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Popeye comes to ask Olive out, but finds she's gone off with the title character. Popeye goes to the circus (ringmaster Wimpy) looking for her, to find she's part of the act; an aerial battle ensues. (imdb)

Betty Boop and Bimbo run away from home, but that night they are scared by a chorus of ghosts singing the title song. (imdb)

Trouble starts when the queen's magic mirror says Betty Boop is fairest. Cab Calloway sings "St. James Infirmary Blues." (imdb)

The Man of Steel fights a mad scientist who is destroying Metropolis with an energy cannon. (imdb)

Superman versus a thawed-out Tyrannosaurus. (imdb)

Superman battles a criminal mastermind and his robot army. (imdb)

Superman versus extortionists with a super-powerful rocket car. (imdb)

When police interfere with a reckless scientist's experiment, it creates a deadly meteor shower only Superman can stop. (imdb)

Superman versus a fanatical extortionist with an earthquake machine. (imdb)

Superman must face the threat of an erupting volcano. (imdb)

When the circus' animals escape and threaten disaster, Superman must taken action. (imdb)

When Sindbad the Sailor kidnaps Olive Oyl, Popeye comes to the rescue. (imdb)

Upon hearing of the evil deeds of the bandit Abu Hassan, Popeye, accompanied by Olive Oyl and J. Wellington Wimpy, flies to Arabia. Olive is kidnapped by Abu Hassan, who forces her to do the laundry for his Forty Thieves. Popeye sneaks into their hideout to rescue her, but finds himself outnumbered forty-one to one. (imdb)

Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput and attempts to prevent war between that tiny kingdom and its equally-miniscule rival, Blefiscu, as well as smooth the way for the romance between the Princess and Prince of the opposing lands... (imdb)

Gabby tries to put a diaper on a cranky baby. Animation by David Tendlar and William Nolan. Music by Sammy Timberg. Produced in 1941. (Archive.org)

Betty Boop is off to see Grampy and she picks up some friends on the way. Check out Grampy's crazy house of funky mechanical devices. (LikeTelevision)

Comic strip character The Little King, bored at the opera, sneaks over to the vaudeville house to see (and join) Betty's Wild West Show. But the Queen tracks him down... (imdb)

Bimbo visits a south sea isle, where he meets a dusky maiden who does a hot hula and looks a lot like Betty. Also a stereotyped headhunter tribe... The Royal Samoans perform in live-action. (imdb)

Betty Boop's Big Boss (1933) Betty takes a secretarial job where the boss sexually harasses her; but not without some encouragement from Betty.

Betty falls asleep doing a jigsaw puzzle and finds herself through the looking glass into a modern, urban wonderland. The shrinking potion comes from a "Shrinkola" dispenser. When most of the characters assemble, Betty sings "How Do You Do" to them. But the jabberwock steals Betty away, and everyone comes to her rescue. (imdb)

Bimbo finds himself surrounded by a mysterious group of robed figures who invite him to become a member of their secret organization. When he refuses, they fling him through a nightmarish sequence of terror and torture devices. Will our hapless hero make it out alive? (imdb)

An initially realistic chess game becomes a chaotic, animated quest for the favors of Betty Boop (the black queen) by Bimbo (white king) and others, with elements of bowling and football. Koko appears. (imdb)

At an orphanage, the children are sad because they received broken toys as gifts. Professor Grampy sees the children while passing by in his sled and has an idea on how to give them a merry Christmas. (imdb)

A stray kitten wanders into Betty Boop's house, gets sick on candy, and is cured with catnip by Betty and Pudgy the pup. (imdb)

A reporter interviews Max Fleischer about his creation, and Betty illustrates with excerpts from three prior cartoons. (imdb)

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

Betty drudges in the kitchen alone until her friends (including Bimbo and Koko) hold a surprise birthday party for her...which gets rowdy. (imdb)

The bare bones story concerns Elmer and Mirandy, a married couple who go to witness the wonders of the World's Fair in all of its futuristic utopian glory. (imdb)

Betty Boop goes to see the fearsome Old Man of the Mountain for herself; he sings the title song and a duet with Betty. (imdb)

A man with a huge hooked nose enters the Fleischer studios to have his bust sculpted. Meanwhile, across the studio, Max is animating Koko. When he's called over to consult on the too-accurate bust, Koko gets mischievous and creates his own drawings. He then escapes and crawls inside the clay bust, eventually wriggling off like an inchworm. He gets into a fight with the man being modeled, both of them flinging wads of clay. (imdb)

Sailor Bimbo (as Barnacle Bill) jumps ship with his little black book and visits his lady friend, Betty Boop (with dog's ears). (imdb)

In their traveling medicine show, Betty, Koko and Bimbo sell Jippo ("Flattens Feet! Makes Young Men Old!") which has weird effects on their customers. (imdb)

Koko and Bimbo take Betty Boop on a jungle safari, where they run afoul of a cannibal tribe caricaturing Louis Armstrong and his band members (they play the title song, partly in live-action). (imdb)

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

Betty Boop (with dog's ears) can't sleep on a scary night, so she sings the title song and meets the gentleman in question...a surreal version of Bimbo. (imdb)

Betty Boop (with dog's ears) is entertainer in a restaurant for dogs; a waiter joins the floor show to the neglect of patrons. (imdb)

Betty Boop, a nursemaid, meets a masher in the park; with the Bouncing Ball, Ethel Merman sings the title song. (imdb)

Disabled in a thunderstorm, Betty Boop and Grampy's plane lands on a tropic island where Grampy soon re-invents the comforts of home... until hostile, racially-stereotyped natives intrude. (imdb)

Betty Boop is incensed at her farmer neighbor's cruelty to his animals. But the inventive Grampy knows how to teach him a lesson. (imdb)

The miners at Never Mine go to Betty Boop's Tavern (a jazz-jumpin' place) for lunch; back in the mine, Bimbo delves into weird realms. (imdb)

Betty Boop is queen of the Masquerade Ball where, among other antics, Bimbo and a lecherous old man vie for her affections. (imdb)

A sleepless Betty can't take the noise of the city any more, and heads out into the country for some peace and quiet. She soon discovers that the country has its own problems.

Superman versus modern train robbers. (imdb)

When Betty's exercise machine goes haywire with her in it, she sends Little Jimmy in search of an electrician, but he's distracted along the way looking for an optician, politician, magician, musician, ... By the time he gets back, Betty is practically a stick figure. (imdb)

Short, whimsical film about patients in a nut house. Half is animated while half is live action.

Popeye and Bluto are running competing penny arcades, trying to bring in customer Wimpy. Of course, he would gladly pay Tuesday for a penny today. And of course, their competing arcades show clips featuring each of them, with well over half this short thus recycled (imdb)

Working in the story department of Surprise Pictures, Olive Oyl writes a script based on the story of Aladdin, casting Popeye as the thief and herself as the Princess. (imdb)

Popeye takes Olive roller skating in a rink; she's never skated before, so he has to teach her, and she's not exactly a quick learner. After a while, she ends up outside the rink, and still out of control; she skates through a department store and causes major traffic problems. When she gets stuck on a speeding fire truck, Popeye realizes he'll need his spinach, but he's out fortunately, an audience member tosses him a can. (imdb)

Popeye walks around while singing his theme song and punches various things, followed by a sing-along.

In a circus tent, Betty, Bimbo and Koko demonstrate some gadgets reminiscent of TV ads; an animated sewing machine gets out of hand. (imdb)

Against Betty Boop's orders (and to his own discomfiture), Pudgy the Pup accompanies a dalmatian fire dog to a fire. (imdb)

Betty Boop campaigns for Grampy for Mayor; he wins by one vote, but finds politics is no picnic. Urban renewal is parodied. (imdb)

Betty Boop takes her stage act on the road, and plays in Japan to great acclaim. (imdb)

Betty Boop and Little Jimmy are prevented by a thunderstorm from going to the carnival; the inventive Grampy devises a substitute (imdb)

Pudgy the Pup meets the cute female pup next door, whose owner calls him a "little nobody." But a pep talk from Betty Boop turns Pudgy into a hero. (imdb)

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

A swingin' hurdy-gurdy man goes by Betty Boop's house; she wants to buy the monkey, which causes plenty of trouble for Pudgy the Pup. (imdb)

Betty Boop quits her job as overworked short-order cook to run an automated baby-care center. Will she regret it? (imdb)

Betty Boop's stage show takes a new turn when Pudgy the pup and his feline enemy get into the act. (imdb)

Betty Boop is so delighted with her new fox fur that Pudgy the Pup grows jealous, then thinks he's killed it. (imdb)

Betty, Koko, and Bimbo drive at the auto races; Betty has a cold, and her sneezes help her win. (imdb)

At Betty Boop's Auto Hospital, the cars are treated for various humanlike ailments. (imdb)

Henry, comic strip character, gets a job at Betty Boop's pet store. (imdb)

Betty Boop, annoyed by 'public pests' like backslappers, gum parkers, and mud splashers, imagines what she'd do to them if she were a judge. (imdb)

For customer Betty Boop, psychic reader Prof. Bimbo conjures up an adventure on a haunted tropical island in his crystal ball. (imdb)

A door to door salesman visits Betty Boop's home with a long line of useless household gadgets. (imdb)

Pudgy the pup takes Betty Boop's advice ('Go Out and Make Friends With the World') to heart and befriends various wild animals. (imdb)

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

Gabby makes good on his pledge to 'be helpful' by assisting the local fire department while they put out a fire. When the chief incapacitates himself by getting Gabby's hat stuck over his head, Gabby takes charge with with disastrous consequences. (imdb)

Gabby has a letter to deliver to the king of Lilliput; when he arrives, the king is in the bath and Gabby tries on the royal robe. The king emerges and gives Gabby a stern look; Gabby hands over the letter and leaves quickly. The letter, however, is ominous: "Please be at home today; I have orders to shoot you." (imdb)

A bunch of cartoon animals are playing in an orchestra.

The war between the ants and the anteater.

When the lady bird leaves her lover to join a performing group, he goes to try to win her back.

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

A young boy obsessed with trains sneaks out to play with the real trains that run just a few feet from the fence around his house. When he falls off of one and is knocked unconscious, he has a dream. (imdb)

A spider runs a hotel for flies where he keeps his guests captive. A pair of fly newlyweds arrive and check in. Fortunately, the husband is "flyweight champion". After a pitched battle featuring arrows (fountain pen nibs) and a machinegun (aspirins shot from a perfume atomizer), the spider winds up in a bottle of library paste. (imdb)

After a series of vegetable disappearances,a potato policeman goes out to catch the kidnappers. (imdb)

A stranger deposits an egg in a duck's nest; it hatches as a baby chicken. It doesn't fit in well with its three duckling nestmates, particularly when it comes to swimming. Momma tries to solve the swimming problem with a couple of leaves, but sends the chick home when that fails. (imdb)

The courtship of two swans is interrupted by a third swan, who demonstrates his prowess at catching fish. The pen falls for him and leaves her mate, but when the interloper begins treating her cruelly and chases her around the pond, her old flame intercedes and chases the evil swan away. (imdb)

Hunky and Spunky are settling in for a nap, but a horse fly sees them and sees dinner. After battling the fly for a while, the youngster enlists dad's help. But the fly is merely stunned, and rallies a new attack, this time with friends. Father eventually kills the lot of them. (imdb)

Betty Boop is training a flock of pigeons, but one stray leads Pudgy the pup on a precarious chase over the rooftops. (imdb)

Betty Boop's runt of a suitor thinks he'll have better luck if he takes cowboy lessons at a dude ranch; slapstick results. (imdb)

Betty Boop and Pudgy, doing the spring planting, are plagued by crows. (imdb)

At Betty Boop's Animal Hospital, various species have appropriate ailments. Morale becomes a problem; Professor Grampy to the rescue! (imdb)

Betty Boop tells naughty Little Jimmy a corrective fairy tale (with herself as fairy). Part of the action is replayed in reverse. (imdb)

Betty Boop runs out of gas in Feud County, and wins over the initially hostile hillbillies with her dancing. (imdb)

While Betty Boop tries to cook, a fly drives her and Pudgy the Pup to distraction. (imdb)

Housecleaning blues are just what Betty Boop has the morning after a wild party. Grampy to the rescue! (imdb)

Betty Boop's baking is interrupted by obnoxious practical joking friend Irving. Can Grampy out-joke the joker? (imdb)

A caterwauling cat annoys Betty Boop and Pudgy; the latter tries cat-chasing, but bites off more than he can chew. (imdb)

Pudgy the pup tries to emulate a tough bulldog, but Betty Boop sings him the error of his ways. (imdb)

In a return to the 'Out of the Inkwell' format, Betty Boop invents a 'pep' formula to speed up lazy Pudgy, but it escapes into the 'real world' with rapid results. (imdb)

While Betty Boop is away, the kittens get into mischief. Will Pudgy the Pup take the blame as usual? (imdb)

Betty Boop and Freddie appear on stage in a melodrama, wherein Betty sings the title song to the villain. (imdb)

Betty Boop brings home a cat as playmate for Pudgy, but the cat is a bully who only gets Pudgy into trouble. (imdb)

Popeye introduces himself to us (including a quick live-action shot of newspapers announcing that he's a movie star). The ship docks, and the sailors try to pick up Olive, but she only wants Popeye. They head for a carnival, but Bluto isn't giving up easily. The boys compete at the various games. Betty Boop does a hula dance, and Popeye joins her on stage. Meanwhile, Bluto runs off with Olive and ties her to the tracks. Popeye comes along and rescues her in the nick of time. (imdb)

Betty Boop is singing on stage and is joined by a series of very funny alternate stars... a set of babies.

Betty Boop's Swing Band (sans musicians) visits an Indian reservation where Betty teaches the braves the true meaning of 'rhythm.' (imdb)

Bimbo leads an awful German street band to serenade Betty Boop, but she prefers Arthur Tracy, 'Street Singer of the Air,' who in live- action sings several old-fashioned songs with a Bouncing Ball. (imdb)

Betty Boop appears on stage with Freddie in an old-fashioned mortgage melodrama. (imdb)

An action figure of Betty Boop drops in on a small toy shop; the other toys come to life and crown her their queen.

Olive is reading a romance novel and munching on a gift box of candy from Bluto when Popeye drops by. She's too absorbed to notice him, so he feigns illness. The doctors are at a loss for a cure. (imdb)

Olive has a small leak in a pipe; she makes the mistake of calling Wimpy to fix it, and the even bigger mistake of asking Popeye to help her do something until Wimpy can arrive. Meanwhile, Wimpy keeps realizing he's forgotten his tools, his gloves, etc. and going back. Popeye finally eats his spinach and manages some fixes to the system. (imdb)

Popeye brings his magical dog, The Jeep, over to see Olive and Swee'pea, just as the tyke has escaped from his crib. The Jeep leads Popeye on a merry chase looking for Swee'pea. (imdb)

Popeye visits the bullfight only because of lovely Senorita Olive. He finds himself accidentally in the toreador box, even though he doesn't want to fight because it's cruelty to animals. Popeye rides the bull like a bronco, then gets tossed around a bit. The bull plants Popeye in the ground and attacks; the crowd turns on Popeye. Olive comes down to help and the bull chases her. The crowd throws vegetables at Popeye, including (fortunately) spinach. (imdb)

Popeye is leaving on his sailing ship, much to Olive's chagrin. She ends up accidentally stowing away in a trunk. Popeye discovers her, but she can't stay, because the crew will think she's a jinx. She tries to hide, but this only scares the crew more, because they think the ship's haunted. When she is revealed, the crew comes after her to throw her off, and then turns on captain Popeye. (imdb)

Popeye sails to Goon Island in search of his Pappy. He finds the place populated by the imposing, but ugly, goons, and a "no humans" sign. His imprisoned pappy at first ignores him, but when Popeye is caught by the goons and carried off, his can of spinach lands near Pappy and it works just as well on him as it does on Popeye. (imdb)

Popeye is heading over to see Olive when he hits a traffic island where a cop is directing traffic; when he gets there, he manages to get more tickets for blowing his horn and parking illegally. The cop rings the bell, and Popeye manages to wreck Olive's apartment by dropping what he's doing, each time he writes a ticket. (imdb)

Popeye, feeling sorry for the puppies in the window of Olive's pet shop, buys all the animals (mostly dogs) and sets them all free. All except for one bird, who refuses to go, singing the title song to explain why he likes it just fine in the shop. And sure enough, we see the dogs not faring particularly well, and getting rounded up by the dogcatcher and taken to the dog pound. (imdb)

Popeye is having a dream: Bluto takes Olive on a picnic. And even though it's Popeye's dream, Bluto still has the upper hand until spinach time. Popeye finds himself sleepwalking and otherwise acting out the dream. (imdb)

Olive reads a ghost story to Popeye and Bluto. Bluto leaves and rigs a haunted house and lures them to it. But they quickly discover him and, even better, a can of invisible paint, and they get the better of him. (imdb)

Olive invites Popeye over for a hamburger dinner. His roommate Wimpy hears this and disguises himself as Popeye. Wimpy fast-talks himself into the dinner, but eventually falls victim to spinach. (imdb)

Popeye's fan club sends a telegram asking them to tone down the violence and act civilized, so everyone dresses up and acts formal for a while, at least. (imdb)

Popeye spanks Swee'pea and sends him to bed without supper. He wrestles with his conscience over this, while Swee'pea packs a bundle and runs away from home. They apparently live in the wilderness, since Swee'pea crosses a rope bridge that collapses, narrowly misses a landslide, and is soon on a narrow mountain path. Popeye finds him and rescues him from a waterfall but his spinach can is empty. Fortunately, this was all a bad dream from Popeye's conscience. (imdb)

Popeye has replaced Bluto in the Spinach Theatre's production of Romeo and Juliet (Olive, of course), much to Bluto's surprise and dismay. Bluto does what he can to sabotage the production, like cranking up the snow and wind machines, and eventually coming onstage, even though Olive wants no part of him. (imdb)

Olve brings her new goldfish onto Popeye's ship, but the fish jumps out of its bowl and into the sea. Olive convinces Popeye to go after it, but the fish wants to play and manages to avoid Popeye until both get trapped inside a jellyfish. After taking a severe pounding from the jellyfish, Popeye eats his spinach, takes on various other marine life, and returns the goldfish to its bowl. But Olive can see the fish is unhappy in the bowl, and sets it free again, which is more than Popeye can stand. (imdb)

Olive has a secret treasure map, but while she's showing it to Popeye, Bluto photographs it and gets there first. (imdb)

Olive writes a letter to Popeye: she's through with sailors; it's cowboys for her. Popeye immediately sails off to the West, where he finds, who else, Bluto as the head of the ranch where Olive is enthralled. Bluto gives Popeye a wild horse to ride, and, after a few humiliating defeats, Popeye conquers it (and wins back Olive's heart). Bluto punches Popeye out, and into the clutches of what can best be described as a rattlesnake constrictor. (imdb)

The race is on for the state railroad franchise. It's the Sudden Pacific (Bluto) against the Onion Pacific (Popeye). Oh, and there's also a kiss from Olive for the winner. (imdb)

When Popeye tells Olive Oyl that he will propose to her the next morning, she has a dream that their four boys will run roughshod over their house. (imdb)

The boys show up simultaneously to take Olive to the movies. She needs to visit the hairdresser first, and tells the boys to take care of Swee'Pea: bath, dress him, and nap. Of course, with these two, nothing is simple. (imdb)

Dr. Bluto sails off to Darkest Africa for exploration. Popeye, who stayed behind, hears a radio report that Bluto is lost and sets sail himself (on a raft). He manages to land right by a trail left by Bluto, and after fighting a few animals along the way, finds himself, exhausted and dehydrated, in Darkest Africa, within sight of Bluto. We see why Bluto has not been heard of: he has a bevy of native beauties attending to his every need. (imdb)

Popeye has a new car; Olive wants a driving lesson. Things don't go well. (imdb)

Mystery Pictures is looking for a stunt man. Swee'pea tags along with Popeye, but he sends the tot home. Popeye shows clips of his stunts to the director, who is impressed; when he goes to put on the last reel, Swee'pea, who snuck back in, hands him Lost and Foundry (1937), which features Swee'pea saving the day. The director signs Swee'pea. (imdb)

Olive rushes over to show Popeye the headline: Vaudeville is coming back. They agree to rehearse their old act. After a brief song-and-dance intro, the act begins: Popeye demonstrating his strength while Olive displays her flexibility and balance; impersonations of Jimmy Durante, Stan Laurel and Groucho Marx; and the last act, more feats of strength and agility. (imdb)

William fires an arrow, barely missing Popeye; then tells Popeye that he has just lost his son in an unfortunate arrow incident (the picture of his son is Groucho Marx). Tell then defies the king and is ordered to shoot an apple off his son's head; Popeye stands in for his son. The arrow goes astray, but it hits Popeye's can of spinach. (imdb)

Popeye's 99-year-old father won't admit he's too old to help Popeye build a ship. Popeye tells him to build one side while he builds the other; Pappy's side is a mess. He falls asleep helping hoist the mast. While Pappy sleeps, Popeye rebuilds his side and finishes the above-decks, with a little help from spinach, of course. (imdb)

Popeye's pappy, age 99, wants to go out at night; Popeye wants him to sleep. Popeye tries leg irons, but Pappy manages to put them on Popeye and sneak out to a sleazy bar. Pappy dances with other men's girlfriends, bumps into everyone, and throws his dancing partner into the band. Soon, the whole bar is lining up to get a piece of Pappy just as Popeye arrives. (imdb)

Olive sends Popeye a puppy, Eugene the Jeep, for his birthday, but despite Popeye's best efforts to make it sleep outside, it keeps finding its way back into the house. A rare spinach-free Popeye. (imdb)

Olive tells the boys she loves a man in a uniform, so they try to sign up at the recruiting station, but they can only take one. There follows a duel of clips from previous shorts as they attempt to prove who is the winner. (imdb)

Poopdeck Pappy has a hangover (though he won't admit to Popeye that's the problem). He asks Popeye to help him by keeping the noise down. Among the disturbances he deals with: a crying baby across the way, a horse-drawn milk truck, a factory whistle, a radio, a traffic accident, a construction site, a blasting site (the Sparber construction company) this one takes spinach. He gets home and hears a party going on upstairs where a recovered Pappy is living it up. (imdb)

Bluto's window cleaning service is not above drumming up a little business for himself. But when he gets to Olive's stenographer office, about 10 floors up, she says no: Popeye's going to wash her windows. And the battle is on. (imdb)

Popeye is sitting outside Olive's lunchroom at the airport, distraught. She's closed the business to fly away with an aviator (Bluto, of course). But it's hardly what she expected; he has her painting his plane, while it's flying; when she says she's rather go back to Popeye, he tries to throw her off the plane. Popeye sees this, and takes off in a plane, just in time to help her out. The boys get into a dogfight, and Bluto manages to demolish Popeye's plane. (imdb)

Popeye takes Swee' Pea to the zoo and spends most of his time rescuing the tot from the various animals. (imdb)

Gabby goes camping with the Mayor. (imdb comments)

Gabby is a servant in a castle and is required to do a little housework.

Gabby is forced to take care of a strange animal called a Kango.

An animated chorus line of treats (popcorn, drink, candy, etc.) dances down a theater aisle while singing a jingle that encourages the audience to visit the concession stand. (imdb)

Popeye, Olive (rowing), and Wimpy (eating) arrive in America by rowboat. Popeye builds a log cabin (by punching some trees) and sets off to gather some ducks. He fights a few indians along the way, but they pose no real threat. But meanwhile, back at the cabin, the indians have been sneaking up and have Olive and Wimpy under siege. (imdb)

Popeye sails into Mexico, where Olive is a dancer and Bluto is a bandit. (imdb)

Popeye sings an extended version of the theme song on his way to see Olive. They go to the rodeo, where Bluto is the featured performer; Olive is impressed, so Popeye has to outdo him. While Popeye is fighting a bull, Bluto goes after Olive, chasing her out of the stadium, followed by Popeye and the bull. Popeye eats his spinach and takes care of everything. (imdb)

Popeye skates over to Olive's house to give her a Christmas present: ice skates of her own. While he's teaching her, Bluto skates up and gets fresh; of course, Popeye fights him. When she rejects Bluto again, he sends her careening on an ice floe towards a waterfall. (imdb)

Popeye and Olive, marooned on a raft, land on what apparently is Africa, and are immediately battling elephants and gorillas. And a moose(!). Popeye eventually battles an entire menagerie at once, after his spinach, of course. (imdb)

Popeye is baby sitting, and the little one won't be quiet unless he's sleeping. Obstacles include a _Harpo Marx_ lookalike playing the harp on the street; a music school; a ship blowing its horn; a radio outside a radio store; a building construction site; blaring car horns. Popeye deals with all of these in the least efficient way possible. (imdb)

Bluto is the boxing champ; Popeye is his challenger; Wimpy the timekeeper. Popeye is pounded mercilessly until Olive comes by with a can of spinach. (imdb)

Popeye sees Olive going into the Bruiser Boys Club, where she works in the hospital ward. Their motto, "Can you take it?", is a clear challenge to Popeye. President Bluto puts Popeye through the tests, and while he fares better than most, he still ends up in the hospital ward, until he eats his spinach and goes after the members. (imdb)

Wimpy is such a terrible helper that blacksmith Olive fires him. Both Popeye and Bluto see the help wanted sign; they compete for the position. Of course, their competition wrecks the shop. (imdb)

Olive runs some kind of boarding school. She serves her charges a huge bowl of spinach, but they are less than enthusiastic about it. Popeye comes by and demonstrates the values of spinach: he feeds some to a tree, which grows huge and sprouts a variety of fruit; he feeds a hen, which lays a dozen eggs, and he eats some himself to resist a prizefighter passing by. (imdb)

Popeye, Olive, and Wimpy stumble across a ghost ship. They climb aboard, and it proceeds to scare them in various ways. (imdb)

Pierre Bluto, running a logging camp, has thrown Olive into the river because he didn't like her spinach. Popeye rescues her and proceeds to beat Bluto in a lumberjack contest. (imdb)

Popeye and Bluto each wants to save Olive as she sleepwalks onto a construction site. But most of their efforts go into preventing each other from being the hero. (imdb)

Popeye and Bluto run adjoining (and competing) fire companies. When Olive's huge house catches fire, they are soon more interested in fighting each other than the fire. When Bluto goes to the roof to rescue Olive, the fire strands him there. Popeye eats his spinach and rescues them, but it's too late for the house. (imdb)

Popeye and Olive visit a dance hall, where a contest is in progress (though judge Wimpy seems far more interested in his hamburgers than the dancers). He dances terribly. Bluto cuts in, and Popeye sulks in a corner next to a convenient bowl of spinach. Popeye dances impressively; Bluto comes back and manhandles Olive. (imdb)

Popeye and Olive open a diner, singing the title song. Alas, their first two characters are Wimpy (who actually gets them to fall for the "gladly pay you Tuesday" schtick) and Bluto, who orders 6 sandwiches and refuses to pay for them. This leads, of course, to a fight, which Popeye needs his spinach to win. (imdb)

To the classic tune of "Barnacle Bill the Sailor", Olive explains that she can't marry Popeye because she's in love with Barnacle Bill (an unusually large Bluto), who then comes by and proceeds to pound Popeye (until he eats his spinach, of course). (imdb)

Popeye and Olive can't ignore it when produce vendor Bluto comes by with his terribly overloaded cart, whipping his horse and denying it water. They intervene, and while Bluto fights them off for a while, ultimately prevail. (imdb)

The boys arrive at Olive's house at the same time, but at different doors. They both come in, and whenever Olive isn't looking, they start fighting. She catches them, and tells them one will have to leave. Bluto tells Popey that whoever does the best trick can stay. As a result, they find ever more creative ways to abuse each other, much to Olive's merriment. Eventually, though, they start destroying her house, and Olive throws them both out, for a little while, anyhow. (imdb)

Popeye takes Olive to a stage show of a hypnotist (Bluto), who also levitates objects. While he's doing this, Popeye makes him lose his concentration, so in retaliation, the hypnotist pulls Olive on stage and turns her into a chicken. Popeye comes down to fight and the hypnotist tries to turn him into a monkey, but Popeye pulls a mirror into place. He recovers, and turns Popeye into a donkey, then smacks him around a bit, but spinach comes to the rescue. (imdb)

Policeman Wimpy loses his handcuffed prisoner when he's distracted by a hamburger shop. The escapee drops into the weapon-filled pawn shop Popeye and Olive are running, and quickly gets in a fight with Popeye. (imdb)

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, the boys settle their problem with their fists. Soon, Bluto and Olive are visiting Justice of the Peace Wimpy, with Popeye temporarily detained. (imdb)

Popeye and Bluto are deep sea divers. Popeye has a treasure map; for some reason he cuts Bluto in on the deal, but of course, Bluto's idea of 50-50 isn't exactly fair... (imdb)

Popeye and Olive are attending a football game; Bluto's team takes the field, and Olive is swept off her feet, becoming a cheerleader for him. Popeye signs up and becomes quarterback of the opposing team, which is skinny and pathetic looking, compared to Bluto's team of huge bruisers. Things go badly, of course, until Popeye eats his spinach and becomes a whole football team himself, winning both the game and Olive. (imdb)

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 only, "I yam what I yam," and has no crowd, but still draws Bluto's wrath. He manages to spoil a balance trick, then tops it with Wimpy in a chair. Olive then volunteers to be levitated; Bluto pulls her over and saws her in half. Olive escapes to a roller coaster with the boys in pursuit. (imdb)

In live action, a big kid is attacking a little kid for his "Adventures of Popeye" comic book, so Popeye gives the little kid pointers, in the form of clips from four of his earlier pictures. (imdb)

Popeye's ensemble is rehearsing the opening of the Poet and Peasant Overture (with interpolations of the Popeye theme and "I've Been Working on the Railroad"). Maestro Bluto drops in from next door to conduct and play violin and show Popeye up. Popeye plays horribly until he unlocks the previously unexplored artistic benefits of spinach. (imdb)

Popeye is running a women's gymnasium next door to Bluto's cabaret; seeing Popeye's greater success with women, he dresses in drag and challenges Popeye to various feats of strength. (imdb)

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

Betty Boop (with dog's ears) is moving; Bimbo comes with his moving van and is smitten with her. Songs: "Moving Day," "Hello Beautiful." (imdb)

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

Daredevil sign painters Bimbo and Koko like what they see through the window of Betty Boop's Dancing School, and stay for a lesson. (imdb)

In a vaudeville act, Betty Boop (with dog's ears) sings "You're Drivin' Me Crazy;" Bimbo sneaks into the show and runs afoul of a stage hypnotist. (imdb)

In response to Betty Boop's wish, Mother Goose materializes from a book cover and gives her a tour; she's chased by Miss Muffet's spider, who proves to be amorous, not predatory. (imdb)

That's what Olive wants. To even the score, the boys visit Wimpy's barber shop. Wimpy is out, so they shave each other; you'd think Popeye would know better than to let Bluto at him with a razor. (imdb)

Olive preaches the need for brotherly love on the radio. Popeye, hearing this, does a number of good deeds: helping two workmen raise a safe, straightening a wrecked car, and helping two boys sneak into a baseball game. But when he tries to break up a fight, it's more than he can handle alone. Olive and her followers come along and try to help, but it's too much for them, too. Of course, once Popeye has his spinach... (imdb)

Popeye takes Olive mountain climbing. Bluto sets various traps for them along the way, which Popeye manages to overcome. They get to the top, and Bluto pushes Popeye off a cliff and starts skiing down with Olive. Popeye eats his spinach and gives chase. (imdb)

Popeye and Olive are taking a ferry run by Bluto. When they find out the fare, they decide, with Wimpy, to build a bridge. Bluto does what he can to sabotage this plan until spinach time, of course. (imdb)

Wimpy is working for Bluto in his diner and trying to filch all the food he can eat. Popeye comes in and orders roast duck, but Wimpy grabs the drumsticks, then coats it with pepper sauce. Popeye walks out in anger and Bluto comes after him. Wimpy takes advantage of the resulting battle to load up on hamburgers. (imdb)

Popeye applies for a lifeguard job when he sees Olive in the pool, but Bluto also wants the job (and Olive). The manager, Wimpy, asks them to demonstrate their skills in a contest. Popeye does well, until Bluto demonstrates lifesaving and first aid on him. (imdb)

Olive is moving out of her apartment; she's hired Bluto to move her, but Popeye comes over to visit and won't be shown up - at least, not after he's had his spinach. But would you really want these two handling your belongings? (imdb)

Popeye teaches Olive the art of self-defense, which comes in handy when a woman boxer flirts with him. (imdb)

Popeye is wooing Olive on the phone when Bluto comes over. He overhears, taps into the line, and impersonates Popeye. They proceed to have a high-wire fight on the telephone lines outside Olive's house. (imdb)

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

Popeye and Olive are grooving to the sounds of Wimpy the organ grinder, but their neighbor Bluto wants him to move on. Popeye and Bluto settle their disagreement with their usual calm, reasoned discussion (this one includes Bluto stuffing Popeye into a garbage can, then launching him with a garden roller, after which Bluto stomps on Wimpy's organ). (imdb)

Betty Boop and Bimbo take a wild streetcar ride to Crazy Town, where birds swim, fish fly, and everthing else reverses normal behavior. (imdb)

Betty Boop goes to Grandma's through the woods despite wolf warnings; but Bimbo follows and gives the old story a new twist. (imdb)

Masked bandit Bimbo holds up a train carrying someone tougher...Betty Boop (with dog's ears), played by a different, deeper-voiced actress. (imdb)

Koko the Clown and his dog Fitz walk into a building where levers that control various aspects of the Earth are located. After Fitz presses a particular lever, the world goes topsy-turvy and out-of-control. (imdb)

A differently-drawn Bimbo, incensed at trash dropped from the clouds, climbs his beanstalk to find not only the giant but also his slave (Betty Boop with dog's ears). (imdb)

Bimbo's minding his baby brother, but neighbor Betty Boop (with dog's ears) wants him to come over and play. (imdb)

While Bimbo and Koko admire Betty, their experiment becomes a monster. (imdb)

The rag and bone man passes through Betty Boop's neighborhood. (imdb)

Amorous hunters Bimbo and Koko set out to bag some furs for coat-loving Betty Boop, but things don't turn out the way they'd planned... (imdb)

Betty thinks everything on Earth is for sale... even the planet itself. (imdb)

Popeye and Bluto share an art studio; Popeye is a sculptor, and Bluto paints. Olive drops in for a likeness, and the boys compete. When they start to fight, Olive starts to leave, but Popeye convinces her to stay when he eats his spinach and vanquishes Bluto. (imdb)

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 they try to get hurt, but both have a sudden run of what would normally be very good luck. Out of desperation, Popeye feeds Bluto the spinach when they start fighting. (imdb)

Baseball: Bluto's Bears vs. Popeye's Pirates, and both Bluto and Popeye have girlfriends cheering them on. (imdb)

'Popito' and 'Olivita' are a dance team, performing at Wimpy's Cafe. Bluto is jealous, and heckles and otherwise disrupts the act. (imdb)

Popeye is working in the Useless Manufacturing Company on his lunch break when Olive stops by and Swee'Pea crawls into the factory. He narrowly misses several horrible fates while Popeye tries to save him and gets into much worse trouble. When Popeye loses his spinach trying to save Olive, Swee'Pea has to eat it for him. (imdb)

Swee'pea is crying, so Olive calls on Popeye (and Bluto overhears) to cheer him up. The boys compete by doing various silly antics, to no avail. After a while, the antics progress to beating each other up, then Bluto finds excuses to bake and freeze Popeye. Having had enough, Popeye reaches for the spinach, but grabs a can of onions instead. Soon all the adults are crying and now Swee'pea isn't! (imdb)

Swee-Pea is reluctant to eat his spinach, so Popeye tells him about the football game when he was young (against Bluto, with Olive cheering and Wimpy keeping score) and also reluctant to eat his spinach. (imdb)

Olive asks Popeye to walk her dog Fluffy, but Popeye is embarrassed because Fluffy is as weak looking as the name implies. Sure enough, when Bluto and his bulldog come by, the dogs (and their owners) get in a fight. (imdb)

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

Bluto and Popeye pick up Olive to celebrate New Year's Eve with them; Popeye brings along her granny out of sympathy. The ballroom has a dance contest; Bluto dances with Olive, and Popeye with granny after feeding her some spinach. (imdb)

Olive takes Popeye to Prof. Bluteau to learn some manners. (imdb)

When Olive Oyl's house burns down, firefighters Popeye and Wimpy decide to build a new house with disastrous results. (imdb)

Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh is looking for a squaw. Meanwhile, Popeye and Olive are wrestling with their recalcitrant mule and Olive accidentally lands in the Indian camp. Popeye catches up to her. There's an unfair fight, and Popeye is about to be burned at the stake. He drops his spinach, but it cooks and pops into his mouth. (imdb)

A poor boy and girl in rags gather wood in the snow. They pass by a tailor, a butcher and a baker, all of whom pity the children. Later, they arrive home. Their poor mother sets before them the only food she can: some stale bread. The children cheerfully dunk the bread in their glasses of water. After eating, the boy tells his mother he's still hungry. She weeps into her apron, and the boy declares that he was only fooling... (imdb)

Ethel Merman sings the title song with a Bouncing Ball. Animated sequence: a cat burglar, just out of jail, raids Betty Boop's icebox. (imdb)

Betty Boop puts on a musical show of new inventions and styles; her creation of "ankle skirts" sweeps the nation. (imdb)

In the circus, Betty Boop is the lion tamer, sings title tune on the high wire, and fights off the lecherous ringmaster. (imdb)

Koko and Bimbo visit Betty Boop's penny arcade, Bimbo to flirt with Betty; but his turn at the shooting gallery becomes a hunting trip. (imdb)

Betty and Bimbo, as Queen and King of the May, host a giant outdoor party that gets sprayed with rubber. Koko appears briefly. (imdb)

Popeye and Poopdeck Pappy are trying to play poker, but Swee'Pea's crying keeps interrupting them. Pappy wants to smack the tot, but Popeye persuades him to try psychology instead. (imdb)

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... (imdb)

Popeye's unconventional torpedo-loading technique get him a mild punishment: he's ordered to stand at attention. Just then, the enemy attacks. He remains at attention, even as a bomb throws him to the top of the mast, where his commander finally notices and orders him to get the planes. Popeye fires on them, but this only draws return fire. He eats his spinach, then turns into a plane himself and attacks. (imdb)

Olive gets a phone call that she has won first prize in a sweepstakes, but she can't find her ticket. She finds it, only to have it blow out the window into a woman's belt, into the sea, a fish's mouth, the railroad tracks, a flagpole, etc., etc. (imdb)

On a special train, Betty's show troupe rehearses: Betty sings, Bimbo juggles, and Koko does a soft-shoe. The train itself also does tricks. (imdb)

An "Out of the Inkwell" cartoon featuring Ko-Ko the Clown.

Ko-Ko and his dog perform a vaudeville act before an audience of cats.

To the tune of Rubinoff and his orchestra, Betty Boop and feathered friends try to save a baby bird from the booze-swilling Tom Kats Club. (imdb)

An "Out of the Inkwell" short featuring Ko-Ko the Clown, this time as a fireman.

Popeye wants to get Olive a fur coat, but after a run-in with dishonest furrier Geezil, decides the best way is to go hunting for a bear himself. (imdb)

Bluto's in the Army; he tries to sneak off base, but can't. Popeye passes by, on the way to a date with Olive; Bluto invites him in, then swaps uniforms (yes, they fit very badly). Popeye ends up in a tank drill, which he does very badly, driving through a house, into a pond, and ultimately falling off a cliff. (imdb)

Popeye's on a battleship. He's in class to learn artillery, but it's way too technical for him; when he gets his hands on the gun, he fires everywhere, including at his own ship. That gets him banished to the boiler room. A real Japanese sub comes along. The sailors can't handle it, so Popeye eats his spinach and dives in to fight the sub by hand. (imdb)

The villain: Prof. I. Stare, hypnotist, frustrated by not having anyone to practice on. He cold-calls Olive at random while Popeye is pitching woo and hypnotizes her over the phone into coming to his office. Popeye rushes after her. Olive marches on, oblivious to hazards in her way, which Popeye eliminates. Just as Olive is approaching Stare's office, Popeye eats his spinach and the "S" on the can flies onto his chest, turning him into another Fleischer hero. (imdb)

Popeye's Pappy takes a flagpole sitting job atop a tall building without telling Popeye. Popeye goes to rescue him, but he doesn't want to go until an electrical storm hits. (imdb)

Another entry in Fleischer's "Out of the Inkwell" series.

Max Fleischer and his wife or girlfriend have a cute little dog with them at the studio. Max decides to draw the dog but every time he does, the drawing changes into Koko the Clown. Finally, Max decides to give Koko a whip and an assignment: "Here's a dog (of your own) to train," he says. (imdb comments)

Betty Boop wins the Irish Sweepstakes, and fantasizes about what she'll do with the money. (imdb)

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

Koko takes Betty to the museum, where she's locked in overnight and forced to sing at the skeletons' dance. (imdb)

Bimbo is a mechanic whose girlfriend (not Betty) agrees to marry him if he wins a fight against "One-Round Mike." Quick as a wink, he transforms his car into a robot to help him in the ring! (imdb)

A sinking ship leaves three survivors on a life raft: Bimbo, Koko and Betty Boop. Good news/bad news: they're rescued by a pirate ship... (imdb)

Honeymooning couples of various animal species take a rocket ship excursion to the moon. Spectacular lunar scenery. (imdb)

Irene Bordoni sings with the Bouncing Ball; plus cartoon segments. (imdb)

At the theatre, a 'Paramouse Noose Reel' and a Bimbo and Koko cartoon are followed by Betty Boop's stage performance; she sings and does imitations of Fanny Brice and Maurice Chevalier. (imdb)

Pudgy the Pup makes a mess of Betty Boop's picnic, is sent home, and runs afoul of the dog catcher. (imdb)

A rooster sultan is bored by his harems. A duck strongly resembling Mae West entices him. Her lover arrives, and they do battle; the lovers leave, and the sultan, humiliated, turns to his harem, who beat him up. (imdb)

Filmed in Technicolor, it gives us a goose barber shaving the quills of a porcupine, a male lion getting a manicure (by grindstone!), a giraffe putting on a succession of stiff collars, a female hippo painting on lipstick, and a bear hair stylist applying a "permanent" to a female elk's antlers (a neat trick since female elks aren't supposed to have antlers). At the wedding ceremony, a monkey uses its tail to chime the flower "bells," a hen sings "Love in Bloom," and a peacock officiates. (imdb)

Spunky is kidnapped and sold at an auction to a cruel Italian peddler. It's up to Hunky to save him. (imdb)

Greedy Humpty Dumpty's wall of gold is not enough. He wants all the gold in the sun, too. (imdb)

A Hunky and Spunky animated short.

Hunters visit the home of a polar bear community, causing a bear parent to have to rescue its cub. (archive.org)

Junior wants to be a Big Fry, but learns the hard way that he just isn't ready for smoking in the pool room when he should be in the school room. (imdb)

A mother puts her baby boy in an outdoor playpen, but he's more mature than she realizes, and quickly breaks out, and with the help of a raccoon and a squirrel, they are soon raiding the watermelon patch. Mother returns: turns out it's moving day, and the family is moving to the city. (imdb)

A young fish learns to pay attention to his school lessons. (archive.org)

A boy gets trigger happy with his BB gun, but soon regrets it. (archive.org)

A miserly mill-keeper kidnaps two Dutch children, but their pet duck runs for help like Lassie. (imdb)

Interesting animation by Max and Dave Fleischer in which the audience was to sing along with lyrics on the screen. (imdb)

Bell Telephone instructional film shows how - and how not - to treat your upright desk telephone set. Don't wiggle the hook excessively, don't tangle the cord, keep away from water, etc. (imdb)

A young horse says hi to little donkey Spunky. But the horse's mother pulls him away, saying we don't associate with that kind. Spunky makes a few more overtures, and eventually they set off on a chase, running across a bull from time to time. The horse stops to eat a lot of apples and drink far too much water; this leaves him too bloated to move much at all. The two continue to anger the bull, which gives chase; Spunky saves the colt, and they all live in harmony. (imdb)

Hunky and Spunky is a 1938 animated short film, part of the Color Classics series produced by Fleischer Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Produced in Technicolor, the short revolves around a mother burro and her son. (wikipedia)

Hunky is teaching her son Spunky how to kick properly. She has him practice with a mattress propped against a tree. Spunky befriends a family of birds who are building a nest. Spunky copies their design and builds a nest of his own. Although he is a donkey, he tries to imitate the birds in flight and falls out of his nest. (imdb)

It's time for lunch, and Spunky (the baby donkey) is expected to feed on healthy (and awful-tasting) Vitamin Hay. He resists, and wanders out of the barn to look for more interesting things to eat. (imdb)

At Granite Hotel, the stone-age operator insists nothing ever happens, oblivious to the antics of the cave-guests and even the dinosaur-riding fire department. (imdb)

A collection of animals goes to school; their teacher, a goose, asks them several questions, during which time an ape, sitting behind an elephant, keeps tormenting the elephant. The teacher leaves the room, putting a turtle in charge. While she's gone, things go fine for a while, but the ape starts an all-out book tossing brawl. As the teacher returns, everyone suddenly stops, and although the room is a shambles, she congratulates them on behaving and dismisses them for the day. (imdb)

It's harvesting season, so all the fruits and vegetables come out to play.

Gabby is constable in the village, and the mayor is on his case to catch pig thieves.

The Old Woman Who Lived in the Shoe-Fleischer style! (imdb comments)

The fox spots a little lamb and disguises himself with a beard and bushy eyebrows. He posts an announcement for a baby contest, and the animal mothers spruce up their little ones (a rabbit and a pig). Meanwhile, the fox builds his judging stand. Several contestants are rejected: a squirrel, three ducklings, a whole family of rabbits, before the winner, little lamby. (imdb)

The happy tranquility of Buggsville is shattered when the populace learns that a colossal skyscraper is to be built over their tiny town. (imdb)

An puppet organ monkey sings and dances.

A short film that fuses together live action and animation.

19th century song pluggers in vaudeville theaters and in the streets invited audiences to join in the chorus; this tradition of participation appeared in movie theaters by the mid-teens. When sound arrived, Fleischer Studios' delightful "Screen Songs" added witty animated prologues and celebrity singers to prepare the audience for the ball that bounced through the lyrics. (Flicker Alley)

The Herring Murder Case was probably Bimbo the dogs new transformation because before this cartoon he has many different appearances. Betty Boop Does Not make an appearance in this cartoon although the wife of the murdered herring preforms in a Betty Boop Style, she is voice by Ann Little. Koko the clown also makes an appearance along with Gus the Gorilla in this is a very great fleischer short and would have been a classic (archive.org)

Features a short screen song about a fictional character called little Annie Rooney, this version is the Fleischer studios version the voice of little annie rooney is done by little ann little. Betty Boop makes a cameo appearance as a stature figure & she wears the same hat as little annie rooney. This cartoon has a similarity to Betty Boop's Birthday, which was released in (1933) One of the same Quotes were used for both cartoons,(Oh I'm So Happy) Also the music is alike. (archive.org)

I Think This Needs to be shared worldwide, its owned by public domain like every other betty boop cartoon except this was thought to be one of the lost cartoons. Voice is by Kate Wright. Its basically mostly about pudgy the dog, Betty Boop is mainly unseen in this cartoon she makes a few small appearances from the beginning to the end, other than the cat from an earlier betty boop cartoon called happy you & merry me makes a return also with his mother. (archive.org)

Koko The Clown continually interrupts an animator, who turns his attention to trapping the clown.

The clock and whistle above a factory door sound for lunch, and the workers run out. A bear tries to eat his sandwich, but it opens like a big mouth, when he opens... (bcdb.com)

Like most Fleischer cartoons from the early '30s, there are lots of stream-of-conscious gags here. They are related by Bimbo's adventures as a mailman. (imdb comments)

A hillbilly sleeps; atop his bald head, flies have constructed a playground. Other flies ski-jump off his nose... (imdb)

Here, we see an ark full of many different sorts of animal; spotting Coney Island, the captain announces shore leave and they all head out for some fun. There are a lot of gags, very advanced for the era, as was typical for Fleischer in this period, and some of them are very adult. (imdb comments)

Bimbo, who gets his comeuppance for stealing chickens, encounters various talking gravestones with faces, many farm animals, a walking barn, and plenty of spooks and ghosts. (imdb comments)

Talkartoon Sound Cartoon Featuring Bimbo.

In this one, there are two Chinese men on screen. One is eating and the one to the right of him is ironing. The one eating seems to be so dumb as to accidentally swallow a shirt that was just ironed in front of him. (imdb comments)

In this one, a cat is cleaning a store carpet when he gets interrupted by a mouse. After they do a brief tap dance, a lady cat comes in which has the male cat already smitten. (imdb comments)

A kooky artist applies as a portrait artist. While looking at his samples, Max sets aside a cartoon drawing of a Chinese man. (youtube)

Popeye and Olive are at the premiere of Popeye's new movie. He gets a little too wrapped up in the movie... (imdb)

A lady is rescued from a villain by a heroic young man, who then takes her for a spin in his Oldsmobile. (imdb)

In this one, someone is wooing the title character who is seen sleeping in bed with her bare feet showing on screen in near close-up. When she gets up, we see her putting on her long blonde wig and false teeth, both of which constantly fall off when she's walking to the balcony! (imdb comments)

This one has a humanized dog coming from a bar and fighting with his shadow in the dark just before that famous bouncing ball comes on and has the singer warbling the title song. (imdb)

In this one, a traffic cop is up in the sky on a platform guiding various planes and birds on their way. (imdb comments)

A band of cartoon animal musicians-- including their long-haired lion conductor -- warm up before going into the title song. (imdb comments)

A series of blackout gags organized around a lumber camp. (imdb comments)

Bimbo sings a funny take-off of "Gay Caballero" and the comedy construction is adequate to the situation. (imdb comments)

Elementary school-aged Bimbo is late to school, where he presents a note signed my father to his leonine bespectacled teacher. (bcdb.com)

Bimbo is out on the ocean, fishing in a lifeboat, when he catches a big one -- or it catches him and drags him down to the bottom of the ocean. (imdb comments)

Popeye is on a training ship, but his seat-of-the-pants ways don't fit in with modern equipment. (imdb)

Bimbo has problems trying to put out a fire that's burning a building to a crisp. (bcdb.com)

In this one, Bimbo is playing fireworks in an abandoned yard except for a mouse (who suspiciously looks like Mickey in one close-up scene) who laughs derisively at him. (imdb comments)

In this one, we get simple variations of people heading off to a May Day celebration, carrying a Maypole and a hippopotamus to serve as the Queen of the May. (imdb comments)

An alley cat pining for her tom is cheered up by a friendly mouse; the title song is presented with a Bouncing Ball. All-animated. (imdb)

There really isn't all that much to this one. It starts out with mice taking buckets of water and splashing them on an elephant bathing behind a screen and just kind of goes on from there. Either mice are scrubbing other animals or the animals are washing themselves. (imdb comments)

The phenomenon of radio is hot, and everyone is listening, including an overambitious goldfish, a lazy spider and three terrified mouse-children. (imdb)

Edgar Allan Poe's 1845 poem The Raven. On a stormy night, the raven appears at the door of a wolf's house as a vacuum cleaner salesman. (bcdb.com)

Fire chief Bimbo is called to a house on fire, and rescues the Boswell Sisters and their piano, who start performing "When It's Sleepy Time Down South"... (imdb)

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

Popeye and Bluto agree that women are too much trouble, so they agree to swear off them, which lasts about 5 seconds, until Olive comes on board ship for a tour. The boys vie for her attention. (imdb)

A drunken mouse dances out of a newspaper office, and posts posters advertising a Hot Time. There is a barn dance, ... (bcdb.com)

A Fleischer "Animated Antic" about a poorly skilled bird-dog.

A boat sails the sea at night, with the moon watching from above. Bimbo-like sailors march around the deck, then fall through a trap door. (bcdb.com)

At a super-automated theatre, the Eton Boys (in live-action insert) sing the title song aided by the Bouncing Ball. (imdb)

A couple of very skinny rats steal some bananas from a costermonger. He pursues them and extracts some revenge, which leads into the title tune of this Fleischer Screen Song.

The Mills Brothers perform the title song with Bouncing Ball; cartoon animals load and sail the cargo ship 'Dinah Lee' to Mills music. (imdb)

An early Fleischer Screen Song, this time the bouncing ball follows Guy Massey's "The Prisoner's Song"

Another sing-a-long Fleischer cartoon, this time starring Rudy Vallee

This one covers the 19th century ballad in a very respectful manner: although the written reprise is gagged up, the song is introduced very respectfully by an unshown Irish tenor and then offered for the audience's singing without any voice-over to lead them.

Kitty, a girl black cat, gets a piano delivered to her rooftop apartment by two Bimbo-like piano movers, using a pulley to hoist it up the outside. (bcdb.com)

This Screen Song version of Paul Dresser's ballad is given a very soapy interpretation by a basso and then a barbershop group.

After some slapstick mountain climbing, the title song is sung with the Bouncing Ball, then spoofed with humorous images. All animated. (imdb)

The beginning has the main character wooing a woman on a balcony with the flower she sends down then putting the moves on him

Singin' Sam of radio fame performs a musical version of the nursery rhyme with Bouncing Ball. Animated sequence: a parody newsreel. (imdb)

In this surrealist entry, a fisherman deals with rebellious worms; a diver flirts with a Betty Boop-like mermaid who becomes Ethel Merman... (imdb)

An old-fashioned 'Burlesk' variety show, partly animated. (imdb)

After a parody newsreel, the title song is sung by Barbara Blake and played by Henry King and his orchestra with a Bouncing Ball. (imdb)

A Bouncing-Ball rendition of the title song features animated cats. (imdb)

Lillian Roth sings the title song; also animated sequences. (imdb)

Reis and Dunn (with Betty Boop) sing the Irving Berlin song with a Bouncing Ball. In a cartoon army camp, everything rises before the soldiers. (imdb)

Sun bonneted Betty Boop takes a train to "Rudy Valley" where she gains weight and Rudy Vallee performs the title song with Bouncing Ball. (imdb)

Popeye's 4 newphews try to sneak out instead of eating their spinach, so Popeye demonstrates some of the benefits: playing piano... (imdb)

Arthur Jarrett sings some songs with the Bouncing Ball; Betty Boop appears for "One Hour with You" and "Boop-Oop-A-Doop." (imdb)

The title song sung by Billie Bailey and played by Joe Reichman's band with Bouncing Ball. Animated sequence: a parody 'Snooze Reel'. (imdb)

Betty Boop hires a feline professional "Mouse Eradicator" to take over from Pudgy the Pup who makes friends with mice. But after initial successes, Mr. Al E. Katz gets drunk on the job... (imdb)

Betty Boop's Traveling Department Store comes to Hillbillyville; the mountain folks find old uses for the new gadgets. (imdb)

Betty Boop emcees a show of pet-aid gadgets. Object: a "new deal for pets." Some ideas copied from Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions (1933). (imdb)

Betty takes a trip to the beach and needs the assistance of a big, hunky lifeguard when she rides her rubber horsy out too far! (imdb)

In a melodrama at the Slumbertown Theatre, Freddie is the sheriff and Betty is a school-marm desired by outlaw "Phillip the Fiend." (imdb)

Olive is going shopping and drops Swee'pea off for Popeye to watch. Popeye carves a sailboat for him... (imdb)

Olive's garden is being raided by some very persistent crows; she calls Popeye for help, and it takes him the rest of the cartoon to hit on the solution. (imdb)

Gus Arnheim and his band play the title song, sung by June Robbins (with Bouncing Ball). Animated sequence:... (imdb)

Mary Small 'the little girl with the big voice' sings the title song with a Bouncing Ball. Animated sequence: a parody 'Nosey News' reel. (imdb)

Hal Kemp and his orchestra play the title tune with singer Skinnay Ennis and a Bouncing Ball. (imdb)

Popeye is trying to take a nap, but he's plagued by house flies that keep landing on him. He gets rid of most of them... (imdb)

The title song is sung with the Bouncing Ball, plus a parody newsreel. (imdb)

The Mills Brothers perform two songs with the Bouncing Ball. (imdb)

The Westerners sing the title song with Bouncing Ball. In animated sequences, a singing cowboy tells tall tales about his exploits. (imdb)

A possible prototype for Betty Boop. (bcdb)

Shore leave in South America; Bluto muscles in on Popeye's girl, Olivia Oyla. Popeye muscles him out, but when they get to the conga club, he doesn't care to dance, so Bluto wins again. (imdb)

Popeye runs a small airport. Pappy comes along and wants to be a pilot, but Popeye tells him he's too old... (imdb)

After hearing Dave Fleischer's tall tale of his own heroics, Koko the clown sets off to rescue a blonde provided by Dave. (imdb)

Betty Boop, auditioning bandleaders for a college swing dance, "discovers" a cleaning woman who resembles Betty Grable. (imdb)

Betty Boop, trying to keep a party lively, is aided by Rudy Vallee, who comes to live-action life from a sheet music cover and sings several songs with the Bouncing Ball. (imdb)

Collaborating with scientist and writer Professor Garrett P. Serviss, Out of the Inkwell Films created this layperson-level explanation for Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

An Italian immigrant discovers his wife is a hootchy-kootchy dancer. Later, the audience is invited to follow the bouncing ball and sing along to "Mariutch Down at Coney Island. (imdb)

A Fleischer Studios cartoon.... (imdb)

A young dog calls on Betty but fraternity hazers kidnap him. With a Bouncing Ball, Rudy Vallee sings the title tune. (imdb)

Betty Boop, sleepless on a freezing night, builds a nice hot fire which proves too much of a good thing; in a dream she visits Hell, sings "Hell's Bells," and makes Hell freeze over! (imdb)

Bimbo is out stalking the ladies in his car when he is arrested by the police. Now he has to explain himself to the judge. (imdb)

A traffic cop tries to make time with Betty; she speeds to get away, is arrested, and undergoes a musical trial. (imdb)

Betty Boop recruits for the Army by offering inductees a kiss. The recruits march off to war with a force of giant mosquitoes! (imdb)

Koko the Clown's little brother comes to visit and wreaks havoc in Max Fleischer's studio. (imdb)

Max draws Koko on the drawing board. He then receives a call and leaves. Koko leaves after but not before taking some money from Max's wallet that he left behind. Max arrives to his date then comes back to his office to get his wallet. After recovering it, he drives with his date to get twelve gallons of gas. Koko arrives just as the pump is going and mischievously takes the hose from the car as the hose falls to the ground unknowingly to anyone else. (imdb)

This was another extremely clever silent cartoon by Max and Dave Fleischer. These cartoons were unique, unlike anything I've ever seen. In this one, artist Max and his drawn-character, "Koko The Clown," challenge each other on who can blow the biggest bubble. (imdb)

Koko the Clown plants a jumping bean that becomes a beanstalk. Later, he creates duplicates of himself and attacks his creator. (imdb)

First, Max, in his pajamas, gets back up and draws an isolated mountain area and puts Koko on top of a steep mountain. "That will keep you busy for the night," says the real-life somewhat nasty cartoonist to his subject. The cartoon really gets wild from that point with guest appearances from Mutt and Jeff, and other "stars" of the day as Koko experiences one adventure after another.from the "Cave Of The Winds" to Goliath chasing him all over. (imdb)

In 'Trapped', we see the cartoonist's hands as still photograph cut-outs, manipulated in front of the camera to look like live-action movie footage. The hands sketch a small black dot and ink it in. Then the dot proceeds to bounce across the cartoonist's easel, until the hands finally catch it and unfold it into Ko-Ko the Clown. (imdb)

Animator Max Fleischer draws a series of faces, one of which ends up being Ko-Ko the Clown. Ko-Ko himself realizes that there's something not quite right about the way Max drew him, and he proceeds to fix himself. Next, the two negotiate into which scenario Max will draw him. Max wants to send Ko-Ko to Mars in a rocket ship, while Ko-Ko will have none of that. Ko-Ko tries to stop him, but Max, with the pen, has the final say. (imdb)

Series of animated vignettes linked by a disembodied hand which appears to be drawing the illustrations. In the first segment, the hand turns around a drawing of an old man and canine-hero Rin-Tin-Tin magically appears. In the second set of segments, drawings of children morph into adults who look completely unlike their youthful countenances. in the final segment, the hand slices up "The House That Jack Built" into the pictures of the most significant characters in the children's rhyme. (imdb)

An elderly couple reminisce about their youth and courtship while looking through their collection of stereoscopic photographs. (imdb)

This fascinating series features Max himself, filmed in live action, sitting at a drawing board and concocting adventures for his star performer Ko-Ko the Clown. Max is supposedly the guy in charge, and he takes sadistic glee in putting Ko-Ko through various forms of hell, but the clown usually fights back and sometimes gets the best of his Uncle Max. FADEAWAY elevates this charged relationship to new heights (or depths?) of nightmarish surrealism. (imdb)

Artist Max Fleischer draws a spool of thread and a needle. The needle then penetrates a blank canvas and, stitch by stitch, we see Koko the Clown being "drawn." Very clever. There is always a new and innovative and method of introducing Koko in these old Fleischer brother Koko The Clown "Out of the Inkwell' silent animated shorts. (imdb)

Max is busy with his pretty new secretary and puts Koko and Bimbo on automatic for the day -- he sets a pantograph to draw a world run by slot machines like mechanical banks. However, is the creator in control of his creation, or is it the other way around? (imdb)

Thanks to Magic Ink, a live-action girl joins Koko in a haunted house. (imdb)

A live-action amateur hypnotist mesmerizes Koko the clown and Fitz the dog; but a witch teaches them how to take their revenge... (imdb)

The title song is sung with the Bouncing Ball, plus animated sequence. (imdb)

A Screen Song from the Fleischer Studios with the song "Talking Through My Heart".

A Screen Song from the Fleischer Studios with the song "I Wished on the Moon".