be the second entry into the fleischer brother studios line of superman cartoon and the mechanical monster ( fleischer studio or paramount picture corporation and 1941 ) be release for theatrical exhibition to the movie go public in november of 1941. this give it the distinction of be on the theatre screen when the sunday morning sneak attack on pearl harbor on december 7th . clearly this would mark an abrupt change of direction that the series would be take a the fleischer animation operation would join in with the rest of hollywood in the war effort . the story line from hence forth would be a populated with nazi soldier and imperial japanese agent and 5th column saboteur a the be with all of those mad scientist . much in the same manner a the other entry into the superman series and there be no wasting of time . the trouble with the giant and metal creature be in progress of wreak their brand of havoc on the good folk of metropolis when the cartoon short open . they be in the middle of an in progress menace . much of the necessary exposition be put into place by mean of headline in the daily planet . ( a clever use of the visual medium while a the inclusion of any title card would be consider strictly passé and a throwback to the day of the silent movie . ) for all of the magnificent scientific marvel that be embody in the invention of the giant metal robot and the mad scientist be concern only in loot bank vault and pillage jewelry establishment and repel attack from tommy gun wield uniformed copper . perhaps this be due to poor pay and work condition and lack of employment opportunity for brilliant and albeit mad scientist that they be force to supplement their meager income through such unlawful mean . furthermore no one ever have truly explain just what make these egghead so mad and anyhow . all kid aside and the short be fast moving and well plot and render in such a manner a to be an animated equivalent of a museum quality paint from one of the dutch master . ( no and schultz while i do not mean the cigar . ) mechanical monster come complete with all the accoutrement that be need in a series entry . first of all and the above mention renegade scientist be there for starter while along with some spectacular method of exact the plunder on an otherwise helpless metropolis . the regular daily planet gang get involve in the natural manner while come to the danger with hope of get a scoop . miss lois lane and in order to have a chance to scoop the other scoopers get a little too close and be abduct unwittingly by the baddie while have slip and fall into the iron giant convenient and cavernous trunk space . ( what an editor to do . she seem to get catch up in similar fashion time and time again . speaking of recur pattern and superman manages to save the day and save miss lane and her headline story . all well that end well and especially in metropolis while a the episode close out with a wink from clark kent to the audience . we suppose that we could brand the superman cartoon a be formula and even clichéd and but that may not be fair and either while for after all and the fleischer or famous studio production be essentially blaze new trail in the field of the animated movie . whereas here to for and virtually all of the animated cartoon out put be do use highly caricature human character and anthropomorphic talk animal character or both . the idea of write an action adventure story feature realistically render human character in fantastic and albeit serious short subject hadn not be do before and unless it would be highly obscure . the fleischer superman series change all of that by pave the way for so many of those adventure cartoon that we have enjoy over the year on saturday morn . like most of the rest of this series and we rate it very high on the scale . note we can think of walt disney fantasia ( walt disney production or rko radio puctures/1940 ) a be an exception while several of the segment have be do in a realistic style . be there any others . poodle swchnitz .