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The Best Version of Superman Looks Better Than Ever
Fleischer Studio’s restoration of the public-domain artifact is close to completion and screening now.
Today, the shorts are the stuff of animation legend, despite a fractured production, a chaotic afterlife in the public domain, and multiple re-releases, including a new restoration led by the Fleischer family. Fleischers’ Superman showcased a departure from the broader, rubber-limbed cartoonishness of their earlier characters like Koko the Clown, Popeye, and Betty Boop, which were achieved by pioneering animation techniques like rotoscoping. Installments from Famous Studios go further, with the wartime propaganda of “Japoteurs” and “Eleventh Hour.” Even when Superman fights the Nazis, it comes with a side of anti-Blackness: The African setting in “Jungle Drums” is exactly what you’d expect from the title.
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