Electric Earthquake (1942)

Directed by

Dave Fleischer

Genre

superhero film

Country

United States

Runtime

9 min

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 46 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Superman stops a mad scientist who is using a machine to create earthquakes and destroy Manhattan. The short film follows the hero as he rescues people and fights the villain.

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What happens

Electric Earthquake (1942) is the seventh of 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 the Fleischer Studios. The story runs for about nine minutes and covers Superman's adventures in stopping a madman from destroying Manhattan with electronically induced earthquakes. It was originally released on May 15, 1942. This is the first of the films to make it clear that the action is taking place in Manhattan. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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