One thing I read about these which I couldn’t verify was that, in the original first cartoon, Clark’s line at the end of the first scene is, “Chief, don’t you think that’s a dangerous job for a woman?” On all the editions I have, it’s just “dangerous job.” I’d be curious to see if that’s true.
Here’s the Max Fleischer’s Superman 1941-1942 (Warner Bros 2008) set I used for most of the video.
Yeah that has been edited if the woman bit is left out. I remember because the first VHS tape I ever owned as a kid was a tape of public domain cartoons that contained one Mickey Mouse cartoon(I wasn’t aware Disney ever let those lapse)and it ended with that exact short and it was the first time I was Superman in anything and I watched it to death and the woman part was there in the public domain print I saw. So if the version of the short you have doesn’t have that part of the line in it then it had been edited.