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Post by supes78 on Dec 23, 2008 17:58:29 GMT -5
Even though they were included in the Ultimate Collection DVD set, WB is officially giving the Fleischer series its own separate release. The First Flight featurette was included in the Ultimate Collection as well but The Man, The Myth, Superman featurette looks new.From www.dvdactive.com/news/releases/max-fleischers-superman.htmlTitle: Max Fleischer's Superman Starring: N/A (Animation) Released: 7th April 2009 SRP: $26.99 Further Details: Warner Home Video has announced Max Fleischer's Superman for the 7th April. Retail will be $26.99. The 2-disc set will include all 17 theatrical shorts totalling 170 minutes, plus two retrospective featurettes (The Man, The Myth Superman, and First Flight: The Fleischer Superman Series). Artwork is attached: 
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Post by Valentine Smith on Dec 23, 2008 20:28:38 GMT -5
No need for me to get these, as I've already got them on the recent releases. So glad they're out there, though. Not only the finest Superman cartoons ever made, but some of the greatest adventure cartoons ever produced!!!
It's always blown my mind how more people aren't aware of these. They should be on all the time in blocks with vintage Popeye cartoons or something.
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Post by Matt in the Hat on Dec 23, 2008 20:36:34 GMT -5
This is great, as i'd like more indepth documentary stuff on the production and on max and dave fleischer. Any other decent docus i should check out covering fleischer studios?
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Post by Jimbo on Dec 23, 2008 20:38:22 GMT -5
So they're rereleasing something that's already included in a box set.
Yet no Superboy seasons 2-4?
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Post by Metallo on Dec 23, 2008 21:35:36 GMT -5
Haven't WB themselves already released these several times? Thats not even including the release in the Ultimate Superman set. The only way I would bite is if they are totally cleaned up, the original audio, and some nice extras. I own these like 3 times over in various releases in various kinds of quality. The documentaries do sound interesting though.
A bit off topic but related: I read that Paul Dini would LOVE to do an Indiana Jones cartoon in the Fleischer/Superman style. I immediately sported some geek wood at the thought.
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Post by Jor-L5150 on Dec 23, 2008 23:48:42 GMT -5
Haven't WB themselves already released these several times? Thats not even including the release in the Ultimate Superman set. The only way I would bite is if they are totally cleaned up, the original audio, and some nice extras. I own these like 3 times over in various releases in various kinds of quality. The documentaries do sound interesting though. A bit off topic but related : I read that Paul Dini would LOVE to do an Indiana Jones cartoon in the Fleischer/Superman style. I immediately sported some geek wood at the thought. ..if harrison did the voiceover....  |
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Post by Valentine Smith on Dec 23, 2008 23:59:43 GMT -5
If Dini's involved, I'll watch.
If he's not, it'd probably be as bad as the UNWATCHABLE new Clone Wars series. Seriously. Unwatchable. I defy you to make it through an episode.
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Post by Jor-L5150 on Dec 24, 2008 0:04:45 GMT -5
If Dini's involved, I'll watch. If he's not, it'd probably be as bad as the UNWATCHABLE new Clone Wars series. Seriously. Unwatchable. I defy you to make it through an episode. well i thought it was going to be kid-friendly fun...lots of lightsabre's and explosions...THEN he did a 3-part arc featurin jar-jar... oh , george ..i thought you got the message... |
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Post by Metallo on Dec 24, 2008 1:52:31 GMT -5
I caught a minute of that on tv the other day. It ensured that I'll never watched Clone Wars again. its like Lucas is TRYING to say "F U" to the fans.
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Post by Valentine Smith on Dec 24, 2008 9:29:18 GMT -5
I hate everything about it. It's incredible. I can usually find something positive in just about ANYTHING I normally like.
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Post by supes78 on Dec 24, 2008 11:44:47 GMT -5
Haven't WB themselves already released these several times? Thats not even including the release in the Ultimate Superman set. The only way I would bite is if they are totally cleaned up, the original audio, and some nice extras. I own these like 3 times over in various releases in various kinds of quality. The documentaries do sound interesting though. I have two other releases of the Fleischer series from other companies and the restoration job that WB did for these cartoons in the Ultimate set was the best. The colors were vibrant, the sound great, and the overall picture quality had much less debris and scratches. I'm definitely buying this again just because I feel this series deserves its own release in the highest quality possible as opposed to being bonus material spread out over two movie discs. I do agree, though, that WB would serve the fans much better by releasing additional seasons of Superboy other than re-releasing series already on DVD. |
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Post by Legsy on Dec 24, 2008 11:45:21 GMT -5
I saw the actual movie. Tropic Thunder had a roller scratch right down the middle of the film. Quite unwatchable, really. I complained, got free movie passes and was told I could watch any movie. So, I saw Clone Wars. That was unpleasant. I don't know what's worse; a quality movie with a roller scratch right down the middle of the film or a poor quality move with no scratches.
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Post by Jor-L5150 on Dec 27, 2008 20:08:32 GMT -5
I saw the actual movie. Tropic Thunder had a roller scratch right down the middle of the film. Quite unwatchable, really. I complained, got free movie passes and was told I could watch any movie. So, I saw Clone Wars. That was unpleasant. I don't know what's worse; a quality movie with a roller scratch right down the middle of the film or a poor quality move with no scratches. sounds like a fortune cookie. |
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Post by supermanearth2 on Dec 29, 2008 4:45:30 GMT -5
Haven't WB themselves already released these several times? Thats not even including the release in the Ultimate Superman set. The only way I would bite is if they are totally cleaned up, the original audio, and some nice extras. I own these like 3 times over in various releases in various kinds of quality. The documentaries do sound interesting though. In the past, the various releases of the Superman cartoons that are widely available on VHS and DVD, usually in budget-line releases of varying quality due to their public domain status. These unofficial releases were usually in very bad quality, sometimes unwatchable, where the screen is almost pitch black, where you can't even see anything at all! The first "official" home video releases of the series were by Warner Home Video in 1987 and 1988, in a series of VHS and LaserDisc packages called TV's Best Adventures Of Superman. Four volumes were released, where each volume contained 2 selected episodes of the classic 1950s TV series Adventures of Superman starring George Reeves, plus a selected Max Fleischer Superman short, which marked the first "official" release of such as Warner Bros. holds the original film elements. One of the best reviewed of these various releases was the 1991 VHS set produced by Bosko Video, The Complete Superman Collection: Golden Anniversary Edition - The Paramount Cartoon Classics of Max & Dave Fleischer released as two VHS volumes which featured high-quality transfers from 35mm prints (the Bosko set was later issued on DVD by Image Entertainment as The Complete Superman Collection: Diamond Anniversary Edition in 2000. Another DVD was Superman: The Ultimate Max Fleischer Cartoon Collection from VCI Entertainment in 2006. his release was packed with extras: DVD features included: all 17 animated shorts digitally restored in Dolby Digital 2.0 audio; a bonus cartoon: Snafuperman (a 1944 Warner Bros. wartime parody of the Fleischer cartoons, featuring Private Snafu and produced for the U.S. Army); "Behind the Cape" synopses and fun facts with each cartoon; a DVD fold-out booklet with notes on the series; bios of the voice actors, producer Max Fleischer, and Superman; a bonus trailer for the 1948 Superman serial with Kirk Alyn; and a recorded audio phone interview with Joan Alexander (the voice of Lois Lane). This DVD, like the Bosko Video release, were not associated with DC Comics or their parent company Warner Brothers at all. The only other "official" Warner's release of the Fleischer/Famous Superman cartoons was released on the 2006 DVD releases of Superman: The Movie four-disc special edition set and the last eight shorts were included on the Superman II two-disc special edition set (and where they were part of the DVD box sets of The Christopher Reeve Superman Collection and Superman Ultimate Collector's Edition). From these 2006 releases, all 17 of these Superman shorts were already announced by Warner's as having been restored and remastered from superior vault elements. I loved the Bosko release from the early 1990s, as that was the best looking I'd ever seen them these Superman cartoons as, besides the old Warner releases from the late 1980s on those George Reeves Superman tapes. I never liked Bosko for editing a black screen "star fade in" towards certain episodes closing end credits, and the VCI release wasn't that great at all at times as they "edited" a bit with the "Terror on the Midway" as they didn't have the best conditioned masters for that one. Warner's 2006 releases of these shorts within the 2006 Superman I and II DVDs was top notch I'd seen these cartoons, bettering the old Bosko release. Like many others, I was bothered by WB's decision to put them within the Superman movies as bonus extras, and wished that WB had released them as their own individual release instead. Now they will finally give these excellent cartoons a seperate release, but I don't need them! Although as a die hard Superman fan, I may still get this set, just to see them on their own...! |
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Post by supes78 on Jan 17, 2009 6:55:29 GMT -5
I just noticed, why is the date for this set given as "1941-1942" when there are clearly cartoons from 1943 in this set as well?  1. Superman (Mad Scientist) - Sept 26 1941 2. The Mechanical Monsters - Nov 28 1941 3. Billion Dollar Limited - January 9, 1942 4. Arctic Giant - February 27, 1942 5. The Bulleteers - March 27, 1942 6. The Magnetic Telescope - April 24, 1942 7. Electric Earthquake - May 15, 1942 8. Volcano - July 10, 1942 9. Terror on the Midway - August 28, 1942 10. The Japoteurs - Sept 18, 1942 11. Showdown - Oct 16, 1942 12. The Eleventh Hour - Nov 20, 1942 13. Destruction , Inc. - Dec 25, 1943 14. The Mummy Strikes - Feb 19, 1943 15. Jungle Drums - March 25, 1943 16. Underground World - June 18, 1943 17. Secret Agent - July 30, 1943 |
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Post by stargazer01 on Jan 17, 2009 12:20:10 GMT -5
^^Aww, nice picture!
And I don't know why but that Lois reminds me of Kate Bosworth.
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Post by MAVERICK on Jan 17, 2009 13:50:53 GMT -5
I was thinking the EXACT same thing! ;D
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Post by stargazer01 on Jan 17, 2009 14:05:18 GMT -5
I was thinking the EXACT same thing! ;D Yeah, just look at the shoes and the hair, and the makeup.. I like Kate's Lois. She just looked and sounded a little too young for a Pulitzer winner and a mommy at times, but she grew on me. |
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Post by supes78 on Apr 13, 2009 18:37:03 GMT -5
Just finished watching all the shorts. Pretty much the same as the previous 2006 release by WB, although some anal retentive reviewers are bickering about some of the prologues being altered. It didn't hinder my viewing experience since I'm not that well versed on these cartoons to notice or care. If you don't already have the series, this really is the best set to buy.
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Post by Kamdan on Apr 13, 2009 21:17:00 GMT -5
Is the "powered with X-Ray vision" line restored to The Mechanical Monsters in this release? It wasn't on the Superman: The Movie Four-Disc Special Edition. If it isn't, then Warners is LYING about this release being "complete."
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Post by Valentine Smith on Apr 14, 2009 7:46:21 GMT -5
Supes 78...is it essentially the same as the ones that were on the STM and S2 dvds from 06? If so, I can hold off, as those were the most beautiful looking and sounding versions of these that I've ever seen.
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Post by Jor-L5150 on Apr 14, 2009 12:59:54 GMT -5
the fight scene from ' mechanical monsters " SHOULD be storyboarded for a live-action sequence for the real movie.
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Post by supes78 on Apr 14, 2009 16:20:14 GMT -5
Is the "powered with X-Ray vision" line restored to The Mechanical Monsters in this release? It wasn't on the Superman: The Movie Four-Disc Special Edition. If it isn't, then Warners is LYING about this release being "complete." Yes, WB corrected that and the line is said now. Other than this change and the inclusion of a brief new bonus featurette about superhuman heroes in history, the set is the same as the 2006 release.  |
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Post by Valentine Smith on Apr 14, 2009 20:52:10 GMT -5
Good to know. I'm on a budget so I'll hold off on these for a bit!
That being said, for anyone who DOESN'T already own these, or has never had the pleasure of seeing them...
These are quite possibly the finest adventure cartoons EVER MADE. They are early Disney-like in their beauty. I think they may be the finest translation of Superman from the comic page BAR NONE. Yes, that may include the holy STM, depending on my mood.
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Post by supes78 on Apr 15, 2009 16:54:57 GMT -5
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