Talk:The Secret of Treasure Island
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 | A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on March 13, 2008. The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, wrote the story for the 1938 Columbia movie serial The Secret of Treasure Island? | |||||||||
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Sources to use[edit]
- Horak, Jan-Christopher (Fall 2005). "The Strange Case of The Fall of Jerusalem: Orphans and Film Identification". The Moving Image. 5 (2). University of Minnesota Press: 26–49.
- Layton, Rex W. (Spring 2003). "L. Ron Hubbard's Hollywood Adventure". Blood 'n' Thunder (4).
- McClelland, Doug (1972). The Unkindest Cuts: The Scissors and the Cinema. A. S. Barnes. pp. Page 25. ISBN 0498078256.
Will get to adding these at some point soon. Cirt (talk) 15:42, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
GA review[edit]
See review at subpage, /GA1. Cirt (talk) 20:32, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
Weiss source added to Further reading section[edit]
- Weiss, Ken (1972). To Be Continued... A Complete Guide to Motion Picture Serials. New York: Bonanza Books. ISBN 0-517-503409.
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What pages from this source deal with "The Secret of Treasure Island" ? Cirt (talk) 14:23, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
Strange Angel cite[edit]
The book does have that on that page, but it's in a list of tall tales about and by Hubbard recounted by other residents of Jack Parsons' place. The list also includes claims like escaping from the Japanese on Java and sinking two submarines. This is merely a cite that Hubbard made that claim, not that it was true. AndroidCat (talk) 15:08, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
- On the other hand, unlike Hubbard's claims of escaping from the Japanese on Java and sinking two submarines, the claim that he adapted the screenplay from his own novel is not that implausible. It would be less plausible if Columbia's claims that the serial was based on Treasure Island were more plausible, but as one of one of our existing citations comments, "The 'secret' was probably that the serial had little relationship with the Stevenson classic." (Harmon & Glut, p. 329) I've revised the passage so that it describes the conflicting claims of Columbia and Hubbard as claims and cites the claims. -- 65.78.13.238 (talk) 15:50, 21 September 2008 (UTC)