Dave Fleischer Movies

Made by Max Fleischer as part of Paramount's "Screen Songs" series, and combining cartoon action with live performers. Opens as a cartoon showing...

In this one, we get simple variations of people heading off to a May Day celebration, carrying a Maypole and a hippopotamus to serve as the Queen of...

A "Screen Songs" short mixing live action with cartoons. The animated section deals with what will be seen on the television sets of the future,...

Fleischer Studios giving "Sweet Jennie Lee" the 'Screen Song' bouncing ball treatment.

The title song is sung with the Bouncing Ball, plus animated sequence.

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...

A Ko-Ko Song Car-Tunes short

Ethel Merman sings the title song with a Bouncing Ball. Animated sequence: a cat burglar, just out of jail, raids Betty Boop's icebox.

When Gabby tries to make everything well, he comes to fussy baby and attempts to change the baby's diaper. Can Gabby change the baby's diaper? Find...

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

"Out of the Inkwell” cartoon by Fleischer Studios.

Telephone current (personified as an animated messenger boy) travels to and fro across telephone wires to demonstrate what happens when a call is...

Betty Boop is a poor-but-honest-actress in the Gay 90s who, hungry and cold, gets a job as a singer in a dance-hall saloon.

Gus Arnheim and his band play the title song, sung by June Robbins (with Bouncing Ball). Animated sequence:...

White boy and girl cats spoon at a desk. A black boy cat comes to call. She sends him away, but he tries to lure her with catnip on the end of a...

Another sing-a-long Fleischer cartoon, this time starring Rudy Vallee

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

This Out of the Inkwell cartoon features the Fleischer Studios continuing character, Ko-Ko, seeming to draw himself, and to battle with the...

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

At Betty Boop's Animal Hospital, various species have appropriate ailments. Morale becomes a problem; Professor Grampy to the rescue!