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In 1941, Superman made his debut in something other than a comic book, arriving on the big screen for the first time in this cartoon produced by Fleischer Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Audiences now could watch the Man of Steel move faster than a speeding bullet, be more powerful than a locomotive, and leap tall buildings in a single bound! #History #Flashback #Superman
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@BrandonKohout 4 года назад

He’s the first and greatest superhero that started it all.

@elnathanfewell3975 3 года назад

Very true, but in some ways not true. In the mid 30s before Superman's appearance (1938), there was Lee Falk's 'The Phantom.' He wore a purple spandex suit and hood, carried pistols, had a dog named Devil, and fought bad guys in the jungle! So he was really the one that started it all. That, and ancient mythology of gods and goddesses.

@Mr.Atari2600 3 года назад

The Greatest? ... Maybe. The First? ... no. Superheroes have gone all the way back to Ancient Greece if not even further in Mesopotamia.

@leoorduna2199 2 года назад

@@Mr.Atari2600 Gilgamesh (Mesopotamia), Heracles (Ancient Greece), and Superman (Today)

@michaellorde8404 2 года назад

Hes not the first .

@BrandonKohout 2 года назад

@@michaellorde8404 Sorry to disagree with you, but it’s true.

@BrandonKohout 5 лет назад

I love these Superman cartoons since I was a kid.

@yourpapiyerr5495 5 лет назад

This is quality content during the 40s and 50s

@mr.billthrower7392 2 года назад

This is quality content period.

@polocatfan 2 года назад

It's still quality content. (well maybe not the stuff that came out from Famous Studios , but the original 9 ones hold up really well.)

@loringbush1455 Год назад

Still and will always be the best animated Superman cartoons of all time!

@carlosaugustodinizgarcia3526 Год назад

And done by Paramount,not Warner.

@p.brendan6794 5 лет назад

i grew up watching these classic superman cartoons

@RonRicho 5 лет назад

I can't believe how good this was. The art, the animation, the story ...everything. Thanks.

@joadarium9605 Год назад

Happy 85th, Superman!!

@Isaac-gh5ku 3 года назад

2:54 That explains why Secret Agent was the last Fleischer's Superman short.

@guileniam 2 года назад

It's wasn't? Fleschier was replaced by Famous which used broadly the same staff etc but just didn't have the Fleschier brothers themselves involved

@tierneygoat9728 2 года назад

I’m a 2002 kid, and I grew up on the mechanical monsters episode! My mother tells me I drove her crazy cause I would have it on repeat 24/7. I wonder how she got hold of the episode, we were a low income Mexican family!

@TacomasterStudios 8 дней назад

Probably on a cheap VHS- these shorts were public domain, so literally anyone could throw a tape of these together to make a buck

@Matthew-hc9vx 4 года назад

I remember always watching this in the back of my parents Van when we went out. Brings back memories.

@plasticweapon 3 года назад

best version of the character.

@barbarachase5824 5 лет назад

THANK YOU...

@DistanceNsVeterans 3 года назад

1:13 that' the 1218 class A articulada steam locomotive from the N&W aka norfolk and western

@zacharyessey5904 11 месяцев назад

I was born in 1991 and I grew up watching this on VHS. It is a timeless show and I think that playing the Mega Drive game that came out in the 90's which went for a similar vibe all be with FM synthesis, watching Superman II and getting the Superman figurine happy meal just made Superman this character who is hard not to love. This is coming from a guy who grew up preferring Batman and I still do prefer Batman which is just a personal thing over a quality thing, but both Batman and Superman are amazing and were a big part of my childhood.

@bleedcubieblue 5 лет назад

Truth justice and the American way.

@schaefer76 Год назад

I grew up watching this version of Superman on those cheap public domain cartoon DVD's, and I wouldn't want it any other way.

@sonicgen20 Год назад

So his back story is the same save for one difference. In this cartoon series Clark was raised in an orphanage. The mainline continuity has him being found and raised by the Kent farmers in Smallville.

@danmiy12 9 месяцев назад

This short is so old that not even the black and white tvs were released yet, the only way you could watch superman or listen in that case was radio, this was the first introduction of superman in animated form for a lot of folks.

@abichohan2712 5 лет назад

I luv this animation

@raphaelmensah6278 3 года назад

cool story line

@stephenholloway6893 3 года назад

Imagine had they got the 100,000 dollars per short they originally told Paramount instead of the 50,000 the distributor (Paramount) gave them.

@Heisenberg-mt2lx 2 года назад

Superman approved

@loringbush1455 Год назад

The 🎬 the excitement the attention to detail and realisim. Also the drama and the amount of destruction is beyond your wildest imangation!

@pipikakachu 5 лет назад

Wow 😮 looks like they painted Nikola Tesla as a villain.....

@leoorduna2199 2 года назад

As tragic as that sounds, many people thought ill of Tesla, believing him to a man scientist than a helper.

@loringbush1455 Год назад

This was years before cgi animation! Also every body listened to their favorite programs on 📻 because 📺 came out in 1950!

@munishdhiman8823 5 лет назад

Wow

@magnumopus8202 5 лет назад

Great stuff 😀

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@britishnerd3919 5 лет назад

Why didn't superman just punch the world engine laser in man of steel like here?

@dapatman9827 3 года назад

Sweet

@animusic9365 5 лет назад

My name is Kalel. So good to see my names origins.

@darkvega1998 Год назад

El mas grande héroe de todos los tiempos 🦸

@stroopeproductions9769 18 дней назад

It all started here folks

@thenormalone6753 3 года назад

I like this Superman the most, no crazy powers or anything. Just the essentials like strength, flight, invulnerability and speed

@l0sts0ul89 2 года назад

He actually couldn't fly until a bit later.

@snowcloudshinobi Год назад

and x-ray vision and heat vision...

@frankchen4229 Год назад

he had x-ray vision in this series

@michaeldonelson4056 2 года назад

Hard to believe Superman was originally a orphan.

@markusdomanski6808 5 лет назад

I just had the pleasure to watch this documentary on History Channel Germany. Some guy said in an interview that Superman was "Bernie Sanders on steroids". Another part of the storyline was that Superman is an immigrant who wants to give something back to society. I found this very interesting, because I always thought that this part of his story was a deus ex machina in order to explain his superpowers. We don't have people like that on Earth, so he must have been born somewhere else. This documentation made me curious about Supergirl (Angela Merkel on steroids?) and her background and motives.

@mr.glurak9492 3 года назад

Superman has desguisedas Major Toth lol

@chrishestand1 Год назад

Ok, so. We’re just gonna glaze over the “raised in an orphanage” thing. So he ages out at 18 with the power of a demigod, and he isn’t immediately taking out that angst on the world? Interesting.

@frankchen4229 Год назад

yea i much prefer the farmer narrative; it would have fit the "American way"

@jessliedelacruz6969 5 лет назад

SUPERMAN

@The_Blue_Otaku 4 года назад

I just realized they said that the people of Kripton have the powers of Superman even that they didn’t if you were living under a Dwayne Johnson Superman gets his power from the radiation of our yellow sun but the people of Kripton didn’t have powers they were weak like us... I just find this strange

@Kal_g 3 года назад

I think this was before his powers were retconned to be the result of being under the rays of a yellow sun.

@The_Blue_Otaku 3 года назад

@@Kal_g oh that makes sense

@neilhansen6544 3 года назад

It was the original origin.

@Kal_g 3 года назад

@@neilhansen6544 Correct.

@Kal_g 2 года назад

@T1122 Retcons weren't always a bad thing. They were meant to reveal some new information that wasn't originally revealed when the event took place. With situations like Superman's powers, however, I think the reason is because of the influence of media. In the original comics, Krypron was originally a Flash Gordon fever dream before 1978. After "Superman: The Movie" hit theaters, Krypron now mostly feels cold, and looks like the inside of a crystal. They even changed the look of Superman himself to look more like Christopher Reeve.

@georgehatake4039 5 лет назад

When my dream my work as superman my chilhood :v

@karinsucuri3164 5 лет назад

PODERIA POSTAR DUBLADO EM PORTUGUÊS?

@Woodsmasher 3 года назад

¡Oh boy! A Superman that at the time was invulnerable to anything?! Holy cow! But I always liked how he struggled to move, lift, pull, etc. heavy weights... It's just as correct as it should be and how he does it, is also correctly. At least as how strongman of the time did some similar stuff.

@cosmicdoggo9296 2 года назад

His costume or atleast shorts are basicaly old school strong man shorts

@frankchen4229 Год назад

strongman athletes of the time? lol as if biomechanics have changed

@dannyolortegui3776 7 месяцев назад

This is what birthrd B: TAS

@wholetthedogsout2941 5 лет назад

this old film?

@jturn103 3 года назад

This was made in 1940s. So yeah it is very quite old....

@wdd3141 Месяц назад

The Superman cartoons of the Fleischer studio were certainly exciting, especially if you were a kid. Adults will fawn over their nostalgia value. For me they quickly lose their appeal, because they all follow essentially the same format. Seeing two of these cartoons is enough; after that, they seem to repeat, and my perception is if you've seen one Superman cartoon, you've seen them all.

@adamoxen Год назад

Always wondered WTF an electro thanasia ray was lol

@davidwesley2525 Год назад

The Laser beam became Reality about 20 years Later.

@adamoxen Год назад

@@davidwesley2525 just not with the same characteristics or properties though...or am I wrong🤷

@plate.armour_0996 2 года назад

KAL_EL ♥️🌞

@ElianColon 5 лет назад

Superman & Thanos

@topherholland4646 3 года назад

Nuh uh! No one wants to see that! I sure don't

@speedracer1945 2 года назад

When American cartoons were super

@shamsalfarabi6107 5 лет назад

Boo Hoo! I wanna see Batman!

@spaceinbetween6591 5 лет назад

I didn't know Superman was Asian! (-.- )

@BrandonKohout 4 года назад

spaceinbetween Superman was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster and the Superman cartoon series were done by Fleischer Studios.

@andrewlance3898 2 года назад

@T1122 Side effect of rotoscoping (tracing live action footage).

@frankchen4229 Год назад

yeah i even found his artistic depiction strange lol; i guess this was before blue eyes was a beauty standard

@tomhertz1614 5 лет назад

they got a real weak Clark Kent voice .

@eagle_spangled_tricolor2073 5 лет назад

That's the whole point

@joshuastroupe1999 5 лет назад

Eagle_spangled_tricolor Was going to say the same thing, beat me to it a whole two months earlier lol

@joshuastroupe1999 5 лет назад

Tom Hertz Not to mention the fact that Bud Collyer voices both Superman and Clark Kent in the show. It’s part of the act, it is a double role after all.

@stephenholloway6893 3 года назад

@@joshuastroupe1999 He also played both of them on the radio show prior to these shorts.

@frankchen4229 Год назад

clark persona is supposed to be timid