Japoteurs (1942)
- Directed by
- Seymour Kneitel
- Genre
- propaganda film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 9 min
- Rating
- 6.1 of 10 from 44 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
Superman stops Japanese spies who steal a bomber plane and try to fly it to Tokyo. This is a wartime propaganda cartoon from 1942.
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What happens
Japoteurs (1942) is the tenth of seventeen animated Technicolor short films based upon the DC Comics character Superman, created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The first Superman cartoon produced by Famous Studios (the successor to Fleischer Studios), Japoteurs covers Superman's adventures stopping Japanese spies from hijacking a bomber plane and bringing it to Tokyo. This cartoon does not bear the Famous Studios name because that company had not yet been fully organized after Max Fleischer was removed by Paramount Pictures from the studio which bore his name. The cartoon was originally released to theaters by Paramount Pictures on September 18, 1942. Japoteurs was the first Famous Studios cartoon filmed in color. The word "Japoteur" is a portmanteau of the words "Japanese" and "saboteur". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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