The Arctic Giant

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Superhero Action Adventure Animation Family Fantasy Sci-Fi Short

Superman versus a thawed-out Tyrannosaurus.Superman versus a thawed-out Tyrannosaurus.Superman versus a thawed-out Tyrannosaurus.

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6.8/10

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Bud Collyer

Clark Kent
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(uncredited)
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Joan Alexander

Lois Lane
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Jackson Beck

Narrator
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Julian Noa

Perry White
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A giant dinosaur loose in New York, foreshadowing GODZILLA

"The Arctic Giant," a 1942 Superman cartoon by the Fleischer brothers, is significant in its portrayal of a giant dinosaur on the rampage in a major city (New York--we see the "Museum of Natural Science," a dead ringer for the Museum of Natural History, and a baseball stadium that sure looks like Yankee Stadium). As such it looks forward to both THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS (1953) and GODZILLA (1954). BEAST featured Ray Harryhausen's debut as a special effects director, as he animated a stop-motion dinosaur on the loose in Manhattan. Ishiro Honda's GODZILLA featured a giant dinosaur (created by an actor in a rubber dinosaur suit) looking very much like the one in this cartoon on the loose in Tokyo. As in the other Paramount Superman cartoons, the animation is absolutely breathtaking.

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Trivia
The thawed out Tyrannosaurus was the inspiration for Godzilla.

Goofs
As the thermometer rises, it first goes past "Freezing" and then, a little later, past "Melting". Actually the freezing and melting points of water (or anything else for that matter) are always the same. The only difference between "freezing" and "melting" is in the "direction".

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[first lines]
Voices: Up in the sky, look! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!
Narrator: Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, this amazing stranger from the planet Krypton, The Man of Steel: Superman! Possessing remarkable physical strength, Superman fights a never-ending battle for truth and justice, disguised as a mild-mannered newspaper reporter, Clark Kent.