Volcano

Volcano (1942) is one of the Fleischer Studios Superman shorts you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Dave Fleischer for Paramount. Eight minutes: a volcano erupts somewhere near the city, and the Man of Steel is the only thing between a natural disaster and total destruction.

The Fleischer Superman run — eleven episodes from 1941 to 1943 — brought cinematic staging and fluid movement to animation at a time when the medium had barely explored either. Volcano is the series at its most stripped-down: a disaster, a hero, no setup required. Watch on iFILM.