Terror on the Midway is the ninth of the seventeen animated Technicolor short films based upon the DC Comics character of Superman, originally created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. This animated short was the final production for the Fleischer Studios, which was reincorporated as Famous Studios at the time. The nine-minute short features Superman attempting to stop the chaos created when several circus animals escape their cages and restraints, including a giant ape. It was originally released on August 28, 1942 by Paramount Pictures.
A noisy cat is preventing Betty Boop from getting any sleep at night. When Betty asks the cat to be quiet, it replies “not ne-ow”. Pudgy tries to chase the cat away, and after much trouble, he seemingly succeeds . . . until all the cats in the neighborhood appear outside Betty’s window.
Olive tells the boys she loves a man in a uniform, so they try to sign up at the recruiting station, but they can only take one. There follows a duel of clips from previous shorts as they attempt to prove who is the winner.
Popeye meets Bluto for the Championship fight. Bluto decides to sabotage Popeye’s training to give himself the edge in the big fight.
Mr. Bang is a bundle of nerves and is advised by a doctor to go down to the seashore and relax.
A variation on the story of Hansel and Gretel, their pet duck and a villanous miser. The second in the Fleischer Studios Color Classics cartoon series, and an attempt to keep up with Disney’s cartoons…
