Superman (1941)
Plays here · source: Internet Archive
A mad scientist trains a death-ray on the city from his mountain lair, and only a reporter who can bend steel and outrun a locomotive can stop it. The first of the Fleischer Studios shorts, rotoscoped and shadow-drenched, that fixed how a flying superhero should move on screen.
“Faster than a speeding bullet” was written for these cartoons. They also gave Superman flight — in the comics he had only been able to leap.
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