Dave Fleischer Movies

Superman comes to the rescue when a volcano erupts.

Popeye applies for a lifeguard job when he sees Olive in the pool, but Bluto also wants the job (and Olive). The manager, Wimpy, asks them to demonstrate their skills…

Fed up with Bluto’s greed with his expensive river ferry service, Popeye, Olive and Wimpy decide to undermine the bully by building a bridge instead.

That’s what Olive wants. To even the score, the boys visit Wimpy’s barber shop. Wimpy is out, so they shave each other; you’d think Popeye would know better than to…

In live action, a big kid is attacking a little kid for his “Adventures of Popeye” comic book, so Popeye gives the little kid pointers, in the form of clips…

Popeye and Olive can’t ignore it when produce vendor Bluto comes by with his terribly overloaded cart, whipping his horse and denying it water. They intervene, and while Bluto fights…

To the classic tune of “Barnacle Bill the Sailor”, Olive explains that she can’t marry Popeye because she’s in love with Barnacle Bill (an unusually large Bluto), who then comes…

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…

An expedition unearths a frozen Tyrannosaurus in the Siberian tundra and brings it back to the USA. Naturally, it accidentally thaws and runs amok. Can Superman handle it?

To escape her noisy city apartment, Betty Boop retreats to her country home, but the insects are against her.

Betty Boop’s Swing Band (sans musicians) visits an Indian reservation where Betty teaches the braves the true meaning of ‘rhythm.’

Bimbo is a fortune teller; Koko is his doorman; Betty is a customer. Bimbo sees a ride on a steamship, a wreck, Betty stranded on a tropical island. Betty then…

The rag and bone man passes through Betty Boop’s neighborhood.

Betty Boop hosts a Halloween party with aid from a scarecrow, but an uninvited gorilla threatens havoc.

Popeye and Bluto are running competing penny arcades, trying to bring in customer Wimpy. Of course, he would gladly pay Tuesday for a penny today. And of course, their competing…

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

Junior Catfish skipped school to hang out at the pool hall. Mama was worried he might have been caught by a fisherman instead. He returns home for dinner, then sneaks…

In response to Betty Boop’s wish, Mother Goose materializes from a book cover and gives her a tour; she’s chased by Miss Muffet’s spider, who proves to be amorous, not…

A sinking ship leaves three survivors on a life raft: Bimbo, Koko and Betty Boop. Good news/bad news: they’re rescued by a pirate ship…

Betty, Koko, and Bimbo drive at the auto races; Betty has a cold, and her sneezes help her win.

A swingin’ hurdy-gurdy man goes by Betty Boop’s house; she wants to buy the monkey, which causes plenty of trouble for Pudgy the Pup.

After drawing Betty Boop, Max Fleischer (live-action) leaves the studio; Betty and Koko try amateur dentistry, releasing enough laughing gas to convulse the ‘real world.’

The story of Aladdin is portrayed by Popeye and Olive Oyl here. It all begins when an evil sorcerer coaxes Aladdin (Popeye) to a dangerous cave to retrieve the magic…

An action figure of Betty Boop drops in on a small toy shop; the other toys come to life and crown her their queen. But there’s a big rag doll…

At the Fleischer studio, a black janitor, learning to hypnotize, conjures Betty Boop out of the inkwell and tries some suggestions on her. But two can play at that game…

Betty and Bimbo, as Queen and King of the May, host a giant outdoor party that gets sprayed with rubber. Koko appears briefly.

Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput and attempts to prevent war between that tiny kingdom and its equally minuscule rival, Blefuscu, as well as smooth the way for the romance between…

In her only color cartoon, Betty Boop goes to the ball thanks to the good fairy; later, only her foot fits the glass slipper.

Frustrated at her job as a a short order cook and dishwasher at a local diner, Betty Boop decides to call it quits and tries her luck at a new…

The evil, long-nosed queen asks the magic mirror in her hand who’s the fairest in the land, and the mirror replies that she is. But into the queen’s cave walks…

Betty Boop (with dog’s ears) is entertainer in a restaurant for dogs; a waiter joins the floor show to the neglect of patrons.

A reporter interviews Max Fleischer about his creation, and Betty illustrates with excerpts from three prior cartoons.

The World’s Fair, as imagined by the Max Fleischer animation studio.

A miserly mill-keeper kidnaps two Dutch children, but their pet duck runs for help like Lassie.

Wiffle Piffle, mild-mannered and big-dreaming clerk in the office where Betty Boop works, proposes marriage to Betty and she turns him down with the song explanation that she pines for…

In the circus, Betty Boop is the lion tamer, sings title tune on the high wire, and fights off the lecherous ringmaster.

Betty is a nurse in a hospital for sick and injured automobiles. She is both nurse and a mechanic as she ministers to her patients, who go through all the…

A messenger delivers an invitation to Betty Boop to come over to Grampy’s house for a party and bring the gang. The delighted Betty goes down the street singing “I’m…

Hunters visit the home of a polar bear community, causing a bear parent to have to rescue its cub.

Betty Boop appears on stage as the heroine of a melodrama, complete with stage scenery and mustache twirling villain, Heeza Rat. Betty hasn’t the money to pay the mortgage on…