Superman - The Golden Age of Animation (Patreon)

Published:

2016-03-27 18:01:55

Imported:

2020-07

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When I was a kid I had a VHS tape with about a half dozen of these cartoons. I would watch them constantly, over and over. And I wouldn't for a second have guessed that they were made before my grandmother was even conceived, because they looked infinitely better than anything I was watching on cable. Max Fleischer gave us the definitive Superman. And artists have continued to build on his foundation for decades.

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Superman - The Golden Age of Animation

A look at how the Fleischer brothers pushed the limits of animation to create the definitive Superman. All of these shorts can be found in the public domain archive at https://archive.org/details/superman_1941 Music licensed under creative commons by LASERS