Ain't She Sweet
As a child, I remember watching edited for TV versions of the Fleischer Bouncing Ball cartoons: No Paramount logos, no singers (with the exception of their last high notes behind...
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Dave Fleischer
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Cartoon Factory
In 1919, Ko-Ko the Clown first emerged from the inkwell to grapple with his creator, Max Fleischer. Combining live action with animation, this highly imaginative series of 130 films inspired Walt Disney's Alice comedies, among others. This film was found in the same collection as the French original print of I FETCH THE...Start your free trial to watch
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Bimbo's Initiation
One of the all-time-great commercial cartoon mixes of the surreal and the silly, this Fleischer Studios short featuring Betty Boop's canine friend Bimbo has been a longtime favorite amongst animators, cinephiles and lovers of the simply strange. Minding his own business while walking down the street, Bimbo...Start your free trial to watch
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Ain't She Sweet
19th century song pluggers in vaudeville theaters and in the streets invited audiences to join in the chorus; this tradition of participation appeared in movie theaters by the mid-teens. When sound arrived, Fleischer Studios' delightful "Screen Songs" added witty animated prologues and celebrity singers to prepare the...Start your free trial to watch
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Poor Cinderella
A redheaded Betty Boop? The Fleischer Studios employed their signature dame in this buoyant adaptation of the classic fairy tale, the first installment of the studio’s COLOR CLASSICS series. Though the plot whizzes by in a little more than ten minutes, the studio’s innovative multi-planar animation allows the viewer to...Start your free trial to watch
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Song of the Birds
The Fleischer Studios' innovative process of setting action against a richly dimensioned backdrop serves this simple moral tale especially well. Two grown birds teach their little chick to fly while a young boy with a new BB gun sees the world as his shooting range. After shooting the chick out of the air,...Start your free trial to watch
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Dancing on the Moon
The opening shot echoes the Georges Méliès classic A TRIP TO THE MOON. But, in the case of this Fleischer Studios cartoon, the moon-bound rocket is the “Honeymoon Express.” A zoologically diverse assortment of newlyweds dance their way to a space vacation (except Mr. Cat is left playing solitaire when he...Start your free trial to watch
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Time for Love
Long before Natalie Portman donned a tutu, the Fleischers were giving a black swan screentime in this 1937 "Color Classic." It's a wordless 'toon tale of love won, lost and won again as two long-necking white swans' romance is broken up by a darker-hued pond-dweller who turns out to be a glutton for fish and a spouse abuser,...Start your free trial to watch
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Somewhere in Dreamland
SOMEWHERE IN DREAMLAND, loosely adapted from (and featuring) the song of the same name, concerns a poor girl and her brother who become fascinated by the confectionery they see in the baker's window as they pass by. That night, after an unsatisfying dinner, they dream of a marvelous world filled with...Start your free trial to watch
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The Little Stranger
The Fleischer Studios revisit the "Ugly Duckling" story for this installment of the COLOR CLASSICS series. A non-aquatic bird tearfully drops her egg in a duck’s nest. Hatched, the little chick struggles to quack and waddle along with its siblings. The vibrant three-strip Technicolor animation comes alive...Start your free trial to watch
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Greedy Humpty Dumpty
This COLOR CLASSICS cartoon elaborates upon the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme with touches from the myth of Icarus and Mother Goose. The roly-poly egg is a moneyed tyrant in this telling. He imagines that the sun is a giant ball of gold in a frankly hallucinatory sequence and commands the villagers to build...Start your free trial to watch
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Hawaiian Birds
This Fleischer Studios “Color Classic” finds a couple of island birds' habitats briefly invaded by some “Big City Orioles” who act like a big band. The lady of one of the pair is seduced away to the promise of stardom, requiring her mate follow to the mainland to reclaim his by-now-disillusioned love. During the Great...Start your free trial to watch
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Play Safe
Junior learns his titular lesson the hard way when he sneaks off from his toy train to “play” with a real one sitting on the tracks nearby. Needless to say, this is not a good idea. But it's a good thing that man's best friend Rover is around! Impressive multi-plane animation during a dream sequence highlights PLAY SAFE, one...Start your free trial to watch
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Bunny Mooning
Jack and Jill Rabbit get hitched in this classic Fleischer Studios cartoon (made a year before Bugs Bunny hit the scene). Anthropomorphic to an improbable degree, the short shows the whole menagerie getting polished up for the ceremony. Mae Questel, better known as the voice of Betty Boop, pitches in with some high notes.Start your free trial to watch
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A Car-Tune Portrait
A well-heeled lion conductor introduces a musical performance to correct the misapprehension that “we of the cartoon animal kingdom are lacking in the finer sensibility.” Alas, all those bows and horns prove too much temptation for his orchestra to resist in this delightful Fleisher Studios cartoon.Start your free trial to watch
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Peeping Penguins
A Fleischer Brothers "Color Classic" with a notably swinging soundtrack, this 1937 cartoon short features a bunch of the naturally tuxedo'd Far Southerners being warned off snooping around human habitats by a Mama Penguin who sings "Curiosity Killed the Cat." Once inside somebody's shuttered winter cabin,...Start your free trial to watch
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Educated Fish
Decades before FINDING NEMO, this imaginative Dave Fleisher cartoon got plenty of mileage from the underwater kingdom. Most of the little fish at A.B. Sea School for Fish are good students. But one goofs off during the teacher’s lesson about the hook and line. He’ll wish he had listened once a seductive worm takes him for a...Start your free trial to watch
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Little Lamby
Riffing on "Little Red Riding Hood," this Dave Fleisher cartoon sends a wolf in disguise looking for his lunch amongst a town of unsuspecting innocents. The wolf proposes a baby contest, suggesting a “big prize to prettiest and healthiest baby (should be kind and tender),” where he settles on a stew with Little Lamby. The...Start your free trial to watch
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Hold It!
Do you know what the kitty cat is up to when you're not looking? A neighborhood of housecats unhappily put outside in the cold for the night get up to plenty in this Fleischer "Color Classic" when they form a swinging chorus of feline yowlers, tormenting at least one canine in the process.Start your free trial to watch
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Hunky and Spunky
A pair of donkeys who starred in several of the Fleischers' later “Color Classics,” Hunky and Spunky roam the Old West in this cartoon adventure featuring some high lonesome cowboy harmonies. After playing around with a jackrabbit and (less happily) a cactus, Spunky gets in real trouble: he's roped and...Start your free trial to watch
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All's Fair at the Fair
A yokel couple visiting the World's Fair (a huge attraction of a kind we no longer have these days) marvel at the new-fangled wonders on display. Among the fanciful inventions they enjoy here are an “orange drink” machine that actually grows and juices fruit instantaneously. They also go from dowdy to glam...Start your free trial to watch
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Playful Polar Bears
The Great White North is one big playground for these bears. But when a sailship of hunters arrive, Mama Bear's most disobedient cub goes missing in the general scramble for cover. This Fleischer “Color Classic” is notable for its parody of "spirituals" when the polar bear community mourns one of its own...Start your free trial to watch
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Always Kickin'
Donkey duo Hunky and Spunky are back in another Fleischer Studios “Color Classic” cartoon. Spunky's braying attempt to sing along with the local songbirds are not acclaimed and his attempt at flying fares even worse. But when a vulture pursues some baby chicks, mama mule instructs junior on how to harness the incredible power...Start your free trial to watch
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Small Fry
In an underwater world, a li'l tough fish plays hooky in order to hang out with the big boys at the local pool hall. Despite a musical scolding from Ma, he sneaks out again, getting one heckuva cautionary hazing from the "big fry" in this Fleischer Studios “Color Classic.”Start your free trial to watch
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The Barnyard Brat
Disobedient donkey Spunky's pranks create havoc amongst the sheep, geese and chicks until he's publicly decried; a barnyard bully is not more appreciated than a schoolyard one. But when the livestock go a little overboard with retaliation, they invite the wrath of mommy mule. One of several Hunky and...Start your free trial to watch
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Fresh Vegetable Mystery
Wonder what all that produce is up to when the store is closed? Well, like the rest of us, they're mostly sleeping, with a street cop, an early Mr. Potato (or, rather, Sgt. Potato), complete with Irish accent, on the beat. When a nocturnal thief kidnaps some of the carrot population, everybody's a suspect...Start your free trial to watch
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Little Lambkins
In this Fleischer “Color Classic” a little boy whose mama thinks he's a “baby” who can't walk yet turns out to have a whole lot of secret abilities (and wildlife pals) when no one's looking. Separated from those furry friends once his family moves to the city, this baby boy is not pleased. With their fully automated apartment...Start your free trial to watch
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Ants in the Plants
This backyard kingdom of the ants is a very civilized place, with all mod cons and Munchkin-like voices raised in cheerful song. But there's an eternal threat: that dreaded foe, the anteater. The insects deploy all their ingenuity to outwit him, engaging in a war not too far removed from the realities of...Start your free trial to watch
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A Kick in Time
The carefree life of mother-and-son mules Hunky and Spunky is torn asunder when the latter is kidnapped by Joe's Livery Stable. Taken to the big city and put up for auction, junior is sold to Acme Junk Co., where he's one abused beast of burden. But never fear, soon mommy will be here; maternal instinct reigns. A Fleischer...Start your free trial to watch
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Snubbed by a Snob
Class warfare in the pastures? But this is America, dang it! Donkey duo Hunky and Spunky are dismayed when they get major attitude from an uppity mother-and-son team of purebred racing horses. But when junior mounts anger at a big bull, all social distinctions collapse.Start your free trial to watch
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You Can't Shoe a Horsefly
In a desert setting, mischievous mule Spunky is bedeviled by a singing insect and then by a whole swarm. This was the penultimate of the Fleischers' “Color Classic” cartoon series. They spent the remainder of their alliance with Paramount primarily turning out SUPERMAN and POPEYE shorts as well as the...Start your free trial to watch
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Recent Reviews
The Barnyard Brat
Little punk. Those farm animals could use some trainings from their Orwellian comrades on how to deal with bad animals.
The Cobweb Hotel
NOT TOO BAD..LIKE THE FIRST CARTOONS I REMEMBER WATCHING...
Bunny Mooning
was alright...