Movies: Dave Fleischer

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 ...

This short starts and ends very well, with animated sequences and a great deal of jazzy scat singing being done by various animals, all to the musical strains of the song, "You're Driving Me Crazy". There's a dancing lion which looks a bit like Betty...

When a beautiful princess escapes from the ink bottle, only to be captured by a villainous knave, Max draws a stove which he has Ko-Ko use as armor, inflates Fitz into a destrier and sends them off in a deed of daring-do....

KoKo and Fitz look into a crystal ball and are told to go East toward the crooked tree. Eager for any sort of adventure, they happily accept their quest without a question asked....

The phenomenon of radio is hot, and everyone is listening, including an overambitious goldfish, a lazy spider and three terrified mouse-children....

Koko the Clown and his dog try to become salesmen....

An Inkwell Imps short....

Fleischer Studios giving "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" the bouncing ball 'Screen Song' treatment....

A Ko-Ko Song Car-Tunes short....

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 ...

Fleischer Studios giving "Shine On Harvest Moon" the 'Screen Song' bouncing ball treatment....

A Max Fleischer Screen Songs cartoon with part of it devoted to cartoon animation and the other part to Arthur Treacy, radio's Street Singer, doing the Irving Berlin song, with words and dancing-ball double-exposed at the lower left of the frame for ...

A Ko-Ko Song Car-Tunes short....

A Ko-Ko Song Car-Tunes short....

When KoKo is sent to deliver a message to a woman across the way, things quickly get out of hand, and Fitz must come in to clean up the mess....

This one covers the 19th century ballad in a very respectful manner: although the written reprise is gagged up, the song is introduced very respectfully by an unshown Irish tenor and then offered for the audience's singing without any voice-over to l...

Fire chief Bimbo is called to a house on fire, and rescues the Boswell Sisters and their piano, who start performing "When It's Sleepy Time Down South"....

Fleischer "Out of the Inkwell" cartoon featuring Koko...

Not allowed to go to the football game, KoKo and Fitz explore the sport on their own time, unlocking some hidden potential....

An Out of the Inkwell short....