Movies: Dave Fleischer

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....

Elementary school-aged Bimbo is late to school, where he presents a note signed my father to his leonine bespectacled teacher....

Betty Boop appears on stage with Freddie in an old-fashioned mortgage melodrama....

For customer Betty Boop, psychic reader Prof. Bimbo conjures up an adventure on a haunted tropical island in his crystal ball....

Popeye is taking his nephews to the museum, and proves to them that he is the greatest sailor in the world by telling them of a time he bested Sindbad the Sailor when Sindbad tried to abduct Olive Oyl....

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

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)....

Betty Boop runs for president in a loose storyline assembled from Fleischer cartoons redrawn by Korean animators....

Popeye's ensemble is rehearsing the opening of the Poet and Peasant Overture (with interpolations of the Popeye theme and "I've Been Working on the Railroad"). Maestro Bluto drops in from next door to conduct and play violin and show Popeye up. Popey...

Bimbo is out stalking the ladies in his car when he is arrested by the police. Now he has to explain himself to the judge....

Betty Boop emcees a show of pet-aid gadgets. Object: a "new deal for pets." Some ideas copied from Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions (1933)....

Popeye and Olive are grooving to the sounds of Wimpy the organ grinder, but their neighbor Bluto wants him to move on. Popeye and Bluto settle their disagreement in their usual fashion....

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 ...

Mystery Pictures is looking for a stunt man. Swee'pea tags along with Popeye, but he sends the tot home. Popeye shows clips of his stunts to the director, who is impressed; when he goes to put on the last reel, Swee'pea, who snuck back in, hands him ...

At Betty Boop's Music School for Animals, Pudgy the dog doesn't do so well, but puppy love triumphs....

Honeymooning couples of various animal species take a rocket ship excursion to the moon. Spectacular lunar scenery....

Popeye and Bluto each wants to save Olive as she sleepwalks onto a construction site. But most of their efforts go into preventing each other from being the hero....

Betty Boop is queen of the Masquerade Ball where, among other antics, Bimbo and a lecherous old man vie for her affections....

Betty Boop, a nursemaid, meets a masher in the park; with the Bouncing Ball, Ethel Merman sings the title song....

Popeye comes to ask Olive out, but finds she's gone off with the title character. Popeye goes to the circus (ringmaster Wimpy) looking for her, to find she's part of the act; an aerial battle ensues....