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.
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 statue like tableaux vivants.
This film was part of the Song Cartune series, produced by the New York based Max Fleischer Studio. The Fleischers partnered with sound pioneer Dr. Lee Deforest, utilizing his 'Phonofilm' optical sound system to produce these films, made well before Disney's first sound cartoon, "Steamboat Willie" (1928).
From the Fleischer Brothers, creators of Betty Boop, comes this "Screen Song." Screen Songs were early sound shorts designed for patrons to sing along with in the cinema.
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 the cord, keep away from water, etc.
The first sound cartoon ever produced and finds a dog getting ready for dinner as the story takes us into a sing-a-long with "My Old Kentucky Home".
A live-action amateur hypnotist mesmerizes Koko the clown and Fitz the dog; but a witch teaches them how to take their revenge.
Bimbo, a long-distance accordion champion's plane drops in Indian country. There, Bimbo makes violent and reciprocated love to an Indian maid. The tribe turns sour and plans a tomahawking party, but Bimbo's music turns them into jazz steppers instead.
A boy dog walks down the train tracks singing "I Ain't Got Nobody," with a train coming. He looks at a photo of his girlfriend, and she razzes him. He lies down on the tracks, but the train bypasses the section of tracks that he's lying on! He jumps off a cliff, but a tree saves him. The ball bounces... we see him on the sidewalk, crying, and singing to passersby.
Bimbo is a lumberjack at a camp and must feed a seal co-worker fish in order to keep him working.
Oswald is a student in a school with a bovine teacher.
The Herring is murdered, and detective bimbo is trying to find the murderer, but the first tracks he follows are just the one of a big footed mouse, but the killer returns to the victim....
Bimbo is walking down the street when he suddenly disappears down an open manhole, and is subsequently locked down there by a mouse who closely resembles Mickey Mouse.[1] He lands in the underground clubhouse of a secret society. The leader asks Bimbo if he would like to be a member, but Bimbo refuses and is sent through a series of dangerous events. He is repeatedly asked by the leader to join their society, but keeps refusing. Bimbo is brought through a series of mysterious doors that lead him into yet another sub-basement. Bimbo flees through various death traps before landing in front of the mysterious order's leader again. Bimbo still refuses to become a member, but finally accepts the invitation when the leader reveals to be the real Betty Boop and the rest of the society members remove their costumes, showing that they are all Betty clones. Bimbo dances with all the Betties to celebrate. The song Wanna Be a Member? is parody lyrics written to the 1919 song the Vamp (or Vamp a Little Lady).
Betty Boop is queen of the Masquerade Ball where, among other antics, Bimbo and a lecherous old man vie for her affections.
Betty and Bimbo end up in a cave with a walrus, which has Cab Calloway's voice, who sings "Minnie the Moocher" and dances to the melancholy song. Calloway is joined in the performance by various ghosts, goblins, skeletons, and other frightening things. Betty and Bimbo are subjected to skeletons drinking at a bar; ghost prisoners sitting in electric chairs; a cat with empty eye-sockets feeding her equally empty-eyed kittens; and so on. Betty and Bimbo both change their minds about running away and rush back home with every ghost right behind them. Betty makes it safely back to her home and hides under the blankets of her bed. As she shakes in terror, the note she earlier wrote to her parents tears, leaving "Home Sweet Home" on it. The film ends with Calloway performing the instrumental "Vine Street Blues".
Popeye formally introduces himself with a personal song.
A re-telling of the classic fairy tale - in true Fleischer Studios style! The first of the A Color Classic series, this is the first color cartoon that Fleischer Studios made. It is also the only Betty Boop cartoon that Fleischer Studios made in color. Because the color process was so new at the time, Betty's hair came out red!
The scene painted on a Dutch plate sitting in a china cabinet comes to life.
The teacher of a classroom full of Fleischer-style cartoon students leaves for a quick minute. What could possibly go wrong? This cartoon was featured in Pee-Wee's Playhouse: To Tell The Truth in 1988.
Honeymooning couples of various animal species take a rocket ship excursion to the moon. Spectacular lunar scenery.
A flock of robins is teaching their young ones to fly. Meanwhile, a boy with an air rifle is shooting at everything in the house. He goes out into the garden and shoots at a nest, then at one of the little birds. The bird falls to the ground, and it appears that the boy has killed it. The robins stage a bird funeral. The boy's conscience gets to him, and he falls to his kneels, crying and praying for the bird. The sky also weeps with large tears of rain, which cause the little bird to awaken. The rainbow appears, and the boy breaks his air rifle and feeds the birds, never to menace them again.
An elderly couple reminisce before a fire. The old man gets out their photo album. Through an old stereo viewer, they revisit their shared past.
The old lady who lives in a shoe has a bit of trouble with her gaggle of children.
The courtship of two swans is interrupted by a third swan, who demonstrates his prowess at catching fish.
A little boy jumps on a real train and learns a lesson about safety.
King Humpty Dumpty has a huge amount of gold, but wants more. He sees the sun, and thinks it is full of gold, so he orders his subjects (the various Mother Goose characters) to build his golden wall higher. They comply, and he reaches the sun, but when he does, the sun sends lightning bolts after him, which topple the wall.
At an orphanage, the children are sad because they received broken toys as gifts. Professor Grampy sees the children while passing by in his sled and has an idea on how to give them a merry Christmas.
Hearing hot jazz for the first time, Girl Bird is helplessly drawn to the tree where the Orioles are making music and can't help dancing-- and it isn't the minuet, folks. The bandleader invites her to join them and off she goes to the big mainland city, leaving a note for poor Boy Bird.
A twist on the classic "Ugly Duckling" story, as a baby chick accidentally gets hatched by a mother duck.
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 "flyweight champion". After a pitched battle featuring arrows (fountain pen nibs) and a machine-gun (aspirins shot from a perfume atomizer), the spider winds up in a bottle of library paste.
Betty Boop is incensed at her farmer neighbor's cruelty to his animals. But the inventive Grampy knows how to teach him a lesson.
A young brother and sister carry a wagon with pieces of wood, gathering them for their stove. The children laugh, and a chorus sings "Somewhere in Dreamland, tonight."
The cartoon features a lion dressed up as a musical conductor, attempting to keep his orchestra of animal musicians in order as they half-play, half-fight their way through the piece.
An Arabian rooster has a harem of chickens. But life is a bore until Ducky Wucky (a Mae West-styled duck) pays him a call. She's a wise quackin' gal who can be your pal!
In an underwater school for fish, bad boy Tommy Cod would rather play pinball in his desk than recite the daily lesson about hooks, fishing poles, and lines so strong. Tommy is locked out of class by the teacher to study harder. He learns his lesson the hard way when caught by a fisherman's bait.
Curious penguins investigate an abandoned cabin, heedless of their mother's warning that curiosity killed the cat.
It's the wedding of Jack and Jill Rabbit built around the song "Everybody's Getting Ready for the Wedding."
A scheming fox comes to a happy valley of animals and their babies. He stages a phony baby contest to see which baby animal appeals to his appetite.
With the help of a fancy Chevrolet car, Cinderella wins over Prince Charming.
Pudgy sees a starving kitten, looking for food in trash cans. He takes pity on the kitten, and brings it home with him.
None of the other vegetable children will have anything to do with the Little Onion, except for the cute Little Peach who has a cold.
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 neighboring dog. The cats proceed to torment him, chase him with a water hose, and try feeding him.
A couple of sticks visit the fair grounds where the World's Fair is being held, and find themselves participating in a series of adventures with the ultra-modern mechanism operated by robots.
Hunky is a mother burro and Spunky is her young son. This story takes place in the old west, where a prospector attempts to make Spunky into his pack animal.
A group of polar bears are playing with their cubs in the ice and snow. One of the cubs has a little trouble sliding and swimming.
Popeye pretends to be ill for Olive Oyl's attention.
Popeye tries to solve Olive Oyl's plumbing problem.
Popeye brings The Jeep over to Olive Oyl's place. After Swee'pea escapes from his crib, they both go out looking for him.
Popeye ends up in a bullfight against his will.
Popeye has to hide the stowaway Olive Oyl on a ship.
While searching for Pappy, Popeye finds an island of strong people.
Popeye takes Olive Oyl to a roller rink.
Popeye gets on the wrong side of a traffic cop.
A small catfish tries to grow up in a hurry, but after he is initiated as a member in the Big Fry Club, he gets scared and runs home to his mother.
Mother donkey Hunky tries to teach her son Spunky how to exercise his back kicks to kick like a "man," but he doesn't take it seriously.
Spunky is a bratty nuisance around the farm, and Hunky is reluctant to punish Spunky until the last straw breaks her back.
The setting of this cartoon is a kitchen inhabited by living vegetables. A mysterious figure kidnaps some carrot babies and several Irish potato police officers commence an investigation.
Popeye and Bluto try to win Wimpy as a customer in their penny arcades
Olive Oyl writes a script, casting Popeye as Aladdin and herself as the princess.
Olive Oyl sells Popeye all of the animals in her pet shop. He sets them free.
Popeye sleepwalks.
Bluto tries to scare Popeye and Olive Oyl with a haunted house.
Wimpy poses as Popeye to get some hamburgers.
Popeye's fans ask him to be less violent.
Swee'Pea runs away after Popeye spanks him.
A devious little boy sabotages his new city apartment so that he may return to his country home and play with his animal friends.
A classic about an anteater who makes life rough for a colony of ants. In the ant community, the queen spreads warnings of their greatest enemy, the Anteater.
Spunky the donkey is grabbed and sold to a cruel, overbearing owner. Just wait till his pal comes to save the day.
The two burros, Hunky and Spunky, try to socialize with a pair of thoroughbred racehorses.
Spunky the little donkey is being annoyed by a horsefly. His mother Hunky finally gets rid of the little pest by smashing him with her tail.
Spunky would rather eat junk than his hay. He accidentally swallows a bulb horn, which honks every time that he hiccups. This offends a pair of lovey-dovey geese, and Spunky learns his lesson the hard way.
Pop and Mom in Wild Oysters.
Very loosely based on the Edgar Allan Poe poem, the title character is a reformed criminal who now sells vacuums.
Animated demonstration showing how the Western Electric motion picture sound system works, produced by a company that was an innovator in the field.
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 revives the sick car with a dose of Texaco Motor Oil.
An animated travelogue instructs vacationing Northerners on proper tourism etiquette when visiting Miami Beach.
Series of animated vignettes linked by a disembodied hand which appears to be drawing the illustrations.
The happy tranquility of Buggsville is shattered when the populace learns that a colossal skyscraper is to be built over their tiny town.
Several rare cartoons are found in this short documentary about the Fleischer cartoons.
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a 1948 animated short film produced and directed by Max Fleischer[1] for Jam Handy based on the 1939 Robert L. May poem of the same name, about a flying reindeer who helps Santa Claus.
