Movies: Dave Fleischer

Betty Boop and Bimbo take a wild streetcar ride to Crazy Town, where birds swim, fish fly, and everthing else reverses normal behavior....

In this one, Bimbo is playing fireworks in an abandoned yard except for a mouse (who suspiciously looks like Mickey in one close-up scene) who laughs derisively at him....

Pudgy the pup tries to emulate a tough bulldog, but Betty Boop sings him the error of his ways....

It's a shotgun wedding, a big boy fly to a little girl fly, with her bearded dad holding the shotgun. A wedding party ensues, with an energetic hoe-down involving lots of dancing and playing insects. The preacher-bug gorges himself on cake. The ball ...

Max is too rushed to do a thorough job of drawing Koko this morning. Max is going fishing. However, to amuse the clown, he draws a fishing pole and a pond before he goes....

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

The Inkwell Clown and his three partners rehearse their parts in a show while en route to the theatre in Max's car....

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

A lost Screen Songs cartoon....

Betty Boop, auditioning bandleaders for a college swing dance, "discovers" a cleaning woman who resembles Betty Grable...

In this Christmas season release, Max assembles a toy train track while Ko-Ko the Clown visits a cartoon toyland, playing cops and robbers and rescuing a doll in distress....

Olive takes Popeye to Professor Bluteau to learn some manners....

Popeye and Bluto are deep sea divers. Popeye has a treasure map; for some reason he cuts Bluto in on the deal, but of course, Bluto's idea of 50-50 isn't exactly fair......

Betty Boop and some friends go to Grampy's house for a party....

This Screen Song version of Paul Dresser's ballad is given a very soapy interpretation by a basso and then a barbershop group....

In this surrealist entry, a fisherman deals with rebellious worms; a diver flirts with a Betty Boop-like mermaid who becomes Ethel Merman, singing the title song in live-action with a Bouncing Ball....

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Betty brings home a cat as a playmate for her pet puppy, Pudgy. The cat manages to get Pudgy blamed for all his misbehaviour....

An Out of the Inkwell short....

Popeye is taking his nephews to the museum, and proves to them that he is the greatest sailor in the world by telling them of a time he bested Sindbad the Sailor when Sindbad tried to abduct Olive Oyl....