Before Henry Cavill, Christopher Reeve, or even Kirk Alyn, Superman came to the big screen by way of animated shorts produced by Max Fleischer. Many fans are aware of these even if they’ve never seen ...

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Max Fleischer's landmark 1941 short was the first superhero adaptation to earn an Academy Award nomination. The character of Superman first appeared in Action Comics No. 1 (1938), and his initial ...

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“Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound!” Those iconic words first bedazzled moviegoers as the opening to one of the greatest ...

A celebration of art by legendary animator Max Fleischer. Features: KoKo's Kozy Korner (1928), Somewhere in Dreamland (1936), Any Rags? (1932), Small Fry (1939), Dinah (1933), The Old Man of the ...

NEW YORK — In 1917, a man named Max Fleischer invented the rotoscope, a combination of projector and glass drawing board that allowed animators to trace over live-action film, one frame at a time.

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