First and Only Weekly Online Fanzine Devoted to the Life and Works of Edgar Rice Burroughs Since 1996 ~ Over 10,000 Web Pages in Archive presents Volume 3713 |
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First and Only Weekly Online Fanzine Devoted to the Life and Works of Edgar Rice Burroughs Since 1996 ~ Over 10,000 Web Pages in Archive presents Volume 3713 |
1910s Scientific Predictions:
ERB's Creativity Boom
First Major Successes in Writing and Film
ERB Bio Timeline
First big success was Mars Science Fiction Under the Moons of Mars - drawing upon his own brilliant imagination and the science of the day:
ERB Predictions and Images of Future Innovations and Inventions Compiled by Bill Hillman
www.erbzine.com/mag4/0459.htmlHis Mars, Tarzan, Pellucidar,and Venus series set the mold and blazed a trail for future SF/Adventure stories. 
Follow-up success: Tarzan of the Apes drew from existing research on Africa integrated with latest theories on feral children, evolution, genetics, finger printing, as well as his own very enlightened views on women, minorities, environment/ecology, and free thinking.
Motoring Adventures:
One of the very early Cross-Country Auto Trips to California using the latest vehicles, tent, gramophone, cameras, etc.www.erbzine.com/mag0/0030.html
www.erbzine.com/mag11/1102.html
Film Innovation
www.erbzine.com/mag5/0502.html
ERB moved to California to learn the film technology and business, resulting in the first million grossing film: Tarzan of the Apes with Elmo Lincolnwww.erbzine.com/mag31/3110.html 
Al Bohl's Documentary on the Making of this film is revealing a tremendous number of behind the scenes stories.
ERB In Our Electronic Matrix
NAVIGATION GUIDE
Matrix/Outline | ERBzine Portal | 1890 | 1900 | 1910 | 1920 | 1930 | 1940 | 1950+
WEBJED:
BILL HILLMAN
