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Mark (Moderator) |
posted 11/2/04 6:49 PM
THE SUPERMAN CARTOONS FROM THE FLEISCHER STUDIOSAlready celebrated for thier ground-breaking cartoons featuring such characters as Koko the Clown, Betty Boop and Popeye, in 1941 Max and Dave Fleischer set out to create their most ambitious series of cartoons to date. At the reported production cost of nearly $100,000.00 each, the Superman cartoon series were lavish Technicolor spectacles with superb animation, strong plots and strirring music scores. Produced between 1941 and 1943, the series features Superman battling mad scientists, monsters, spies, robots, evil crooks and even a dinosaur! Seventeen of these cartoons were made and they're all here:SUPERMAN (1941)THE MECHANICAL MONSTERS (1941)BILLION DOLLAR LIMITED (1942)THE ARCTIC GIANT (1942)BULLETEERS (1942)THE MAGNETIC TELESCOPE (1942)ELECTRIC EARTHQUAKE (1942)VOLCANO (1942)TERROR ON THE MIDWAY (1942)JAPOTEURS (1942)SHOWDOWN (1942)THE ELEVENTH HOUR (1942)DESTRUCTION, INC. (1942)THE MUMMY STRIKES (1943)JUNGLE DRUMS (1943)UNDERGROUND WORLD (1943)SECRET AGENT (1943) http://www.reelclassicdvd.com |
| Ray Pointer |
posted 12/18/04 6:47 AM
The animated SUPERMAN series as established by Fleischer Studios continues to be a standard, as it pioneered the gnere of animation action adventure cartoons at a time when all other studios were making comedy cartoons with anthropromorphic animals.The proported cost at $100,000 is a myth, however, begun by a quotation taken from the 1968 Dave Fleischer interview with Joe Adamson. This myth was printed in THE FLEISCHER STORY by Leslie Cabarga, and accordingly, continues to be quoted as fact. Having seen the Fleischer production contract for the 1941-1942 season, the allocated production funds for SUPERMAN from Paramount were $65,000.00 for the first, with the remaing cartoons at $45,000.00.It is also to be noted that Fleischer Studios produced the first nine cartoons, the last being "Terror on the Midway." From "Japeteours" on, the production was assumed by Famous Studios, which was the sucessor to the demise of Fleischer Studios in May, 1942. http://inkwellimagesink.com DVD production/distribution and sales |
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