Blasting Off with (Filmation's) Flash Gordon (2006)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- A documentary/DVD extra for Filmation's ambitious animated series "The New Adventures of Flash Gordon." Includes interview with crew members Lou Scheimer, Robert Kline, Gwen Wetzler, Michael Reaves, Darrell McNeil, and Comics Revue publisher Rick Norwood.
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RIP Lou Scheimer
I would love to get some insight into their Tarzan adaptation. One of the best.
"FLASH GORDON" was Filmation Associates' ultimate production accomplishment throughout the studio's history of limited animation, and never in the cartoon studio's history, have they ever partaken in such a special and creative endeavor. This animated production was the equivalent of a primary science fiction production, and this was a first for Filmation, which achieved a superior status that even exceeded any Hanna-Barbera production! a man that Filmation also used in their production was John Grusd, who was responsible for the realistic spaceship sequences, and it was a visually impressive feat that no other animation studio ever accomplished, especially since this Filmation production was a pricey two million dollar accomplishment, and Lou Scheimer & Norm Prescott were at their highest level of superior animation production, and "FLASH GORDON" was such a special kind of production that has NEVER been done on such a level! Lou Scheimer and Filmation stayed creatively loyal to the Alex Raymond designs, especially the voluptuous "Princess Aura", voiced by future "SHE-RA" voice actress Melendy Britt, and Alan Oppenheimer's voice of "Ming The Merciless", which was originally voiced in the pilot movie by Bob Holt ("WIZARDS")-and why Filmation's version of The King Features Syndicate owned material didn't win an Emmy Award is certainly anybody's guess!
Wait, the VA for "Princess Aura" resurfaced as "She-Ra"? I am reminded of my assertion that She-Ra's "walk" animation was based on that of the "Flash Gordon" character, but the hook/roundhouse kick animation was all-new
I wish there was a soundtrack for this show!
I wish there were soundtracks for a few of filmations shows
@steve bishop I agree wholeheartedly. I especially enjoy the music from Star Trek, Tarzan, Shazam and Isis.
@@justafanofnerdculture7602 Here is the music created for Star Trek. And you'll notice it was used for several Filmation shows after. th-cam.com/video/p03jG546GQc/w-d-xo.html
@@DCGuy1997 Oh, yes, I definitely noticed that. Appreciate the link, my friend.
They had the best cartoon soundtracks and sound effects.
I remember being 9 years old and loving this show.
I loved this Saturday morning cartoon.
I love how George Lucas tried and failed to get the rights to Flash Gordon, so he just made his own space opera, and then this in turn allowed the film version to be made.
it surpassed flash gordon
@@rayjacinto2104 not exactly flash Gordon was a big deal for many decades since the 30s but fell off popularity by the 80s star wars started late 70s early 80s and it's pretty much dead now both had a close period of popularity
One thing that can’t be denied is the art direction on Filmation shows were beautiful. Flash, He-Man, She-Ra, Star Trek, heck they were even my introduction to Tarzan and Zorro! Now we get characters with “bean mouth.”
One of my favorite Cartoon, from childhood!💯⚡☄🌋🚀
i got the dvd of this cartoon series! i remember when this came on back in the early 1980s
I've got the short-lived Filmation series of Flash Gordon on DVD.
I remember the 1978 Filmation flash gordon animated series with very fond memories.......had some epic background music,nice sound effects and themes of friendship as Flash brought the divided and feuding leaders together against Ming, who himself was a great villain. The live action movie by comparison was complete trash. Big shout out to the artwork that was Princess Aura.......and the voice acting.
Sigh. I know people love the campy movie, but I enjoy this version of Flash Gordon more, especially the movie, where the voices were top notch.
I dont have anything against Alan Melville, but in the movieThey had Ted Cassidy as Thun, the Lion Man! He rocked!
Between that damn campy movie and a crappy series on Scy Fy, I feel the property will never get a serious, respectful treatment.. :(
Something the animated movie and series did, so this to me is the only version of Flash Gordon I like.
Yes, this version is superior, but the TV promos had a compromise of using the Queen theme song with the Filmation footage.
I watched that every Saturday morning during the first season.
The second season was too childish, with the introduction of Gremlin the dragon.
The great Lou Scheimer would also lend his voice to his cartoons Including voicing King Randor on he-man and the masters of the universe, as well as doing the opening narration for BraveStarr. He is greatly missed. Plus he pioneered weekday afternoon cartoons as opposed to Saturday morning.
I was a kid when the animated movie came on Saturday night on NBC, and my brothers and I were glued to the screen. We loved it. We got to see this movie before the live-action came out, which we went and watched and loved.
Loved this cartoon as a kid
great cartoon series from 1979!
this premiered here in the Philippines 1981.
I would love to read that 30 Millionen Dollar Script!
I wish we could get a release of the original film and the soundtrack. I have the version uploaded from the Japanese laserdisc, but I want a really good quality copy of the original film without the hard encoded Japanese subtitles.
Lou, I hope that in Paradise you can read this, I was born in the early 60s, got hooked on not only comics but their history and I remember Tim Tyler's Luck being talked about in books about comics!
When I was a kid - in the time of newspapers - the comic strips that I were hooked on were "The Phantom" (Lee Falk), "Mandrake the Magician" (Lee Falk), "Garth" (can't remember). Great times 👍.
I loved this old series. I loved the first season but the second wasn't so great. I remember the animated movie aired on NBC in 1982. Its a shame there wasn't more like this. The closest was Thundarr the Barbarian .
Absolutely amazing interview of those behind the magic of Flash Gordon of 80s
I grew up on this series I remember using a tape recorder to tape the episodes. This is my childhood growing up.
Childhood...
Great to see. I loved this series; loved the toys too (even if they did annoy us by having no golden robots. Those wouldve moved like hot cakes. I think this, Godzilla, SuperFriends, Shmoo (New Shmoo Advenetures?), aw, heck, why bother to list them; we had so many awesome cartoons to pick from come Saturday.
I don't know why they keep taking jabs at the 1980 Flash movie. Yeah some of it was cheesy or campy but most of it was serious. It's still one of my favorite movies. I'll watch that over A new Hope any day.
The pilot movie, "The Greatest Adventure of All," was Filmation's masterpiece and the most faithful adaptation of Alex Raymond's comics. There was a longtime mob mentality -- even the X-rated Flesh Gordon had a better rep than Flash '80 until recent years, and part of that is thanks to "Ted."
The movie is cheesy awesome
FILMATION FOREVER!
Ming sounds like Skeletor.
Played by the one and only Alan Oppenheimer.
Same voice actor.
IT IS THE LEGEBDARY VOICE ACTOR MR ALLEN OPENHEIMER AKA EMPEROR MING THE MERCELESS AKA DARTH SKELLETOR AKA KELDOR THE ARCH ENEMY OFF HE-MAN MOTU FROM MASTERS OFF THE UNIVERSE 1981-1983-2024 ZINCHO !
IT REALLY IS THE ORIGINAL VOICE ACTOR MR ALLEN OPENHEIMER AKA THE 2 DIFERENTEDS ALTERNING VOICES THE EMPEROR MING THE MERCELESSES IN FLASH GORDON AND SECOND CARACHTER DARTH SKELLETOR AKA KELDOR THE TRUTH ARCHENEMY OFF HE-MAN MOTU BEFORE SEPTEMBER 7 OFF 1983-1987 A LITTLE LATER !
❤😂🎉😢😮😅❤😂🎉😢😮😅
All time favorite cartoon as a kid
How old is this?
The animated series is from 1979-1980. This documentary is from 2006.
This was the first cartoon that I remember being obsessed with when I was a kid. I remember laying on the floor with my bowl of cereal watching it on the floor model tv 📺 with knobs 😂 Love the series and the live action movie. Made me obsessed with Queen too.