They put a prosthetic nose on the actor, to make him look more like Chris Reeves, and they ended-up dubbing Reeves' voice to replace this actor's voice, although that was not the original plan. I just looked it up. The actor's name is Jeff East.
@@drewtheboxer5125 Im neutral on this, but why insulting someone by their picture? If they have their faces they would be called something like "Retard face" or Ugly or some shit, if they have a toon/comic/anime pic they call you a Weaboo if they have no pic ppl still say something smh.
1:09 This scene, where Clark’s parents learn of his powers for the first time, with the Superman theme rising in the background. Chills the first time I watched it… chills even now!
I'm sorry but his adoptive parents reaction doesn't look natural at all. If you saw a kid doing that, your eyes will be completely open to point of hurt and you will be paralized in terror, or just run away as fast as you could
I was in sixth grade. I was there opening night with my school buddies and it does bring back great memories because obviously we didn’t know this kid was gonna lift it up and I remember everyone laughing that was 1978. I remember it like yesterday here, I am at 57 years old, wow great memories. I’m probably the same age as Glen Ford right now, but I will tell you if I’m the Director they did a great scene, but I would’ve changed the look on Glenn’s face and say something like you have to be kidding me I mean something in complete shock. I mean, you have a baby lifting a truck and they don’t even say anything.
My brother and I would argue who would be Superman and who would be Lex Luther, I'd win, if I didn't get my way I'd say I'm not playing, shhhh memories.
Because they shot on film. Film will look good in 480p to 4K. Most of not all modern movies from the past 20 years are shot on digital, they do not age as well.
@@lufasumafalu5069Why are you being such an asshole. All they said was they can smell the fresh air and see how clean and peaceful everything looks. Calm tf down.
I can't wait for this to come out. Going to go watch it at my local drive in theater. It will help to bring us all together. Especially after just losing Elvis.
Most superhero films and tv shows of the time were total rubish but this one is so good that remains the definitive Superman movie to date. Richard Donner simply did everything right.
Actually no. He would have bounced off the train and left a dent on it. Unless he intends to stop it, and at the point in the movie, he didn't have the flight powers that could allow him to instant stop it.
I saw it for the first time a couple of weeks ago and it blew me away as well, my Dad always said how great it was as a 10 year old in ‘78 and it didn’t fail to disappoint!
Going to see this movie was the last thing I wanted to do. Superman was dumb. Plain and simple. Well, my folks dragged me and my brother to see it anyway, and I had the time of my life. It's been a golden memory of my childhood ever since. Thanks Mom and Dad! ❤️
Yeah it definitely doesn't look natural but it's still kinda cool. I guess we can't be too hard on the F/X team though cuz this was pre-CGI & there were alot more limitations on those guys back in 1977.
Love how Jonathan isn't totally stunned by the fact that a toddler can lift a truck by himself, instead he chucks the rag on the ground like "Well I'll be." 70s acting man, gotta love it. Also there is no way that no-one else on that train apart from Lois saw Clark running alongside them.
It was 5 minutes earlier that he witnessed the same toddler survive and walk out of a meteor that crashed. Otherworldly is already something the Kents view the toddler as being.
I think he slammed the rag down because at that point he knew they would not be searching for his parents rather they are stuck with him and that's that.
I remember when the Director’s Cut released on DVD that added in the young Lois Lane scene, my older brother felt so vindicated because he swore for decades that he saw that scene. But it was never shown before that so everybody thought he was crazy. Then we found out that when this movie was broadcast on television for the first time after the original theatrical release, it was 3 hours long (not counting the commercials!) The network showed the uncut version in order to use more commercial time. They also did this for Superman II.
@country Except in this case he was correct. The Lois scene DID exist and he DID see it in that one broadcast. It wasn’t until decades later that the Director’s Cut added the scene back in.
I was a kid back in 1978 and I got several packs of Superman the Movie bubble gum cards. There was a card of the young Lois on the train scene and we were all confused. Crazy times in Mrs. Ledbetter's third grade classroom, I'll tell ya. 😁
Always loved the Mad Magazine parody of this scene: "Look, pa! I'm running faster than the train!" "It's the Long Island Railroad, son. Some folks walk faster than it. But keep it up, I'm real proud of ya!"
I like the parody of the sequel, where the President describes Superman as a guy who wears bright colors and a cape and Zod says, "Ah, one of 'Them'! On Krapton, we also had a gay rights movement!"
I love the cinematography here. The way they film the train thundering down the tracks really conveys its speed and power. That Clark is playing games with such a thing subconsciously communicates that Clark is that much mightier, while also emphasizing his lighthearted nature. Fantastic example of “show don’t tell”.
Its strange to think a football that fell from an air plane could be going mach 30 Allen, but what do i know im just payed to lie about stuff on tv. oops i wasnt supposed to say that out loud. You heard nothing.
@@safalparajuli it's called a football in America for a reason. Also, his hometown of Smallville is in Texas USA, last I checked, not somewhere in the UK or Europe.
@Kagereneko My dad is going to be 92 or 93 next year. My mom is dead from cancer. I would always say my dad was my grandpa at school. It was embarrassing.
It was a pleasure and a privilege to see this movie on the big screen in those 70's. The 70's were my favourite years for cinema and life in general. As well as this movie, I also got to see Grease, Saturday Night Fever, Evel Knievel and Watch Out We're Mad which was a double bill with another movie. This is all thanks to my Mum and Dad. The 70's was a decade of magic.
The scene inside the train looked like an extended scene to my memory. I grew up watching this on VHS and I don't remember the girl being identified as Lois Lane. In the VHS version I think the mom just says something like, "now what did I tell you about making up stories", or something like that. I only saw it in the theater once in like 1979, when I was 5 years old.
@Jon Valler their are significant difference's in the paradigms people are growing up in every decade. It was not this way a few hundred years ago at all. Things are changing more rapidly every generation. Multiple generation's used to have more similar, if not the same, paradigms they were raised in. Things are changing in more dynamic way's then I believe you are able to consider. Additionally irregardless of what generation we're talking about not everyone grows to appreciate the retrospective of their childhood memories either. He might share more details and richness of his experience, of the past, that you have no access to, if you were more open to listening to your elders. Things are changing all the time, and I don't believe you know where we are going at all. You don't even seem to know where you come from.
@@blanked3 I was born in 1974, and I've seen times change, but I can ultimately say if it has gotten worse or better. It's is all different and more... for the worse, and... For the better. Good intentions do not necessarily yield good changes. We might be moving closer and closer to better potential, that we don't know how to directly intend either. History as well as our future is full of people experiencing the mutually exclusive most unimaginably best of times, and the unbelievably worst of times. Cherish the good times while they're here. Try not to worry about the past or the future. The only time that exists in reality is right now. Good luck my friends.
I remember when I was a teenager, and they were filming these school and train scenes in my hometown. I went to that school for 7 years. And that road he runs down to his home at the end, well, a few miles on, is the farm I grew up on. It was a big deal for our small town to see Hollywood move in that summer. Fond memories
He was actually decapitated and the only thing that was holding his head onto his torso was the skin and muscles of his neck and head. It's fine was completely severed.
@@tusharranjan1054 the fact you don't realise how ridiculous your comment is is very worrying. Think about the millions of people that die every year and to think no one "famous" is going to be included in that is stupidity at its finest.
It's cool that her name is not just alliterative, but ends in Ls as well (as "LL" initials are a common trend in Superman lore; even Clark's birth name, Kal-El, ends in Ls).
fun fact - over 3,000 "f"s were used in the comic book of superman during the 1930's - a depression led to a decline in the letter f, and so letters such as "q" and "p" were oft overused - a bit like an old woman boiling cabbage and beating her rugs and kids with the same stick....eventually Wall Street recovered and she gave rise to coke addict marxist grandchildren who now promulgate race war and Vatican One World Govt.
Yes, but actually in this video scene, it is not Christopher Reeves, it is different actor playing young teen clark kent. I forgot his name, u can google it.
I was 6 when I saw this beautiful Movie Superman with my dad. I was just awwwwwwww and saw the cinema of next level. Thanks for sharing my childhood memories. God bless everyone 🙏
The father of modern-day superhero comics, and also the father of big-budget superhero movies. I love MOS but damn, this one is still the best Superman movie ever.
I have only just realised at 41 years of age; that the girl on the Train was Lois Lane!! Another classic within a film, of the director setting something up for later!!
If I'm not mistaken, the woman playing the part of the mother to the young girl 'Lois Lane' is the original Lois lane in the TV series that came out in the 1950's. If it isn't, they probably picked an actress that looked like her with this in mind.
The part when the little kid lifts up the truck is pretty epic. I love the music cue. John Williams is a god and Superman may have been his best work which is really saying something. I think the Superman "March" is my favorite film soundtrack music and it ranks up there near the top of my list for favorite pieces of music in general.
Gillian Orley I agree wholeheartedly with that. John Williams had scores that were technically just as good (Star Wars, Raiders, ET, etc) but the Superman March was really something special. As a boy, it almost made me (and probably millions of others) feel like even I could fly like a bird, leap tall buildings, run faster than a speeding train & also save the world.
2:55 we’ve all felt like that before and that’s why I love Superman because even though he comes from far far away he’s still the most human character in any fiction story
I remember that scene differently. I remember the kid being told to stop telling lies with no mention that it was Lois Lane. There were different versions of the film (extended cut, TV cut). It doesn't really make sense that it would be her tho.
@@ShelJones Wait so it's different cuts damn I remember a boy saying there's someone outside and he was told to stop lying I thought I remembered it wrong seeing this scene with little Lois
There is a different cut where it wasn't mentioned that the girl was Lois Lane. They cut it out becausd Margo Kidder is visibly older than Christopher Reeve. The scene made it back in in the televised versions. So youre not crazy.
This was the first movie I watched at the cinema as a kid. My dad and uncle picked me up after school, and I remember there wasn't many people in the theatre for the early afternoon show. I was blown away and instantly became a Superman/Christopher Reeve fan. You NEVER forget your first movie experience, and I was lucky that mine was... ahem... Super. 😉
So happy I was around as a young man for this "Golden Age" of fun Movie making. And thanks for adding the deleted Lois Lane scene at the end of this clip.
I knew the Lois bit from the beginning. But what I just realized is they used the same actress who plays Martha Clark Kent to reprise her role in Bryan Singer’s underrated Superman Returns from 2006. Wow.
Few superhero movies have this much heart. The special effects are outdated and Clark runs like one of the kids from Scooby Doo. But this film, at least this section, is classic Americana.
@Hedgehobbit I wonder why didn't Lois bring up that boy from the train to clark?she must still remember the train. After seeing, Superman. I'm surprised she never thought the boy running past the train
0:04 - The child actor who is playing young Kal-El is Aaron Smolinski. He also played the boy at the photo booth in Superman 3 (1983) and a Communications Officer in Man of Steel (2013).
Many people don't know that teenage Clark Kent's voice was actually Christopher Reeve's voice. Dubbed over the younger actor's talking. FOR SOME DAMNED REASON. Because apparently the original voice of the younger actor (Jeff East) was not close enough to Christopher's, and they wanted the teen Clark to be sounding more like the 30 year old Clark in Metropolis etc. But yeah, that's actually NOT Jeff's voice, but Reeve's....dubbed in there. Whatever...........
If he didn't make it past. There are two scenarios. 1. He gets hit by one of two corners of locomotive and leaves a big dent. 2. Gets hit dead on, leaves a big dent and gets run over. If any part of his body is on the rails. It'll act as a derailleur and flip said train over.
You mean Lois. 🙂 She also played the character in the Superman movie serials. Kirk Alyn played her father in this scene, and he played Superman in the movie serials.
Those railway tracks at 4:09 were a sign of things to come later in the film, when Superman replaced the missing portion to save a train from derailing.
Facts : Jeff East teen Clark..never spoke a word in that movie..his voice was Dubbed by Christopher Reeve.. Additional facts..child Lois lane parents where portrayed by 1950's Lois Lane..Noel Neill and Original Superman Kirk Alyn..
Aaron Smolinsky, who played baby Kal, also cameoed in Superman III as a kid beside the photo booth where Supes changed, and a soldier in Man of Steel at the end of the Smallville fight. How cool would it be if he played Bizarro? (he even said he'd love to be Bizarro or Lex in the Supergirl series)
I vote yes for him as Lex Luthor. images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTU0NzM1NjQ5N15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwODc3MTk0ODE@._V1_UX214_CR0,0,214,317_AL_.jpg
Movies back then were real escapism. I'm glad i lived those times. Movies nowadays act as meer screen savers with occasional gems but few and far between.
His above the waist motion (like skating)was completely at odds with his leg movements. A normal man's torso would have been torn asunder under those opposing stresses. Seriously!
I first saw this movie when I was six years old, and although I'm 39 now I still feel the same sense of wonder and delight at this scene. *This* is how Superman should be presented: not as the angst-ridden, charisma-vacuum of Henry Cavill, but as the hopeful, optimistic Everyman of Christopher Reeve. Wonderful stuff.
@@weatherwings Why the fuck does he have to be in the “real” world? The Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies are some of the best of the genre and they embrace the campiness and magic of the character.
@@tricko8000 you’ve spoken like a true comic book fan, thank you so much for your comment. Sam Raimi perfectly captured what a superhero should be in today’s world.
Fun Fact: On 04:15 Lois's parents on that scene was the casts of early Superman live-action films, for example: Lois's father was Kirk Alyn the first live-action Superman (1948-1950) And Lois's mother was Noel Neill the first "Lois Lane" (1948-1958) RIP 🙏🙏🙏
Apart from the obvious that a young Lois Lane spots a much older Clark Kent running along side the train, it's more interesting to note that Lois' mother in that clip is the actress that played the part of Lois Lane in the 1950's TV series of Superman. Unfortunately, when you see this movie on television these days, the scene where Lois is told that she has the writer's gift for invention is cut out, usually to allow more ads to occupy this time. Sad.
I should point out as well that Lois' dad is played by Kirk Allen who was the first person to play Superman in 1948 and 1950. So Lois Lane in this movie has both another Lois Lane and the first Superman as her parents.
I grew up in the 80's and watched this movie countless times. For some reason I don't recall ever putting that together until now. Must have something to do with how foggy our memory gets after decades upon decades. Watching it fresh as an adult contained in a clip makes it really pop out! When before watching the movie you get caught up in like this movie mode mentally that just lets some little things blend into the background. I will admit, very strange I never noticed this until 2020.
That footage was added years later for the directors cut. It was always cut out of the original release. Same as the scenes where lex luthor attempts to stop superman using fire... Ice.... And heavy machine guns. Also of interest: the actors playing lois' mother and father portrayed superman and Lois in earlier versions. Yes.... I need to get out more.... But the worrying thing is.... I do get out... A lot.
Young Superman is similar to Armie Hammer
flashback fm he really is
flashback
Ryan Fox that's not what i care about , we're talking about how young Superman LOOKS like Armie Hammer
They put a prosthetic nose on the actor, to make him look more like Chris Reeves, and they ended-up dubbing Reeves' voice to replace this actor's voice, although that was not the original plan.
I just looked it up. The actor's name is Jeff East.
flashback fm jegy
Actors nowadays should be thankful. Now we have CGI, but back then actors had to actually train to run this fast. Simply remarkable.
😅😂😂😂😂
Sadly, actor even was left quadriplegic after the exhaustive sessions of training to defeat gravity.
Jajajajajajaja (laugh in spanish)
For a second I thought you were serious
Don't forget how hard they trained to hover
After he kicked the football and the train showed up, I half expected the football to smack the train. 3:16
Just like the baseball he hit into space in Superman IV could have hit the Russian space station he saved earlier
And derail it
Same
The football should had exploded upon impact with his foot.
I expecpected him to ran and catch it before its hit the ground,then run after the train.
When Baby Superman hugged Ma Kent’s neck, he could have easily broken it. He learned self control immediately
Brightburn would be better with that story.
Nio C. Brightburn was so stupid lmao
Lol, I literally was like "whoa, easy Martha, he could have instantly killed you."
tommy cane115 ooo nice a guy with no profile pic calling people bitches on the internet. But yea I could definitely write a better story...
@@drewtheboxer5125 Im neutral on this, but why insulting someone by their picture? If they have their faces they would be called something like "Retard face" or Ugly or some shit, if they have a toon/comic/anime pic they call you a Weaboo if they have no pic ppl still say something smh.
1:09 This scene, where Clark’s parents learn of his powers for the first time, with the Superman theme rising in the background.
Chills the first time I watched it… chills even now!
Same here man… so many other epic scenes too.
I'm sorry but his adoptive parents reaction doesn't look natural at all. If you saw a kid doing that, your eyes will be completely open to point of hurt and you will be paralized in terror, or just run away as fast as you could
I got chills. They are multiplying.
I was in sixth grade. I was there opening night with my school buddies and it does bring back great memories because obviously we didn’t know this kid was gonna lift it up and I remember everyone laughing that was 1978. I remember it like yesterday here, I am at 57 years old, wow great memories. I’m probably the same age as Glen Ford right now, but I will tell you if I’m the Director they did a great scene, but I would’ve changed the look on Glenn’s face and say something like you have to be kidding me I mean something in complete shock. I mean, you have a baby lifting a truck and they don’t even say anything.
It's also the moment we realize Lois is about 17 when 28 year old Clark is smitten with her.
No one's talking about how fast the camera man was.
Following Clark at such speeds.
Flash was the camera man
*Xd*
He was so fast he recorded himself while running
Car existed back then
You guys know nothing about movies behind the scenes
I'm 50 years old and this scene is still stuck in my childhood memory. Great memories we all wanted to be Superman.
My brother and I would argue who would be Superman and who would be Lex Luther, I'd win, if I didn't get my way I'd say I'm not playing, shhhh memories.
Can't tell you how many times I stood in a field in my country town and tried kicking the ball like Clark did!
So great to hear from you... What would be your reply for us young generation on life.... Please tell me!!!
@Rbnsn …You missed some of the best times… Never to be had again…Feel sorry for the Younger generation
What do you feel when you watch super man now
Why this movie looks like it was made in late 2000s, but parodying 1970s?
technology didnt really advance back then i guess
Hollywood big budget movie
Because they shot on film. Film will look good in 480p to 4K. Most of not all modern movies from the past 20 years are shot on digital, they do not age as well.
Big fan
Damn I watch your big smoke video lol
The child superman lifted the truck with the mild superman music on the backround is just feels so right..
Yess, this era. Look at the all landscapes. I really can feels the fresh air. So clean, peaceful, and beautiful.
Man this is just how Kansas is
Era? Lol get out of the city, this still exists.
are you out of your mind? try getting out from your basement once and a while
Exactly!!!
@@lufasumafalu5069Why are you being such an asshole. All they said was they can smell the fresh air and see how clean and peaceful everything looks. Calm tf down.
I can't wait for this to come out. Going to go watch it at my local drive in theater. It will help to bring us all together. Especially after just losing Elvis.
I actually thought I was from this time for a moment
Victor Van Doom from Marvel enters the chat room
Victor can't make it. You have a lot of work to do.
@@fiscolorado656 what kind of work ?
@@abelmesfin4848 2:07
RIP Richard Donner, thank you for giving us this masterpiece.
'Vale' Richard Donner. May he rest in peace.
Most superhero films and tv shows of the time were total rubish but this one is so good that remains the definitive Superman movie to date. Richard Donner simply did everything right.
I gotta say, the running in this movie is more realistic than Wonder Woman 1984 running CGI
How is this old video in my recomendation and even I catch someone's comment just 15 hours ago , i love it and you
@@talhabaz1599 lol 😂
This was in CGI at all
I'm playing it back at .25x speed and I still have no clue how they did it. Maybe suspended by wires from a moving rig, but that seems so dangerous.
Well at least he runs better than Ezra Miller's Flash right? Right?
If Clark missed that jump by less than half a second he would’ve murdered everyone on that train
Actually no. He would have bounced off the train and left a dent on it.
Unless he intends to stop it, and at the point in the movie, he didn't have the flight powers that could allow him to instant stop it.
You probably got that reference from The Invincible series.
Maybe he murdered someone with that rage punt.
Nah his weight is what that matters the train would send him flying with a little damage on the train.
@@thomasdaka9920 He did had powers, he just didn't knew about it. They didn't came as he got big.
Fun Fact: they had to find an actor that could run faster than a train to be able to record this scene!
😂
Not just run faster, but also hover off the ground slightly too.
whaat who would run faster than train?
what a load of crap??
Yeah I don't know about that..
Considering Lois’ luck with transportation vehicles, it’s a miracle the train stayed on the track.
LOL
😅
Impossible to put in words how much this film shocked me as a teenager. What a privilege to live that era at that age.
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@@felipehallai3702 what about my name?
True..
I saw it for the first time a couple of weeks ago and it blew me away as well, my Dad always said how great it was as a 10 year old in ‘78 and it didn’t fail to disappoint!
Going to see this movie was the last thing I wanted to do. Superman was dumb. Plain and simple. Well, my folks dragged me and my brother to see it anyway, and I had the time of my life. It's been a golden memory of my childhood ever since. Thanks Mom and Dad! ❤️
Is no one else concerned about how Clark runs. Looks like a god damn velociraptor
Jonathan Noblin everyone runs like that where im from
Jonathan Noblin 😂😂😂😊
You from Jurassic Park?
Yeah it definitely doesn't look natural but it's still kinda cool. I guess we can't be too hard on the F/X team though cuz this was pre-CGI & there were alot more limitations on those guys back in 1977.
well he is a weirdo
Fun story. They actually had to find a train fast enough to keep up with the actor.
Where do people like you even come from . I think you have anger issues.
@@ThatNerdGuy. about your Mom
Edit: If your guys wondering what he said, he said "Nobody cares"
@@ThatNerdGuy. You mean shut the fuck down?
@@ThatNerdGuy. awwnn you just wanna atention, so cute
Jeremias Melendez bruh shut your ass up
For a 1978 movie, this stunts and VFX/CGI or whatever is used was amazing
RIP Christopher Reeve, you were my only superman and still
Also Margot Kidder Aka The Adult Lois Lane. She Passed away back in 2019.
Me too
That's only Chris' voice here. But mine too still
'Vale' Christopher Reeve. May he rest in peace.
Baby Superman lifting up the back of a truck has to be one of the most precious movie scenes ever. Period.
And scariest.
@@magnetar2427 so his a pedophilia in a way lol
It really is incredible. It's like ingrained in your brain.
Nope
Agreed! Just magnificent!!
Love how Jonathan isn't totally stunned by the fact that a toddler can lift a truck by himself, instead he chucks the rag on the ground like "Well I'll be." 70s acting man, gotta love it. Also there is no way that no-one else on that train apart from Lois saw Clark running alongside them.
It was 5 minutes earlier that he witnessed the same toddler survive and walk out of a meteor that crashed. Otherworldly is already something the Kents view the toddler as being.
@@ekscalybur, Martha was certainly right when she said he doesn’t have any family from around here!
I think he slammed the rag down because at that point he knew they would not be searching for his parents rather they are stuck with him and that's that.
Ok.
Noice
The little boy is just so innocently cute - adorable ❤
I remember when the Director’s Cut released on DVD that added in the young Lois Lane scene, my older brother felt so vindicated because he swore for decades that he saw that scene. But it was never shown before that so everybody thought he was crazy.
Then we found out that when this movie was broadcast on television for the first time after the original theatrical release, it was 3 hours long (not counting the commercials!) The network showed the uncut version in order to use more commercial time. They also did this for Superman II.
They also did it with Jaws and King Kong 76. I think sometimes they aired them over two nights.
@country Except in this case he was correct. The Lois scene DID exist and he DID see it in that one broadcast. It wasn’t until decades later that the Director’s Cut added the scene back in.
@country Not true, the monocle is actually there. This 2 minute video explains it perfectly: m.ruclips.net/video/iik25wqIuFo/видео.html
I was a kid back in 1978 and I got several packs of Superman the Movie bubble gum cards. There was a card of the young Lois on the train scene and we were all confused. Crazy times in Mrs. Ledbetter's third grade classroom, I'll tell ya. 😁
Technically it was two for one. The actress playing Lois' mother played Lois Lane in the Adventures of Superman TV series with George Reeves
wait a MINUTE. Lois Lane a little girl of 7-8 years old and Clark 17.
Superman does not age like humans
@@madchad77 Superman is pedophile
@@lulzsec3047 lmaooooooo looks like it
everyone's legal on krypton
I mean they fell in love in their 30s right? So a few years make no difference then
Always loved the Mad Magazine parody of this scene:
"Look, pa! I'm running faster than the train!"
"It's the Long Island Railroad, son. Some folks walk faster than it. But keep it up, I'm real proud of ya!"
😂😂😂
I like the parody of the sequel, where the President describes Superman as a guy who wears bright colors and a cape and Zod says, "Ah, one of 'Them'! On Krapton, we also had a gay rights movement!"
I love the cinematography here. The way they film the train thundering down the tracks really conveys its speed and power. That Clark is playing games with such a thing subconsciously communicates that Clark is that much mightier, while also emphasizing his lighthearted nature. Fantastic example of “show don’t tell”.
"In other news, a child was killed today by a football that officials speculate must have fallen from an airplane,"
Its strange to think a football that fell from an air plane could be going mach 30 Allen, but what do i know im just payed to lie about stuff on tv. oops i wasnt supposed to say that out loud. You heard nothing.
@@drawnwriter5543 no. No it would not move mach 30 lmao
That's not a football, it's a rugby ball
@@safalparajuli it's called a football in America for a reason. Also, his hometown of Smallville is in Texas USA, last I checked, not somewhere in the UK or Europe.
@@Kage_Furiku Smallville is in Kansas. A state in the middle of the USA.
The chick who played Lana is the most 70s-looking girl i"ve ever seen, lol
Paraplegic octopus “play some records”
respect dude now shes a grandma with 4 grandson
She actually ends up playing Martha Kent Supermans mother in the Smallville TV show. Anette o Toole
lrm21 no it’s not
@@lrm21 Not from this movie, but Lana from superman 3 played by
Anette o Toole did play as Martha in Smallville
It’s weird how Clark is like 19 but Lois is like 3
And if Moms had bothered to look it would have been "Why, honey, that boy has diarrhea."
@Kagereneko My mom was 16 and my dad was like 35 when they got married. My dad was in his 50's when I was born.
@Kagereneko My dad is going to be 92 or 93 next year. My mom is dead from cancer. I would always say my dad was my grandpa at school. It was embarrassing.
Lolita !!
Pèdophiles run in Hollywood
The first movie I watched in a theater with my mom and my little brother, truly an all time favorite.
I think this was like one of my first ten movies. My very first theater movie was Star Wars in 1977... what a great start!
1977
It was a pleasure and a privilege to see this movie on the big screen in those 70's. The 70's were my favourite years for cinema and life in general. As well as this movie, I also got to see Grease, Saturday Night Fever, Evel Knievel and Watch Out We're Mad which was a double bill with another movie. This is all thanks to my Mum and Dad. The 70's was a decade of magic.
The scene inside the train looked like an extended scene to my memory. I grew up watching this on VHS and I don't remember the girl being identified as Lois Lane. In the VHS version I think the mom just says something like, "now what did I tell you about making up stories", or something like that. I only saw it in the theater once in like 1979, when I was 5 years old.
I kinda wish I grew up during your time instead of nowadays, modern society sucks.....
@Jon Valler their are significant difference's in the paradigms people are growing up in every decade. It was not this way a few hundred years ago at all. Things are changing more rapidly every generation. Multiple generation's used to have more similar, if not the same, paradigms they were raised in.
Things are changing in more dynamic way's then I believe you are able to consider. Additionally irregardless of what generation we're talking about not everyone grows to appreciate the retrospective of their childhood memories either. He might share more details and richness of his experience, of the past, that you have no access to, if you were more open to listening to your elders.
Things are changing all the time, and I don't believe you know where we are going at all. You don't even seem to know where you come from.
@@blanked3 I was born in 1974, and I've seen times change, but I can ultimately say if it has gotten worse or better. It's is all different and more... for the worse, and... For the better. Good intentions do not necessarily yield good changes. We might be moving closer and closer to better potential, that we don't know how to directly intend either.
History as well as our future is full of people experiencing the mutually exclusive most unimaginably best of times, and the unbelievably worst of times.
Cherish the good times while they're here. Try not to worry about the past or the future. The only time that exists in reality is right now. Good luck my friends.
I think,70's and 80'sare remarkable
Fun fact: the child actor for clark kent actually had to train since birth to be able to lift the truck
WTF😂
That's a big, fat lie! 🙄🙄
@@ashwinidesai4051 No it's a fact
lol
@@ashwinidesai4051 learn what a joke is
Fun fact: they had to find a cameraman who could run as fast as the train too, not just the actor
Lies again? Ezlink Card
4:30 That's the shortest train I ever see.
maybe them both real Kryptonian
And the cameraman couldn't run in great steps, but he had to keep level as he moved so that the camera wouldn't be bounced up and down with each step.
Lol!
I remember when I was a teenager, and they were filming these school and train scenes in my hometown. I went to that school for 7 years. And that road he runs down to his home at the end, well, a few miles on, is the farm I grew up on.
It was a big deal for our small town to see Hollywood move in that summer. Fond memories
😮😮
You must be from southern Alberta. 😊
who else expected the football to hit the train
Mrjlee93 lmao same
Mrjlee93 it hit the twin towers
I expected the ball to hit the Sputnik-1
Dwight Charles | Learn to take a joke.
that is a rugby ball
*forest gump casually passes clark while having breakfast*
Then Captain America runs past and says on your left
Call the flash or quick silver
3:43 he's running like a spastic lol
Wish I could put the two scenes together lol best meme.
Rage x nah. He's faster than Quicksilver at least.
Christopher Reeve didn't die, he just went to save other planets.
He is an actor. The real superman is Henry Cavill
@@fabiogonzalez6966 Henry cavill is an actor. Clark Kent is the real superman
@@benjaminhando4833 OK boomer
@@fabiogonzalez6966 you are so stupid
@@fabiogonzalez6966 you are the perfect example of somebody that attacks because you can't create a good argument. Good bye.
The music is what ties together every scene. And this was no exception.
superman 1978, still better effects than Bollywood 2017
Jadugar Jagga
LOL FUCK NAH
Flyin G this is just classic dickriding
ahaha agree,, I always throw up after watching Bollywood
The young superman running with train is a bad effect. He looks like he popping up and down like a bunny rabbit.
Alm1ghty oakinW agreed 😂
Still better running form than the flash from justice league.
Yes.
Ezra was running like a bitch. Couldn't stop laughing at the theater.
IKR!
That cringy pose before he begins to run, you'll hear him say he researched it
Lol
RIP Christopher reeves, The Actor was paralyzed from the neck down after losing control of his horse☹️
They call it the super man curse.
He was actually decapitated and the only thing that was holding his head onto his torso was the skin and muscles of his neck and head. It's fine was completely severed.
People say superman franchise is cursed because except the man of steel movie,almost all superman actors died.
@@tusharranjan1054 Tom, Brandon, Tyler, Dean are still alive lol
@@tusharranjan1054 the fact you don't realise how ridiculous your comment is is very worrying. Think about the millions of people that die every year and to think no one "famous" is going to be included in that is stupidity at its finest.
Lois is so many years younger than clark oh my god lmao
This is Lana ! From smallville
@@gaviriak they were likely referring to the little girl on the train which was Lois :)
An 8-9 year age gap isn't that big a deal when you're both adults well into your 20s
@@Kami84the girl in the train……
@@kuchukboromdebbarma2117 I meant that when they get older and meet on the job, I don't think the age gap is weird.
Fun fact: The actress (Noell Neill) playing young Lois' mom was actually the original Lois Lane on the 1950's Superman tv show.
KoolCat ! Also Kirk Alyn from the Superman serial is playing Lois' father
KoolCat ! And she played Gertrude Vanderworth in the movie Superman Returns.
It's cool that her name is not just alliterative, but ends in Ls as well (as "LL" initials are a common trend in Superman lore; even Clark's birth name, Kal-El, ends in Ls).
fun fact - over 3,000 "f"s were used in the comic book of superman during the 1930's - a depression led to a decline in the letter f, and so letters such as "q" and "p" were oft overused - a bit like an old woman boiling cabbage and beating her rugs and kids with the same stick....eventually Wall Street recovered and she gave rise to coke addict marxist grandchildren who now promulgate race war and Vatican One World Govt.
Lana Lang, Lois Lane, Lex Luthor, Lori Lemaris. They liked the L names.
I just realized that girl on the train was Lois lane?
Her parents were Lois Lane from the TV show of the fifties, and Superman from the Radio in the forties.
@@fiz2wheel482 hahahah
Fiz 2wheel I don’t get it
@@fiz2wheel482 that does not sound right. Im reporting yo bitchass to the FBI
Anthony Miller yeah, me too, after all these years,,OMG!!!
He was the best Superman ever!R.I.P. C.R. we love you.
Yes, but actually in this video scene, it is not Christopher Reeves, it is different actor playing young teen clark kent. I forgot his name, u can google it.
Jeff East
Not really. Take your nostalgia blinders off. And dudes been dead for a while . Enough with the stupid fuckin R.I.P.s. he's dead, not resting dipshit
CazzSDMF your very disrespectful
@@Cazz8203 Ok
*takes off nostalgia blinders*
Look at that: He's still the best.
This is one of my favorite scenes from any movie Seeing him race that train is simply awesome.
*_1:31_*
*_Clark: holds truck_*
*_Dad: “a’ight, you’re the man of the house now”_*
I watched man of steel and I got a feeling that this jonathon looks same as the man of steel one
Same actor that’s why
@@bigCharizard LoL no
@KNIGHT RIDER Henry Cavill Lmao, not Henry Ford
@KNIGHT RIDER okay, I gotcha 😂
@@bigCharizard - No lol Kevin Costner played Jonathon Kent in Man of Steel.
I was 6 when I saw this beautiful Movie Superman with my dad. I was just awwwwwwww and saw the cinema of next level. Thanks for sharing my childhood memories. God bless everyone 🙏
Wow💓
That's awesome 😊
I love the scenes with the Kents and the scene where young Clark outruns the train will allways be one of my favorite movie scenes.
My favorite part was how once football practice was over, not a single person stuck around. They got the hell out of there ASAP.
Little dramatic eh
Yeah, gotta hate those modern people who socialize
That football is properly still up in space!!!!
The father of modern-day superhero comics, and also the father of big-budget superhero movies.
I love MOS but damn, this one is still the best Superman movie ever.
I have only just realised at 41 years of age; that the girl on the Train was Lois Lane!!
Another classic within a film, of the director setting something up for later!!
Exatamente Loys Lane
Thought he called her Lana....
SAme here I have seen this movie too many times to count and I just realized that it was Lois lol
@@vickynewnham261 He did call the girl he met by the bench Lana; young Lois Lane, was the girl on the train... "No one ever believes me".
If I'm not mistaken, the woman playing the part of the mother to the young girl 'Lois Lane' is the original Lois lane in the TV series that came out in the 1950's. If it isn't, they probably picked an actress that looked like her with this in mind.
0:44 love the way his mother takes his hand and cares
I know and she looks away like i wanna keep him!
1977
3:39 Waving to your future wife while racing a train..... on foot.
Such a gentleman.
You mean the kid?
@@robertbucad1608 that's lois lane lol
HOLD UP
H O L D U P
FBI enters the chat.
The part when the little kid lifts up the truck is pretty epic.
I love the music cue.
John Williams is a god and Superman may have been his best work which is really saying something.
I think the Superman "March" is my favorite film soundtrack music and it ranks up there near the top of my list for favorite pieces of music in general.
Gillian Orley I agree wholeheartedly with that. John Williams had scores that were technically just as good (Star Wars, Raiders, ET, etc) but the Superman March was really something special. As a boy, it almost made me (and probably millions of others) feel like even I could fly like a bird, leap tall buildings, run faster than a speeding train & also save the world.
The actors nailed this part. A man in desbelif, a child crazy wife. You can really feel their pain when trying to figure out what to do.
2:55 we’ve all felt like that before and that’s why I love Superman because even though he comes from far far away he’s still the most human character in any fiction story
Fr and yet mfs say Superman is not relatable
Lois Lane as a kid: "No one ever believes me."
Lois Lane as a journalist: "Now I know why."
Saw this movie when i was a kid and never realized that little girl was future Louis lane
Yo same here! XD
I remember that scene differently. I remember the kid being told to stop telling lies with no mention that it was Lois Lane. There were different versions of the film (extended cut, TV cut). It doesn't really make sense that it would be her tho.
@@ShelJones you know that's the way i remember it thought my mind was playing tricks on me
@@ShelJones Wait so it's different cuts damn I remember a boy saying there's someone outside and he was told to stop lying I thought I remembered it wrong seeing this scene with little Lois
There is a different cut where it wasn't mentioned that the girl was Lois Lane. They cut it out becausd Margo Kidder is visibly older than Christopher Reeve. The scene made it back in in the televised versions. So youre not crazy.
This was the first movie I watched at the cinema as a kid. My dad and uncle picked me up after school, and I remember there wasn't many people in the theatre for the early afternoon show. I was blown away and instantly became a Superman/Christopher Reeve fan. You NEVER forget your first movie experience, and I was lucky that mine was... ahem... Super. 😉
The scene where the kid lifts the car is so simple, yet so impactful. Less can be so much more.
brad: “Clean this up Clark!”
clark: takes brad by the ears, draws his leg back and punts brad to Kentucky.
More like Hey Brad pick up that Quarter!! 🤣
So happy I was around as a young man for this "Golden Age" of fun Movie making. And thanks for adding the deleted Lois Lane scene at the end of this clip.
He was great!!! RIP Richard Donner. We loved your movies
This was such a good movie. Saw it as a kid in the theatre. I’ve got to see it again sometime soon.
After all these year I’ve only just realised “the girl on the train is the lady Superman ends up with.”
Me too
In the theatrical version, they cut the part where the girl exclaims to the parents (who, BTW, played Superman and Lois Lane in the serials).
I knew the Lois bit from the beginning. But what I just realized is they used the same actress who plays Martha Clark Kent to reprise her role in Bryan Singer’s underrated Superman Returns from 2006. Wow.
@@zorkmid1083 I didn’t realize the parents were the original Superman and Lois from the serials. Holy. 🤯
@@mensrea1251 Blew my mind too when i first heard about it.😁
Few superhero movies have this much heart.
The special effects are outdated and Clark runs like one of the kids from Scooby Doo.
But this film, at least this section, is classic Americana.
BRUH YOU FUCKING KILLED ME
I wouldn't at all say that "few superhero movies have heart" but this one sure is a cinematic classic.
@@andyparker5688 the current marvel and DC films don't strike that chord in me the way this did
The effects are great.
Scrooby Doo lol 😂
This movie does more character development in 5 minutes than modern movies do in 2 hours.
@Hedgehobbit I wonder why didn't Lois bring up that boy from the train to clark?she must still remember the train. After seeing, Superman. I'm surprised she never thought the boy running past the train
You ain't lying brotha
That’s why it’s still a masterpiece.
Ok.
Noice
0:04 - The child actor who is playing young Kal-El is Aaron Smolinski. He also played the boy at the photo booth in Superman 3 (1983) and a Communications Officer in Man of Steel (2013).
RIP Richard Donner, thank you for making this masterpiece. Made us believe that a man can fly 🙏🙏🙏
Those effects weren't very special.
Woohoooo!!😂
They were when the movie came out, you should be grateful you millennials
Damn! People are so triggered over this comment, calm down, it's not that deep.
lol millenials...
Booley 1 and what exactly should they be grateful for? Do you even know what that word means?
Probably my most Favorite Superman movie scene ever! Right where he jumped in front of that train!
Legend has it that the football is still flying thru the air to this very day.
No, it's gone interplanetary!
Kicked it back to Kripton
Even now
Its in orbit with the glasses rufio knocked of the antifa soyboy
That football finished off Krypton
“He not from around here”
*kids lift up truck*
“You know I think you are right”
🤣🤣😅
Way way far exactly.
1977
Ok.
Noice
Many people don't know that teenage Clark Kent's voice was actually Christopher Reeve's voice. Dubbed over the younger actor's talking. FOR SOME DAMNED REASON. Because apparently the original voice of the younger actor (Jeff East) was not close enough to Christopher's, and they wanted the teen Clark to be sounding more like the 30 year old Clark in Metropolis etc. But yeah, that's actually NOT Jeff's voice, but Reeve's....dubbed in there. Whatever...........
is that true? or false? ill have to consult a fact checker channell to find out
@@TribunalxWarrior true. Jeff East was pissed when he found out.
1977
I was today years old when I realised Lois Lane was on the train
Same!.. 44 years later! ❤️ 😂😍😍
its change a lot things '-'
That's makes Superman a pedophile
You LIAR
...And the woman sitting next to her is Noel Neill, the actress who played Lois Lane on The Adventures of Superman series with George Reeves!!
This movie was actually Brilliant
Enigmatized brilliant? Really?
:)
Enigmatized nostalgia is a bitch
It got 4-stars.
Enigmatized Bloody brilliant.
Imagine if he didn't make it past the train? Biggest train crash Smallville has ever seen.
If he didn't make it past. There are two scenarios.
1. He gets hit by one of two corners of locomotive and leaves a big dent.
2. Gets hit dead on, leaves a big dent and gets run over. If any part of his body is on the rails. It'll act as a derailleur and flip said train over.
Discovered more like it!!
Kansas
Young Kent derails train, kills hundreds.
😂 l like how nobody realizes @connextro is a train aficionado and train will always be > superman in his mind
Its good to see the original Louis Lane from the TV series playing Louis Lanes mother. Brilliant 👏
Louis?? Is that Lois’s cross-dressing brother? 😄
You mean Lois. 🙂 She also played the character in the Superman movie serials. Kirk Alyn played her father in this scene, and he played Superman in the movie serials.
Those railway tracks at 4:09 were a sign of things to come later in the film, when Superman replaced the missing portion to save a train from derailing.
He runs so weird tho, like he just cycled his arms up front 😂
Yh it was weird like he's pulled up on a wire and running in the air
That's 1970 practical effects for you.
He was attached to harness and the film was sped up.
No croma
he can’t fully fly yet. this is his semi flying mode, running between ground and air.
Facts : Jeff East teen Clark..never spoke a word in that movie..his voice was Dubbed by Christopher Reeve..
Additional facts..child Lois lane parents where portrayed by 1950's Lois Lane..Noel Neill and Original Superman Kirk Alyn..
Seriously? Wow!
They even put prosthetics on his face to make him look like Reeve. In HD, he looks like he's wearing plumber's putty on his brow, nose and chin.
Aaron Smolinsky, who played baby Kal, also cameoed in Superman III as a kid beside the photo booth where Supes changed, and a soldier in Man of Steel at the end of the Smallville fight.
How cool would it be if he played Bizarro?
(he even said he'd love to be Bizarro or Lex in the Supergirl series)
Mohammad Ekram Faruque Fahim awesome facts, thanks for sharing
DallasTechie you're welcome bruh
Mohammad Ekram Faruque Fahim damn, that's some nice easter egg O_0 Thanks, man.
Wow that kids been in as much Superman stuff as that Senator was in Batman related media.
I vote yes for him as Lex Luthor.
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Movies back then were real escapism. I'm glad i lived those times. Movies nowadays act as meer screen savers with occasional gems but few and far between.
Better CGI in the 70’s than in the early 90’s, incredible
Yes
There was no Conmputer in 70's so where does CGI come from 😂
Gowramma V same think :)
And the current time. Look at mos. that was just eye burning bad
@Gowramma V There were computers in the '70s. Star Wars is the biggest example where they used CGI.
Couldn't they just drive the train slowly, make him run alongside, and then speed up the entire shot? His run looks so unnatural
It was the goofiest running I EVER saw!
His above the waist motion (like skating)was completely at odds with his leg movements. A normal man's torso would have been torn asunder under those opposing stresses. Seriously!
No. If you try that you'll make it worse. You get more unnatural motion this way.
Well how would you know? Maybe that's just how a human's gait looks when they're running at 60 mph.
@@evrint Nigga u stupid. Don't pick up physics or anything engineering related
I first saw this movie when I was six years old, and although I'm 39 now I still feel the same sense of wonder and delight at this scene. *This* is how Superman should be presented: not as the angst-ridden, charisma-vacuum of Henry Cavill, but as the hopeful, optimistic Everyman of Christopher Reeve. Wonderful stuff.
But Henry Cavill would be the scenario if superman was real in this world.
@@weatherwings Why the fuck does he have to be in the “real” world? The Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies are some of the best of the genre and they embrace the campiness and magic of the character.
@@tricko8000 you’ve spoken like a true comic book fan, thank you so much for your comment. Sam Raimi perfectly captured what a superhero should be in today’s world.
@@weatherwings No, that would be if Superman (and Johnathan Kent for that matter) were badly written.
@@weatherwings that's wrong lmao
Fun Fact:
On 04:15 Lois's parents on that scene was the casts of early Superman live-action films, for example: Lois's father was Kirk Alyn the first live-action Superman (1948-1950) And Lois's mother was Noel Neill the first "Lois Lane" (1948-1958) RIP 🙏🙏🙏
Just don't know how many times I watched this when it came out. A real blockbuster of the time.
it's a blockbuster now. stands the test of time.
Apart from the obvious that a young Lois Lane spots a much older Clark Kent running along side the train, it's more interesting to note that Lois' mother in that clip is the actress that played the part of Lois Lane in the 1950's TV series of Superman. Unfortunately, when you see this movie on television these days, the scene where Lois is told that she has the writer's gift for invention is cut out, usually to allow more ads to occupy this time. Sad.
I should point out as well that Lois' dad is played by Kirk Allen who was the first person to play Superman in 1948 and 1950. So Lois Lane in this movie has both another Lois Lane and the first Superman as her parents.
@@jameskellett2699 Did not know that…dang.
@@jameskellett2699 Also that the actress who plays Lana Lang goes on to play Clark's Mother in Smallville. 😂
The train just evaded in the last second from being hit by Clark
@Big Hawn chuck was merely blinking and the force behind every blink pushed it
Actually he would of derailed the train!!!
@@rhuttrho88 honestly if that train hit him he would’ve gotten everyone in that train killed
3:43 lol
@@rhuttrho88 Like Handcock would have
Great Qaulity video!!
As good as ANY Marvel, DC movie today !!
One of the best super hero movies ever made; couldn't have a better cast. Absolutely brilliant. 👍👍👍👍👍
Been watching this movie for years just realized 20 seconds ago THAT THE LITTLE GIRL IS LOIS LANE!!
My whole life was a conspiracy...
I grew up in the 80's and watched this movie countless times. For some reason I don't recall ever putting that together until now. Must have something to do with how foggy our memory gets after decades upon decades. Watching it fresh as an adult contained in a clip makes it really pop out!
When before watching the movie you get caught up in like this movie mode mentally that just lets some little things blend into the background.
I will admit, very strange I never noticed this until 2020.
@TheW0o0w 4:22
That footage was added years later for the directors cut. It was always cut out of the original release. Same as the scenes where lex luthor attempts to stop superman using fire... Ice.... And heavy machine guns. Also of interest: the actors playing lois' mother and father portrayed superman and Lois in earlier versions. Yes.... I need to get out more.... But the worrying thing is.... I do get out... A lot.
@@dermothealy772 Well that makes a lot of sense of why we don't remember this. Thanks for that info Dermot!
Me to i was like wow Lois Lane
"When DC movies were awesome"
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No. I prefer MoS than BvS.
@@gochem3013 me too
Lmao nostalgic brain dead.
So true.
What about the animated films?
John Williams and those soft trumpets, at clearly such a powerful moment…brilliant (hairs on end).