Movies: Dave Fleischer

Fleischer Studios Screen Song. At a super-automated theatre, the Eton Boys (in live-action insert) sing the title song aided by the Bouncing Ball....

This Out of the Inkwell cartoon features the Fleischer Studios continuing character, Ko-Ko, seeming to draw himself, and to battle with the environment created for him. It speaks to the self-referentiality of early animation, and to the creation of c...

Fleischer Studios giving "On a Sunday Afternoon" the bouncing ball 'Screen Song' treatment....

Koko the clown and his dog attempt a round-the-world flight....

An Inkwell Imps short....

An Inkwell Imps short....

A Ko-Ko Song Car-Tunes short....

A comic look at prehistoric life....

KoKo and Fitz look into a crystal ball and are told to go East toward the crooked tree. Eager for any sort of adventure, they happily accept their quest without a question asked....

Fire chief Bimbo is called to a house on fire, and rescues the Boswell Sisters and their piano, who start performing "When It's Sleepy Time Down South"....

A hillbilly sleeps; atop his bald head, flies have constructed a playground. Other flies ski-jump off his nose......

The phenomenon of radio is hot, and everyone is listening, including an overambitious goldfish, a lazy spider and three terrified mouse-children....

Fleischer Studios giving "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" the bouncing ball 'Screen Song' treatment....

A boy dog walks down the train tracks singing "I Ain't Got Nobody," with a train coming. He looks at a photo of his girlfriend, and she razzes him. He lies down on the tracks, but the train bypasses the section of tracks that he's lying on! He jumps ...

A Max Fleischer Screen Songs cartoon with part of it devoted to cartoon animation and the other part to Arthur Treacy, radio's Street Singer, doing the Irving Berlin song, with words and dancing-ball double-exposed at the lower left of the frame for ...

This one covers the 19th century ballad in a very respectful manner: although the written reprise is gagged up, the song is introduced very respectfully by an unshown Irish tenor and then offered for the audience's singing without any voice-over to l...

An Inkwell Imps short....

When KoKo is sent to deliver a message to a woman across the way, things quickly get out of hand, and Fitz must come in to clean up the mess....

Fleischer Studios giving "My Baby Just Cares for Me" the 'Screen Song' bouncing ball treatment....

A Ko-Ko Song Car-Tunes short....