Max Fleischer Movies

The Clown (yet to be named KoKo) holds a contest, offering 100 dollars to whomever can ride “Dynamite” the trick mule for five minutes....

Popeye's on a battleship, on which he's banished to the boiler room. A Japanese sub comes along. Can Popeye save his ship from the enemy?

Koko fights with his shadow while under hypnosis.

A combination of live action footage and stop-action animation is utilized to illustrate the theory of evolution.

Classic holiday tale about a flying reindeer who helps Santa Claus. An interpretation of Robert L. May's 1939 Christmas poem, this animated short was...

Betty Boop and some friends go to Grampy's house for a party.

Popeye is having a dream. In it, Bluto interrupts his and Olive's flirtations with one another and keeps having the upper hand.

Koko the Clown discovers a machine that can make cartoons.

Max Fleischer considers hiring a new cartoonist. While the new guy draws Max's portrait, Koko gets into a fight with a cartoon Chinese man.

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

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

Poopdeck Pappy has a hangover. He asks Popeye to help him by keeping the noise down. Among the disturbances he deals with: a crying baby across the...

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,...

Humorous "sketches" of human interest stories by Max Fleischer, who headed Jam Handy's animation department in the mid 1940s and 1950s.

An Out of the Inkwell short.

An Out of the Inkwell short.

An old-fashioned "Burlesk" variety show, mostly animated with a live-action performance of "I'm Playing with Fire" by the Watson Sisters.

A birthday celebration with Max Fleischer's Inkwell Clown.

After wrecking Popeye's ship and stealing away Olive Oyl, hero of Arabic legend Sindbad decides to test him and his ever-resilient new rival's...