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So in 1941-1942 some dudes made a bunch of Superman cartoon shorts, all of which are public domain Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djwgODXqIro Or if you want to waste Amazon's bandwidth they stream the episodes for Prime members: The Complete Superman Collection These cartoons are an interesting dichotomy of really good hand-drawn animation that tries to take the subject of Superman pretty seriously mixed with some crazy Tex Avery cartoon shenanigans, such as an episode with a frozen dinosaur (?) that looks like a giant cartoon dragon, and a cartoon vulture making goofy facial expressions. And you may also notice that the title states that Superman stands for Truth and Justice, but not "the American way", because this was long before the nationalistic zeal that came with the Cold War. This is also a very old-fashioned Superman. No ice breath, no heat vision, no super-speed, just a brawny dude with a chiseled jaw wearing a cape. This Superman can be nearly defeated by a big rock falling on him. In some of the episodes he can't even fly, he just jumps really high. In most of the episodes he has to hire a cab to take him to whatever disaster is currently happening And being from the 1940s they also feature all sorts of hosed up sensibilities that were considered normal at the time, such as a native american portrayed as a villain for wanting reparations because the island of Manhattan was stolen from his tribe, and Louis Lane always being a catty bitch. These cartoons are interesting and kind of hilarious, anyway thanks for reading my suicide note, goodbye
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May 4, 2019 07:06
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Cool thread E. Super cool thread
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May 4, 2019 07:08
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What is Zesanactor over-5s big problem
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May 4, 2019 08:04
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Warning: the more you watch, the more you turn into John K.
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May 4, 2019 09:31
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Good poo poo, OP. My MomMom had a vhs of all these in her basement. I haven't thought about them in twenty seven years.   
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May 4, 2019 10:06
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this looks like a job for superman *builds a japanese internment camp* he built that entire camp in just one night! Superman you're amazing!
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May 4, 2019 10:52
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Sorry, I can't right now
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May 4, 2019 11:57
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Matlack Radio posted:Good poo poo, OP. My MomMom had a vhs of all these in her basement. I haven't thought about them in twenty seven years. Where can you buy one of these?
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May 4, 2019 12:01
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I grew up watching these in the ball pit of the local IKEA while my mom did whatever people do in an IKEA when they get too old to watch Superman cartoons.
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May 4, 2019 12:09
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These are legendary for being some of the highest quality rotoscope animation ever made and also for bankrupting the studio. Seriously they built sets and hired actors and shot all of this as live action and then traced over it.
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May 4, 2019 16:49
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also supes solves the trolley problem at 23:50
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May 4, 2019 16:52
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Matlack Radio posted:Good poo poo, OP. My MomMom had a vhs of all these in her basement. I haven't thought about them in twenty seven years. "WASHINGTON! HITLER! WASHINGTON! HITLER!"
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May 4, 2019 16:57
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shame on an IGA posted:These are legendary for being some of the highest quality rotoscope animation ever made and also for bankrupting the studio. this feels like when you try to cheat but end up putting in more energy than if you had just done it the proper way
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May 4, 2019 19:44
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Nastyman posted:I grew up watching these in the ball pit of the local IKEA while my mom did whatever people do in an IKEA when they get too old to watch Superman cartoons. So which deparment manager was your mom getting some from? Storage? Home office?
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May 4, 2019 20:37
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pretty crazy attention to simulated lighting and shadow (i guess you call some of this shading?)
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May 4, 2019 20:44
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The first episode had a budget of $50,000 1940 dollars, equivalent to $908,000 today.
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May 4, 2019 20:59
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shame on an IGA posted:These are legendary for being some of the highest quality rotoscope animation ever made and also for bankrupting the studio. That owns
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May 4, 2019 21:28
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The one where superman flies around japan murdering japanese soldiers is pretty funny too At one point he's trying to blow up a ship in drydock but fucks up and gets trapped under a bunch of steel beams lol
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May 5, 2019 19:33
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I remember catching the old B&W live action Superman and whenever he flew, he'd go behind some piece of scenery and an animated Superman would fly up and away.
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May 5, 2019 19:39
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QuarkJets posted:At one point he's trying to blow up a ship in drydock but fucks up and gets trapped under a bunch of steel beams lol He couldn't melt them? 
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May 5, 2019 19:47
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Harveygod posted:He couldn't melt them? 1940s superman didn't have that power, he often couldn't even fly Also heat vision can't melt steel beams, watch this 90 minute youtube video:
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May 5, 2019 20:26
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Why did Superman punch the laser into submission instead of just getting out of the way Why didn't Lois Lane just call the police and say "the scientist who lives on the overlook wrote a letter threatening to laser people to death" Why did the scientist have a mohawk  at superman walking into a broom closet in the same room as his colleagues to change clothes
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May 5, 2019 20:41
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why is superman scared of lava ow my versimilitude
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May 5, 2019 20:44
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QuarkJets posted:And being from the 1940s they also feature all sorts of hosed up sensibilities that were considered normal at the time, such as a native american portrayed as a villain for wanting reparations because the island of Manhattan was stolen from his tribe, jesus
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May 5, 2019 20:57
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Superman loving up Imperial Japan is p. rad, OP
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May 5, 2019 21:26
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Cool thread but suicide isn't a joke op. It's actually a very serious solution for people with no escape from their own hellish reality. For instance people that bankrupt film studios because Superman stories are actually unprofitable. The merchandise is where it's at for Supes
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May 6, 2019 01:24
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I liked the comic where Supes beats up Hitler and Stalin both within five minutes.
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May 6, 2019 02:22
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Lois Lane is a kick rear end woman
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May 6, 2019 02:31
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Some guy was watching a fleischer superman in the wire one episode. I think it was the one with the robot
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May 6, 2019 02:55
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:Lois Lane is a kick rear end woman Zane fucked around with this message at 03:00 on May 6, 2019 |
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May 6, 2019 02:56
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Zane posted:yah. she plays the conventional genre role of kidnapped love object. but she's pretty spunky while doing so, flying airplanes, giving the villains sass, shooting tommy guns, getting all the front page stories, etc. no 21st century feminist twitter required for this kind of character writing. lois don't take no poo poo from nobody. She's gonna get her story
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May 6, 2019 03:03
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:Lois Lane is a kick rear end woman She's awesome in a lot of ways but she is also portrayed as a catty bitch in others, like when she straight-up just steals Clark's lift ticket when they were going to report on a volcano together. And there are a bunch of times where something is exploding and while everyone is fleeing for their lives Louis is like "WHAT A GREAT SCOOP I BETTER MOVE CLOSER TO THAT INFERNO" and then superman has to show up to prevent her from catching a face full of shrapnel. You already got the scoop, moving closer to the huge dinosaur isn't going to make your notebook take better notes
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May 6, 2019 03:58
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The animation studio responsible is kind of a legend back from when the east coast actually had major studios. I only saw 6 of these on vhs as a kid, never knew there were so many more.
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May 6, 2019 04:04
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shame on an IGA posted:These are legendary for being some of the highest quality rotoscope animation ever made and also for bankrupting the studio. lol I watched like 5min, said to myself 'jesus fuckin Christ did they really do the whole show like this', sent the link to my boss and co-workers who do traditional animation then read the rest of the thread. It was pretty clear to me within an instant that this was some expensive poo poo.
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May 6, 2019 05:20
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QuarkJets posted:The one where superman flies around japan murdering japanese soldiers is pretty funny too these really deserve to be watched in something above 360p https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjubbG_XPqg Gaijin no match for Nippon steel as usual
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May 6, 2019 05:28
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BuckarooBanzai posted:So which deparment manager was your mom getting some from? Storage? Home office? layaway, you loving dweeb you absolute fool
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May 6, 2019 05:43
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I like the one where he fights the doctor with doom laser and then gets punted around like the Torch from the Roger Corman fantastic 4
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May 6, 2019 05:49
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I liked when he punched the laser beam repeatedly.
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May 6, 2019 09:27
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Punching at a laser is something you never see anymore, they just don't make superheroes the way they used to
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superman also spends a lot more time getting tangled up in power lines, getting buried under rubble, etc. there is a greater quality of human pathos in this lone, sometimes stumbling, sentinel of justice.
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