Movies: Dave Fleischer

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

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

This series of animated cartoons- sometimes including bits of live action- took popular songs of the day and combined the popular "bouncing ball" following the lyrics in an effort for audience sing-along's. "Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing" sung...

Gabby goes camping with the Mayor....

A comic look at prehistoric life....

Popeye is leaving on his sailing ship, much to Olive's chagrin. She ends up accidentally stowing away in a trunk. Popeye discovers her, but she can't stay, because the crew will think she's a jinx. She tries to hide, but this only scares the crew mor...

At Betty Boop's Auto Hospital, the cars are treated for various humanlike ailments....

Swee'pea is crying, so Olive calls on Popeye to cheer the baby up. Popeye and Bluto compete by doing various silly antics....

Popeye and Bluto share an art studio; Popeye is a sculptor, and Bluto paints. Olive drops in for a likeness, and the boys compete. When they start to fight, Olive starts to leave, but Popeye convinces her to stay when he eats his spinach and vanquish...

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 let Bluto at him with a razor....

Popeye takes Olive mountain climbing. Bluto sets various traps for them along the way....

Betty Boop runs out of gas in Feud County, and wins over the initially hostile hillbillies with her dancing....

Betty tries a regime of exercise, but her weight loss gets out of hand. She sings "Keep Your Girlish Figure"....

In this one, a traffic cop is up in the sky on a platform guiding various planes and birds on their way....

Betty takes a trip to the beach and needs the assistance of a big, hunky lifeguard when she rides her rubber horsy out too far!...

Betty Boop recruits for the Army by offering inductees a kiss. The recruits march off to war with a force of giant mosquitoes!...

An "Out of the Inkwell" short featuring Ko-Ko the Clown, this time as a fireman....

Kitty, a girl black cat, gets a piano delivered to her rooftop apartment by two Bimbo-like piano movers, using a pulley to hoist it up the outside....

The Herring is murdered, and detective Bimbo is trying to find his killer....

A toy version of Betty Boop drops in on a small toy shop. The other toys come to life and crown her their queen. Then the cartoon quickly turns into Fleischer's idea of King Kong....