Superman in the 1940's
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kybearfuzzLast night, I was struggling to find something to watch on TV. Odd, I know, considering there are a lot of new shows out that are good. I still have yet to watch "Marvel's Agents of Shield," but I have them recorded and just had not had a chance to sit down and go through them. So I settled on last week's episode of "The Walking Dead," which was awesome, followed by a spin through Netflix.
Netflix recently added a "Superman" cartoon series to the line-up. These are the Fleischer Studio Superman cartoons from the 1940's. I adore them. For its time, the animation is IMPRESSIVE, with the action moving so smoothly and the artwork being almost flawless. I imagine at the time, it garnered a lot of "oooh's" and "aaah's." They were very expensive to make, at $10K to $30K each in 1940. I watched several of them last night, as they are relatively short.
Some of them are politically themed, especially with WWII going on, with Superman fighting the Nazis and the Japanese. And Superman in the earlier cartoons could only leap from building to building at the time, just like in the comics. The cartoons actually are the ones that got Superman flying, according to the Wikipedia article, because the animated leaping looked a little silly.
All of these cartoons are in the public domain now. If you want to watch them, I'm sure a Google search will find online downloads (and I think even the Wikipedia entry has links for that).
Netflix recently added a "Superman" cartoon series to the line-up. These are the Fleischer Studio Superman cartoons from the 1940's. I adore them. For its time, the animation is IMPRESSIVE, with the action moving so smoothly and the artwork being almost flawless. I imagine at the time, it garnered a lot of "oooh's" and "aaah's." They were very expensive to make, at $10K to $30K each in 1940. I watched several of them last night, as they are relatively short.
Some of them are politically themed, especially with WWII going on, with Superman fighting the Nazis and the Japanese. And Superman in the earlier cartoons could only leap from building to building at the time, just like in the comics. The cartoons actually are the ones that got Superman flying, according to the Wikipedia article, because the animated leaping looked a little silly.
All of these cartoons are in the public domain now. If you want to watch them, I'm sure a Google search will find online downloads (and I think even the Wikipedia entry has links for that).
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Date: 2013-10-24 03:05 pm (UTC)One thing I keep coming up against with it as someone who has read Marvel for a lifetime, I keep expecting more Marvel connections. I keep waiting for the bad guys to be A.I.M., HYDRA or one of the other big bad organizations in the Marvel U. Characters that show up I go "oh, that is going to be so and so" and then it isn't. Perfect example was an Asian man who wielded fire... I was like "oh, cool, Sunfire" but they went a totally different route and it left me wanting more of a Marvel connection. But... when I let all that go it's a bit more enjoyable to me :)