From Zombos Closet

April 12, 2024

Tom Mix No Man’s Gold (1926) Pressbook

At a saddle-sized 18 by 21.5 inches, this pressbook rides the range in style. Tom Mix came from a rodeo background and was rough and tumble onscreen, providing the action and thrills that made westerns so appealing to young audiences. He also toured with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. The west of Tom Mix was the contemporary one for his time, with the occasional automobile riding the range along with the horses.

A surviving print of this film was found buried on a chicken farm in what was then known as Czechoslovakia in 1966. Many silent movies had been lost by their studios due to ignorance of their historical importance and to calamities from improper storage or fires, a cultural loss for all of us.

Tom Mix No Man's Gold movie pressbook.

Frankenstein Conquers the World
Radio Spots!

Frankenstein Conquers the World movie still
Baragon and Frankenstein meet in a battle to the death. Who will win?

Incoming from Granny Creech…

Hmmm Hmmm…one scoop of this, one dash of that…one pinch of this…one smidgen of that…one shake of this….

Oh, hello. Your Old Granny is just making up a new batch of brew. A lot of ingredients go into my brew in order for it to taste just right…with that little extra kick at the end (hee hee). It’s sort of like this week’s special radio spot offering…a little of this, a little of that.

This week I offer a three-part series featuring a hodgepodge of radio spots from Toho’s monster collection reflecting a marketing trend that studios began adopting in later years.

I’ve been collecting radio spots for some time now, including the original vinyl records that the various-length radio spots were distributed on. At some point, studios began releasing records with only two spots, one for 30 seconds and one for 60 seconds, with fewer and fewer movies getting multiple, various-length spots.