Superman ➟ The Comic Strip Hero (4 of 5)

"The Comic Strip Hero" made by the BBC in 1981 for their Arena programme. It documents the popularity of Superman and his portrayal in the movies.

It contains some great interviews with the creators of Superman, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Also, interviews with Superman actors Kirk Alyn and Christopher Reeve. It also features comic book people such as Will Eisner (creator of the Spirit) and Trina Robbins; it has the science fiction writer Larry Niven talking about the science of Superman and also has Margot Kidder and David Prowse.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• superman
• comic
• strip
• book
• superhero
• siegel
• shuster
• trina
• robbins
• kirk
• alyn
• reeve
• larry
• niven
• christopher
• reeves

[ihatemikepinkerton]

Superman's least known power is the power to appear on anything that can be sold, and it sells faster than a speeding bullet.

[LooneyLimeyWhisper66]

I love the home made movie. So quaint!

[aidan50203]

I want to be that kid :D

[poolboyinla]

That kid had a really awesome party.

[Tabish29]

the kid sipped his cocoa but didn't brush his teeth b4 fallin asleep.

[TitaniumByFire]

Oh, mand you just got to love the emotional god bless america ballad they play ;) Wake up folks, we've all been shoveled crap by the system.

[TitaniumByFire]

And no, I'm not a nazi or skinhead or klansman, so don't confuse a fair minded person with the monster the crooked system has taught you to think we are. Remember, I attacked bias attitudes, so unless you are bias, you will have to agree, regardless of what your subjective idea is of wrong and right, but then again, if you did recognize that, or really care about what's right rather than another reason, you wouldn't attack me.

[TitaniumByFire]

In other words, the superman industry is bias and hypocritical by using the character to not only to appeal to what's popular rather than what is absolutely right, though doing what's right can be realistically unpopular at times, but to slam national socialism/nazism while steering away from slamming leftist socialism/communism/marxism, which btw was responsible for more deaths than nazism.............

[TitaniumByFire]

I........t sickens me to know that my favorite superhero character when I was a kid was used as a literal hypocritical propaganda tool. This is proof that pop culture along with other systems and entities in our society has brainwashed the masses.

[143AC]

This scene from"Stamp Day For Superman"was never

televised..it was filmed and shown in schools only as a promo

for The US Savings Bonds Program.