The Serial Squadron Cinema Cliffhanger Archive

LEVEL 4: COMPLETION OF EXISTING PROJECTS
& NEW FILM TRANSFERS
GOAL: FUND ACQUISITION OF NEW RAW CONTENT
AND TRANSFER & PRODUCTION COSTS

Transfer Supervisor: John Ellis,
restoration director of the STEVE CANYON TV series


Squadron member Henry Miyamoto funded the transfer of the surreal serial
THE TRAIL OF THE OCTOPUS and the USC Hefner archive and Library of Congress have assisted with some projects but most recent Squadron video restoration projects have been funded personally by restoration director Eric Stedman as library projects and not commercial DVD releases. Usually these projects make their money back but do not bring in enough capital to fund some of the now-more-desirable but also more expensive projects or acquire more rare film prints and transfers that might be available but more costly to acquire than the usual 16mm print.


FILM PRINTS AND DIGITAL TRANSFERS


As mentioned previously, we’d like to see acquisition of new prints or loaned prints and creation of transfers take place in advance so new projects can be transferred or acquired while current ones are in production. As well as to try to preserve rare serials that may be in the hands of collectors or studios that may be in danger of suffering disposal because they are not considered to be valuable. And get copies made of films of which only one copy—sometimes on decomposing nitrate film—exists. Information about specific titles we’d like to have transferred and work on this year are described on the following pages.

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EXISTING PROJECTS TO BE COMPLETED:

THE TRAIL OF THE OCTOPUS
1920 10-19 (Hallmark, 15 Chapters) Ben Wilson, Neva Gerber D: Ben Wilson
$500 Production & Blu-Ray Master


Transfer of existing reels acquired. Newly discovered footage from Chapters 1, 9, and 15, including the previously missing scene in which the identity of Monsieur X is revealed has been added.
Undergoing stabilization and splice/artifact removal then will be released.


THE HOUSE OF HATE
1918 3-10 (Astra/Pathé, 20 Chapters) Pearl White, Antonio Moreno D: George B. Seitz
$500 Production & Blu-Ray Master


Upgraded transfer of slightly condensed edition of the serial acquired.
Restoration of chapters 1-4 complete, the rest in production, not far from completion.

TOTAL: $1000




12 new projects Marvel

LEVEL 4 GOAL: +$6000
FILM TRANSFERS FROM SQUADRON-OWNED PRINTS
& COLLECTOR LOANS



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The Masked Marvel | TOM STEELE
$300 MASKED MARVEL Prints (2 acquired)
$400 HD digital transfer

(Republic, 12 Chapters) D: Spencer Bennet

The Masked Marvel, secretly one of four insurance investigators, fights Mura Sakima, a Japanese spy who killed Alice Hamilton’s father.

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HAUNTED HARBOR
KANE RICHMOND, KAY ALDRIDGE
$300 16mm Loan / $500 Transfer
(Republic, 15 Chapters) D: Spencer Bennet

Troubled captain Jim Marsden comes to a south sea island on the trail of Kane, a murderer for whose crime he has been framed. Accompanied by sailor friends Yank and Tommy, Marsden rescues from a storm-tossed boat Patricia Harding and her physician father, who are on the island to help the natives. Fearing that Dr. Harding will expose him as a criminal, Kane has the kindly doctor slain. Patricia joins Jim, Yank, and Tommy in the pursuit of the man Jim knows only as "Carter."


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ADVENTURES OF TARZAN
ELMO LINCOLN $600 HD transfers of 35mm chapters not yet obtained
( Numa/Weiss, 15 Chapters) D: Robert F. Hill

Tarzan’s arch enemy Rokoff pursues the jungle man and his beloved Jane in order to obtain a secret formula and gain passage to the lost city of Opar.
Upgraded transfer of 35mm reels from episodes 1-6 acquired in 4K resolution.
Presentation: Online broadcast/Blu-Ray
to include newly transferred footage which will complete the Squadron restoration of what will approximate the 1929 10-episode re-release of the serial/ Printed novel also to be produced.


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SON OF GERONIMO
CLAYTON MOORE
$400 SON OF GERONIMO 16mm Print (acquired)
$500 HD digital transfer
(Columbia, 15 Chapters) D: Spencer Bennet

In Arizona, homeland of the Apaches, Porico, the son of Geronimo, sole survivor of a massacre by soldiers, whose tribe is hungry and dissatisfied with white policy wages a war of vengeance on white men. Unscrupulous lawyer Rankin schemes to split the take with the Indians and start a chain of stores that sell goods left over from Indian raids. Brave ex-cavalryman Jim Scott and his old pal Tulsa do everything in their power to stop both the scavenging crooks and vengeful Indians.

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THE SECRET CODE
PAUL KELLY
$400 16mm Loan / $500 Transfer
1942 (Columbia, 15 Chapters) D: Spencer Bennet

Police lieutenant Dan Barton fakes his dismissal from the force and reappears as the masked Black Commando in order to infiltrate an enemy sabotage ring after a secret code that will reveal the secret formula for synthetic rubber. He receives aid from his former patrolman partner and a reporter as he fights to expose the leader of the gang.


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HAWK OF THE WILDERNESS
HERMAN BRIX
$300 Loan / $400 Transsfer
( Republic, 12 Chapters) D: William Witney. John English

When a message placed in a bottle by his father brings an expedition to an island 24 years after the shipwreck that orphaned him, Kioga, Mokuyi, who raised him, and Kioga's friend Kias are embroiled in a struggle between the scientific group headed by his father’s old colleague, Dr. Munro, and the crooked crew led by Salerno, for whom treasure is the only goal. Adding to Kioga's troubles is a nearby native tribe which has been convinced by Yellow Weasel that Guneba, god of the volcano, is angry at Kioga.



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GHOST OF ZORRO
CLAYTON MOORE
$300 16mm loan / $400 Transfer
1949 (Republic, 12 Chapters) D: Fred C. Brannon

A crooked blacksmith called Crane keeps the law out of Twin Bluffs and Indians on the warpath against the telegraph kill kindly telegraph company owner Mr. White. Ken Mason, whose grandfather was Don Diego (Zorro), attempts to find renegades who wrecked his home. Reuses footage shot for Daredevils of the West.


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THE RETURN OF CHANDU
BELA LUGOSI
$400 16mm Print (acquired) / $400 transfer
(Principal, 12 Chapters) D: Ray Taylor

Nadji, Princess of Egypt, is lured to the island kingdom of Lemuria by the Cult of Ubasti, who wish to sacrifice her. White magician Frank Chandler, known as Chandu, with help from a mystic yogi he contacts through a crystal ball, must save her from the imperial palace and certain death.

+ Film Shipping for 8 titles = $500
TIER SUB-TOTAL: $7100

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