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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2016 18:10:38 GMT -5
On a bizarre twist on the horror host craze of the sixties, there was apparently a Boston network that had it's own host for the Marvel Super-Heroes cartoons each afternoon, a man named Arthur Pierce playing Capt. America. Apparently very little footage survives, this clip was recorded off the tv by a handheld 8mm camera and the sound recorder on a reel to reel tape recorder...
I think he is a little out of his league trying to wrap his mouth around the big Stan Soapbox style words he's throwing out there and stumbles quite a bit, but it's an interesting slice of tv history nonetheless.
-M
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2016 23:09:52 GMT -5
Brian from Pod Stallions found this photo of Cap in costume from a newspaper clipping...  -M |
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Post by Farrar on Sept 20, 2016 12:19:12 GMT -5
On a bizarre twist on the horror host craze of the sixties, there was apparently a Boston network that had it's own host for the Marvel Super-Heroes cartoons each afternoon, a man named Arthur Pierce playing Capt. America. Apparently very little footage survives, this clip was recorded off the tv by a handheld 8mm camera and the sound recorder on a reel to reel tape recorder... I think he is a little out of his league trying to wrap his mouth around the big Stan Soapbox style words he's throwing out there and stumbles quite a bit, but it's an interesting slice of tv history nonetheless. -M And apparently Cap's dialogue-a takeoff on Hamlet's "To be or not to be", obviously-- was scripted by none other than Jerry Siegel, according to Jason Hofius and George Khoury's Age of TV Heroes: The Live-Action Adventures of Your Favorite Comic Book Characters (66-7) and Brad Ricca's Super Boys: The Amazing Adventures ofJerry Siegel and Joe Shuster (262-3). |
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