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Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer
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).10.0
Year:
2024
Tarts and Flowers
While waiting for her cookies to bake, Audrey dreams about a marriage between the Gingerbread Man and Angel Cake about to terminated by the Devil's Food Cake.5.7
Year:
1950
Land of the Lost Jewels
Two children are fishing when they catch a talking fish named Red Lantern. He takes them underwater with him to the Land of the Lost, where missing items can be found again. They meet King Find All, a walrus, and a singing cricket (Hoppy-Go-Lucky) that used to be the girl's pin. He's deemed to be a special jewel (since he's made of emerald) and is brought to the jewel storage room, despite his wishes to be in the Land of the Toys...3.7
Year:
1950
Song of the Birds
Audrey is enjoying her air rifle, until she shoots down a baby bird and is filled with remorse until she sees it survived. The other birds, however, don't believe she's sincere about her reformation (even after she destroys the rifle), until the baby bird proves it. A remake of a March 1, 1935 Max Fleischer Color Classic of the same name. (Actually The Song of the Birds, the 'the' was dropped)6.0
Year:
1949
Marriage Wows
There's a wedding in the forest and all the animals are getting ready.3.5
Year:
1949
The Ski's the Limit
A combination cartoon/travelogue set in the Swiss Alps, with a tuneful sight-seeing tour of Switzerland thrown in, before the bounding-ball comes bouncing along and asks the theatre audience to follow it in singing the ever-popular "I Miss My Swiss Miss, My Swiss Miss Misses Me." Some of the theatre singers may have actually thrown in a yodel or two.3.5
Year:
1949
The Stork Market
The audience takes a tour through a baby factory run by storks. Next, we're invited to follow the bouncing ball and sing along to "Pretty Baby".2.5
Year:
1949
Popeye's Premiere
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.10.0
Year:
1949
The Lost Dream
Little Audrey helps a lost dream find his way back to Dream Land.5.0
Year:
1949
Comin' Round the Mountain
The feud between the Catfields and the McHounds.1.0
Year:
1949
Symphony in Spinach
Singer Olive Oyl needs an accompanist, and both Popeye and Bluto apply for the job.10.0
Year:
1948
Spinach vs Hamburgers
Popeye's nephews would rather have hamburgers than spinach, so Popeye recounts some of his past exploits where spinach saved the day.10.0
Year:
1948
Camptown Races
Join the Minstrel Show on the farm where animals show their talents. The audience asks for something from the seller. Watch for the gag where he uses his mouth to carry the items on sale. Follow the bouncing ball to sing "Camptown Races."4.2
Year:
1948
Butterscotch and Soda
The housekeeper does her best to get nourishing food into Little Audrey, but the only thing Audrey wants is candy. And she wants lots of it. The housekeeper banishes Audrey to her room, but the cunning girl has sweets hidden in bags that hang outside her bedroom window. The angry servant finds every last piece of candy in the room and takes it away. Soon, Audrey has candy withdrawal and even gets the sweet-tooth version of delirium tremens. A nightmare sends her to a Candy Horror Land where evil candy canes and sinister licorice drops force-feed her all the candy she doesn't want.7.7
Year:
1948
The Land of the Lost
Billy and Isabel are fishing and catch Red Lantern the talking fish, who takes them to the Land of the Lost at the bottom of the sea.0.0
Year:
1948
There's Good Boos To-Night
Casper makes friends with a fox cub. But the new friendship is threatened when a fox hunter and his two hounds come on the scene.5.3
Year:
1948
The Bored Cuckoo
Cadmus Cuckoo, who inhabits a clock, gets fed up dashing between his bed and the door of the clock every hour on the hour 24/7. And he is lonely. He leaves the clock, goes out into the world. meets a pretty songbird, woos her and wins her, gets married and brings her back to the clock with him.6.0
Year:
1948
Winter Draws On
As winter approaches, a variety of birds fly south to see a warmer climate.3.7
Year:
1948
Little Brown Jug
An animated short about various woodland creatures milling and drinking apple cider. Includes a sing-a-long of the title song.4.0
Year:
1948
Base Brawl
At the zoo, the animals have all gone to play baseball. Animals fill the stands as they watch the antics that can only come about from exotic animals who play baseball.2.0
Year:
1948
The Circus Comes to Clown
A series of circus acts (fast, furious and funny gags) leads to the trapeze act and the sing-a-long begins with "The Man On The Trapeze".2.0
Year:
1947
The Baby Sitter
Lulu is babysitting Alvin Jones, a bratty and hyperactive baby. While chasing Alvin through the house, Lulu crashes into a wall and is knocked unconscious when a picture frame falls on her head. This leads into a dream where Lulu is searching for Alvin in a nightclub filled with celebrity babies.0.0
Year:
1947
Naughty But Mice
Herman, the city-slicker mouse (looking like a cross between James Cagney and Lee Tracy) visits his barn-mice cousins in the country.5.2
Year:
1947
The Mild West
A series of blackout gags, followed by an exhortation to sing along with the bouncing ball -- the song being "I'm an Old Cow Hand".0.0
Year:
1947
Cad and Caddy
Lulu plans her revenge against a distressed golfer who refuses to give her a lollipop after he promised her one for caddying for him.4.0
Year:
1947
I'll Be Skiing Ya
Popeye and Olive are on a winter vacation in Lake Plastered, NY. Popeye is teaching Olive to ice skate (but not doing a very good job); she catches the eye of skating instructor Bluto. But when Bluto takes her up a ski lift and puts the moves on, she calls for Popeye to save her, and soon, everyone is skiing down that hill.4.0
Year:
1947
Musica-Lulu
Lulu is put on trial by talking musical instruments for neglecting her violin.0.0
Year:
1947
Spree for All
Snuffy Smith, a returning war veteran, wants peace and quiet. He settles in the mountains, only to have his peace shattered by two violently feuding families.0.0
Year:
1946
Rocket to Mars
Popeye and Olive are touring a museum when they accidentally launch a rocketship to Mars. Olive escapes, but Popeye gets to Mars, where he is attacked (by a group led by Bluto) that was preparing to invade Earth. Fortunately, Popeye has a can of spinach handy, so he can save the Earth (turning most of the Martian war apparatus into amusement park rides).5.8
Year:
1946
Old MacDonald Had a Farm
An animated "follow-the-bouncing-ball" audience participation sing-along with Farmer MacDonald having his hands full with the barnyard population. It ends with the animals in a Conga line singing their animated hearts out.3.7
Year:
1946
Peep in the Deep
Olive has a map to a sunken treasure, but Bluto stowed away and is determined to beat Popeye to it.6.0
Year:
1946
Bargain Counter Attack
Lulu goes to a department store to exchange her doll for something else. While looking for a new item Lulu manages to terrorize the section manager, ski down the escalators, and cause a noahic flood in the store.6.3
Year:
1946
The Friendly Ghost
Casper struggles to find friends who won't run away scared when they meet him.6.1
Year:
1945
Mess Production
Olive Oyl, a regular Rosie the Riveter, receives a blow to the head from a swinging grappling hook, sending her into a sleepwalking state. Popeye and Bluto, two rival factory workers, fight each other for privilege of saving her life.6.0
Year:
1945
When G.I. Johnny Comes Home
A cartoon short following various soldiers and sailors as they come home from World War II. Includes a sing-a-long of "When Johnny Come Marching Home Again."1.0
Year:
1945
Lulu's Birthday Party
Little Lulu fantasizes about a birthday party in a candy land.0.0
Year:
1944
She-Sick Sailors
Bluto disguises himself as Superman in order to impress the comic book hero's biggest fan, Olive Oyl. A jealous Popeye becomes a real superhero by eating his spinach.8.0
Year:
1944
I'm Just Curious
For misbehaving, Little Lulu gets a spanking from Daddy with the book "Art of Self Defense" in her pants. In the shower, after being sent to her room, Lulu starts to sing "I'm Just Curious." Later Lulu sneaks out and goes after a chicken hawk who, thinking that he's a stork, tries to get Lulu's chickens from her family's henhouse.0.0
Year:
1944
Pitchin' Woo at the Zoo
Popeye takes Olive to the zoo, where she's spotted by zookeeper Bluto, who tries various stunts to impress her and/or get rid of Popeye.8.0
Year:
1944
Spinach Packin' Popeye
Popeye donates blood, then dashes off to a boxing match with Bluto. He loses. Olive, who heard this on the radio, rejects him as no longer strong enough for her, and is preparing to join the army (where Bluto apparently is). Popeye stops her at the door, and insists on showing her sequences from two earlier two-reelers to prove his strength, but she's unimpressed. Fortunately, this was all a dream; he awakens in the blood bank, and dashes over to see Olive, who reaffirms her love.5.0
Year:
1944
The Anvil Chorus Girl
Popeye and Bluto pass by Olive's blacksmith shop and are smitten. Olive needs help, and of course both of the boys offer, and demonstrate their prowess at blacksmithing.7.0
Year:
1944
Eleventh Hour
Using Clark Kent as a cover, Superman travels to Japan as a saboteur during the war.6.0
Year:
1942
Japoteurs
Superman vs. Japanese spies hijacking a new super-bomber.6.3
Year:
1942
Volcano
Superman comes to the rescue when a volcano erupts.7.2
Year:
1942
Many Tanks
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.6.0
Year:
1942
The Bulleteers
Criminals with rocket powered car loot and extort the city, and only Superman can stop them!6.7
Year:
1942
The Arctic Giant
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!7.1
Year:
1942
Blunder Below
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?6.0
Year:
1942
Kickin' the Conga Round
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.6.0
Year:
1942
Nix on Hypnotricks
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.6.4
Year:
1941
The Mighty Navy
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.6.0
Year:
1941
Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy
A toyshop owner tells a little girl the story behind the two dolls she's fallen in love with.8.0
Year:
1941
Twinkletoes Gets the Bird
Twinkle Toes, the incompetent carrier pigeon, is set with the task of delivering a rare parrot to the Royal Zoo.0.0
Year:
1941
Mommy Loves Puppy
A walrus steals the brandy from a Saint Bernard puppy.0.0
Year:
1940
My Pop, My Pop
Popeye's 99-year-old father won't admit he's too old to help Popeye build a ship. Popeye tells him to build one side while he builds the other; Pappy's side is a mess. He falls asleep helping hoist the mast. While Pappy sleeps, Popeye rebuilds his side and finishes the above-decks, with a little help from spinach, of course.7.8
Year:
1940
Puttin on the Act
Olive rushes over to show Popeye the headline: Vaudeville is coming back. They agree to rehearse their old act. After a brief song-and-dance intro, the act begins: Popeye demonstrating his strength while Olive displays her flexibility and balance; impersonations of Jimmy Durante, Stan Laurel and Groucho Marx; and the last act, more feats of strength and agility.6.3
Year:
1940
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.5.0
Year:
1940
Me Feelins is Hurt
Olive sends a farewell letter to Popeye: She's over sailors; it's cowboys for her; she's gone out west, to Bar None Ranch. Popeye immediately travels there to find her - and discovers Bluto runs the place.4.5
Year:
1940
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.6.3
Year:
1936
The Cobweb Hotel
A spider runs a hotel for flies where he keeps his guests captive. A pair of fly newlyweds arrive and check in. Fortunately, the husband is "flyweight champion". After a pitched battle featuring arrows (fountain pen nibs) and a machine-gun (aspirins shot from a perfume atomizer), the spider winds up in a bottle of library paste.6.9
Year:
1936