Falk Meets Fantomas - Episode 84

Another early 20th Century character no one was clamoring to see revived: Falk Meets Fantomas! Can Falk trust anyone? Can anyone trust Falk? Listen to find out!

Falk Meets Fantomas, episode 84 of This Gun in My Hand, was created by [splorch] yes, it is I – Rob Northrup! This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, archives, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. How will you know when the real Falk Zildjian steps up? This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. Peanut butter was widely known by 1939.

2. Yes, there should be a circumflex over the letter “o” in Fantômas but English websites might lose their minds or display it as a glitch so I’m avoiding it, especially in titles and filenames.

3. Spanish pun made possible in part by the song “Más” by the Mexican band Kinky – awesome theme song to the 2003 tv show Kingpin, which walked so Breaking Bad could run. https://youtu.be/jnakM3eGYjw

Credits:
The opening music clip was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. The music playing throughout the commercial was from another public domain film, The Scar (also known as Hollow Triumph, 1948). Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.

Sound Effect Title: footsteps cellar.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/gecop/sounds/545030/

Sound Effect Title: pigeon dove cooing singing sound effect
By: Garuda1982. https://richardatmo.bandcamp.com/
License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://freesound.org/people/Garuda1982/sounds/556323/

The public domain image accompanying this episode is a painting by Gino Starace for the cover of the novel Les Souliers du mort by Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain, Paris, Arthème Fayard, collection « Le Livre populaire », septembre 1912. This scan was sourced from Alfu, Patrice Caillot et François Ducos, Gino Starace : l'illustrateur de "Fantômas", Amiens, Encrage, coll. « Portraits », 1987, ISBN 2-906389-05-6, found on https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gino_Starace_-_Fant%C3%B4mas_(Souvestre_%26_Allain)_-_Les_Souliers_du_mort.jpg .

Multitracks of Madness - Episode 83

Falk seeks help from a strange doctor to pass through the doors of perception on the trail of a French killer! Will he return from the sixth dimension with his dangerous quarry? Will he return at all? Listen to find out!

Falk Zildjian in the Multitracks of Madness, episode 83 of This Gun in My Hand, was shifted from left to right and back again by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. Only $2.99. Cheap! What do I use to unlock the doors of perception? This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. Celery tonic, wine of cod liver oil, liquid bread, witch hazel jelly and Schiffer’s electric oil are actual nostrums I read about several years ago while preparing 1890s issues of American Druggist to be scanned.

2. The idea for this story hit me when I was adding the promo for Madison On the Air* to a previous episode. All eighty-two episodes of This Gun in My Hand up to this point have been delivered in glorious MONO, but the promo was in stereo. I felt like I was diminishing Madison’s promo by changing it to mono, but the possibility of someday shoving Falk into stereo was irresistible. All succeeding episodes will be back to glorious MONO.

* An excellent audio drama comedy you should listen to, www.madisonontheair.com

Credits:
The opening and commercial transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.

The guitar, harmonica and ocarina during the extra-dimensional parts was improvised, performed and edited by Robert Thomas Northrup. Available for weddings and bar mitzvahs. Unreasonable rates.

Sound Effect Title: Artificial Fire/Rain 10 Second Loop
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Zott820/sounds/209582/

Sound Effect Title: Ducks
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/D4XX/sounds/607226/

Sound Effect Title: Canned_Ham_Sizzling.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/columbia23/sounds/421957/

Public domain clips from old time radio shows were used as lines in the fake commercial:
“Hurry!” is Al Hodge from The Green Hornet, 31 October 1939, “The Parking Lot Racket.”
“You get a bang out of watching that?” is Lauren Bacall from Bold Venture, 26 March 1951, “Deadly Merchandise.”
“Just funnel this down, now what do you want?” is Jack Webb from Pete Kelly’s Blues, 29 August 1951, “Zelda.”

The image accompanying this episode is a cropped public domain ad for the National Radio Institute which appeared in Weird Tales, Volume 36, Number 9 (May 1946).