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Superman: The Magnetic Telescope (1942)

Name: Superman: The Magnetic Telescope
Genre: Animation
Released: 1942
Duration: 7 min

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Superman: The Magnetic Telescope (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).

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About Superman: The Magnetic Telescope (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.

The Magnetic Telescope (1942) is the sixth of the 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 Fleischer Studios. The story runs for about eight minutes and covers Superman's adventures in saving the town from a comet drawn toward Earth by a magnetic telescope. It was originally released on April 24, 1942.

Quick facts

Year: 1942
Runtime: 8 minutes
Type: Cartoon · Animation
Series: Superman
Sound: Original soundtrack

From the Wikipedia article on The Magnetic Telescope (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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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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