The Superman animated cartoons were a series of seventeen animated Technicolor short films released by Paramount Pictures and based upon the newly released comic book character Superman.
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| - The Superman animated cartoons were a series of seventeen animated Technicolor short films released by Paramount Pictures and based upon the newly released comic book character Superman.
- A series of Superman animated shorts were released to theatres during the 1940s, produced by the Fleischer and Famous studios. The first eight cartoons were produced by Fleischer Studios (the name by which the cartoons are commonly known). In 1942, Fleischer Studios was dissolved and reorganized as Famous Studios, which produced the final nine shorts. These cartoons are seen as some of the finest, and certainly the most lavishly budgeted, animated cartoons produced during The Golden Age of American animation. In 1994, the series was voted #33 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field.
- [[wikipedia:wikipedia:File:Supermanshorttitle.PNG|250px|thumb|right|The title card from the first Superman animated short produced by Fleischer Studios.||]] The Fleischer & Famous Superman Cartoons are a series of seventeen animated Technicolor Short films released by Paramount Pictures and based upon the comic book character Superman. Although all entries are in the public domain, ancillary rights such as merchandising contract rights, as well as the original 35mm master elements, are owned today by Warner Bros. Animation. Warner has owned Superman publisher DC Comics since 1969.
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| - A series of Superman animated shorts were released to theatres during the 1940s, produced by the Fleischer and Famous studios. The first eight cartoons were produced by Fleischer Studios (the name by which the cartoons are commonly known). In 1942, Fleischer Studios was dissolved and reorganized as Famous Studios, which produced the final nine shorts. These cartoons are seen as some of the finest, and certainly the most lavishly budgeted, animated cartoons produced during The Golden Age of American animation. In 1994, the series was voted #33 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field. The first cartoon in the series, simply titled Superman, was released on September 26, 1941, and was nominated for the 1942 Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons. It lost to Lend a Paw, a Pluto cartoon from Walt Disney Productions and RKO Pictures. The voice of Superman for the first few shorts in the series was provided by Bud Collyer, who also performed the lead character's voice on the Superman radio series. In the premiere short and others, Joan Alexander was the voice of Lois Lane, also reprising her radio role. Music for the series was composed by Sammy Timberg, the Fleischers' long-time musical collaborator. Rotoscoping, the process of tracing animation drawings from live-action footage, was used extensively to lend realism to the human characters and Superman. Many of Superman's actions, however, could not be rotoscoped (flying, lifting very large objects, and so on). In these cases, the Fleischer lead animators, many of whom were not trained in figure drawing, animated roughly and depended upon their assistants, many of whom were inexperienced with animation but were trained in figure drawing, to keep Superman "on model" during his action sequences. The Fleischer cartoons were also responsible for Superman being able to fly. When they started work on the series, Superman could only leap from place to place (hence "Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound" in the opening). But they deemed it as "silly looking" after seeing it animated and decided to have him fly instead.
- The Superman animated cartoons were a series of seventeen animated Technicolor short films released by Paramount Pictures and based upon the newly released comic book character Superman.
- [[wikipedia:wikipedia:File:Supermanshorttitle.PNG|250px|thumb|right|The title card from the first Superman animated short produced by Fleischer Studios.||]] The Fleischer & Famous Superman Cartoons are a series of seventeen animated Technicolor Short films released by Paramount Pictures and based upon the comic book character Superman. The pilot and first eight shorts were produced by Fleischer Studios from 1941 to 1942, while the final eight were produced by Famous Studios, a successor company to Fleischer Studios, from 1942 to 1943. Superman was the final animated series initiated under Fleischer Studios, before Famous Studios officially took over production in May 1942. Although all entries are in the public domain, ancillary rights such as merchandising contract rights, as well as the original 35mm master elements, are owned today by Warner Bros. Animation. Warner has owned Superman publisher DC Comics since 1969.
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