Movies: Dave Fleischer

Overworked as cook and dishwasher at a busy diner, Betty Boop calls it quits and accepts a job as nursery attendant at Bundle From Heaven Nursery....

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 popular icon since the 1930s....

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

In the only Betty Boop color cartoon, Cinderella (Betty) goes to the ball thanks to her fairy godmother. Later, only her foot fits the glass slipper....

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....

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!...

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

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 the winner!...

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

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

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 alarmingly end up inside a Gas Chamber....

Popeye walks around while singing his theme song, followed by a sing-along....

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

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

Betty Boop runs for president in a loose storyline assembled from Fleischer cartoons redrawn by Korean animators....

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 Popeye to various feats of strength....

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 up outside the rink, rolling wildly out of control....

Popeye and Olive, adrift on a raft, land on what apparently is Africa, and are immediately battling elephants and gorillas (also a moose!). Popeye eventually battles an entire menagerie at once - after first gulping down a can of spinach, of course....

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 there first....