When Lois sees a tall person, does she say “he had the body of a giraffe and the head of a human!” What the fuck, Lois? Now, tell me friends: if you had to describe those people, what part of their bodies would look odd to you? Wouldn’t it be their fucking heads? Sure, they are short, but that doesn’t make their bodies like moles. When Lois first encounters the creatures from the center of the Earth, she describes them as having ‘bodies like moles, heads like humans.’ Now, for clarity’s sake, let’s look at these mole people: One establishing shot could have done this instead, it took a fly’s lifetime. It simply gets a mole/unknown person and two townspeople from the town proper to the outskirts. It isn’t all that visually interesting, and it doesn’t advance the plot in any real way. That said, you can see easily where edits might have been made, due to the lengthy, and incredibly dull, chase scene that goes on forever in the middle of the film. And it’s hard to judge the episodes for any faults in flow, or timing, because it was never intended to be shown in two parts. I chose to watch the film, rather than the truncated for television version, because I figured it might play better in its intended form.

After the show was picked up, the film was split, and slightly edited, into two episodes, “The Unknown People” parts one and two. A 58 minute film, this is considered the first ‘full length’ DC Comics film. You see, before Adventures of Superman, there was Superman and the Mole Men, which was a theatricl pilot of sorts for the series.

The end of the first season of Adventures of Superman.

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