DVD : The Superman Cartoons of Max and Dave Fleischer

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786305078951
Format: Animated, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 6305078955
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Release Date: June 03, 1998
Running Time: 148 minutes
Sales Rank: 116753
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: September 26, 1941

Editorial Review:

Amazon.com:
This collection of fully restored, 1930s animated shorts from the legendary Max Fleischer are a real treat. For anyone who has grown up associating the Superman character with different phases of art direction in Superman comic books over the last 50 years, or best remembers the look of the Christopher Reeve films or the old television show, these 'toons will be a mini-revelation. Expanding on cues from the first generation of Superman comics, Fleischer immerses the man from Krypton in a marvelous blend of art deco, William Cameron Menzies-inspired sets, and edgy compositions that can't help but remind one of Fritz Lang-ian paranoia. Everything is oversized, blocky but rounded, ferociously modernist, and all too vulnerable. Superman's very function as a character in these highly dramatic and richly colored fables is both defending the overbearing, urban progressiveness and capital excesses of a young 20th century while also reassuring us that progress is not as indomitable as a man--at least a Superman. The DVD includes a bonus Fleischer short, "Play Safe," plus information about the restoration process, three choices of sound, complete history, synopsis, and credits. --Tom Keogh

Description:
Includes all 17 original vivid color cartoons that were shown theatrically between 1941 and 1943. Renowned animators Max and Dave Fleischer spent over $100,000 to produce each of these catoons and every one has been transferred from mint 35mm prints to insure the finest possible quality. Includes Warner Brothers' "Snafuperman" wartime parody.

Average Rating:

Rating: - Best comic book cartoon of all time.
Let me start this note by saying I hate superman. Well perhaps hate is a strong word, but I dislike Superman a-lot, he is too strong and too unstoppable and even too good for my taste, a man with no wrongs, and in my eyes a man as such does not exist, and so it was in the eyes of the creators of the character in the 40's, making the source material for this cartoons a man, stronger than any man, faster than any man, but still not so perfect and strong that he is not able to get hurt.

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Rating: - superman
this is how all animation should be made and produced. only Disney was greater. item received as described.

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Rating: - Perhaps the best Superman ever
With a quality of animation heads and shoulders above anything done today, these 40s Superman cartoons are in many ways the definitive Superman. Watch him fight art-deco robots in a city the looks more like Fritz Lang's Metropolis than anything that ever existed.

the episodes are short without much of a plot but the visuals are second to none.

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Rating: - SCOTT IS RIGHT - THE BEST TO BE HAD !
I got this BOSCO Diamond Anniversary Edition after reading Scott's informatative review - He's right on the money - This is the DVD we've been waiting for. Speaking of money, IT'S A STEAL! Terrific value - Terrific transfer to DVD - Terrific CLASSIC ANIMATION! What are you waiting for? GET IT!!!

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Rating: - Superman Cartoons from the 1940's
These are well produced and the color is very good. I bought reproductions that had been put onto VHS tape in the mid 1980's and the quality was not nearly as good. There is some extra information that was never in my early VHS tapes. Like the dates of release and the cost of production. I was very pleased with the price and quality and have no problem with a thumbs up to purchase.