“In an 1867 Victorian stage melodrama called Under The Gaslight. The play’s stage directions call for one of the characters (named Snorkey) to be tied to the train tracks by the villain. It’s close to the scene we’re familiar with save for the fact that the person on the tracks is a man, and he’s saved by the leading lady.
This sort of train-based peril became a regular element of the melodramas as a cheap and easy way to create suspense. Moving into the early-20th century, and the silent film era, many films took their cues from those same 19th-century stage dramas. One of the more famous examples of this type of story was the serial The Perils of Pauline, which saw the titular heroine encounter all kinds of scoundrels and villains each week, who would put her in life-threatening danger—although it is important to note that she was never tied to the railroad tracks."
tudza Premium Member 10 months ago
I know. Our marketing guy helped pack a U-Haul and he tied a trucker’s hitch.
Superfrog 10 months ago
Be afrayed.
salakfarm Premium Member 10 months ago
Knots to him.
Imagine 10 months ago
Knot helping.
Doug K 10 months ago
Dave should show Bernice his knot-tying merit badge
The Reader Premium Member 10 months ago
The train seems pretty excited about those knots too!
E.Z. Smith Premium Member 10 months ago
“In an 1867 Victorian stage melodrama called Under The Gaslight. The play’s stage directions call for one of the characters (named Snorkey) to be tied to the train tracks by the villain. It’s close to the scene we’re familiar with save for the fact that the person on the tracks is a man, and he’s saved by the leading lady.
This sort of train-based peril became a regular element of the melodramas as a cheap and easy way to create suspense. Moving into the early-20th century, and the silent film era, many films took their cues from those same 19th-century stage dramas. One of the more famous examples of this type of story was the serial The Perils of Pauline, which saw the titular heroine encounter all kinds of scoundrels and villains each week, who would put her in life-threatening danger—although it is important to note that she was never tied to the railroad tracks."
derdave969 10 months ago
“Down in the old abandoned mine Sweet Sue was having fits . . . "
goboboyd 10 months ago
Wait till he shows the photos at the next K.A.N. A. meeting. (Knot Aficionados of North America)
The real Ted Lasso.
Kilrwat Premium Member 10 months ago
And the bad guy gets a two-fer.
jango 10 months ago
I guess Snidely Whiplash is wringing his hands in delight off-stage left.
Lee26 Premium Member 10 months ago
Dudley and Nell?
Frank Burns Eats Worms 10 months ago
“Am I gonna save you? Frayed knot.”
wbezemek 10 months ago
That wooo woooo is truely going down hill. If it was uphill it would be a choo choo.
jscarff57 Premium Member 10 months ago
I could save you, but what’s in it for me?
cuzinron47 10 months ago
It’s time for Jones to come along, slow-walkin’, slow-talkin Jones.
Impkins Premium Member 10 months ago
I don’t believe in forced yoga. :)
mbrahms26 10 months ago
Bernice…she’s a cut above all the rest!
tinstar 10 months ago
Is this Dudley Do-Right’s almost smarter brother?