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Superman: The Mechanical Monsters (1941)

Name: Superman: The Mechanical Monsters
Genre: Animation
Released: 1941
Duration: 10 min

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Superman: The Mechanical Monsters (1941) is a 10-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 Mechanical Monsters (1941)

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 Mechanical Monsters is the second of seventeen animated Technicolor short films based upon the DC Comics character Superman. Produced by Fleischer Studios, the short details Superman opposing a villainous inventor and his army of robots. It was originally released by Paramount Pictures on November 28, 1941.

Quick facts

Year: 1941
Runtime: 10 minutes
Type: Cartoon · Animation
Series: Superman
Sound: Original soundtrack

From the Wikipedia article on The Mechanical Monsters (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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