Just a slight correction.
I've been an animator since the mid-1970s and learned at the
knees of old Popeye/Superman animators in New York City. Most
of the Fleischer animators were local boys from the five
boroughs and that alone'll give you a hardboiled attitude (I
know 'cause I was a kid growing up in Brooklyn during the
fifties). But the Fleischer studio was connected with
Paramount Studios
(not RKO), and Paramount eventually took over complete
control when the two animated feature films Max Fleischer and
his brothers made in their spanking brand-new Florida studio
did zilcho at the box office. The Superman cartoon series
with that wonderful noir-ish look was the last great project
to come out of that studio.
John Celestri
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>From: Michael Chong <
mchong@ytv.com>
> Cartoons slightly more HB would be the Golgo 13
anime series, the Torpedo 36
> cartoon and the Fleisher Superman cartoons. I read
that the Fleisher
> Superman cartoons, made during WWII, were edited in
the same studio area as
> many of the RKO noirs. The author suggested the
shadowy lighting effects of
> the Superman series were influenced by the
association.
>
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