Electro Pulp Video Magazine V1., N2.

Here’s the second installament of our journey through the pulp magazines.

Still a couple of glitches in there – a few abrupt transitions on the musical score, a couple of clunky video cuts, but all in all I think the quality level is improved over V1., N1, the pilot episode.

This episode is also fairly brief – 10 minutes – and as a consequence I didn’t get into the subject in as much detail as the first episode.  Reasons for this are two:  first, the subject (origin of the pulps & dimension of the magazines) is a bit dry and not entirely within what Iwant to focus on (although it is necessary background, I think) and second, I was striving for the ten minute youtube compatibility thing.

As such, there is at least one factual error: Amazing Stories Quarterly (1928) is some 12+ inches tall.

I also gloss over the origin issue a bit:  some historians contend that the pulps got their start in the pages of general interest mags like Munsey’s.  I think that’s a quibble because magazines like Munsey’s got their start when the dime novels, penny dreadfuls and serialized novels (Charles Dickens for example) proved that there was an appetite for such printed fare.  I think the true origin is in the concept of “emotionally-laden adventure fiction” delivered in an inexpensive medium.  The magazine is just an extension of the single story for a pennny.  (“Hey, hows ’bout we print a buncha stories in one and charge 15 cents?”  “That’s BRILLIANT!”)

Hope you enjoy this one – there are multiple, rarely seen SF pulps on display despite the subject.

You’ll also be treated to the video debut of Bo, the Wonder Dog, who will be helping me with future efforts.

Finally, thanks to the folks who helped promo the first one – Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing!, John Ottinger at Grasping for the Wind and John DeNardo at SFSignal.   The video started off with a bang! as a result.

Here it is V1, N2

Electro Pulp Video Magazine Volume 1, Number 2: Origins and Dimensions from steve davidson on Vimeo.