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Wednesday, June 12, 2013

FLASH!!!!! AH-AHHHHHHHHH!!!

Title: FLASH GORDON (1936 Serial)

Manufacturer: United American Video

Date: 1991

Title: MARS ATTACKS THE WORLD (1938)

This is an 1938 feature edit of the 1938 serial FLASH GORDON'S TRIP TO MARS

Manufacturer: Goodtimes Home Video

Date: 1996

Title: FLASH GORDON (1980)

Manufacturer: MCA/ Universal Home Video

Date: 1993

Friday, May 24, 2013

Kicking a Hornet's Nest...

Title: THE GREEN HORNET (Feature edit of 1939 Universal serial)

Manufacturer: Goodtimes Home Video

Date: 1990

Title: THE GREEN HORNET (1939 Universal Serial)

Manufacturer: Video Treasures

Date: 1993

Download for free at the Internet Archive

Title: THE GREEN HORNET STRIKES AGAIN (1940 Universal Serial)

Manufacturer: Video Treasures/ Anchor Bay

Date: 1997

Download for free at the Internet Archive

Mission Statement

Welcome to the Metropolis Video Store, a site dedicated to
archiving any and all public domain VHS releases of the early 1940s Fleischer Bros/ Famous Studios animated Superman shorts. Looking for cover scans and digital video files of said releases. We've also expanded our horizons, hoping to create a venue for a pictorial history of the packaging of superhero and comic strip themed video media from all walks of life...

Why we do what we do:
The Metropolis Video Store's webmaster, Anthony Wayne Conn, is a comic book historian and enthusiast whose geek-cred stretches back over three decades.
He's written film and DVD reviews for several genre-related websites, and has collected and read funnybooks since the ripe old age of five, circa 1979. He fell in love with the Fleischer Bros./Famous Studios Superman animated shorts of
the 1940s after he discovered them during his teen years, through Gary Grossman's book, Superman: Serial to Cereal and the numerous VHS releases manufactured by distributors who capitialized on the fact that the shorts exist in the public domain rights and licensing-wise, a practice that
continues to this day in the DVD format.The Metropolis Video
Store is an effort to preserve this viewing experience, specifically the VHS viewing experience, which for nearly two decades was practically the only way one could be exposed to these classic cartoons. We have a large collection of these cheap VHS format releases, and plan on archiving and sharing
box art scans, and if possible in the near future, make available for download digital video files of the contents of said tapes.

Any feedback or comments are welcome. Feel free to contact the site via e-mail at metropolisvideo@live.com