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| 'Faster than a speeding bullet..'Max Fleisher's Superman. click on link above . |
This is the classic cartoon created by Fleisher Studios. A true classic. Forty years ahead of its time. tears strips off all Superhero cartoons for 50 years up until the excellent Batman Adventures arrived on the scene in 1992, which paid homage to the darker style and tones of this cartoon. Superman's comic book fans will recognise the black & red chest symbol as the one that was used to denote the Earth-2 Superman, who still lived in the 40's and Mark Waid's Kingdom Come versions of the hero. I believe this is in homage to this masterclass in animation. The realisism was provided by; ( from Wikipedia:)
"Rotoscoping, the process of tracing animation drawings from live-action footage, was used minimally to lend realism to the human characters and Superman.[2] 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"
Fleisher only made seventeen of these trailers which were played in cinemas at the time before the main feature.
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