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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
@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.
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.
¡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.
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.
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.
He’s the first and greatest superhero that started it all.
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.
The Greatest? ... Maybe.
The First? ... no. Superheroes have gone all the way back to Ancient Greece if not even further in Mesopotamia.
@@Mr.Atari2600
Gilgamesh (Mesopotamia), Heracles (Ancient Greece), and Superman (Today)
Hes not the first .
@@michaellorde8404 Sorry to disagree with you, but it’s true.
I love these Superman cartoons since I was a kid.
This is quality content during the 40s and 50s
This is quality content period.
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.)
I can't believe how good this was. The art, the animation, the story ...everything. Thanks.
Still and will always be the best animated Superman cartoons of all time!
And done by Paramount,not Warner.
i grew up watching these classic superman cartoons
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!
Probably on a cheap VHS- these shorts were public domain, so literally anyone could throw a tape of these together to make a buck
I remember always watching this in the back of my parents Van when we went out. Brings back memories.
Happy 85th, Superman!!
2:54 That explains why Secret Agent was the last Fleischer's Superman short.
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
THANK YOU...
best version of the character.
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.
1:13 that' the 1218 class A articulada steam locomotive from the N&W aka norfolk and western
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.
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.
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.
Truth justice and the American way.
It all started here folks
So glad I had these on DVD as a child in the early 2000s
I luv this animation
Imagine had they got the 100,000 dollars per short they originally told Paramount instead of the 50,000 the distributor (Paramount) gave them.
Great stuff 😀
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Why didn't superman just punch the world engine laser in man of steel like here?
Wow 😮 looks like they painted Nikola Tesla as a villain.....
As tragic as that sounds, many people thought ill of Tesla, believing him to a man scientist than a helper.
Superman approved
El mas grande héroe de todos los tiempos 🦸
The 🎬 the excitement the attention to detail and realisim. Also the drama and the amount of destruction is beyond your wildest imangation!
cool story line
My name is Kalel. So good to see my names origins.
This was years before cgi animation! Also every body listened to their favorite programs on 📻 because 📺 came out in 1950!
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.
yea i much prefer the farmer narrative; it would have fit the "American way"
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
I think this was before his powers were retconned to be the result of being under the rays of a yellow sun.
@@Kal_g oh that makes sense
It was the original origin.
@@neilhansen6544 Correct.
@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.
Wow
this old film?
This was made in 1940s. So yeah it is very quite old....
I like this Superman the most, no crazy powers or anything. Just the essentials like strength, flight, invulnerability and speed
He actually couldn't fly until a bit later.
and x-ray vision and heat vision...
he had x-ray vision in this series
SUPERMAN
Sweet
Superman has desguisedas Major Toth lol
Hard to believe Superman was originally a orphan.
When my dream my work as superman my chilhood :v
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.
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¡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.
His costume or atleast shorts are basicaly old school strong man shorts
strongman athletes of the time? lol as if biomechanics have changed
This is what birthrd B: TAS
Superman & Thanos
Nuh uh! No one wants to see that! I sure don't
KAL_EL ♥️🌞
When American cartoons were super
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.
Boo Hoo! I wanna see Batman!
I didn't know Superman was Asian! (-.- )
spaceinbetween Superman was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster and the Superman cartoon series were done by Fleischer Studios.
@T1122 Side effect of rotoscoping (tracing live action footage).
yeah i even found his artistic depiction strange lol; i guess this was before blue eyes was a beauty standard
SUPERMAN WAS BASED OFF OF THE BLACK MAN 💯✊🏿🌞
What? Elaborate please.
Why is he white then ?
Okay, wtf
they got a real weak Clark Kent voice .
That's the whole point
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Was going to say the same thing, beat me to it a whole two months earlier lol
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.
@@joshuastroupe1999 He also played both of them on the radio show prior to these shorts.
clark persona is supposed to be timid
Boooring!... Superman is in a neverending fight with Aquaman for the title of most boring superhero of all time.
A billion dollar worth of boring?