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Superman: The Underground World (1943)
Superman: The Underground World (1943) 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: The Underground World (1943)
The Underground World (1943) is the sixteenth of seventeen animated Technicolor short films based upon the DC Comics character Superman. Directed by Seymour Kneitel and produced by Famous Studios, the cartoon was originally released to theaters by Paramount Pictures on June 18, 1943.
An explorer, Dr. Henderson, has a proposition for Perry White. More than 40 years earlier, Dr. Henderson's father disappeared while exploring a series of caverns that he named the "Henderson caves". Henderson wants the Daily Planet to co-finance an expedition into the Henderson caves in exchange for exclusive rights to the story. White agrees. The caverns are part of a river system, so the only way into the caverns is by boat.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article The Underground World (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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