As you watch this commercial via the internet on your Pentium-processed computer with its hi-def flat screen monitor, just remember that what your seeing in the Radio Shack commercial from 1984 is what home computers first looked like: monochrome monitor, two floppy discs for software and slow processing. It was all high-tech stuff back then. This glorified calculator/ word processor could be yours for only $1299.00….and those were 1984 dollars. We have, indeed, come a long way, baby….. Tobuy classic movies, serials, westerns and vintage television shows on DVD — plus original movie posters, golden & silver age comics, celebrity autographs and collectibles, be sure to visit www.captainbijou.com.

Commercial from a live 1950s telecast of SUPER CIRCUS feautring the lovely Mary Hartline pitching the Mary Hartline Magic Doll premium. All it took to get one was 25 cents and a boxtop from either Sugar Smacks of Frosted Flakes cereals. Many a Dad tuned in with the kids to see the attractive, platinum-haired Hartline (her real name) dressed in her sequined, short-skirted majorette outfits. SUPER CIRCUS, which ran on ABC from 1949 to 1955, was telecast “live” from Chicago, and received Emmy nominations for “The Best Children’s Show: in 1953 and 1954. Tobuy classic movies, serials, westerns and vintage television shows on DVD — plus original movie posters, golden & silver age comics, celebrity autographs and collectibles, be sure to visit www.captainbijou.com.

Theatrical trailer for the 12 chapter Universal serial, THE PHANTOM CREEPS (1939), starring Bela Lugosi, Robert Kent and Dorothy Arnold. This undistinguished serial, found Bela once again playing a mad scientist (Dr. Alex Zorka) out to control the world with advanced scientific wizardry, including the ability to become invisible and an 8 foot tall robot! Lots of stock footage to pad out the proceedings and little in the way of earnest emoting from the cast. THE PHANTOM CREEPS was also Lugosi’s fifth and final serial. Tobuy classic movies, serials, westerns and vintage television shows on DVD — plus original movie posters, golden & silver age comics, celebrity autographs and collectibles, be sure to visit www.captainbijou.com.

Special in-house trailer for a special Valeentine’s Day cartoon festival to be held in a forgotten theatre on Sunday, February 14, 1954. In the days before 24 hour cable televsion, DVDs and streaming internet, the opporunity to see 25 cartoons in one sitting, was, indeed, a rare event! To buy serials,classic movies, westerns and vintage television shows on DVD — plus original movie posters, golden & silver age comics, celebrity autographs and collectibles, be sure to visit www.captainbijou.com.

After winning the home run crown in 1961, New York Yankees slugger, Roger Maris, lent his name to this activity game from Pressman Toys. The game had been available for years — some versions even has a mini-stadium look with metal, outfield walls — but the Maris model was slightly modified from previous with holes/cups in the outfield to indicated hits or outs. Tobuy classic movies, serials, westerns and vintage television shows on DVD — plus original movie posters, golden & silver age comics, celebrity autographs and collectibles, be sure to visit www.captainbijou.com.

1960s era television commercial for the Marx GUNG HO COMMANDO OUTFIT, a boxed set full of just about everything a boy would nned to stage a battlefield campaign in his own backyard. Tobuy classic movies, serials, westerns and vintage television shows & commercials on DVD — plus original movie posters, golden & silver age comics, celebrity autographs and collectibles, be sure to visit www.captainbijou.com

1962 television commercial for the Barbie’s Dream House for Mattel’s iconic Barbie doll. Tobuy classic movies, serials, westerns and vintage television shows on DVD — plus original movie posters, golden & silver age comics, celebrity autographs and collectibles, be sure to visit www.captainbijou.com.

Dr. Frances Horwich pauses during an episode of DING DONG SCHOOL to make a pitch for one the sponsor’s products, Kix Corn Cereal. Possessing a Master’s degree in education from Columbia University, and a doctorate from Northwestern, Horwich was the host of one of telvision’s first “educational” programs, DING DONG SCHOOL, which premired on NBC in 1952. In 1954, Dr. Horwich was promoted to supervisor of all of NBC’s educational programming for children. Two years later, however, NBC canceled DING DONG SCHOOL in favor of the morning game show, THE PRICE IS RIGHT. Dr. Horwich resigned from the network in protest, but continued to pproduce a syndicated version of the show until 1965. An uncompromising children’s advocate, she would never endorse products that were not age appropriate or glorified violence.Ironically, Dr. Horwich never had any children of her own, despite a forty marriage. Tobuy classic movies, serials, westerns and vintage television shows on DVD — plus original movie posters, golden & silver age comics, celebrity autographs and collectibles, be sure to visit www.captainbijou.com. Ironically, for someone who loved and doted upon children her whole life, Dr. Horwich never had any children of her own, despite some four decades plus of marriage.

Theatrical trailer for the 1938 Republic Pictures’ cliffhanger classic, THE FIGHTING DEVIL DOGS, starring Lee Powell, Herman Brix and Hugh Sothern. Built largely around stock footage from previous serials including DICK TRACY (1937) and ROBINSON CRUSOE OF CLIPPER ISLAND (1936), plus incorporating two budget-saving retrospective/ economy chapters within its brief 12 chapters, FIGHTING DEVIL DOGS was the studio’s most inexpensive chapterplay with a 20 day shooting schedule and a final negative cost of $92, 569.00. Despite its budgetary shortcomings, THE FIGHTING DEVIL DOGS featured one of the screen’s most colorful and memorable villains, The Lightning. Having chained the power of electricity along with an arsenal of other futuristic weapons, including a giant flying wing, the leather clad, masked menace set about, in classic pulp style, to being the entire world under his domination. Doggedly opposing these nefarious machinations were two United States Marine Corps officers, Lieutenants Tom Grayson and Frank Corby, played by Lee Powell and Herman Brix, both of whom had been seen together in the studio’s previous serial, THE LONE RANGER, with Powell ultimately being revealed as the famous masked rider of the plains. Tobuy classic movies, serials, westerns and vintage television shows on DVD — plus original movie posters, golden & silver age comics, celebrity autographs and collectibles, be sure to visit www.captainbijou.com.

Theatrical trailer for the 1956 MGM science-fiction classic, FORBIDDEN PLANET, starring Walter Pidgeon, Leslie Neilsen and Anne Francis. Wisely, MGM borrowed Josh Meador from Disney who oversee the special effects. The resultant visuals garnered the film an Oscar nomination — it’s only Academy Award nomination — and created one of the screen’s most memorable creatures: the nightmarish, invisible “Monster from the Id”. FORBIDDEN PLANET also gave sci-fi followers one of the genre’s most adored automotons, Robby, the Robot, billed in the trailer as “The Robot.” So popular was Robby, the Robot that MGM gave him star billing in the budget sci-fi entry, THE INVISIBLE BOY, two years later. Tobuy classic movies, serials, westerns and vintage television shows on DVD — plus original movie posters, golden & silver age comics, celebrity autographs and collectibles, be sure to visit www.captainbijou.com. To buy classic movies, serials, westerns and vintage television shows on DVD — plus original movie posters, golden & silver age comics, celebrity autographs and collectibles, be sure to visit www.captainbijou.com.