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 "(Nicholas) Is it really true? That story that Isaac Collins bought Collinsport from the Indians for $24 worth of brandy?" "(Stokes) Yes indeed. It was regarded as the most one-sided deal in the history of the colonies." "(Nicholas) By historians?" "(Stokes) By Isaac. Unfortunately, by the time he came to his senses, the Indians had already drunk all the brandy." |
 "(Nicholas) What about the revolutionary period? Did any of the Collins family make their mark there?" "(Stokes) Oh yes, several. For example, Nathan Hale Collins, famous for saying "I regret that I have but one draught to lift to my country." Or John Paul Collins, who said "I have not yet begun to drink." Patrick Henry Collins: "Give me brandy or give me death." And then of course, there was Benedict Collins." "(Nicholas) What did he say?" "(Stokes) He didn't say anything, he was head of the Temperance League." |
 "(Amy) Who's that portrait?" "(David) That's Thaddeus Collins. He used to write battle cries in the Civil War." "(Amy) What do you mean he wrote battle cries?" "(David) You know, like "Don't Give up the Ship". "I have not yet begun to fight". "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead". He came up with sayings like that to help inspire the troops." "(Amy) Those ones are famous. What's one he came up with?" "(David) Well, he's best known for one he wrote for the 20th Maine at Little Round Top: "Wait until you see their head, then give 'em some lead." "(Amy) He went into battle yelling that?" "(David) No, he shot himself in the foot to get out of battle that day. He just told it to his Lieutenant." "(Amy) That doesn't seem very courageous." "(David) The men turned on the Lieutenant, they say." |
SAMPLE EPISODES AND SPECIAL FEATURES
Dark Shadows Captions 11; Chapters 427-429:
From The Adam Story. Angelique visits the low-rent district of Hell.
Dark Shadows Captions 10; Chapters 410-411:
From The 1795 Story. Barnabas rises as a vampire for the first time, and learns about cell mitosis.
Dark Shadows Captions 6; Chapter 92:
A sample chapter (Chapter 92, in fact) from one of the Dark Shadows Captions Books.
(the 6th one, in fact), which is also the 92nd "chapter" of the Burke Devlin
story, the Cast List for which you can read above. Comes with a Quick-Start Guide to the
Story So Far, and actually stands on its own quite well.
Episode 54, Where Are You?:
After years of captioning Dark Shadows episodes in the manner
shown in the sample chapter above, we finally had the bright idea that the same method could
be used to present the episodes in their original form. What
a concept, huh? And as it happens, there's one episode that never got
shown in the 5 times that the Sci-Fi Channel aired the series. Due to a
film can labeling error, they always showed Episode 59 twice, and Episode 54 not at all.
The Dark Shadows Viewmaster Reels:
A tongue-in-cheek look at the Dark Shadows Viewmaster package, put out in 1968. Not for the faint of heart or uninitiated,
as Viewmaster turned the story into a totally incomprehensible mess.
Dark Shadows Captions 6 is an ongoing, weekly, low-fat, Gothic Romance/Horror comedy serial. We'll be storyboarding an ostensibly serious 60's soap opera, and re-writing all the dialogue to bring out its inherent humor (a process we like to call "Closed Captioning For the Comedy Impaired"), while retaining the original characters and plot line.The format of our story is similar to a comic book, but employing captions instead of speech balloons, and photos instead of drawings. Rather than a graphic novel, this is a photographic novel, vaguely similar to the Woody Allen movie, What's Up, Tiger Lily?, in which a Japanese crime "drama" was re-dubbed with entirely new dialogue, but in webpage form.
Our subject matter is the 1960's daytime soap Dark Shadows, one of the top soaps of the decade, but as often as not, a comedy with the serial numbers filed off. In its later years, it branched out into every horror movie cliche known to man or fiend (From Emily Bronte to Bride of Frankenstein, you name it, they borrowed from it). These early episodes we're looking at now have few supernatural elements, however. In these seldom seen early episodes, the show was more of a turgid 50's-style melodrama (sort of like a Gothic G-rated version of Peyton Place). Although this show in its original form does have a semi-cult following, it should be stressed that these captions, like Allen's movie, are written to be enjoyed by someone who has no previous familiarity with the original subject matter.
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Approximately 90% of the pictures in these lists were personally created by Linda Cree, with her little Snappy Card, after she spent months watching the show with an eye towards spotting good full face shots as they went by. She also did enormous work in producing filler pictures for the Dark Shadows Captions I - VI books.
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