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Superman(Movie, 1941)

11min | Genres: Action, Animation
SupermanRating: 3.5/5 (with 4242 votes)
Superman (1941), also known as The Mad Scientist, is the first installment in a series of seventeen animated Technicolor short films based upon the DC Comics character Superman. It was produced by Fleischer Studios and released to theaters by Paramount Pictures on September 26, 1941. Superman ranked number 33 in a list of the fifty greatest cartoons of all time sourced from a 1994 poll of 1000 animation professionals, and was nominated for the 1942 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Subject. ()
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Awards & Nominations for Superman

Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

About Superman

After The Daily Planet receives a letter from a mad scientist threatening to wreak destruction with his Electrothanasia Ray, Lois Lane heads out in the hopes of getting more information for a news story.

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Trailer for Superman + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Paramount's Superman Teaser (1941)(Teaser, 0:18)

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 12 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date US: 09/26/1941
Voice Actor: Bud Collyer
Director: Dave Fleischer
Producer: Max Fleischer
Composer: Sammy Timberg
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Superman contra o Cientista Louco"
"El científico loco"
"Teräsmies"
"Superman: The Introduction"
"The Death Ray"
"Σούπερμαν: Ο Τρελός Επιστήμονας"
"Super-Homem"
"Max Fleischer's Superman: The Mad Scientist"
"Superman: The Mad Scientist"
Budget: 50,000 USD

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Other movies with this title: Superman (US, 1948), Superman (CH/GB/US, 1978), Superman (IN, 1980), Superman (IN, 1987), Superman (IN, 1997), Superman (IN, 2023)

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