Discover the powerful fusion of Jewish culture, history, and artistic expression through the lens of graphic storytelling in this dynamic traveling exhibition from the Center for Jewish History! Icons in […]
Fleischer Studios’ first sound/color animated feature film. The second Technicolor animated musical feature ever and the tenth biggest film of 1939—an anti-war film released two years before America entered World War II—and perhaps the best use of the Fleischer “rotoscope” invention, which converts live action to animation (for the character of Gulliver). It’s a hap-hap-happy […]
Betty Boop’s Rise to Fame (1934) Dizzy Dishes (1930) Betty Boop’s Penthouse (1933) Poor Cinderella (1934) Betty Boop and Grampy (1935) A Language All My Own (1935) Little Pal (1934) Program of 1930s cartoons showing how Betty went from dog character (in her debut, Dizzy Dishes), to skimpily-dressed Pre-Code icon, to career woman, to supporting character (to senior citizen inventor “Grampy” and oh-so-cute […]
In My Merry Oldsmobile (1931) I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead You Rascal You (1932) An Elephant Never Forgets (1935) You Gotta Be A Football Hero (1935) Musical Memories (1935) Sally Swing (1938) Ain’t She Sweet (1933) Stoopnocracy (1933) Some of the Studios’ most melodic and jazziest cartoons, including Ain’t She Sweet (with Lillian Roth, later subject of biopic I’LL CRY TOMORROW), Sally Swing (with the voice of […]