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Superman Cartoons
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| Format | NTSC |
| Contributor | Osiris Ent. LLC |
| Runtime | 1 hour and 25 minutes |
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"Up in the sky...look! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!" Adorned in his trademark blue tights and red cape emblazoned with a large red 'S',this superhero may be the most famous comic book character of all time. He is the last son of Krypton, sent to Earth before his home planet exploded, living under the alias Clark Kent as he fights for "truth, justice, and the American way!" Joined by their love of comics and dreams of breaking into the newspapers, best friends Jerry Siegel, an aspiring writer, and Joe Shuster, an aspiring artist, created Superman in 1933. Although initially rejected by newpapers, Siegel and Shuster finally found their audience in the new medium of comic books. By 1941, Superman was enjoying tremendous success in comics, radio serials, and motion pictures. Produced by Max Fleischer (Betty Boop, Popeye), the first entry of the animated version entitled "Superman" was released in September of that same year to critical acclaim and was even nominated for an Academy Award. Until 1943, Superman battled flying robots, mad scientists, gorillas, dinosaurs, spies, natural disasters and airborne torpedoes in a total of 17 animated shorts. Resembling feature films complete with tracking shots, a stunning variety of camera angles, amazingly realistic illumination, accelerated pace, dynamic musical scores and eye-popping special effects, these innovative science fiction spectaculars remain among the most technically polished examplesof "short film art."
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 3.04 Ounces
- Item model number : B003CT354O
- Media Format : NTSC
- Run time : 1 hour and 25 minutes
- Release date : March 17, 2010
- Producers : Osiris Ent. LLC
- Studio : Osiris Entertainment LLC.
- ASIN : B003CT354O
- Number of discs : 1
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The first of the series is simply entitled, "Superman". This one is probably the best of the bunch; it had the biggest budget, and it does look fantastic. This video also contains "The Mechanical Monsters," "Billion Dollar Limited," "The Arctic Giant," "The Bulleteers," and "The Magnetic Telescope." They are all generally on a par with each other: Excellent animation, limited storytelling and extremely limited character development (which is what I would expect from a 10 minute short), and lots of action from start to finish.
Superman doesn't seem to be completely invulnerable yet (even seeming to be knocked unconscious on one occasion), and he seems to fly in some episodes, but merely leaps in other episodes. His limited power here actually makes his character more interesting than he would later become in the comics, when he became so powerful that they had to introduce Kryptonite... it was becoming tedious that Superman just couldn't be beaten.
These cartoons are must-see for superhero fans and animation fans. Perhaps the stories themselves don't hold up to repeated viewings, but they are beautifully animated and entertaining.
To say that the animation is terrific, especially for the time (late 1930's, early 40's) would be horrible understatement. It is amazingly sophisticated.
The ONLY thing that might get a small warning is that - because of the pre-World War II timing - some of the cartoons portray villains that are stereotypes of our WWII enemies. The cartoons are products of and reflections of their time. So there is an exaggerated emphasis on saboteurs and spies and such.
At first blush. the cover art is almost enough to get you to buy it but then you think, "Wait a minute, I have seen all the classic Superman cartoons". Apparently this is just another attempt to package these classic cartoons with the up dated cover art.
Don't get me wrong. The original Superman cartoons were absolutely great ! I watched them as a child on tv and loved them, I was beside myself when I was able to purchase them on VHS about ten tears ago.
By all means get the original Superman cartoons. (All sixteen of them.) Just don't expect this particular offfering to be anything new or different.
Course the cover art IS by Curt Swan,,,







