SUPERMAN
Song: Superman theme * John Williams
1: 0-1:13, 2: 1:14-1:42, 3: 1:43-2:03, 4: 2:04-2:20, 5: 2:21-2:56, 6: 2:57-3:17, 7: 3:18-3:53, 8: 3:54-4:02, 9: 4:03-4:07, 10: 4:08-4:20, 11: 4:21-4:22.
1: The scene opens as Jor-El on Krypton places his young son into the rocketship to blast off to Earth. As he speaks in Kryptonian, the subtitles read: "Take our hope and give it to a World under a new Sun". Saying this, Jor-El places the blanket with the Superman logo (Kryptonian for hope) on little Kal-El. As he steps back to his wife. Then the rocket lifts off and blasts off into space (we show Krypton in the background, but we don't show it explode as the spaceship blasts off to Earth (there's a faint glow in the background, people can interpret it for his cousin's ship or Krypton exploding).
2: The ship is seen passing by Jupiter as it nears Earth. Then it flies through the sky in Kansas, as Martha and Jonathan Kent in their '50s pickup see the ship fly through the sky, above their ranch. They come across the baby Kal-El.
3: Kal-El tests his powers as he runs by a train at super-speed, his clothes catching on fire, due to the friction created by the rapid movement. The people in the train gawk at him, as they see a human torch running past their windows. He then jumps far down into a creek between two cliffs, to put out the fire (as the skies darken), as the train passes over a bridge. We see him underwater, and then he rises out of the water, his clothes in tatters. There's a tornado rolling across the Kansas countryside in the distance, as he blasts off with super-speed towards it.
4: The residents of Kent who were running underground from an F-5 are left gobsmacked as they stare with their mouths open at the sight of a half-naked man floating in the sky, stopping a tornado with his breadth, as the winds whip their bodies and houses, it's a most awe-inspiring sight. We see Superman's face as he's putting in immense effort in trying to match the force of the tornado (He succeeds, obviously, there's no critical failure here).
5: Mild-Mannered Clark Kent is sitting at his desk working on an article with the title, "SUPERMAN STOPS TORNADO!" (Not in New York, he's not there yet). He saves a little girl's kitten (and puppy) from a tree (as a normal human), as he sets off in a train for New York, after saying goodbye to his parents. While at the Daily Planet, working, he feels the building shake as an Earthquake dislodges the Daily Planet globe and sends it hurtling down. He tears open the shirt (as the music rises) to show the 'S' symbol underneath.
6: He stops it from hurting anyone down below! And then he hears something from his super-hearing and blasts off into the air.
7: He flies to the Soviet Union (Ukraine SSR), to Chernobyl, in Pripyat (He sensed the reactor going critical 8000 kms away). He flies into reactor 4 and splashes into the pool to sap the power from the nuclear fuel rods, as technicians stand agape. Their readings going below supercritical as we see superman holding onto the rods as he absorbs all of their power, the look on his face is of greater strain than when he stopped the tornado (as these fuel rods contain the power of hundreds if not thousands of nuclear bombs, not more energy than a tornado, but more energy than the rotational energy of a tornado). He sucks it all up.
8: He flies off into space, as the technicians cheer him!
9: He's in space heading to the Sun at Warp speeds.
10: He reaches the Sun, and gears up to discharge the energy.
11: He discharges the energy in a huge blast as the scene cuts to black.