Amazingly, I was able to score another pair of adjoined 35mm film frames that were used by TV stations. You may recall the first set of these, which we looked at a few years back, and you can see here: HB Promotional Film Frames (1978). These frames were often made into (or just used as) slides and used by TV stations for promotional purposes, such as bumpers or showing what was coming up next.
The Hanna-Barbera Godzilla animated series had two seasons, but was reconfigured several times as part of an hour (or longer) block of time. In 1980, it was paired with Blue Falcon & DynoMutt, which is where these particular images come from (he was even eventually paired with Hong Kong Phooey and the Harlem Globetrotters). I color-corrected them a bit, as old film stock tends to turn a bit (in this case, more red). I think I got them closer to what they would've looked like. There are two frames, just like before: one with a title, and one without. Also, the scale is a little less than accurate, but I guess it wouldn't be nearly as interesting if DynoMutt only came up to Godzilla's foot!
By the way, who are they looking for? Blue Falcon? The crew of the Calico?
I love this kind of stuff, because it's what gets lost, over the years, and forgotten about. And that's a tragedy that I work to prevent.
1 comment:
Thanks for helping to preserve these!
Could be that they're looking for the culprit who shrunk Godzilla.
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