Trivia: The scene where Lois takes off out of Perry's office for her scoop has been censored and cut down for most modern releases of this series. In the original airing, when Clark turns to Perry he says, "Chief don't you think that's a dangerous mission for a woman?" In versions you find to day, even the DVD, this has been cut down so that he just says "Chief don't you think that's a dangerous mission?" with a very faint F sound after where they cut it off and quickly fade the scene to black. (00:03:05)
Superman (1941)
3 trivia entries for The Mad Scientist
Directed by: Dave Fleischer
Starring: Jack Mercer, Jackson Beck, Bud Collyer, Joan Alexander, Julian Noa
Revealing mistake: When the narrator says that Superman can leap a tall building in a single bound and shows Superman doing so, you can see in the background by some trees, an odd animation glitch. A curved, thin black line by the trees wiggling back and forth. (00:01:55)
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Question: So I have seen several places where people have been claiming that The Mad Scientist in this first episode was based on Nikola Tesla, and have seen many people complaining about him being portrayed as a bad guy in this. However, IMDb trivia states that "Boris Karloff' engineer Poelzig in Edgar G. Ulmer's The Black Cat (1934) was the inspiration for The Mad Scientist..." I've tried looking into it a little bit, but I can't seem to determine which is the correct person that The Mad Scientist was based on... Maybe both?
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