To survival.
Happy New Year
Batman meets Caturday
I was a small child when I first watched batman… small enough to believe Batman and Robin were really walking up the exterior walls of skyscrapers. When I saw it again in reruns as an adult I fell in love with Batman all over again for the breathtaking seriousness of the dynamic duo. Later still I became Facebook friends with Adam West, still cool after all these years. When he passed away earlier this year I was deeply saddened.
So I made this small video as a memorial. In case you wonder why I’m a free culture advocate, I wanted to publish this on June 9th, but it was held up by a copyright claim (to the Batman Theme/Music). I am only publishing this now after having made a successful case for Fair Use.
Now that it has been cleared, I can share it with you here for Caturday.
Credits:
Nienke Hinton’s recording of Simba watches TV
released under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License
Scored with the Original Batman TV Theme by Neal Hefti
music performed by Nelson Riddle
copyright © 1966 by Greenway Productions, Inc. & Twentieth Century-Fox Television Inc. ~ Music used under Fair Use
Batman publicity photo colourized by Laurel L. Russwurm
(Public Domain) via Wikimedia Commons
Video remix by Laurel L. Russwurm
Adam West
September 19, 1928 — June 9, 2017
My hero.
on Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_West
Adam West
http://adamwest.com/
on Facebook
Obituaries:
Adam West, Straight-Faced Star of TV’s ‘Batman,’ Dies at 88
Hollywood Reporter
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/adam-west-dead-batman-star-832264
Batman actor Adam West dies aged 88
The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/jun/10/adam-west-batman-actor-dies-leukaemia
Adam West: A Life In Pictures (Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/gallery/2017/jun/10/adam-west-a-life-in-pictures
Adam West, TV’s ‘Batman,’ Dies at 88
Variety
http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/adam-west-dead-dies-batman-1202461532/
Adam West: TV Batman actor dies at 88
BBC
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40235142