Japoteurs

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Japoteurs
Title card from Japoteurs.
Directed by	Seymour Kneitel
Story by	Bill Turner Carl Meyer
Based on	Superman by Jerry Siegel Joe Shuster
Produced by	Sam Buchwald
Starring	Bud Collyer Joan Alexander Julian Noa Jack Mercer
Music by	Sammy Timberg
Animation by	Myron Waldman Nicholas Tafuri
Color process	Technicolor
Production company	Famous Studios
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	September 18, 1942 (1942-09-18)
Running time	9 minutes (one reel)
Language	English

Japoteurs (1942) is the tenth of seventeen animated Technicolor short films based upon the DC Comics character of Superman, originally created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.^[1] The first Superman cartoon produced by Famous Studios (the successor to Fleischer Studios), Japoteurs covers Superman's adventures stopping Japanese spies from hijacking a bomber plane and bringing it to Tokyo. This cartoon does not bear the Famous Studios name because that company had not yet been fully organized after Max Fleischer was removed by Paramount Pictures from the studio which bore his name. The cartoon was originally released to theaters by Paramount Pictures on September 18, 1942.^[2] Japoteurs was the first Famous Studios cartoon filmed in color.

The word "Japoteur" is a portmanteau of the word "Japanese" and the word "saboteur".