Superman: Volcano
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Volcano is the eighth of the seventeen animated Technicolor short films based upon the DC Comics character of Superman, originally created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. This eight-minute animated short, produced by Fleischer Studios, features Superman’s adventures in saving a small island community from a volcanic eruption. It was originally released on July 10, 1942 by Paramount Pictures.
March 28th, 2007 at 10:04 am
I like all of the old Fleischer studio Superman cartoons. This is one of the better examples plotwise. It probably was inspired by an actual disaster that happened around 1902 where Mt. Pe’ele on the island of Martinique erupted pouring searing hot ash and gas down onto the town of Saint-Pierre below killing all ~30,000 people except a prisoner in the lowest level of the the jail and possibly a couple of others. Read about it on Wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Pelée
->Back to the Superman cartoon. It’s a great little cartoon well worth the download. Enjoy!