{"id":1539,"date":"2013-10-02T12:01:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T16:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/?p=1539"},"modified":"2013-10-02T14:29:31","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T18:29:31","slug":"home-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/2013\/10\/02\/home-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Home movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over at his blog, Brad Ricca, author of “Super Boys: The Amazing Story of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster — The Creators of Superman” (Have you read it yet? Because you really should.), has posted clips of vintage and ultra-rare home movies with Siegel and Shuster<\/a>, as well as the story behind them, or at least as much of it as he’s been able to determine.<\/p>\n

Among the clips are one of Shuster on the beach with several friends circa 1939. Another shows Siegel and his first wife, Bella, atop the Empire State Building in 1940.<\/p>\n

\"Jerry<\/p>\n

The videos from … a happier time in the lives of the two men. Superman had made a huge splash and set the burgeoning comic industry ablaze, and the character was beginning to venture into other mediums, including newspapers and radio. Their other strips, too, were going strong … especially for the newly wedded Siegel, who’s most popular creation without Shuster, the Spectre, just had debuted in early 1940. Deep conflicts and head-to-head battles with DC were still some ways down the road — at least ones of great signicance.<\/p>\n

As Ricca said:<\/p>\n

We always tend to think of these guys as bitter old men, not young creators who were literally living out their dreams. So it\u2019s good to see this — the happy moment, on top of the world — sealed on film. It was not all bad. That\u2019s good to know — and see.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over at his blog, Brad Ricca, author of “Super Boys: The Amazing Story of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster — The Creators of Superman” (Have you read it yet? Because you really should.), has posted clips of vintage and ultra-rare … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[362,263,12,13],"class_list":["post-1539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bella-siegel","tag-brad-ricca","tag-jerry-siegel","tag-joe-shuster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1541,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions\/1541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatkrypton.com\/siegelshuster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}