Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786305078951
Format: Animated, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 6305078955
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Release Date: June 03, 1998
Running Time: 148 minutes
Sales Rank: 125134
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: September 26, 1941
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Description:
Includes all 17 original vivid color cartoons that were shown theatrically between 1941 and 1943. Renowned animators Max and Dave Fleischer spent over $100,000 to produce each of these catoons and every one has been transferred from mint 35mm prints to insure the finest possible quality. Includes Warner Brothers' 'Snafuperman' wartime parody.
Amazon.com:
This collection of fully restored, 1930s animated shorts from the legendary Max Fleischer are a real treat. For anyone who has grown up associating the Superman character with different phases of art direction in Superman comic books over the last 50 years, or best remembers the look of the Christopher Reeve films or the old television show, these 'toons will be a mini-revelation. Expanding on cues from the first generation of Superman comics, Fleischer immerses the man from Krypton in a marvelous blend of art deco, William Cameron Menzies-inspired sets, and edgy compositions that can't help but remind one of Fritz Lang-ian paranoia. Everything is oversized, blocky but rounded, ferociously modernist, and all too vulnerable. Superman's very function as a character in these highly dramatic and richly colored fables is both defending the overbearing, urban progressiveness and capital excesses of a young 20th century while also reassuring us that progress is not as indomitable as a man--at least a Superman. The DVD includes a bonus Fleischer short, 'Play Safe,' plus information about the restoration process, three choices of sound, complete history, synopsis, and credits. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - superman max & dave fleischer complete cartoon collection
excellent series from the early 40's, and the best presentation so far. a background extra on the production of the series would have been appreciated
Rating: - Still classic
Actually bought this for my young nephew, who's hugely into super heroes ... even though these are from the 1940s, he still loves them, and ran around the house singing the theme and recounting what happened in the episodes. I love the classic artwork and excellent animation.
Rating:  - Best comic book cartoon of all time.
Let me start this note by saying I hate superman. Well perhaps hate is a strong word, but I dislike Superman a-lot, he is too strong and too unstoppable and even too good for my taste, a man with no wrongs, and in my eyes a man as such does not exist, and so it was in the eyes of the creators of the character in the 40's, making the source material for this cartoons a man, stronger than any man, faster than any man, but still not so perfect and strong that he is not able to get hurt.
As far as the animation, being from the 1940's allows it to only be hand painted cells, making it beautiful, and stories that dare to be fantastic, and yet simple, with plans that are grand in elaboration, but with very simple targets, like stealing diamonds but wi th giant robots.
This cartoon was the base for the Batman Animated Series, which has been the base for every cartoon since it came out. so take a look at the cartoon that provoked the animated revolution of the last 2 decades.
This DVD has all the shorts with dated references to when the episodes came out. A true most get!
Rating: - superman
this is how all animation should be made and produced. only Disney was greater. item received as described.
Rating: - Perhaps the best Superman ever
With a quality of animation heads and shoulders above anything done today, these 40s Superman cartoons are in many ways the definitive Superman. Watch him fight art-deco robots in a city the looks more like Fritz Lang's Metropolis than anything that ever existed.
the episodes are short without much of a plot but the visuals are second to none.
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