Flash Gordon's 75th Anniversary

Yep the sputtering rockets are getting older as this year marks the 75th anniversary of the "First Great Serial Spectacle!" as the original poster above claims. So here's an early shout out-the first chapter hit theaters April 6, 1936-to mark the occasion-my early review of the complete epic http://jcomreader.blogspot.com/2010/09/retro-view-flash-gordon.html and thanks to Youtube that chapter-The Planet of Peril! (A note-this video looks pulled from the re-release of the serial when it was retitled Space Soldiers):