Date Created : 1941 Link : http://publicdomainmovie.net/movie/superman-the-mechanical-monsters Creator: Max Fleischer Description: A mad scientist unleashes robots to rob banks and loot museums. Superman saves the day. Animation by Steve Muffati and George Germanetti. Music by Sammy Timberg. Produced in 1941. The Mechanical Monsters is the second of the seventeen animated Technicolor short films based upon the DC Comics character Superman. Produced by Fleischer Studios, the story features Superman battling a mad scientist with a small army of robots at his command. It was originally released by Paramount Pictures on November 28, 1941. Plot File:Superman 2 Mechanical Monsters 1941.ogv A robot flies into a scientist's secret lair and unloads a pile of cash into a vault. The robot is controlled completely from the scientists command center, and many robots similar to it are lined up along the walls of the lair. The front page of the Daily Planet reports the mechanical monsters robbery right alongside an announcement for the display of 50 & million dollars of the world's rarest gems at the local museum. !-- when will they ever learn? -- Later, as Lois Lane and Clark Kent are covering the museum's exhibit for the Planet , a robot lands in the street outside. The police pelt it with machine gun fire as it marches towards the museum, but the bullets bounce harmlessly off. Museum visitors, including Clark and Lois, flee as the monster marches towards the jewels and begins loading them into an opening in its back. Image:Superman-mechanical-monster.jpgWhile Clark phones the Planet from the nearest phone booth, Lois climbs into the monster's back, just as the monster leaves the museum and takes off into the sky. Clark emerges from the booth, notices Lois gone, and says, This is a job for Superman! He goes back into the phone booth and changes his clothes, emerging in his classic red-and-blue costume. Flying high above the city, Superman spots the robot and uses his X-ray vision to see Lois inside with the jewels. He lands on it and struggles to open the door in its back, only to have the scientist maneuver the robot upside down and throw him off into a power line, tangling him in the wires. As the robot is upside down, the door flies open and all the jewels fall out, with Lois surviving only by hanging for dear life until the robot flips back over. As Superman struggles to free himself from the wires, the robot arrives at the lair, but instead of jewels, the scientist finds Lois in its payload. Infuriated, he demands that she tell him where the jewels are. The next time we see her, she is bound and gagged on a platform held over a pot of boiling metal in part of what appears to be an industrial foundry. The scientist pulls a lever which starts some machinery gradually lowering her closer and closer to the liquid. Meanwhile, Superman frees himself from the power lines and knocks down the door to the scientist's lair, only to meet the army of robots (numbers 1 through 27 are seen). Under the scientist's control, the robots emit fire from nozzles positioned on the lower part of their heads, encircle Superman, and pound him with their fists. Initially, the robots seem to have the upper hand, beating Superman to the ground, but Superman defeats them, sending the scientist running. When Superman catches up with him, he is holding a knife to the rope holding Lois' platform above the molten metal, and threatens to cut it if he takes another step. Superman makes a move, the rope is cut, and Superman speeds across the room to catch Lois just in time, landing on a ledge below the pot of molten metal and the scientist. The scientist then pulls a lever to dump the hot liquid on them, but Superman shields Lois with his cape, then grabs the scientist and flies from the lair to take him and Lois back to the city. The next issue of the Planet describes the latest adventure that the mechanical robots are finally destroyed, the jewels are recovered, and the scientist is finally sent to prison for the thefts. In the office, Clark says That's a wonderful story, Lois. She replies, Thanks Clark, but I owe it all to Superman. Clark smiles. Production notes This film marks the only instance in which Superman is depicted using x-ray vision in a Fleischer short. References in later works The Mechanical Monsters is the first story (from any medium) that features Clark Kent using a telephone booth to discard his street clothes and change into Superman. This plot device would thereafter become commonly associated with the character./ Image:Skycaptain3.jpg (2004)}}} The Mechanical Monsters is erenced in works such as Hayao Miyazaki's animated film Castle in the Sky and the more modern short World of Tomorrow (2004) by director Kerry Conran, and his 2004 film Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004, also released by Paramount), based on the short film, in both cases, in which an army of robots attack New York City.http://fiaf.chadwyck.com.erl.lib.byu.edu/fulltext/indexFullText.do?id=004/0225138 & area=index & resultNum=4 & queryId=../session/1179349366_4163 & QueryIndex=quick & activeMultiResults=index & jid=006/0000306 / The film was parodied in the 1995 Toon Disney series, The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show in the short, Darkness on the Edge of Black. Historians also point out the similarity between the robots in the Lupin III (Episode 155 Farewell My Beloved Lupin ) television series and the ones in The Mechanical Monsters .http://fiaf.chadwyck.com.erl.lib.byu.edu/fulltext/indexFullText.do?id=004/0222882 & area=index & resultNum=10 & queryId=../session/1179349366_4163 & QueryIndex=quick & activeMultiResults=back & jid=006/0000306 / A mechanical monster is seen on display in Superman's Fortress of Solitude in the 2007 animated film Superman: Doomsday . During a The Wire (season 2) episode of the HBO drama television series The Wire , a character can be seen watching The Mechanical Monsters on TV, paralleling a robbery that is about to occur. wire/ In 2011, the animator Robb Pratt posted on its YouTube channel, the short Superman Classic, where the hero confronts giant robots./ In 2013, Sean Smeghead Moore, creator of the popular web series Cinematic Excrement, created a humorous commentary track for the short. 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Date Created : 1932 Link : http://publicdomainmovie.net/movie/tom-and-jerry-the-tuba-tooter Creator: Van Beuren Studios Description: Plot taken from IMDb: A German " ohm-pah" trio is incomplete until their tuba player arrives on a boat from overseas. The resulting quartet brings the whole town out for a German dance party, until the police arrive to take the " tuba tooter" to jail.

Date Created : 1941 Link : http://publicdomainmovie.net/movie/princess-iron-fan-%E9%90%B5%E6%89%87%E5%85%AC%E4%B8%BB Description: Produced by the Wan brothers in the midst of war, Princess Iron Fan is the first feature length animation made in China. We follow the Monkey King and his friends on their journey to the west. As they reach Fire Mountain they are unable to pass because of the fire but learn that a special iron fan can quench the flames. However, the fan belongs to Princess Iron Fan and she Princess Iron Fan (), is the first Chinese animation feature film. The film is based on an episode of the novel Journey to the West . It was directed in Shanghai under difficult conditions in the thick of World War II by Wan Guchan and Wan Laiming (the Wan brothers) and was released on January 1, 1941. Plot The story was liberally adapted from a short sequence in the popular Chinese novel Journey to the West . Princess Iron Fan is a main character. Specifically, the film focused on the duel between the Sun Wukong and a vengeful princess, whose fan is desperately needed to quench the flames that surround a peasant village. Background Image:Princessironfan2.jpg The Wan family twins Wan Laiming and Wan Guchan with their brothers Wan Chaochen and Wan Dihuan were the first animators in China. After the release of their first real cartoon, Uproar in the Studio (1926), they continued to dominate China's animation industry for the next several decades. In the late 1930s, with Shanghai under Second Sino-Japanese War, they began work on China's first feature film animated film. In 1939 the Wan brothers saw Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film) and set the standard in attempting to create a film of equal quality for the nation's honor. The film took three years, 237 artists and 350,000 Chinese yuan to make. Although the Disney influence is apparent in much of the animation, there is also a distinct Chinese flavor in the film - a flavor that would grow much stronger with the Wan brothers' subsequent films in the following decades. Rotoscoping was used extensively to save money, and the eyes of the live actors are often visible in the faces of the animated characters. By 1940 the film would render past 20,000 frames, using up more than 200 thousand pieces of paper (400ream＝500×400). They shot over of footage. And the final piece would contain of footage which can be shown in 80 minutes. The Wan brothers also invited the following actors and actresses for sound dubbing (白虹),(严月玲),(姜明),(韩兰根),(殷秀岑). At the time they were at the Xinhua Film Company animation department since it was the only remaining production company left during the Japanese occupancy period. The manager of the company who help financed the film was Zhang Shankun. Princess Iron Fan became the first animated feature film to be made in China and the 12th worldwide (although it is only the 9th that still survives, as the films of Argentina's animation pioneer Quirino Cristiani are thought to be lost). Upon completion the film was screened by the Chinese union film company. Influence Its influences were far-reaching; it was swiftly exported to wartime Japan (in 1942), inspiring the 16-year-old Tezuka Osamu to become a comics artist and prompting the Imperial Japanese Navy to commission Japan's own first feature-length animated film, 1945's Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors (the earlier film Momotaro's Sea Eagles is three minutes shy of being feature-length). Jonathan Clements. (2002). Chinese Animation]. Nickelodeon Magazine] . Travel Channel China. (2004). Extensive Info on Wan Brothers . Tieshangongzhu first-length cartoon . (another version) Completed English subtitles for the film A few stills from the movie Category:1941 animated films Category:Chinese animated films Category:Rotoscoped films Category:Shenmo films Category:Black-and-white films Category:Works based on Journey to the West Category:Chinese films

Date Created : 1917 Link : http://publicdomainmovie.net/movie/romance-of-the-redwoods Creator: Cecil B Demille Description: During the California gold rush, a young woman travels to the west coast to live with her uncle. When she arrives she discovers he has been killed by the natives and his identity and property taken by a notorious outlaw.Stars Mary PickfordProduced and Directed by Cecil B DemilleAn Artcraft Picture File:A Romance of the Redwoods (1917).webm A Romance of the Redwoods is a 1917 American silent film drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Mary Pickford. A print of the film survives in the film archive at George Eastman House. silentera/ Cast Mary Pickford as Jenny Lawrence Elliott Dexter as Black Brown, Road Agent Tully Marshall as Sam Sparks Raymond Hatton as Dick Roland Charles Stanton Ogle as Jim Lyn Walter Long (actor) as Sheriff Winter Hall as John Lawrence, Uncle To Jenny Mary Pickford filmography Category:1917 films Category:1910s drama films Category:American films Category:American drama films Category:American silent feature films Category:Black-and-white films Category:Films directed by Cecil B. DeMille Category:Films set in the 1850s