about that 50's live-action astro boy tv series

September 29, 2007

about that 50's live-action astro boy tv series

while searching thru youtube for Astro Boy anime-opening sequences
[blogged] i stumbled across this fascinating series of low-fi black-n-white
clips for a LIVE-ACTION Astro Boy-movie; circa 1950's!

...a wiki-search yielded this:

In 1962, MBS released a Live Action movie, a compilation film made up of episodes from the 1959-60 live action TV series that came before the 60's animated television series which loosely followed the manga. The opening sequence (around 1 minute) is an anime type animation, and the rest is a Black and White movie. The whole movie lasts for 1h15m. [Astro Boy-wiki]

here's a short teaser-clip of images (including a live-action Tetsujin LOL):

/// CLICK HERE TO SEE CLIPS-PROPER
(*note: clips In Japanese w/o subs and severely out of sync LOL)

PART ONE (classic anime-opening / live-action starts after 1.2min-mark)