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Superman: Destruction, Inc. (1942)
Superman: Destruction, Inc. (1942) is an 8-minute animated cartoon that airs free on Starlite TV's Saturday Morning (CH 7) channel. Our rights research indicates it is in the U.S. public domain (evidence below).
About Superman: Destruction, Inc. (1942)
Destruction Inc. (1942) is the thirteenth of seventeen animated Technicolor short films based upon the DC Comics character Superman.
The elderly night watchman from the Metropolis Munitions Works is found dead in a swamp. Lois Lane and Clark Kent both decide to grab the story. Clark talks to Lois, not realizing she has left and that he is talking to a bus driver named Louis. Louis gets angry at what he thinks was a mistake about his name. As Lois goes undercover at the plant after being hired by the plant supervisor.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article Destruction, Inc. (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).
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- Saturday Morning - CH 7, Cartoon TV
Rights & source
- Basis: Documented as U.S. public domain (e.g. copyright not renewed / no notice)
- Evidence: Listed in Wikipedia "List of animated films in the public domain in the United States" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animated_films_in_the_public_domain_in_the_United_States), which cites Film Superlist / copyright renewal records (not renewed). Character names/designs may remain trademarks; no character art used in site branding.
- Music: Film soundtrack falls with the film; separately published songs not individually cleared.
- Source: Internet Archive
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