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Superman: Electric Earthquake (1942)

Name: Superman: Electric Earthquake
Genre: Animation
Released: 1942
Duration: 8 min

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Superman: Electric Earthquake (1942) is a 9-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).

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About Superman: Electric Earthquake (1942)

The Fleischer Superman cartoons (1941-43) were the first screen adaptation of the Man of Steel and some of the most lavish animated shorts of their era, with art-deco design and full animation that still influences superhero animation today.

Electric Earthquake (1942) is the seventh of seventeen animated Technicolor short films based upon the DC Comics character of Superman, originally created by Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster. This animated short was created by the Fleischer Studios. The story runs for about nine minutes and covers Superman's adventures in stopping a madman from destroying Manhattan with electronically induced earthquakes. It was originally released on May 15, 1942. This is the first of the films to make it clear that the action is taking place in Manhattan.

Quick facts

Year: 1942
Runtime: 9 minutes
Type: Cartoon · Animation
Series: Superman
Sound: Original soundtrack

From the Wikipedia article on Electric Earthquake (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 films in the public domain in the United States' (cites Pierce 2007 / Fishman / trade sources). Fleischer Superman series.
License on source: creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0
Music: Film soundtrack falls with the film; separately published songs (if any) not individually cleared.
Underlying rights: Fleischer Superman series.
Source: Internet Archive

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