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Superman: The Mad Scientist ()

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The Man of Steel fights a mad scientist who is destroying Metropolis with an energy cannon.
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Lois Lane (uncredited) (voice)
Jackson Beck ...
Perry White (uncredited) (voice)
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Clark Kent / Superman (uncredited) (voice)
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The Mad Scientist (uncredited) (voice)
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Narrator (uncredited) (voice)

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Dave Fleischer
Steve Muffati ... (animation director) (uncredited)

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Jerry Siegel ... (comic strip created by: Superman) (as Jerome Siegel) and
Joe Shuster ... (comic strip created by: Superman)
 
Seymour Kneitel ... (story) &
Izzy Sparber ... (story) (as I. Sparber)
 
Jay Morton ... () (uncredited)

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Max Fleischer ... producer

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Winston Sharples ... (uncredited)
Sammy Timberg ... (uncredited)

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Charles Schettler ... (uncredited)

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E.W. Quackenbush ... (uncredited)

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Milton Lustig ... sound effects (uncredited)
Maurice Manne ... sound effects (uncredited)

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Frank Endres ... animator
Steve Muffati ... animator / animation director (uncredited)
Jack Ozark ... animator (uncredited)
Hal Seeger ... animator (uncredited)

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Sammy Timberg ... music arranger
Lou Fleischer ... music supervisor (uncredited)
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Plot Summary

The Mad Scientist threatens to use his Electrothanasia-Ray to cause "total destruction" to the fools who had laughed at him. Lois Lane pilots an airplane to his mountaintop laboratory, but The Scientist has her bound and gagged before she knows it. He forces her to watch on a television screen as his ray destroys a famous bridge. Next, he uses the ray to topple over the Daily Planet, but Clark Kent changes to Superman in time to save the building and put his indestructible body in front of the ray. The Mad Scientist is thrilled at the opportunity to pit his deadly machine against the Man of Steel. Written by J. Spurlin

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Also Known As
  • Superman: The Mad Scientist (United States)
  • Superman: The Introduction (United Kingdom)
  • The Death Ray (United Kingdom)
  • Le Scientifique fou (France)
  • Le savant fou (France)
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  • 10 min
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Budget $50,000 (estimated)

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Trivia Max Fleischer and Dave Fleischer were reluctant to take this assignment because it would require much more realistic designs and animation than they usually used. They tried to discourage Paramount by stating they would need a budget of around $100,000 per short, four times the budget of an average Walt Disney cartoon, which then had the highest budgets in animation. To their shock, Paramount executives agreed to at least half the amount, which made the Superman series--in adjusted dollars--the biggest-budgeted animation series in film history. See more »
Movie Connections Edited into Fantastic Animation Festival (1977). See more »
Quotes [first lines]
Voices: Up in the sky, look: It's a bird. It's a plane. It's Superman!
Narrator: [opening narration] In the endless reaches of the universe, there once existed a planet known as Krypton, a planet that burned like a green star in the distant heavens. There, civilization was far advanced and it brought forth a race of "supermen," whose mental and physical powers were developed to the absolute peak of human perfection. But there came a day when giant quakes threatened to destroy Krypton forever. One of the planet's leading scientists, sensing the approach of doom, placed his infant son in a small rocket ship and sent it hurtling in the direction of the Earth just as Krypton exploded. The rocket ship sped through star-studded space, landing safely on Earth with its precious burden: Krypton's sole survivor. A passing motorist found the uninjured child and took it to an orphanage. As the years went by and the child grew to maturity, he found himself possessed of amazing physical powers. Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. The infant of Krypton is now the Man of Steel: Superman! To best be in a position to use his amazing powers in a never-ending battle for truth and justice, Superman has assumed the disguise of Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper.
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