Dave Fleischer — Director (227)
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Sky Scraping (1930)
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Dave Fleischer
A Dave Fleischer's Talkartoon Sound Cartoon Featuring Bimbo. As work begins on a high-rise building, Bimbo is too lazy, and all he thinks about is getting some sleep. The crazy building structure goes straight into the sky and through the moon.
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Ko-Ko at the Circus (1926)
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Dave Fleischer actor: Max Fleischer
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 Fitz find ways to take on their oversized rival.
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The Einstein Theory of Relativity (1923)
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Dave Fleischer
other title: Die Grundlagen der Einsteinschen Relativitätstheorie / 아인슈타인 상대성 이론
"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 German feature "Die Grundlagen der Einsteinschen Relativitäts-Theorie" from 1922 that is also lost.
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Doing Impossikible Stunts (1940)
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Dave Fleischer actor: Jack Mercer / Margie Hines
other title: La Cascade
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 director, who is impressed; when he goes to put on the last reel, Swee'pea, who snuck back in, hands him Lost and Foundry (1937), which features Swee'pea saving the day. The director signs Swee'pea.
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Protek the Weakerist (1937)
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Dave Fleischer actor: Jack Mercer / Mae Questel …
other title: Pour protéger les plus faibles
Olive asks Popeye to walk her dog Fluffy, but Popeye is embarrassed because Fluffy is as weak looking as the name implies. Sure enough, when Bluto and his bulldog come by, the dogs (and their owners) get in a fight.
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Popeye's Premiere (1949)
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Dave Fleischer actor: Jack Mercer / Mae Questel …
other title: La première de Popeye
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 even handing the screen version of himself a can of spinach. The movie itself is the story of Aladdin, minus the songs and about half the footage of the short it's cut from.
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Honest Love and True (1938)
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Dave Fleischer
Betty Boop and her players put on a theatrical show of wintry Canada, with a villainous cad, a mounted officer, and the leading lady herself as the heroine who sings the title song.
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Always Kickin' (1939)
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Dave Fleischer
Hunky is teaching her son Spunky how to kick properly. She has him practice with a mattress propped against a tree. Spunky befriends a family of birds who are building a nest. Spunky copies their design and builds a nest of his own. Although he is a donkey, he tries to imitate the birds in flight and falls out of his nest.
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Time for Love (1935)
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Dave Fleischer
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, but when the interloper begins treating her cruelly and chases her around the pond, her old flame intercedes and chases the evil swan away.
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Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (The Boys Are Marching) (1926)
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Dave Fleischer
“Tramp, Tramp, Tramp the Boys Are Marching” features a song that dates back to the Civil War, one which was still familiar to audiences of the 1920s. The cartoon begins as Koko the Clown emerges from an inkwell-- an iconic image for animation buffs --and then steps over to a chalkboard to draw an orchestra. The band, “Koko's Glee Club,” marches to a nearby cinema (accompanied by a dog who beats cymbals with his tail) where they lead the audience in the title song.
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Little Lamby (1937)
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Dave Fleischer
The fox spots a little lamb and disguises himself with a beard and bushy eyebrows. He posts an announcement for a baby contest, and the animal mothers spruce up their little ones (a rabbit and a pig). Meanwhile, the fox builds his judging stand. Several contestants are rejected: a squirrel, three ducklings, a whole family of rabbits, before the winner, little lamby.