SUPERMAN THE ORIGINAL MOVIE

[EndGame410]

Epic. Win.

[batbat29640]

This is the best superhero animation EVER! And that shit was HAND DRAWN!!! That's why cartons aren't as good these days. These guys LOVED what they were doing and they had fun with it. You just don't get the same attention to detail and movement in today's animation as we git from these,

[DarthHater100]

great musical score!!

[EternalDarkness316]

I love how the old villains would give the heroes their locations to their secret bases and be like what the hell how did you find me?

[jtkirkfan2002]

I love these old shorts and I have them all on DVD. However it always cracks me up when the villain sees Superman and acts surprised. He's launching an evil plot in Metropolis. Who did he think would come after him?

[jawzmuzik]

he saw superman and turned that shit on 5000

[EXRPGER]

I am a HUGE Superman fan, and these old Superman cartoons from the 40's are the best !! I've watched them so many times on VHS years ago, and now on DVD,and I never get tired of watching them.

[abmadul]

@EXRPGER Where would you get this on DVD, i remeber watching this as a kid, i´d love to have it.

[TheViciousVerdugo]

What year is this?



[TheViciousVerdugo]

The mad maniac looks curiously like our old friend Dr. Evil. especially the outfit. Not so much the sidekick!

[TheNipplesofGod]

My favorite line in this, " I don't believe it, he isn't human!" Duhh lol

[drbotanus]

These are all in public domain. You can SELL them if you want to.

[shafiqulkabirjewel]

Appropiate for Babies.

[FantasyGirl365]

I love this. I'm such a huge Superman fan!

[LoneOutlaw1]

No sound?

[derpenstein]

I have this on DVD. It's fantastic.

[RetroVideoFan]

This cartoon, the first of the 17 episode series actually premiered on Friday September 26, 1941, and cost a total of $50,000 to make (equivalent to more than $1 million today). It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1941. It should have won, but, in one of the worst decisions ever made by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, in my opinion, it lost to "Lend A Paw", from (of course) the Disney studio. This is a true animation classic. 50 out of 10.

[Quixotic1018]

Didn't these cartoons win an oscar?

[Pribinace]

kinda like tom and jerri intro no offence...:P

[lionofzion1]

hey yes i had this movie in a vhs tape!!

when i sas a child

[SupergirlofKrypton]

1. He CHANGES in this version!

2. Cape is to short

3. Lex Luthor does NOT have a pet bird.

4. birds aren't that smart!

5. buildings don't curve! They CRUMBLE!

6. For what STUPID reason, would Lex actually COMMIT SUICIDE by doing that!

[LeadCeno]

1. Are you referring to him changing clothes and becoming Superman? He's always changed clothes, it's just this time it's a lot slower.

2. The cape's length varies in the comics and movies/shows, just like all aspects of his appearance.

3. This isn't Lex Luthor, just a nameless mad scientist.

4. It's a cartoon, not meant to be taken too literally.

5. See 4.

6. Commit suicide by doing what?

[proadmin1]

Actually the scientist was a take on Nicolai Tesla, who was beaten badly by Edison. Edison's smear ruined Tesla, and this was one point where that played out. The theme of this very show , was based - in part - on Tesla's professed desire to build a "heat ray" for the defense of cities against aircraft, based on the ideas he had developed from building what we today call a "Tesla Coil".

[SupergirlofKrypton]

good, but they messed up a lot of details. Can you believe kids used to watch these over breakfast! :) Supergirl

[LeadCeno]

If you're referring to his human parents, Jonathan and Martha, he didn't have adopted parents at first. Once the writers got more into detail about the character's life and origins, they added his adopted parents.

[nozcr]

That was HISTORIC!

I always wondered why the galaxies and stars in the Superman films looked like abstact sprays of colored water. It came from Max Fleischer's original first interpretation of Superman. He was supposedly created in 1937, this film is from 1939 (MCMXXXIX). Not only did this inspire The Movie (1978), but also the introduction from the 1950's TV Series was remade from this very cartoon. Amazing!

[SuPeReZ23]

That was EPIC

[casedistorted]

wow I remember watching these growing up as a kid in the 90's..I had a bunch of VHS tapes with old superman cartoons on them including this one and stuff like power rangers. but yeah this itself I hope they didnt call the superman movie! more like the animated cartoon series or something..but I loved these things, I watched them all the time.

[BrianFlocaBooks]

Wow.Great animation. Terrific light and shadow throughout.

[moviedudeinc]

I agree!!! This was BEFORE Superman The Movie(1978) and this is EXTREMALY RARE film!!!!!

I love it :o)

[Bullettube]

Wow! What great artwork! Much better then the crap that passes for artwork today.

[LeadCeno]

This was theatrically released, and in theatrical releases they put a lot more time and effort into the animation than they did tv shows. As bad as tv animation can be today, it was worse in the beginning. Just look at a lot of the Hanna Barbera cartoons from the 60s and 70s.

[RJMURILLO]

I love this classic from the 40's!

[joecrewdog]

Classic from the 1940's Wish it were on DVD.

[akaneo17]

actually it is on dvd. i can't remember where i saw it. maybe wal-mart or blockbuster... it was pretty cheap, u could imagine.

[WalleyTV]

Theses are on DVD at Walmart in the $1 DVD bin. The New SUPERMAN 2 DVD sets and SE BOXSETS have perfect remastered versions of all the old SUPERMAN cartoons on DVD.

[ELOfanatic]

i picked the whole set up for two bucks at the local dollar store....theres seventeen total episodes

[SuperboyConnerKent]

Thairs no school like Old School. man I used to watch this show when I was a toddler, it taught me the difference between right and wrong. It doesn't matter if ur 7 or 70, Superman is a hero to all. PS Brandon Routh was great.

[pinkxandxblack]

amazing =)

[ItisMeYeMeh]

When Krypton was about to explode, Jor-El launched the Spacepod he built to sent his son, Kal-El, to Planet Earth. On Earth, he was found by the Kents. After they adopted him, Clark came to realize he had great, unusual power. Superman is born!

[maddmartian]

I'm confused. Was he found as a baby by the Kents like on all the TV shows? Did he pop out of the ship fully grown in his super suit? Or was he raised in an orphanage like this video suggests? What's the Siegel and Schuster's original story?

[BoneDealer]

The creators originally had him being raised in an orphanage.

[peppythepirate]

Some early versions have the Kents find superbaby in the rocket, take him to the orphanage, leave, and then come back to adopt him.