Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere
Captain Video Master of the Stratosphere is a 15chapter serial released by Columbia Pictures in 1951. It was directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet and Wallace A. Grissel with a screenplay by Royal G. Cole, Sherman I. Lowe and Joseph F. Poland, based on a treatment by George H. Plympton. The serial is unique for several reasons in particular, it is the first and last film serial ever based on a television program, Captain Video and His Video Rangers.
As produced by Sam Katzman, the serial had a production budget much larger than the famously small budget of the DuMont Television Networks live daily teleseries.The Captain Video chapterplay is a bit more satisfying to sciencefiction fans, because it does make an effort to keep the action interplanetary, instead of earthbound. Captain Video and his teenaged sidekick, the otherwise nameless Video Ranger Larry Stewart, must make frequent visits both to Atoma and to another distant planet, Theros. Both Atoma and Theros are filmed at by Bronson Canyon, and so to distinguish the two, the Atoma footage is tinted pink and the Theros footage is tinted green in the original release prints. These colored scenes were processed by Cinecolor. ........
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