Volcano
About Volcano
Perry White sends Clark Kent and Lois Lane to Mt. Monokoa, quiet for 300 years and now shaking above a city. Lois hides Clark's press pass so she can have the story. Engineers mean to blow a hole in the rim and send the lava to the sea, but a boulder cuts the firing wire as the eruption starts. Clark changes to Superman, catches a boulder headed for the city, flies Lois off a failing cable car, and throws the car into a mound so a landslide dams the flow. He pulls the cut wire together. The rim blows, and the lava runs into the ocean. On the boat home he sees the pass sticking out of her purse.
Cast & crew
More about Volcano
Dave Fleischer directed and Max Fleischer produced the eighth of the seventeen Technicolor Superman shorts. Bill Turner and Carl Meyer wrote the story from the character created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Willard Bowsky and Otto Feuer animated. Paramount released it on 10 July 1942 as a one-reeler.
Themes
Making
Fleischer Studios made the short in Technicolor for Paramount, using the series' usual split between Kent at the paper and the costume change at the disaster.
Technique
The eruption, the flying figure, and the cable-car rescue are cel animation in Technicolor, not live action.
Music
Sammy Timberg composed the score.
Preservation
The one-reel Technicolor short survives, including a copy on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Bud Collyer voices Clark Kent and Superman, and also a professor, a police officer, and a demolitions man. Joan Alexander is Lois Lane. Jackson Beck narrates and plays a guard. Julian Noa is Perry White.
- It is the eighth short in the Fleischer Superman series.
- The island volcano is called Mt. Monokoa.
- Sammy Timberg wrote the music.
Scenes
- Lois hides Clark's press pass in her purse.
- A boulder severs the wire to the dynamite on the rim.
- Superman throws the cable car to start a landslide that dams the lava.
- On the boat he spots the pass in her open purse.
Influenced by
- Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's Superman
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Volcano (1942).webm)
