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Dave FleischerSuperman (1941)

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This movie is part of the collection: Animation Shorts

Director: Dave Fleischer
Producer: Max Fleischer
Production Company: Fleischer Studios
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Keywords: superman; animation

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: Shadows_Girl - - May 28, 2008
Subject: The Various Histories of Superman
In the original comic book Superman is picked up by a good samaritan and taken to an orphanage. The radio show has him land on earth fully grown. By the 1940 DC comics had introduced Superboy, Smallville, Johnathan and Martha Kent, Lana Lang, and Krypto, Superboy's Super dog. This version of his history is the one most people of MY generation is familiar with.

But it's WAY more complicated than that as a visit to Wikipedia's Superboy article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superboy will tell you.

Not sure what a mad scientist with a pet vulture using a destructo-ray has to do with 9/11 but feel free to read anything you want to into these cartoons.

BTW contrary to popular opinion the Fleishers were far from bankrupted by these cartoons..Popeye and Betty Boop were paying the bills just fine. Any money lost on these just served a s a tax write-off.
Five stars for the quality of the movies.

Incidentally the voices of Clark Kent/Superman, Lois Lane, and Perry White are being provided by the same people who were doing the radio show.

Reviewer: g rated - - April 14, 2008
Subject: Superman - a prophetic cartoon of 9/11
Did anyone notice a HUGE SKYSCRAPER is
toppling & turns to
dust particles - 9/11 revisted?

Did anyone notice a bridge blowing up?

How about the police warning everyone to stay inside - hints of possible Marshall law

this is a very prophetic cartoon

Reviewer: whispers - - September 25, 2007
Subject: Interesting variation yes...
In the very first comic story written about Superman, it's a good Samaritan. The following year (39) Ma and Pa Kent were introduced - and continued to be important in almost every version of the story. The main difference is whether Pa survives after Clark becomes an adult or not.

Reviewer: cristian pavez - - August 25, 2006
Subject: cristian
muy buen apelicula

Reviewer: jantlman - - August 19, 2006
Subject: waw
saut

Reviewer: carlos adler - - August 19, 2006
Subject: regrshg
tdhdxrthdx

Reviewer: CaptainCaveman - - January 20, 2006
Subject: It's Superman!
Good old cartoons, they just don't play the good stuff like this anymore.
Great stuff!

Reviewer: aldg - - October 4, 2005
Subject: Superman's early background is different.....
When you watch this cartoon, you learn that Superman was found by a passing motorist after his spaceship landed on the earth and he was taken to an orphanage.

This is certainly a lot different than the contemporary tale where the baby Superman is taken into the home of Martha and Johnathan Kent.

Wow...how times have changed.

Reviewer: Unidyne - - September 20, 2005
Subject: The first of the Fleischers
This is the first of a series of big-budget animated short films featuring the comic book haracter Superman. The animation is very well-detailed, and has lots of action. Surprizing how well this material holds up over the years (save for the anti-Japanese propaganda cartoons of WW2). Well worth a loook!