Showing posts with label Fleischer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fleischer. Show all posts

Monday, December 23, 2013

Christmas Comes But Once A Year (1936)

A creepy old man with a creepy laugh thinks it's a good idea to break into an orphanage on Christmas Day. That's not the way you're supposed to take it, but it's not untrue.

Dig the sneaky use of models at the beginning and end that look convincingly hand-drawn... until the camera moves, and you get a better idea of what you're looking at. Very innovative stuff.



Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Ha Ha Ha

Predating "Duck Amuck" by almost 20 years, this Betty Boop cartoon depicts Betty interacting with her creator, "Uncle Max" Fleischer.

Some of the material in this short is a recycling of Koko the Clown's "The Cure," which similarly showed characters interacting with their creators nearly three decades before "Duck Amuck!"


Monday, March 18, 2013

Koko the Clown, The Cure

Predating "Duck Amuck" by nearly three decades, this is an early experiment with cartoon characters interacting with their creators.