Soundtrack: Sammy Timberg

Direction Dave Fleischer

Synopsis After drawing Betty Boop, Fleischer (live-action) leaves the studio; Betty and Koko try amateur dentistry, releasing enough laughing gas to convulse the 'real world.'

Direction Dave Fleischer · Seymour Kneitel · Izzy Sparber · Dan Gordon

Synopsis The Superman animated cartoons, commonly but somewhat erroneously known as the "Fleischer Superman cartoons" were a series of seventeen animated Technicolor short films, produced by Fleischer Studios from 1941 to...

Direction Dave Fleischer

Synopsis A destructive little boy with an air rifle shoots a baby bird and is mortified when the bird's parents, and all the other birds, go into mourning.

Direction Dave Fleischer

Synopsis When Lois is kidnapped by a mad scientist, she is given a demonstration of his energy cannon as he attacks Metropolis. Only Superman can stop it in his first cinematic...

Direction Dave Fleischer

Synopsis Popeye sails into Mexico, where Olive is doing the Mexican hat dance in a bar. He enjoys the show, until Bluto comes in and clears the bar, except for Popeye....

Direction Dave Fleischer

Synopsis An inventor has built powerful giant robots that can fly like planes and open banks like cans. Of course, Lois Lane gets into trouble with a robot; can Superman rescue...

Direction Dave Fleischer

Synopsis To get at nurse Olive, Popeye and Bluto fake various illnesses. Olive sees through this and tells them they need to be either very sick or hurt real bad, so...

Direction Dave Fleischer · Willard Bowsky

Synopsis In this short, Sindbad the Sailor (modeled after Bluto) proclaims himself the greatest sailor in the world and "the most remarkable, extraordinary fellow," a claim which is challenged by Popeye's...

Direction Dave Fleischer

Direction Dave Fleischer

Synopsis The headline in the "Daily Planet" announces that the world's largest shipment of gold bullion is to be shipped by train. Lois Lane is dispatched to ride the train and...

Direction Dave Fleischer

Synopsis At the Fleischer studio, a black janitor, learning to hypnotize, conjures Betty Boop out of the inkwell and tries some suggestions on her. But two can play at that game...

Direction Dave Fleischer · Seymour Kneitel

Synopsis Popeye's failures in the kitchen send him on a quest for a wife. He visits the "matrimonial agency" and picks Olive at the same time Bluto picks her. Of course,...

Direction Dave Fleischer

Synopsis In her only color cartoon, Betty Boop goes to the ball thanks to the good fairy; later, only her foot fits the glass slipper.

Direction Dave Fleischer

Synopsis A Mardi Gras celebration, looking pretty much like any carnival. Bluto is a strongman, claiming to be King of the Mardi Gras, and drawing a large crowd. Popeye, nearby, claims...

Direction Dave Fleischer

Synopsis Everyone loves the wheat cakes served by short-order cook Betty, but they have a drawback. With Bimbo and Koko; no bee is involved.

Direction Dave Fleischer

Synopsis It's the scariest time of year, and Betty Boop hosts a party with aid from a scarecrow; but an uninvited gorilla threatens havoc.

Direction Dave Fleischer

Synopsis Betty's campaign tries to appeal to everyone. Real candidates are parodied, but campaign promises are a bit bizarre.

Direction Dave Fleischer · Willard Bowsky

Synopsis A deadly eruption is predicted on the inhabited island of Monokoa. Daily Planet reporters Clark and Lois accompany an expedition to study it, and of course Lois is quickly in...

Direction Dave Fleischer · Orestes Calpini

Synopsis The city of Metropolis has received an ultimatum, from a gang known as "The Bulleteers," that unless the treasury funds of the city are turned over to them that destruction...

Direction Izzy Sparber

Synopsis "Friend turned foe" reads the newspaper headline. But Lois Lane suspects there's more to the story of Superman turning into a jewel thief and bank robber. And, of course, Clark...