Max Fleischer

A documentary about the Fleischer brothers and how they revolutionized animation.

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From the A&E "Biography" series, a review of the birth, development and cinematic history of Betty Boop, the flapper cartoon character who has been a popular icon since the 1930s.

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Leonard Maltin tells about the Fleischer Studio between featuring assorted cartoons from the Fleischers.

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A behind-the-scenes documentary hosted by Joanna Cassidy on the making of Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

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This fascinating and informative 1938 film, part of Paramount's Popular Science series, offers a tour through Fleischer Studios’ newly-built Miami studio during the making of the classic Popeye film Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp.

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In a return to the Out of the Inkwell format, Betty Boop invents a pep formula to speed up lazy Pudgy, but it escapes into the real world with rapid results.

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A reporter interviews Max Fleischer about his creation, and Betty illustrates with excerpts from three prior cartoons.

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Irene Bordoni sings the title song in French and English with a Bouncing Ball. Cartoon sequences: Betty Boop as a cabaret emcee and cigarette girl; a romantic tom-cat gigolo.

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Ko-Ko fights Father Time.

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Ko-Ko is up to his usual mischief as Max prepares to run a track race.

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A friend of KoKo's animator draws a haunted house, and KoKo and his dog Fitz go inside. There, they encounter frightening hallways where every door leads to a new spook.

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Max draws a tattoo of a cat on his coworker, and Fitz chases the cat around when the tattoo comes to life.

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Max and Dave Fliescher are eating hot dogs in their animation studio and begin drawing. The hot dog becomes a "real" dog, and it and Ko-Ko the Clown alarmingly end up inside a Gas Chamber.

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The boss has got a microscope, but it might as well be another canvas for Koko, as he delves deep into the world of germs.

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Max asks Ko-Ko to act as his alarm clock before going to sleep. While Max sleeps, Ko-Ko goes to work dressing Max for the next day and replacing his surroundings so he'll be ready to go when the alarm clock rings in the morning.

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Part of the 'Inkwell Imps' series.

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Ko-Ko the Clown is brought to life with a needle and thread.

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Ko-Ko and Fitz try to make a humorless Indian laugh.

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Ko-Ko and Fitz find that everything in their cartoon world is moving backwards. After entering the real world, they go inside a clock and move the hands backward, causing life all around the city to run in reverse.

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Ko-Ko gathers eggs on a farm while Max works on an incubator.

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Directed by Dave Fleischer.

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An Out of the Inkwell short.

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This fascinating series features Max himself, filmed in live action, sitting at a drawing board and concocting adventures for his star performer Ko-Ko the Clown. Max is supposedly the guy in charge, and he takes sadistic glee in putting Ko-Ko through various forms of hell, but the clown usually fights back and sometimes gets the best of his Uncle Max. FADEAWAY elevates this charged relationship to new heights (or depths?) of nightmarish surrealism; it's also one of the most enjoyable Inkwell cartoons I've seen to date, packing lots of imaginative, unpredictable twists and turns into an eight minute running time.

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“Out of the Inkwell” cartoon by Fleischer Studios.

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Max is taking a railroad trip and pulls out his pen to draw Koko, Fitz and a railroad. Maybe the trip is too bumpy, because nothing works as it is supposed to.

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Max draws a circus poster featuring Ko-Ko the Clown and Fitz the dog, but the circus owner wants them replaced with a giant. On the poster, Ko-Ko and Fitz find ways to take on their oversized rival.

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Max Fleischer is going to a shooting gallery, so he practices on Koko and Fitz, sending them both to Paradise in this slightly erratic but funny cartoon.

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Koko likes to join Max and his friends for Thanksgiving dinner. He can, under the condition of screening his films.

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An Out of the Inkwell short.

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Max is moving out of his studio, so Ko-Ko the Inkwell Clown packs up everything in sight (even using a super-charged vacuum cleaner that sucks up the furniture and the moving men).

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Koko the clown is sent to the nut house by Max.

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Ko-Ko competes against a rival clown in a race.

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Ko-Ko and Fitz celebrate the Fouth of July with fireworks and end up rocketed to an island inhabited by cannibals.

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Max is inspired by a cute puppy, and gives Ko-Ko a trained dog to show off in a circus ring. The dog performs a variety of tricks, but things get out of hand once Ko-Ko's trained fleas are let loose into the crowd.

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When a Native American artist sells a selection of his background drawings and original characters to Fleischer, Koko gives the new arrivals a cold reception.

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In this 1925 Out of the Inkwell short, Ko-Ko the Clown becomes a barber. As usual, he eventually escapes the animated world for the "real." He hides in a shaving mug and when Max tries to lather up.

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A celebration of art by legendary animator Max Fleischer. Features: KoKo's Kozy Korner (1928), Somewhere in Dreamland (1936), Any Rags? (1932), Small Fry (1939), Dinah (1933), The Old Man of the Mountain (1933), and Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936).

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“Boop-Oop-A-Doop” The queen of the animated screen returns to allure and entice audiences all over again in this fantastic four-volume compilation featuring many of her greatest adventures. Volume Three includes 12 animated short films produced by Max Fleischer and directed by his brother Dave Fleischer. Featuring the voices of Mae Questel, Bonnie Poe, Ann Little and Margie Hines as Betty Boop. This collection includes the cartoons MINNIE THE MOOCHER (1932), I’LL BE GLAD WHEN YOU’RE DEAD YOU RASCAL YOU (1932), MOTHER GOOSE LAND (1933), THE OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN (1933), I HEARD (1933), HA! HA! HA! (1934), STOP THAT NOISE (1935), SERVICE WITH A SMILE (1937), THE NEW DEAL SHOW (1937), BE UP TO DATE (1938), OUT OF THE INKWELL (1938) and PUDGY IN THRILLS AND CHILLS (1938).

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"Boop-Oop-A-Doop" the queen of the animated screen returns to allure and entice audiences all over again in this fantastic four-volume compilation featuring many of her greatest adventures. Volume Two includes 12 animated short films produced by Max Fleischer and directed by his brother Dave Fleischer. Featuring the voices of Mae Questel, Bonnie Poe, Ann Little and Margie Hines as Betty Boop. This collection includes the cartoons DIZZY DISHES (1930), BIMBO'S INITIATION (1931), BOO-OOP-A-DOOP (1932), BETTY BOOP LIMITED (1932), BETTY BOOP'S BIZZY BEE (1932), BETTY BOOP'S UPS AND DOWNS (1932), BETTY BOOP'S MUSEUM (1932), BETTY BOOP'S BIG BOSS (1933), MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT (1933), BETTY BOOP'S LITTLE PAL (1934), BETTY BOOP'S PRIZE SHOW (1934) and KEEP IN STYLE (1934).

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"Boop-Oop-A-Doop" the queen of the animated screen returns to allure and entice audiences all over again in this fantastic four-volume compilation featuring many of her greatest adventures. Volume One includes 12 animated short films including CHESS NUTS (1932), BETTY BOOP, M.D. (1932), BETTY BOOP'S BAMBOO ISLE (1932), BETTY BOOP FOR PRESIDENT (1932), BETTY BOOP'S PENTHOUSE (1933), BETTY BOOP'S BIRTHDAY PARTY (1933), BETTY BOOP'S MAY PARTY (1933), BETTY BOOP'S HALLOWE'EN PARTY (1933), BETTY BOOP'S RISE TO FAME (1934), BETTY BOOP'S TRIAL (1934), BETTY BOOP'S LIFE GUARD (1934), and THE FOXY HUNTER (1937).

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The first of a series of 12 compilation features (number 1-12)made for theatres to use as a Saturday Matinee offering aimed strictly at children. Marian Stafford, folk-singer Jared Reed, and The Bunin Puppets appear before and after each cartoon short. All of the cartoon shorts were originally released by Paramount, and included "The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins (1943)" - Betty Boop's "Crazy Town (1932)" - "The Silly Goose/Dumme Ganslein, Der (1945)" - "The Busy Little Bears (1939)" - "Toys Will Be Toys (1949)", and other Paramount cartoons, shorts and a couple of the audience-participation Screen Song singalong shorts. Strictly sold on a "Park-the-kids-and-go-shopping" or "Cheap Baby-Sitting" basis, and, since it was geared toward the kids, there was also a bath-room break intermission about halfway through the film. New footage and some of the cartoons in Technicolor, but a few of the cartoons were black-and-white.

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Popeye and Olive are at the premiere of Popeye's new movie. He gets a little too wrapped up in the movie, interacting with it at various points, and even handing the screen version of himself a can of spinach. The movie itself is the story of Aladdin, minus the songs and about half the footage of the short it's cut from.

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Classic holiday tale about a flying reindeer who helps Santa Claus. An interpretation of Robert L. May's 1939 Christmas poem, this animated short was created to run in theaters to advertise Montgomery Ward department stores, publisher of the original story.

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When things go wrong at the circus, it's up to Superman to stop the escaped animals.

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Superman comes to the rescue when a volcano erupts.

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Olive is going shopping and drops Swee'pea off for Popeye to watch. Popeye carves a sailboat for him, but the tyke spots Popeye's battleship, and the puny toy boat will no longer do.

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A scientist uses an earthquake machine to threaten the city, and only Superman can stop his extortion plan!

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Bluto's in the Army; he tries to sneak off base, but can't. Popeye passes by, Bluto invites him in, then swaps uniforms. Popeye ends up in a tank drill.

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Popeye and Bluto agree that women are too much trouble, so they agree to swear off them, which lasts about five seconds, until Olive comes on board ship for a tour. The boys vie for her attention.

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When police interfere with a reckless scientist's experiment, it creates a deadly meteor shower only Superman can stop.

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Criminals with rocket powered car loot and extort the city, and only Superman can stop them!

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A frozen Tyrannosaurus rex is found and put on display in a museum, but when he thaws out and revives, Superman has to stop his rampage!

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Popeye's on a battleship, on which he's banished to the boiler room. A Japanese sub comes along. Can Popeye save his ship from the enemy?

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Shore leave in South America; Bluto muscles in on Popeye's girl, Olivia Oyla. Popeye muscles him out, but when they get to the conga club, he doesn't care to dance, so Bluto wins again.

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Robbers target a special train carrying a billion dollars worth of gold, and the only one who can stop them is Superman!

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A hypnotist, frustrated by not having anyone to practice on, cold-calls Olive and hypnotizes her over the phone into coming to his office. Popeye rushes after her.

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The happy tranquility of Bugville is shattered when the populace learns that a colossal skyscraper is to be built over their tiny town.

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Superman battles a criminal mastermind and his robot army.

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Popeye joins the US Navy and routs the enemy in a one-man battle, but not before he causes his commanding officer plenty of aggravation.

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After The Daily Planet receives a letter from a mad scientist threatening to wreak destruction with his Electrothanasia Ray, Lois Lane heads out in the hopes of getting more information for a news story.

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Olive's garden is being raided by some very persistent crows; she calls Popeye for help, and it takes him the rest of the cartoon to hit on the solution.

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Gabby goes camping with the Mayor.

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Popeye runs a small airport, and Pappy wants to be a pilot.

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Gabby teaches a young boy how to fish, even though the boy was doing much better without him.

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Popeye wants to get Olive a fur coat, but after a run-in with dishonest furrier Geezil decides the best way is to go hunting for a bear himself.

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A cartoon in the Animated Antics series from the Fleischer Studios about Zero the Hound.

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Rip Van Winkle is being thrown out for nonpayment of rent (for twenty years). Popeye happens by and carts the sleeper home, but soon discovers that Rip has a sleepwalking problem that gets both of them into some trouble with some dwarves.

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Gabby is a servant in a castle and is required to do a little housework.

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A toyshop owner tells a little girl the story behind the two dolls she's fallen in love with.

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Popeye is trying to take a nap, but he's plagued by house flies that keep landing on him. He gets rid of most of them, but one in particular seems bent on making Popeye's life miserable, particularly after Popeye makes the mistake of flicking it into a can of spinach.

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Olive gets a phone call that she has won first prize in a sweepstake. After a frantic search, she locates her ticket, only to have it blow out the window. Help, Popeye!

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Gabby is forced to take care of a strange animal called a Kango.

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