Movies: Dave Fleischer

A comic look at prehistoric life....

Popeye runs a small airport, and Pappy wants to be a pilot....

A small fish doesn’t pay attention in school, and ends up getting caught on a hook....

Popeye's Pappy takes a flagpole sitting job atop a tall building without telling Popeye. Popeye goes to rescue him, but he doesn't want to go until an electrical storm hits....

Rip Van Winkle is being thrown out for nonpayment of rent (for twenty years). Popeye happens by and carts the sleeper home, but soon discovers that Rip has a sleepwalking problem that gets both of them into some trouble with some dwarves....

Ko-Ko the Inkwell Clown and a baby get caught in a hurricane....

Fleischer Studios 'Screen Song' with Ethel Merman singing the songs....

Everyone loves the wheat cakes served by short-order cook Betty, but they have a drawback. With Bimbo and Koko; no bee is involved....

A young horse says hi to little donkey Spunky. But the horse's mother pulls him away, saying we don't associate with that kind. Spunky makes a few more overtures, and eventually they set off on a chase, running across a bull from time to time. The ho...

Koko the Clown discovers a machine that can make cartoons....

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....

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....

Pudgy the pup takes Betty Boop's advice ('Go Out and Make Friends With the World') to heart and befriends various wild animals....

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 by and proceeds to pound Popeye (until he eats his spinach, of course)....

Directed by Dave Fleischer....

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

Buzzy Boop at the Concert is a 1938 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop's young Tomboy cousin Buzzy Boop....

Max draws a tattoo of a cat on his coworker, and Fitz chases the cat around when the tattoo comes to life....

Fleischer Studios giving "When the Red, Red, Robin Comes Bob, Bob Bobbin' Along" the 'Screen Song' bouncing ball treatment....

A small cat annoys his elder by imitating everything he does. Eventually, the bigger cat catches a mouse, knowing the copy cat won't be able to perform the same feat....