There are times in the early Fleischer sound cartoons where characters talk but don’t move their mouths. Then you have the exact opposite in...

Buried in the “Coming and Going” column of Film Daily of July 13, 1936 is this item: BESSIE MAES, animator connected with the Max Fleische...

The Fleischer Screen Song Come Take a Trip in My Airship (1930) doesn’t start out with a trip or an airship. A piano is delivered to the ap...

Although Felix the Cat is my favourite silent film star, the work of the Fleischer studio in that era is creative and enjoyable. I’m not re...

Popeye was invincible after eating spinach, so the Fleischer staff found ways to make it backfire. In Can You Take It (1934), Popeye leaps...

Spinach doesn’t just work on “hu-mings” in the Popeye cartoons. In Strong to the Finich (1934), the sailor demonstrates to the sick-of-eati...

Imaginative visual gags are part of what makes the Screen Songs created at the Fleischer studio in the early 1930s so much fun to watch. He...