The six page pressbook for Columbia Pictures' 1948 Congo Bill Serial. Rather than being a stapled book, this pressbook is a single sheet, printed with 3 pages on each side and then folded in thirds. There is more information about this book at the bottom of the page
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i am a big fan of serials, so i love these pressbooks. more would be fabulous. thanks for these.
By netrap
This was a serial about which I had read, but which I didn't get the chance to see until the late 1980's on VHS tape. It's typical of the serials that "Jungle Sam" Katzman produced for Columbia release--made both inexpensively and cheaply. (There IS a difference!)
There is an inventive deathtrap in Chapter 8 (see pic on page 3 of this press book.) However, one has to wonder what such a contraption is doing in the basement of a jungle trading post.
There is also a minor glitch in the presentation of this deathtrap on screen. When the switch is thrown, the device is seen to start to turn in one direction. After a cut to a close-up of Congo Bill, we cut back to a two-shot, and the device is spinning in the opposite direction, which direction is maintained throughout the sequence.
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