Max Fleischer Movies

An animated interpretation of a rocket voyage to the moon demonstrates the scientific principles at play in theoretical space travel (such as...

Olive sends a farewell letter to Popeye: She's over sailors; it's cowboys for her; she's gone out west, to Bar None Ranch. Popeye immediately travels...

Ko-Ko and Fitz emerge from an inkwell into the sultan's harem.

Betty Boop tells naughty Little Jimmy a corrective fairy tale.

Max Fleischer draws a clown, who comes alive on the page. The clown doesn't like the way he is drawn and demonstrates his own artistic abilities.

In this one, Max has run low on ink, so Ko-Ko finishes drawing himself and then heads over to the camera room, where he creates his own characters, a...

Betty Boop is incensed at her farmer neighbor's cruelty to his animals. Grampy knows how to teach him a lesson.

Betty Boop tries to give Pudgy the Pup a bath, with slapstick results.

Gabby teaches a young boy how to fish, even though the boy was doing much better without him.

A toyshop owner tells a little girl the story behind the two dolls she's fallen in love with.

Popeye gives Olive a parrot that he's trained. Bluto sets the bird free and then tries to kill it.

Curious penguins investigate an abandoned cabin, heedless of their mother's warning that "curiosity killed the cat."

Animated drawings demonstrate how specialized German submarines laid mines in the English Channel during World War I.

After Uplift Society-champion Crabbine Hicks has the musical revue shut down, her son Buster hides the out-of-work chorus girls in their home, while...

When a Native American artist sells a selection of his background drawings and original characters to Fleischer, Koko gives the new arrivals a cold...

This fascinating series features Max himself, filmed in live action, sitting at a drawing board and concocting adventures for his star performer...

19th century song pluggers in vaudeville theaters and in the streets invited audiences to join in the chorus; this tradition of participation...

Max helps the Inkwell Clown prepare for a family reunion.

Max is too rushed to do a thorough job of drawing Koko this morning. Max is going fishing. However, to amuse the clown, he draws a fishing pole and a...

Popeye drives up to take Olive for a ride, but Bluto in his much fancier car does what he can to spoil their jaunt.