Why Superman And Batman: The Animated Series Seem To Be Set In Different Eras

Dec 24 2022 by /Film

 

"Batman: The Animated Series" didn't look like any other Saturday morning cartoon of its time. Instead of building on the light Hanna-Barbera stylings of "Super Friends", the show's creative team aped aesthetic styles from the early 20th century. "BTAS" mixed the shadows of film noir and the architecture of art deco; producer Alan Burnett called this combination "Dark Deco" while writer Paul Dini said Gotham City was meant to look like, "What if the 1939 World's Fair had gone on another 60...

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