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Superman - The Ultimate Max Fleischer Cartoon Collection
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0089859845123
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Vci Video
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0
Manufacturer: Vci Video
MPN: 8451
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Vci Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 30, 2006
Running Time: 150 minutes
Studio: Vci Video
Theatrical Release Date: September 26, 1941
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Editorial Review:
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
Voice Cast: Bud Collier, Joan Alexander - The 17 original animated Max Fleischer studios cartoons, based on the comic book character, Superman, released by Paramount Pictures were shown monthly at movie theaters from September 9th 1941 to July 30th 1943. Each cartoon is brimming with action and special effects, beautifully drawn and colored, braced with fabulous background paintings and brought to life with realistic movement. DVD Bonus & Features:Booklet - The Super Guide to the Fleischer Superman Cartoons, Behind the Cape: A Synopsis of each cartoon with fun facts, Bon Cartoon - Snafuperman (a wartime parody of the Fleischer cartoons), Bios, Bonus Superman trailer for the Superman serials (1948) starring Kirk Alyn, Digitally Re-stored. Product Specs: DVD-9, Dolby Digital, NTSC/All Region, English Language Disclaimer: SUPERMAN and all related elements are the property of DC Comics. TM & @2006 - VCI's classic animated version of Superman is to not be confused with any or all elements pertaining to the DC Comics Version, or the movies and television series produced by Warner Brothers.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
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.
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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.
Rating: - SCOTT IS RIGHT - THE BEST TO BE HAD !
I got this BOSCO Diamond Anniversary Edition after reading Scott's informatative review - He's right on the money - This is the DVD we've been waiting for. Speaking of money, IT'S A STEAL! Terrific value - Terrific transfer to DVD - Terrific CLASSIC ANIMATION! What are you waiting for? GET IT!!!
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