Max Fleischer

Max helps the Inkwell Clown prepare for a family reunion.

Ko-Ko the Inkwell Clown spends a vacation at a rubbery amusement park.

The Inkwell Clown battles a boxing kangaroo.

Directed by Dave Fleischer.

Part of Max Fleischer's "Out of the Inkwell" series.

Ko-Ko gathers eggs on a farm while Max works on an incubator.

In this 1925 Out of the Inkwell short, Ko-Ko the Clown becomes a barber. As usual, he eventually escapes the animated world for the "real." He hides...

Max draws a circus poster featuring Ko-Ko the Clown and Fitz the dog, but the circus owner wants them replaced with a giant. On the poster, Ko-Ko and...

Koko is trying to rescue his sweetheart, who is trapped atop a rugged mountain. However, when Max Fleischer runs out of ink, how will he draw the...

Max asks Ko-Ko to act as his alarm clock before going to sleep. While Max sleeps, Ko-Ko goes to work dressing Max for the next day and replacing his...

This fascinating and informative 1938 film, part of Paramount's Popular Science series, offers a tour through Fleischer Studios’ newly-built...

From the A&E "Biography" series, a review of the birth, development and cinematic history of Betty Boop, the flapper cartoon character who has been a...

Ko-Ko and Fitz celebrate the Fouth of July with fireworks and end up rocketed to an island inhabited by cannibals.

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

Max and Koko get mixed up with a live action gypsy fortune teller and then caught up with ghosts and monsters in this, as usual, delightful OUT OF...

The Inkwell Clown goes for a balloon ride. Later, Max's studio is filled with so many balloons that it floats away.

Ko-Ko and Fitz try to make a humorless Indian laugh.

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

A man with a huge hooked nose enters the Fleischer studios to have his bust sculpted. Meanwhile, across the studio, Max is animating Koko. When he's...

Ko-Ko competes against a rival clown in a race.

Max creates a penny arcade with a shooting gallery, much to the detriment of Ko-Ko and Fitz the Dog.

Dave Fleischer sends Koko to Mars.

Max Fleischer considers hiring a new cartoonist. While the new guy draws Max's portrait, Koko gets into a fight with a cartoon Chinese man.

Max torments the Inkwell Clown with shadow puppet animals.

A film in the “Out of the Inkwell” series, an early animated short from Max Fleischer.

Koko likes to join Max and his friends for Thanksgiving dinner. He can, under the condition of screening his films.

Max Fleischer draws a clown, who comes alive on the page. The clown doesn't like the way he is drawn and demonstrates his own artistic abilities.

When a Native American artist sells a selection of his background drawings and original characters to Fleischer, Koko gives the new arrivals a cold...

Max Fleischer is going to a shooting gallery, so he practices on Koko and Fitz, sending them both to Paradise in this slightly erratic but funny...

Max is taking a railroad trip and pulls out his pen to draw Koko, Fitz and a railroad. Maybe the trip is too bumpy, because nothing works as it is...

Part of the 'Inkwell Imps' series.

Koko the Clown's little brother comes to visit and wreaks havoc in Max Fleischer's studio.

Max Fleischer draws Koko and a haunted house, while his colleague and the janitor mess around with a Ouija board. When Max goes over to take a look,...

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...

Max Fleischer and his wife or girlfriend have a cute little dog with them at the studio. Max decides to draw the dog but every time he does, the...

Max tricks Koko with a jumping bean. Koko finds a way to duplicate himself to get his revenge.

Koko The Clown continually interrupts an animator, who turns his attention to trapping the clown.

Koko the Clown discovers a machine that can make cartoons.

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

In 'Trapped', we see the cartoonist's hands as still photograph cut-outs, manipulated in front of the camera to look like live-action movie footage....

This fascinating series features Max himself, filmed in live action, sitting at a drawing board and concocting adventures for his star performer...

In this one, Max has run low on ink, so Ko-Ko finishes drawing himself and then heads over to the camera room, where he creates his own characters, a...

Koko the clown is sent to the nut house by Max.

In a return to the Out of the Inkwell format, Betty Boop invents a pep formula to speed up lazy Pudgy, but it escapes into the real world with rapid...

Artist Max Fleischer draws a spool of thread and a needle. The needle then penetrates a blank canvas and, stitch by stitch, we see Koko the Clown...

First, Max, in his pyjamas, gets back up and draws an isolated mountain area and puts Koko on top of a steep mountain. "That will keep you busy for...

Max has a toothache, and it's up to The Clown and a bespectacled rabbit to pull out the aching tooth.

Max and Koko The Clown bet who can blow the biggest soap bubble.

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

Ko-Ko is up to his usual mischief as Max prepares to run a track race.

Irene Bordoni sings the title song in French and English with a Bouncing Ball. Cartoon sequences: Betty Boop as a cabaret emcee and cigarette girl; a...

Koko the Clown and his creator, Max Fleischer, go on a strange journey to Puzzle Town.

Koko the Clown is antagonized by flying insects.

A friend of KoKo's animator draws a haunted house, and KoKo and his dog Fitz go inside. There, they encounter frightening hallways where every door...

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...

Max is moving out of his studio, so Ko-Ko the Inkwell Clown packs up everything in sight (even using a super-charged vacuum cleaner that sucks up the...

Leonard Maltin tells about the Fleischer Studio between featuring assorted cartoons from the Fleischers.

A birthday celebration with Max Fleischer's Inkwell Clown.

A door to door salesman visits Betty Boop's home with a long line of useless household gadgets.

Max is moving out of his studio, so Ko-Ko the Inkwell Clown packs up everything in sight (even using a super-charged vacuum cleaner that sucks up the...

Ko-Ko wants to learn how chop suey is made, and Ko-Ko and Fitz have their fun with a caricatured Chinese character.

Pudgy the pup meets the female pup next door, whose snobbish owner calls him a "little nobody". A pep talk from Betty Boop turns Pudgy into a hero.

Betty Boop takes her stage act on the road, and plays in Japan to great acclaim.

Betty Boop, annoyed by 'public pests' like backslappers, gum parkers, and mud splashers, imagines what she'd do to them if she were a judge.

A British reissue of a Fleischer Inklings short with sound narration.

While Betty Boop is away, the kittens get into mischief. Will Pudgy the pup take the blame as usual?

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

After The Daily Planet receives a letter from a mad scientist threatening to wreak destruction with his Electrothanasia Ray, Lois Lane heads out in...

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!

A scientist uses an earthquake machine to threaten the city, and only Superman can stop his extortion plan!

Koko is recruiting customers for a 50 cent sightseeing tour of the museum. Betty is Koko's only passenger. Betty gets locked inside by accident. The...

Animated figure Talkie gets a visit from his friend Mutie in search for a job. Talkie takes him to the Western Electric sound lab...

Bimbo finds himself surrounded by a mysterious group of robed figures who invite him to become a member of their secret organisation. When he...

Max Fleischer draws Koko and a haunted house, while his colleague and the janitor mess around with a Ouija board. When Max goes over to take a look,...

A combination of live action footage and stop-action animation is utilized to illustrate the theory of evolution.

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

A Popular Science Monthly film demonstrating how life on the moon would be different than life on Earth.

Cinderella must arrive home in her new coach by midnight, or else she will lose her coach, her new dress, and the prince.

A (lost?) Stone Age Cartoon

An initially realistic chess game becomes a chaotic, animated quest for the favors of Betty Boop (the black queen) by Bimbo (white king) and others,...

On a South Sea isle, Bimbo meets Betty in the guise of a hula dancer.

Noah seems to have major problems with his animals when they all get restless and leave the ship to go to Coney Island and Luna Park to get away from...

The Round Towners Quartet sings the title song with a Bouncing Ball. Cartoon sequence: Betty Boop and Bimbo go ice skating.

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

The Clown (yet to be named KoKo) provokes Max, suggesting that he would win handily in a fight if they were the same size. Max obliges, drawing a...

The Clown (yet to be named KoKo) holds a contest, offering 100 dollars to whomever can ride “Dynamite” the trick mule for five minutes....

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

When Max dons a clown costume for a masquerade party, Ko-Ko takes to taunting him. Intending to get back at Ko-Ko, Max jumps into his own...

Ko-Ko the Inkwell Clown spends a vacation at a rubbery amusement park.

The Inkwell Clown battles a boxing kangaroo.

Max helps the Inkwell Clown prepare for a family reunion.

The Inkwell Clown battles a boxing kangaroo.

Max helps the Inkwell Clown prepare for a family reunion.

Neighborhood cats come to the tiny Ko-Ko Theatre to watch Ko-Ko and Fitz stage a variety of entertaining acts, from acrobatics to high-diving to...

Ko-Ko Song Car-Tunes, Song Car-Tunes, or (some sources erroneously say) Sound Car-Tunes, is a series of short three-minute animated films produced by...

Neighborhood cats come to the tiny Ko-Ko Theatre to watch Ko-Ko and Fitz stage a variety of entertaining acts, from acrobatics to high-diving to...

A couple goes to the World's Fair.

19th century song pluggers in vaudeville theaters and in the streets invited audiences to join in the chorus; this tradition of participation...

A young boy obsessed with trains sneaks out to play with the real trains that run just a few feet from the fence around his house. When he falls off...

Koko the Clown discovers a machine that can make cartoons.

The Inkwell Clown runs away from Max and winds up falling through a crack in the floorboards and into a fiery Hell.

KoKo assembles fellow clowns from around the globe to defend earth from a martian attack.

KoKo accidentally spills ink on Max’s letter. An irritated Max draws him an oversized sparring partner. Remarkably, KoKo somehow manages to...

Koko fights with his shadow while under hypnosis.

Max draws Koko on the drawing board. He then receives a call and leaves. Koko leaves after but not before taking some money from Max's wallet that he...

One of the "Out of the Inkwell" series of silent short films featuring a combination of live action and hand-drawn animation.

Ko-Ko and Fitz try to make a humorless Indian laugh.

Popeye brings his magical dog, The Jeep, over to see Olive and Swee'pea, just as the tyke has escaped from his crib. The Jeep leads Popeye on a merry...

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a timeless family holiday classic.

When things go wrong at the circus, it's up to Superman to stop the escaped animals.

Criminals with rocket powered car loot and extort the city, and only Superman can stop them!

Popeye and Bluto run adjoining (and competing) fire companies. When Olive's huge house catches fire, they are soon more interested in fighting each...

Popeye's elderly father, Pappy, wants to go out at night. Popeye wants him to sleep.

Max creates a penny arcade with a shooting gallery, much to the detriment of Ko-Ko and Fitz the Dog.

Ko-Ko competes against a rival clown in a race.

Crime strikes the vegetable world when Mrs. Mama Carrot awakens and finds her children have been carrot-napped. She summons the Irish-Potato Police...

Betty Boop hosts a Hallowe'en party with a few uninvited guests.

A humanized dog comes from a bar and fights with his shadow in the dark just before a bouncing ball comes on and the singer warbles "I'm Afraid to...

"The Einstein Theory of Relativity" is the short version (587 m) of the lost American long version (1219 m) of Hanns Walter Kornblum's original...

"The Einstein Theory of Relativity" is the short version (587 m) of the lost American long version (1219 m) of Hanns Walter Kornblum's original...

Betty drudges in the kitchen alone until her friends (including Bimbo and Koko) hold a surprise birthday party for her… which gets rowdy.

Popeye is having a dream. In it, Bluto interupts his and Olive's flirtations with one another and keeps having the upper hand.

Betty Boop and Bimbo run away from home, but that night they are scared by a chorus of ghosts singing the title song.

Popeye and Bluto fight for the love of Olive Oyl in their debut short, featuring Betty Boop.

Popeye and Olive Oyl visit a rodeo.

Popeye and Olive Oyl visit a rodeo.

Follow the bouncing ball sing-along

Popeye skates over to Olive's house to give her a Christmas present: ice skates of her own. While he's teaching her, Bluto skates up and gets fresh;...

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

Directed by Dave Fleischer.

An extremely brief rundown of the history and construction of the lunch wagon, commonly found on studio lots-- that still manages to fit in a little...

A toyshop owner tells a little girl the story behind the two dolls she's fallen in love with.

Koko The Clown continually interrupts an animator, who turns his attention to trapping the clown.

Koko The Clown continually interrupts an animator, who turns his attention to trapping the clown.

Part of Max Fleischer's "Out of the Inkwell" series.

Part of Max Fleischer's "Out of the Inkwell" series.

When a Native American artist sells a selection of his background drawings and original characters to Fleischer, Koko gives the new arrivals a cold...

Max is taking a railroad trip and pulls out his pen to draw Koko, Fitz and a railroad. Maybe the trip is too bumpy, because nothing works as it is...

Max Fleischer is going to a shooting gallery, so he practices on Koko and Fitz, sending them both to Paradise in this slightly erratic but funny...

Part of the 'Inkwell Imps' series.

Max Fleischer draws a clown, who comes alive on the page. The clown doesn't like the way he is drawn and demonstrates his own artistic abilities.

Max Fleischer draws a clown, who comes alive on the page. The clown doesn't like the way he is drawn and demonstrates his own artistic abilities.

Max Fleischer draws a clown, who comes alive on the page. The clown doesn't like the way he is drawn and demonstrates his own artistic abilities.

Part of Max Fleischer's "Out of the Inkwell" series.

Part of Max Fleischer's "Out of the Inkwell" series.

Ko-Ko the Clown and his dog Fitz walk into a building where levers that control various aspects of the Earth are located. After Fitz presses a...

Gabby is forced to take care of a strange animal called a Kango.

Gabby goes camping with the Mayor.

Gabby teaches a young boy how to fish, even though the boy was doing much better without him.

Gabby is a servant in a castle and is required to do a little housework.

An old-fashioned "Burlesk" variety show, mostly animated with a live-action performance of "I'm Playing with Fire" by the Watson Sisters.

Betty Boop appears on stage with Freddie in an old-fashioned mortgage melodrama.

Robbers target a special train carrying a billion dollars worth of gold, and the only one who can stop them is Superman!

When police interfere with a reckless scientist's experiment, it creates a deadly meteor shower only Superman can stop.

“Tramp, Tramp, Tramp the Boys Are Marching” features a song that dates back to the Civil War, one which was still familiar to audiences...

Superman battles a criminal mastermind and his robot army.

Superman comes to the rescue when a volcano erupts.

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a timeless family holiday classic.

A film in the “Out of the Inkwell” series, an early animated short from Max Fleischer.

Koko the Clown discovers a machine that can make cartoons.

A drunk mouse dances out of a newspaper office and posts leaflets advertising a Hot Time.

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...

Two sailors Sindbad and Popeye decide to test themselves in order to prove their supremacy. Popeye is then presented with a series of daunting tasks...

Popeye the Sailor, accompanied by Olive Oyl and Wimpy, is dispatched to stop the dreaded bandit Abu Hassan and his force of forty thieves.

Lighting Sketches of US Presidents and world locations.

A film in the “Out of the Inkwell” series, an early animated short from Max Fleischer.

A film in the “Out of the Inkwell” series, an early animated short from Max Fleischer.

A film in the “Out of the Inkwell” series, an early animated short from Max Fleischer.

Max Fleischer considers hiring a new cartoonist. While the new guy draws Max's portrait, Koko gets into a fight with a cartoon Chinese man.

Max Fleischer considers hiring a new cartoonist. While the new guy draws Max's portrait, Koko gets into a fight with a cartoon Chinese man.

Max Fleischer considers hiring a new cartoonist. While the new guy draws Max's portrait, Koko gets into a fight with a cartoon Chinese man.

Max Fleischer draws Koko and a haunted house, while his colleague and the janitor mess around with a Ouija board. When Max goes over to take a look,...

Bell Telephone instructional film shows how - and how not - to treat your upright desk telephone set. Don't wiggle the hook excessively, don't tangle...

In a return to the Out of the Inkwell format, Betty Boop invents a pep formula to speed up lazy Pudgy, but it escapes into the real world with rapid...

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

The happy tranquility of Bugville is shattered when the populace learns that a colossal skyscraper is to be built over their tiny town.

Animated drawings illustrate the Nebular Theory for the creation of our solar system and the Earth, showing how molten masses spun off from the Sun...

Popeye takes Olive roller skating in a rink. She's never skated before, so he has to teach her, and she's not a quick learner. Before long Olive ends...

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…

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

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

Ko-Ko the Clown enters a storybook and uses Aladdin's magic lamp to make his wishes come true.

Ko-Ko the Clown visits the country.

Ko-Ko gathers eggs on a farm while Max works on an incubator.

The first of a series of 12 compilation features (number 1-12)made for theatres to use as a Saturday Matinee offering aimed strictly at children....

Irene Bordoni sings the title song in French and English with a Bouncing Ball. Cartoon sequences: Betty Boop as a cabaret emcee and cigarette girl; a...

Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput and attempts to prevent war between that tiny kingdom and its equally-miniscule rival, Blefiscu, as well as smooth...

Olive Oyl's screenplay for an Aladdin movie comes to life and Popeye battles for control of a genie in this, the last of the three Popeye color films.

An elderly couple reminisce about their youth and courtship while looking through their collection of stereoscopic photographs.

The Eclipse of the Sun was a science film released in July 1918, one month after a solar eclipse visible across the United States. This film was...

On a special train, Betty's show troupe rehearses: Betty sings, Bimbo juggles, and Koko does a soft-shoe. The train itself also does tricks.

Koko the Clown leads his Koko Kwartet through a rendition of "Has Anyone Here Seen Kelly?", a British music hall song about an Irish girl who gets...

A celebration of art by legendary animator Max Fleischer. Features: KoKo's Kozy Korner (1928), Somewhere in Dreamland (1936), Any Rags? (1932), Small...

Popeye, feeling sorry for the puppies in the window of Olive Oyl's pet shop, buys all the animals (mostly dogs) and sets them free. A parrot declines...

Al Shean performs a solo version of the classic vaudeville song "Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean".

Bimbo's minding his baby brother, but neighbor Betty Boop (with dog's ears) wants him to come over and play.

Ko-Ko and Fitz emerge from an inkwell into the sultan's harem.

Ko-Ko the Clown thinks being a hero is easy, but his animator tries to prove him otherwise

A friend of KoKo's animator draws a haunted house, and KoKo and his dog Fitz go inside. There, they encounter frightening hallways where every door...

At an orphanage, the children are sad because they received used defective toys as gifts. Professor Grampy sees the children while passing by in his...

A live-action amateur hypnotist mesmerizes Ko-Ko the clown and Fitz the dog; but a witch teaches them how to take their revenge…

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

A series of rare Max Fleischer sound cartoon shorts released by animation historian Jerry Beck. Fleischer was a pioneer in the development of the...

In a circus tent, Betty, Bimbo and Koko demonstrate some gadgets reminiscent of TV ads; an animated sewing machine gets out of hand.

Betty Boop and Freddie appear on stage in a melodrama, wherein Betty sings the title song to the villain.

A collection of animals goes to school; their teacher, a goose, asks them several questions, during which time an ape, sitting behind an elephant,...

Betty encounters The Little King when, bored by the opera, he sneaks out to join in with her rodeo routine.

Betty Boop is singing on stage and is joined by a series of very funny alternate stars... a set of babies.

An orchestra puts on a symphony.

Curious penguins investigate an abandoned cabin, heedless of their mother's warning that "curiosity killed the cat."

The courtship of two swans is interrupted by a third swan, who demonstrates his prowess at catching fish. The pen falls for him and leaves her mate,...

Henry, comic strip character, gets a job at Betty Boop's pet store.

For customer Betty Boop, psychic reader Prof. Bimbo conjures up an adventure on a haunted tropical island in his crystal ball.

Betty Boop's baking is interrupted by her obnoxious practical joking cousin Irving. Can Grampy out-joke the joker?

Housecleaning blues are just what Betty Boop has the morning after a wild party. Grampy to the rescue!

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

Dave Fleischer sends Koko to Mars.

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

An "Out of the Inkwell" cartoon featuring Ko-Ko the Clown.

A lady is rescued from a villain by a heroic young man, who then takes her for a spin in his Oldsmobile.

Popeye is trying to take a nap, but he's plagued by house flies that keep landing on him. He gets rid of most of them, but one in particular seems...

Popeye skates over to Olive's house to give her a Christmas present: ice skates of her own. While he's teaching her, Bluto skates up and gets fresh;...

Betty Boop campaigns for Grampy to be the new mayor and he wins. As soon as he takes office, the citizens come out from everywhere to complain and to...

Popeye and Olive, adrift on a raft, land on what apparently is Africa, and are immediately battling elephants and gorillas (also a moose!). Popeye...

Betty Boop is training a flock of pigeons, but one stray leads Pudgy the pup on a precarious chase.

This short animation is dubbed a "Paramount Screen Souvenir" is a lost Fleischer Studios Screen Song featuring Betty Boop and Bimbo.

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...

Olive reads a ghost story to Popeye and Bluto. Bluto leaves and rigs a haunted house and lures them to it. But they quickly discover him and, even...

Betty Boop is incensed at her farmer neighbor's cruelty to his animals. Grampy knows how to teach him a lesson.

Max and Dave Fliescher are eating hot dogs in their animation studio and begin drawing. The hot dog becomes a "real" dog, and it and Ko-Ko the Clown...

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...

Strange goings-on in a department store, which is having a fire sale while it's on fire. Mice run a movie projector. In a live-action sequence, the...

Koko is trying to rescue his sweetheart, who is trapped atop a rugged mountain. However, when Max Fleischer runs out of ink, how will he draw the...

Koko is trying to rescue his sweetheart, who is trapped atop a rugged mountain. However, when Max Fleischer runs out of ink, how will he draw the...

Popeye is running a women's gymnasium next door to Bluto's cabaret. Seeing Popeye's greater success with women, Bluto dresses in drag and challenges...

This collection of vintage cartoons is not only a loopy primer on animation history; it is also an offbeat reflection of western "civilization" in...

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

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...

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.

Bimbo becomes a long distance accordion champ and comes through with a load of credit.

Popeye teaches Olive the art of self-defense, which comes in handy when a woman boxer flirts with him.

The miners at Never Mine go to Betty Boop's Tavern (a jazz-jumpin' place) for lunch. Back in the mine, Bimbo delves into weird realms.

Popeye is wooing Olive on the phone when Bluto comes over. He overhears, taps into the line, and impersonates Popeye. They proceed to have a...

Pudgy the Pup makes a mess of Betty Boop's picnic, is sent home, and runs afoul of the dog catcher.

Popeye takes Swee'pea to the zoo and spends most of his time rescuing the tot from the various animals.

Olive tells Popeye and Bluto that she loves a man in a uniform, so they try to sign up at the recruiting station - that can only take one of them.

When the lights of the city go dim, all of the kitties are let outdoors to prowl. Holding a meeting, they come up with a plan to rid themselves of a...

Popeye and Olive are grooving to the sounds of Wimpy the organ grinder, but their neighbor Bluto wants him to move on. Popeye and Bluto settle their...

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

Sun bonneted Betty Boop takes a train to "Rudy Valley" where she gains weight and Rudy Vallee performs the title song with Bouncing Ball.

Fleischer Studios giving "Please Go 'Way and Let Me Sleep" the 'Screen Song' bouncing ball treatment.

Jack and Jill Rabbit get hitched in this classic Fleischer Studios cartoon (made a year before Bugs Bunny hit the scene).

Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh is looking for a squaw. Meanwhile, Popeye and Olive are wrestling with their recalcitrant mule and Olive accidentally lands...

When Olive Oyl's house burns down, firefighters Popeye and Wimpy decide to build her a new house.

Popeye gives Olive a parrot that he's trained. Bluto sets the bird free and then tries to kill it.

Popeye and Bluto pick up Olive to celebrate New Year's Eve with them. Popeye brings along her granny out of sympathy.

Olive takes Popeye to Professor Bluteau to learn some manners.

Olive is reading a romance novel and munching on a gift box of candy from Bluto when Popeye drops by. She's too absorbed to notice him, so he feigns...

Olive has a small leak in a pipe; she makes the mistake of calling Wimpy to fix it, and the even bigger mistake of asking Popeye to help her do...

Popeye's fan club sends a telegram asking them to tone down the violence and act civilized. So everyone dresses up and acts formal - for a while, at...

Olive invites Popeye over for a hamburger dinner. His roommate Wimpy hears this and disguises himself as Popeye in order to be who enjoys the feast.

Popeye spanks Swee'Pea and sends him to bed without supper. He wrestles with his conscience over this, while Swee'Pea packs a bundle and runs away...

After Uplift Society-champion Crabbine Hicks has the musical revue shut down, her son Buster hides the out-of-work chorus girls in their home, while...

Popeye has replaced Bluto in the Spinach Theatre's production of Romeo and Juliet (Olive, of course), much to Bluto's surprise and dismay. Bluto does...

Olive has a map that shows the location of her secret gold mine, but while she's showing it to Popeye, claim jumper Bluto photographs it and gets...

Olive Oyl brings her new pet goldfish onto Popeye's ship, but the fish jumps out of its bowl and into the sea. Olive pressures Popeye to go after it.

The race is on for the state railroad franchise: It's the Onion Pacific - Popeye - against the Sudden Pacific - Bluto. There's a kiss from Olive for...

Mystery Pictures is looking for a stunt man. Swee'pea tags along with Popeye, but he sends the tot home. Popeye shows clips of his stunts to the...

Popeye has a new car; Olive wants a driving lesson. Things don't go well.

William Tell shoots an arrow, barely missing Popeye, then tells Popeye that he has just lost his son in an unfortunate arrow incident. Tell then...

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;...

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...

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

Poopdeck Pappy has a hangover. He asks Popeye to help him by keeping the noise down. Among the disturbances he deals with: a crying baby across the...

Popeye and Olive compete as partners in a dance contest. Naturally, Bluto butts in.

Olive gets a phone call that she has won first prize in a sweepstake. After a frantic search, she locates her ticket, only to have it blow out the...

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...

Popeye wants to get Olive a fur coat, but after a run-in with dishonest furrier Geezil decides the best way is to go hunting for a bear himself.

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

Olive's garden is being raided by some very persistent crows; she calls Popeye for help, and it takes him the rest of the cartoon to hit on the...

Humorous "sketches" of human interest stories by Max Fleischer, who headed Jam Handy's animation department in the mid 1940s and 1950s.

Bimbo is seen late at night, trying to steal a chicken. He runs away from a policeman and enters a haunted cemetery. Various ghosts and monsters tell...

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.

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...

Already running late to see his girl, Bimbo the dog finds that his car is seriously ill. Bimbo calls the doctor, who rushes over in his jalopy and...

An animated interpretation of a rocket voyage to the moon demonstrates the scientific principles at play in theoretical space travel (such as...

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...

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?

Series of animated vignettes linked by a disembodied hand which appears to be drawing the illustrations.

Olive is going shopping and drops Swee'pea off for Popeye to watch. Popeye carves a sailboat for him, but the tyke spots Popeye's battleship, and the...

Popeye takes Olive to a stage show of a hypnotist (Bluto), who also levitates objects. While he's doing this, Popeye makes him lose his...

Pierre Bluto, running a logging camp, has thrown Olive into the river because he didn't like her spinach. Popeye rescues her and proceeds to beat...

Popeye and Bluto agree that women are too much trouble, so they agree to swear off them, which lasts about five seconds, until Olive comes on board...

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...

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...

The boys arrive at Olive's house at the same time, but at different doors. They both come in, and whenever Olive isn't looking, they start fighting....

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...

Popeye and Olive open a diner, singing the title song. Alas, their first two customers are Wimpy (who actually gets them to fall for the "gladly pay...

Policeman Wimpy loses his handcuffed prisoner when he's distracted by a hamburger shop. The escapee drops into the weapon-filled pawnshop Popeye and...

Olive runs some kind of boarding school. She serves her charges a huge bowl of spinach, but they are less than enthusiastic about it. Popeye comes by...

Bluto is the boxing champ, Popeye his challenger, Wimpy the timekeeper. Popeye is pounded mercilessly until Olive comes by with a can of spinach.

Betty Boop (with dog's ears) is moving; Bimbo comes with his moving van and is smitten with her. Songs: "Moving Day," "Hello Beautiful."

Popeye and Bluto each wants to save Olive as she sleepwalks onto a construction site. But most of their efforts go into preventing each other from...

Popeye, Olive, and Wimpy stumble across a ghost ship. They climb aboard, and it proceeds to scare them in various ways.

Popeye and Olive Oyl can't ignore it when produce vendor Bluto comes by with his terribly overloaded cart, whipping his horse and denying it water....

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...

Popeye and Olive are attending a football game; Bluto's team takes the field, and Olive is swept off her feet, becoming a cheerleader for him. Popeye...

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...

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...

A Mardi Gras celebration, looking pretty much like any carnival. Bluto is a strongman, claiming to be King of the Mardi Gras, and drawing a large...

Popeye and Olive are taking a ferry run by Bluto. When they find out the fare, they decide, with Wimpy, to build a bridge. Bluto does what he can to...

Wimpy is such a terrible helper that blacksmith Olive fires him. Both Popeye and Bluto see the help wanted sign; they compete for the position. Of...

Wimpy is working for Bluto in his diner and trying to filch all the food he can eat. Popeye comes in and orders roast duck, but Wimpy grabs the...

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

Popeye is sitting outside Olive's lunchroom at the airport, distraught. She's closed the business to fly away with an aviator (Bluto, of course). But...

Baseball: Bluto's Bears vs. Popeye's Pirates, and both Bluto and Popeye have girlfriends cheering them on.

'Popito' and 'Olivita' are a dance team, performing at Wimpy's Cafe. Bluto is jealous, and heckles and otherwise disrupts the act.

Popeye drives up to take Olive for a ride, but Bluto in his much fancier car does what he can to spoil their jaunt.

Popeye, an employee at Useless Machine Works, is on his lunch break when Olive stops by and Swee'Pea crawls into the factory. He narrowly misses...

Bluto dirties all of an office building's windows himself, to drum up business for his window cleaning service. When he gets to Olive's stenographer...

Swee-Pea is reluctant to eat his spinach, so Popeye tells him about the football game when he was young (against Bluto, with Olive cheering and Wimpy...

To get at nurse Olive, Popeye and Bluto fake various illnesses. Olive sees through this and tells them they need to be either very sick or hurt real...

More than just a landmark in superhero animation, Max Fleischer's Superman shorts were no less than the foundation for so many shows that succeeded...

A poor boy and girl in rags gather wood in the snow. They pass by a tailor, a butcher and a baker, all of whom pity the children. Later, they arrive...

Betty Boop tries to give Pudgy the Pup a bath, with slapstick results.

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...

Betty Boop and Little Jimmy are prevented by a thunderstorm from going to the carnival. Inventive Grampy devises a substitute.

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

A cartoon in the Animated Antics series from the Fleischer Studios about Zero the Hound.

A mother dinosaur hatches three little cuties, but the fourth is "ugly." He gets an inferiority complex because his brothers won't play with him, and...

A comic look at prehistoric life.

Spies Sneak, Snoop and Snitch try to sneak up on the king while he is sleeping in order to steal some riches.

Betty falls asleep doing a jigsaw puzzle and finds herself through the looking glass into a modern, urban wonderland. The shrinking potion comes from...

Betty Boop, sleepless on a freezing night, builds a nice hot fire which proves too much of a good thing; in a dream she visits Hell, sings "Hell's...

Betty Boop tells naughty Little Jimmy a corrective fairy tale.