Soundtrack: Sammy Timberg
The best movies, series, and documentaries with a soundtrack by Sammy Timberg. Enjoy the titles that feature an unforgettable music.
Ha! Ha! Ha! (S)
1934 · Movie · 6 min. · United States
Direction Dave Fleischer
Plot 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.'
6.4
27 votes
6.4
27 votes
Superman (Fleischer Superman cartoons)
1941 · Movie · 150 min. · United States
Direction Dave Fleischer · Seymour Kneitel · Izzy Sparber · Dan Gordon
Plot 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...
6.4
474 votes
6.4
474 votes
The Song of the Birds (S)
1935 · Movie · 8 min. · United States
Direction Dave Fleischer
Plot 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.
6.3
23 votes
6.3
23 votes
Superman (The Mad Scientist) (S)
1941 · Movie · 10 min. · United States
Direction Dave Fleischer
Plot 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...
6.2
269 votes
6.2
269 votes
Blow Me Down! (S)
1933 · Movie · 6 min. · United States
Direction Dave Fleischer
Plot 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....
6.2
53 votes
6.2
53 votes
The Mechanical Monsters (S)
1941 · Movie · 9 min. · United States
Direction Dave Fleischer
Plot 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...
6.1
179 votes
6.1
179 votes
Hospitaliky (S)
1937 · Movie · 5 min. · United States
Direction Dave Fleischer
Plot 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...
6.0
27 votes
6.0
27 votes
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (S)
1936 · Movie · 16 min. · United States
Direction Dave Fleischer · Willard Bowsky
Plot 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...
5.9
404 votes
5.9
404 votes
Betty Boop's Ker-Choo (S)
1933 · Movie · 6 min. · United States
Direction Dave Fleischer
5.8
99 votes
5.8
99 votes
Billion Dollar Limited (S)
1942 · Movie · 9 min. · United States
Direction Dave Fleischer
Plot 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...
5.8
139 votes
5.8
139 votes
Out of the Inkwell (S)
1938 · Movie · 6 min. · United States
Direction Dave Fleischer
Plot 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...
5.8
34 votes
5.8
34 votes
Popeye the Sailor: For Better or Worser (S)
1935 · Movie · 7 min. · United States
Direction Dave Fleischer · Seymour Kneitel
Plot 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,...
5.8
23 votes
5.8
23 votes
Betty Boop: Poor Cinderella (S)
1934 · Movie · 11 min. · United States
Direction Dave Fleischer
Plot In her only color cartoon, Betty Boop goes to the ball thanks to the good fairy; later, only her foot fits the glass slipper.
5.8
110 votes
5.8
110 votes
Popeye the Sailor: King of the Mardi Gras (S)
1935 · Movie · 8 min. · United States
Direction Dave Fleischer
Plot 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...
5.8
28 votes
5.8
28 votes
Betty Boop's Bizzy Bee (S)
1932 · Movie · 7 min. · United States
Direction Dave Fleischer
Plot Everyone loves the wheat cakes served by short-order cook Betty, but they have a drawback. With Bimbo and Koko; no bee is involved.
5.8
95 votes
5.8
95 votes
Betty Boop's Hallowe'en Party (S)
1933 · Movie · 6 min. · United States
Direction Dave Fleischer
Plot It's the scariest time of year, and Betty Boop hosts a party with aid from a scarecrow; but an uninvited gorilla threatens havoc.
5.8
137 votes
5.8
137 votes
Betty Boop for President (S)
1932 · Movie · 6 min. · United States
Direction Dave Fleischer
Plot Betty's campaign tries to appeal to everyone. Real candidates are parodied, but campaign promises are a bit bizarre.
5.8
95 votes
5.8
95 votes
Volcano (S)
1942 · Movie · 8 min. · United States
Direction Dave Fleischer · Willard Bowsky
Plot 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...
5.7
123 votes
5.7
123 votes
The Bulleteers (S)
1942 · Movie · 8 min. · United States
Direction Dave Fleischer · Orestes Calpini
Plot 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...
5.7
132 votes
5.7
132 votes
Showdown (S)
1942 · Movie · 8 min. · United States
Direction Izzy Sparber
Plot "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...
5.7
98 votes
5.7
98 votes