Super 8mm Home Movies: The Swamps Of Jupiter The Super 8mm version of The Swamps Of Jupiter runs to about fifteen minutes long. Instead of trimming padding and tightening up the episode (which in hindsight would have been a costly exercise considering the consumers aimed at), literally the first ten minutes have just been cut out. After the intact title sequence, and episode title caption, the film cuts direct to the scene where Colonel Raeburn contacts Larry Dart as Galasphere 024 is approaching Jupiter. The episode then plays without further edits until the end of the episode and the intact end titles. There are a few points of interest. The first is there is no introductory "This is Earth, the year 2100..." prologue outlining the format. Examination of the film shows no edit or join, so this was always missing from it. Secondly, the break between parts one and two has been retained, with the film fading out and back in again. This is actually after the Galasphere is seen vanishing into Jupiter and not, as previously thought, straight after the next shot of the Galasphere orbiting the planet. Finally, the leader tape of the film itself, prior to the countdown. Three frames have been exposed and are, presumably, from the original 35mm or 16mm print/negative used to make the 8mm version. These read: (Frame 1) SPACE PATROL EPISODE I (Frame 2) SWAMPS OF JUPITER (Frame 3) REEL I While it is fairly well established The Swamps Of Jupiter was intended to play as the introductory episode, this is the first proof this was actually the case. One can only wonder if any of the other episodes have numbers exposed in the first few frames, revealing an intended order... (Left: Galasphere 347 flies past Saturn in the titles of The Swamps Of Jupiter and right: the frames indicating the title and episode number) If you have any of the home movie versions of Space Patrol, or documented details, please do contact us and we will add them in an update.