Movies by Dave Fleischer

The Clown's Pup

The Clown's Pup

Max Fleischer draws a clown, who comes alive on the page. The clown doesn't like the way he is drawn and demonstrates his own artistic abilities.

The Bum Bandit

The Bum Bandit

Masked bandit Bimbo holds up a train carrying someone tougher… Betty Boop (with dog's ears), played by a different, deeper-voiced actress.

Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning

Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning

Reis and Dunn (with Betty Boop) sing the Irving Berlin song with a Bouncing Ball. In a cartoon army camp, everything rises before the soldiers.

Shakespearian Spinach

Shakespearian Spinach

Popeye has replaced Bluto in the Spinach Theatre's production of Romeo and Juliet (Olive, of course), much to Bluto's surprise and dismay. Bluto does what he can to sabotage the production, like cranking up the snow and wind machines, and eventually coming onstage, even though Olive wants no part of him.

Sock-a-Bye, Baby

Sock-a-Bye, Baby

When Popeye takes the baby for a walk in the stroller, the little one won't be quiet unless he's sleeping. Of course there's no end of noisiness.

Fleets of Stren'th

Fleets of Stren'th

When enemy planes attack the battleship he's serving on, Popeye fights back.

Let's Sing with Popeye

Let's Sing with Popeye

Popeye walks around while singing his theme song, followed by a sing-along.

Koko Sees Spooks

Koko Sees Spooks

Koko the clown encounters supernatural beings.

The Dance Contest

The Dance Contest

Popeye and Olive compete as partners in a dance contest. Naturally, Bluto butts in.

The Einstein Theory of Relativity

The Einstein Theory of Relativity

"The Einstein Theory of Relativity" is the short version (587 m) of the lost American long version (1219 m) of Hanns Walter Kornblum's original German feature "Die Grundlagen der Einsteinschen Relativitäts-Theorie" from 1922 that is also lost.

You Can't Shoe a Horse Fly

You Can't Shoe a Horse Fly

Hunky and Spunky are settling in for a nap, but a horse fly sees them and sees dinner. After battling the fly for a while, the youngster enlists dad's help. But the fly is merely stunned, and rallies a new attack, this time with friends. Father eventually kills the lot of them.

Hold It!

Hold It!

When the lights of the city go dim, all of the kitties are let outdoors to prowl. Holding a meeting, they come up with a plan to rid themselves of a neighboring dog. The cats proceed to torment him, chase him with a water hose, and try feeding him.

Let's Get Movin'

Let's Get Movin'

Olive is moving out of her apartment; she's hired Bluto to move her things, but Popeye comes over to visit and won't be shown up.

The Paneless Window Washer

The Paneless Window Washer

Bluto dirties all of an office building's windows himself, to drum up business for his window cleaning service. When he gets to Olive's stenographer office, about ten floors up, she says no: Popeye's going to wash her windows. And the battle with Popeye is on.

Inklings, Issue ??

Inklings, Issue ??

A British reissue of a Fleischer Inklings short with sound narration.

Ko-Ko in Thanksgiving

Ko-Ko in Thanksgiving

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

Fishing

Fishing

Max is too rushed to do a thorough job of drawing Koko this morning. Max is going fishing. However, to amuse the clown, he draws a fishing pole and a pond before he goes.

The Dresden Doll

The Dresden Doll

In this one, Max has run low on ink, so Ko-Ko finishes drawing himself and then heads over to the camera room, where he creates his own characters, a mechanical dancing Dresden doll with whom he falls in love and a couple of automaton musicians. He gets rid of the musicians, but, alas, the projectionist gets oil onto Ko-Ko's soon-to-be bride, melting her.

Zula Hula

Zula Hula

Disabled in a thunderstorm, Betty Boop and Grampy's plane lands on a tropic island where Grampy soon re-invents the comforts of home... until hostile, racially-stereotyped natives intrude.

The Cure

The Cure

Max has a toothache, and it's up to The Clown and a bespectacled rabbit to pull out the aching tooth.