Yuku free message boards
Username or E-mail:
Password:
Forgot
Password?
Sign Up
Grab the Yuku app
Search:
RSS
Email
Collected Editions Discussion Forums
>
BLAMMO! Message Board
>
A Trivia Question For All Fans Of "Golden Age" Television
0 Points
Search this Topic:
«Prev
1
2
Next»
Jump
Forum Jump
Masterworks Message Board
DC Archives Message Board
Crisis On Infinite Comics!
BLAMMO! Message Board
Uncollected Editions: The Homegrown Hardcovers Binding Forum
Polling Central
CE Watchdog: All-Purpose Collected Editions Complaint Forum
Collected Editions Discussion and Review Board
The Vault
Binding Vault
<< Previous Topic
Next Topic >>
Re: A Trivia Question For All Fans Of "Golden Age" Television
Author
Comment
alizarin1
#1
[-]
Posts
: 937
May 10 10 10:12 PM
Reply
Quote
More
My Recent Posts
Sure Gary... the Lone Ranger obviously used clever disguises to impersonate people as you point out, but the kind of
total facial transformation
that was accomplished by the (admittedly improbable) concept of a high-tech "latex mask" was simply beyond the limited capacity of 19th century stage makeup to achieve. I should make clear too that I'm
not
talkng about reconstructive facial surgery to make a person a double of someone else; there's obviously a number of TV episodes which used that plot device during the 1950s and 60s.
It goes without saying that we're talking about the use of this concept in realistic television dramas, even if it's a somewhat tongue-in-cheek one like
The Man From U.N.C.L.E
.
The Wild, Wild
West
, although an adventure drama, is also a more quirky, western/alternate history/science-fiction concept--a 1960s version of steampunk.
I'm thinking that the writer of that U.N.C.L.E episode probably picked up the idea from the pre-title sequence of the 1963 film
From Russia With Love
.
Last Edited By:
alizarin1
May 10 10 10:45 PM. Edited 2 times.
<< Previous Topic
Next Topic >>
Forum Jump
Masterworks Message Board
DC Archives Message Board
Crisis On Infinite Comics!
BLAMMO! Message Board
Uncollected Editions: The Homegrown Hardcovers Binding Forum
Polling Central
CE Watchdog: All-Purpose Collected Editions Complaint Forum
Collected Editions Discussion and Review Board
The Vault
Binding Vault
Share This
Email to Friend
del.icio.us
Digg it
Facebook
Blogger
Yahoo MyWeb
«Prev
1
2
Next»
Jump
Collected Editions Discussion Forums
>
BLAMMO! Message Board
>
A Trivia Question For All Fans Of "Golden Age" Television
Click to subscribe by RSS
Click to receive E-mail notifications of replies