cant be dated by this method. The serial is based on lee falks comic strip the phantom. Social nightmares from the late 1940s were reflected in. The strip proved popular almost immediately and in 1936, universal decided. The serial also features jeanne bates as the phantoms girlfriend diana palmer, and ace the wonder dog as the phantoms trusty german shepherd devil who is a wolf in the original comic.
Guns made in 1947 will have a serial number between 237,001 and 249,000. May 28, 2017 this is the original 1940 movie serial of the green hornet. Thank henry ford for serial numbers that started with the model year in which the car was built, ie. The serial numbers a manufacturer may have used during the 1930s or 1940s for example did not look like todays modern vin in any way. Other sources indicate a print exists yet provides no specifics. Serial murder was a wellknown phenomenon in the early twentieth century.
The serial squadron is a multimedia archive the home on the web of the original male and female cinema action heroes, and our goal is to preserve and restore and make available for viewing or study the jungle, mystery, western and scifi cliffhangers that inspired star wars and the hollywood superhero blockbusters of today. This especially applies to chronometers equipped with the 30t2 rg all variants of the rg. Although the term serial killing had been occasionally used during the 1970s in the law enforcement community, in popular media it was called by a host of different labels like strangeronstranger murder. How to decode a wwii us army serial number amy johnson crow. Doctor who was syndicated in the us as early as 1974, but did not gain a following in america until the. The adventures of captain marvel is a 1941 twelvechapter film serial directed by john english and william witney for republic pictures and produced by hiram s. The 1949 republic picture king of the rocket men joins the ranks of the best 1940s scifi movies. The twin cities of texarkana, texas, and texarkana, arkansas, have only had one reported case of serial murder, and it was a case that gripped the region in fear for several months in 1946. Last week we talked about the most prolific serial killers in united states history but there were a few prolific serial killers left off the list.
Swing dancing, jazz, fabulous fashion, classic film, and even the first computer all helped to define the decade as well. If an automatic wristwatch is on a watch winder, its power reserve will not run down and it will not have to be reset. The attacks came at night on the weekends, roughly every few weekends for that period. If you have not ever seen a serial you should start here and have fun with zombies and remote control devices from the 40s same things are enjoyed on film. People of the 1940s did the best they could to smile through. The reason for that was simple as terrifying as it is, the serial killers left off the list were left off because their identities are still unknown. The shadow a superhero crimefighter was created in the 1930s and popularized in movies in the columbia pictures 1940 serial, a trio of monogram pictures.
I had not seen this one before but the original 1943 batman serial should be watched in the context of what it was at the time. Mystery trooper dvd the great alaskan mystery, volume 1 chapters 17 dvd the great alaskan mystery, volume 2 chapters 8 dvd. I agree that the style is very much 1940s and i have subsequently confirmed this based on its serial number. And in 1948 a clinical psychologist described the tulsa northside. Among them were four of her five husbands, two children, her two sisters, her mother, a grandson and a motherinlaw. The truth about her spree finally emerged in october of 1954 after her fifth husband samuel doss died in a hospital in oklahoma. How to use our vintage watch serial number lookup tables. At any one time, its believed that there are around 2550 active serial killers lurking in the dark corners of the usa, stalking the streets and highways for their next potential victim. It had less than 200,000 men in uniform, and some of them were wearing doughboy helmets from world war i and carrying guns that dated back almost to. The 1943 serial, titled batman, is a single story with 15 chapters and ran for over 4 hours. The first real serial, with multiple episodes and a running weekly continuity, was.
Mar 14, 2017 john george haigh or the acid bath murderer was a monstrous english serial killer in the 1940s mar 14, 2017 brad smithfield john george haigh proved himself a very intelligent student with a passion for classical music. America had been victorious in its wars leading up to world war ii, but now its military barely ranked in the worlds top 20. Sep 23, 2016 starting in 1977, gibson adopted the current datebased serial system which codes for the year and day of production. This 1930s vacation travel serial takes listeners on a journey to the old world. Remember those serial numbers that begin with 2, showing national guard. When you have an 8digit serial number, the second number shows the service command. In what would be the last of a murderous rampage, joachim kroll aka the ruhr hunter and the duisburg maneater killed fouryearold marion ketter and dismembered her body. But the flash gordon serials played an important part in the creation of contemporary televisual formats, as well the serial like sequel formats of many contemporary theatrical science fiction franchises, and offered to audiences a sense of wonder and amazement that still resonates today, and continues to gesture towards the future. Antique and classic car vin numbers what do they tell us. How to find out when a browning sweet 16 was manufactured. Cliffhangers in focus is an entertaining, wellwritten overview of the rise and decline of action serial movies of the 1930s and 40s.
Buck rogers radio serial not only engendered a passion for. The caped crusaders versus the wizard, blackhooded mastermind. Very few are remembered by the public, even though some were slaughtered and mutilated after death. The item youve selected was not added to your cart. Cliffhanger serials of the 1940s the pecan park eagle.
I typed in the serial number and another watch came up on ebay. The 1940s tower over every other decade of the 20th century as the most full of sorrow, patriotism, and ultimately, hope and the beginning of a new era of american dominance on the world stage. The serial was adapted from the popular captain marvel comic book character then appearing in fawcett comics publications such as whiz comics and captain marvel adventures. In general they were shorter and of course were not standardized until the early 1980s. Comment has been made about the antijapanese racism that rears its head through the serial, however wwii was still going and the japanese threat was very real back then, so it was possibly understandable that such sentiment would be evident. While the reference numbers started to appear on cases regularly in the mid1940s, the latest serialstamped cases ive seen dated to 19471948. The serial squadron cliffhanger movie serial archive. Arthur kennedy, one of the premier character actors in american film from the late 1940s through the early 1960s, achieved fame in the role of biff in elia kazans historic production of arthur millers pultizerprize winning play death of a salesman. Not all vintage watches can be dated using the serial number. Flash gordon began its life as a comic strip with a lavish, full color sunday episode on january 7, 1934, as created by alex raymond. Even by serial killer standards, the crime was brutal, inhuman, and downright gruesome.
Vehicle identification this document is intended to help identify willys, kaiser, and amc jeep cj5 vehicles. In the 1940s universals serials employed urban andor wartime themes, incorporating newsreel footage of actual disasters. The shadow returns 1946, behind the mask 1946, and the missing lady 1946, and republics the invisible avenger 1958, pulp magazines, and a radio show with orson welles. Mar 19, 2016 with much of the decade dominated by world war ii, the 1940s have not gone down in history as the happiest of times. While the term serial killer usually conjures up images of people like ted bundy, john wayne gacy and richard ramirez, there are a whole host of other serial killers who are perhaps even more terrifying. Through the 1930s and 1940s american film serials targeted children and. The first number of the sequence indicates the decade of production, followed by the three digit day of the year, and finally the year. A serial film, film serial or just serial, movie serial or chapter play, is a motion picture form. The credits specified the serial was based upon stories published in the shadow magazine, while the ads. Unlike models from the 1950s, these 1940s ladies watches do not have a case date code, so the only way to date the watch is by the movement symbol. Morse is remembered for his great family dramas like one mans family, but his real legacy is his great adventure programs like i love a mystery and i love adventure. John george haigh or the acid bath murderer was a monstrous. Vintage john deere model a tractor tag plate 1940s serial.
During the late 1940s, america experienced a general panic over the threat of monstrous killers and sex offenders. Mar 01, 20 2 responses to cliffhanger serials of the 1940s materene says. The credits specified the serial was based upon stories published in the shadow magazine, while the ads proclaimed it to be right out of the air waves and magazine stories. Still, the serial did have its moments, and even more importantly. During the 1940s there was a serial killers in england called the acid bath murderer.
Many people believe that local man named youell swinneyarrested in 1947 for auto theftwas the phantom. Columbias 9th serial, slotted between overland with kit carson and terry and the pirates, was intended to have lorna gray in the role played by veda ann borg, and to have been codirected by d. This article describes and attempts to classify incidents of serial homicide in this area. Using recycled footage from brannons king of the rocket men 1949, radar men from the moon 1952, and zombies of the stratosphere 1952, commando codys format was a definite departure from the usual serial template. It also includes rundowns of many major serial films of the time. Tulsas 1940s serial murders the state crime bureau journal. Burns brought up the flash gordon serials in a blog post and, in an email, asked me which of the saturday morning shorts i enjoyed as a kid.
Serial numbers never meant too much because most partsmen in the old days knew by sight what part fit each car because there wasnt too many variants that were made for it. I was born in 48 so by the time i was old enough to go to the movies on my own these cliffhangers were reruns. Republic paid homage to the silent era serials, by making the 15episode jungle serial perils of nyoka 1942 aka nyoka and the tigermen, a sequel to the previous years jungle girl. Burns brought up the flash gordon serials in a blog post and, in an email, asked me which of the saturday morning shorts i. Beginning in 1955 they did begin to look like todays vin but not entirely. Nannie doss admitted to killing 11 people between 1920 and 1954. Trailer for the 1940s blackhawk serial by columbia pictures. How to date a gibson using serial numbers, fons and reverb news. This is not a serial number this is a patent number of the tongue manufacturer. Flash gordon was another, the star of three universal serials produced between 1936 and 1940. Between about 1900 and 1940 there were dozens of recorded incidents in the united states, and extreme cases occurred almost as frequently as they have done in the last two decades. For example, the serial number 90237xxx corresponds to a production date of 12397. Richard webb, later tvs captain midnight, delivers a stiff performance and a lot of punches. Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats available.
It was the last republic serial made about a superhero. The phantom 1943 is a columbia pictures 15 chapter serial starring tom tyler in the title role. Serialism, in music, technique that has been used in some musical compositions roughly since world war i. If youre a serial veteran, youll recognize almost all of the cliffhanger endings, which have been lifted from other republic serials. At second time around watch company, we recommend against the use of watch winders unless they rotate your watch fully 360degrees. I merely referred to the dialwatch as being 1950s because the seller listed it as 1950s and did not provide a serial number initially. This narrows down where the person enlisted or was drafted.
His wife confessed to as much at the time, but by law she could not testify against her husband. Lots of people get confused thinking this is their serial number but its not. This phenomenon has not been observed in mens models from the 1940s. And sweet 16s made in 1949 will have a serial number between 270,001 and 285,000. Some american watch brands did not use a consistent series of serial numbers, but most of the big manufacturers did. The bestknown fanmade chapter play is the fourchapter, silent 16mm captain celluloid vs. Sep 24, 2016 james presley was hired on as a 17yearold cub reporter for the texarkana gazette, and in 1971, marking the 25th anniversary of the events, he published an eightpart serial for the gazette about. Mar 26, 2008 cliffhangers in focus is an entertaining, wellwritten overview of the rise and decline of action serial movies of the 1930s and 40s. This decade, commonly called the war years, is synonymous with world war ii. Jun 08, 2015 when you have an 8digit serial number, the second number shows the service command.
A quartz or manualwind movement will not benefit from a watch winder. He confessed to have killed nine people and dissolved their bodies in sulphuric acid after which he would forge papers and sell the possessions of the victims to make money. The current chapter of a serial was one of the main attractions of the saturday movie matinee when i was growing up in the 40s and 50s. One or two chapters exist of this effort on 16mm film but it is not known whether the serial was ever completed.
Obviously, batman is no cinematic masterpiece in fact, quite a bit of it is not even remotely good. Superman, is one of those rare sequels that manages to outdo its ancestor. The texarkana moonlight murders, a term coined by the news media, were a series of unsolved murders and other violent crimes committed in and around texarkana in the spring of 1946 by an unidentified serial killer known as the phantom killer or phantom slayer. The killer is credited with attacking eight people within ten weeks, five of whom were killed.
If you have a serial number for a member of the wac, look at the number after the letter prefix. Vehicle identification this document is intended to help. James presley was hired on as a 17yearold cub reporter for the texarkana gazette, and in 1971, marking the 25th anniversary of the events, he. Excellent columbia picture serials from the 1940s, in fact the 1943 batman serial was the very first on screen batman, both these serials brought back happy memories of the saturday morning pictures at the cinema in the mid 1950s if your a fan of the columbia serials then you will enjoy these serials from a bygone age. This is another 12part serial film later recut into a single 65 minute feature which was a travesty considering nearly two hours was lost. While the reference numbers started to appear on cases regularly in the mid 1940s, the latest serial stamped cases ive seen dated to 19471948. Japanese spymaster prince daka operates a covert espionage organization located in gotham citys nowdeserted little tokyo which turns american scientists into pliable zombies. Britt reid is a wealthy young publisher of the daily sentinel newspaper by day, but at night he becomes the crime fighting hero green. Guns made in 1948 will have a serial number between 249,001 and 270,000. Vintage trailers vins and serial numbers tin can tourists. These are not pure serials, but standalone, fulllength movies with many. It also stands as the first theatrical release connected to a marvel character. The journalist had written several articles that included details the police had not made public, and. With robert lowery, johnny duncan, jane adams, lyle talbot.