Word: supermans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Superman in the Volcano (Paramount] is the Man of Steel's eighth cinemappearance since the movies muscled in on his vast newspaper-magazine-radio audience (estimate: 50,000,000) last September. The picture also highlights a new U.S. cinema fashion: some 20,000.000 Supermaniacs can hardly wait for Superman's ten-minute, one-reel cartoon to appear once a month in more than 7,000 U.S. movie houses...
...this irrepressible Citizen Fixit, who smacks death rays back into the cannon, restores toppling skyscrapers to their foundations, knits broken bridges together with his bare hands, and who has brought a new cry into the world: "It's a bird! It's a plane! It's-SUPERMAN...
Artistically, Superman shorts are the movie cartoon at its worst. Superman looks and acts like a wooden puppet. So do all his playmates. There is little that his creators-the old Fleischer Studios (now Famous Studios, Inc.) at Miami, Fla.-can do to improve their hero-even King Disney can't animate human beings satisfactorily. But they did manage to give him a new voice recently. His old one wasn't manly enough. Now it booms...
...Superman in the Volcano shows the wonderworker rescuing his newshen pal, Lois, from a belching crater, splicing a broken power line with uninsulated hands, blowing a sluice in the mountain so that a lava flow will miss the metropolis. There is never any suspense, since Superman always wins, no matter what happens. But his idolators (of all ages) seem satisfied to see him flex his muscles. This vicarious satisfaction has made Superman Paramount's most popular and profitable short, despite the $65,000 it costs to make each cartoon. So popular is the muscular moron that 114 female artists...
...first statistical check, by C. E. Hooper, Inc., on the network rivalry divulged: Mutual's Ryder had raced in with a listener rating of 4.8 against the Ranger's tally of 3.3. With this small triumph on record, Mutual announced that, beginning next September, it would pit Superman, "The All-American American," against Jack Armstrong, "The All-American Boy," which it loses to the Blue in August...