At the dawn of the Tesla age was this incredible serial from 1935 which featured Tesla’s wireless transmission of power and other inventions. Scientist Bruce Gordon comes to a secluded area in Africa after realizing that a series of electrically induced natural disasters had been detected in the area. There he finds Zolock, last of the Lemurians, in a secret complex under a mountain. Zolock had created the natural disasters as a prelude to his attempt to take over the world, holding a brilliant scientist their hostage with his daughter. He had also forced the scientist to create mindless “giant” slaves out of the natives as a private army. As the serial progresses we learn that the scientist had also turned another tribe, the Wangas, into white burley haired midgets. Lots of Tesla technology and futuristic hallways and rooms with numerous gadgets on the walls. plus a remote viewing television screen, a death ray that eats through metal and threatens the strapped-down Gordon in a scene identical to Goldfinger’s laser burning toward James Bond’s crotch, plus tons more 1930s superscience. This is the world of Tesla Technology that we were supposed to have, shown to us from 1936. This may be partly the source of the “myth” of Marconi’s secret city in the jungles of South America.
