As insect ingénue Honey Bee and the whole Bugville community awaits local hero Hoppity the grasshopper’s return, two crises brew: she may have to marry meanie C. Bagley Beetle, while their garden paradise is threatened by... Manhattan development! This classic, colorful animated musical comedy (with songs by Hoagy Carmichael and Frank Loesser, no less, and Fleischer […]
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 […]
Cartoon Factory (1924) The Adventures Of Popeye (1935) She Reminds Me Of You (1934) Chess Nuts (1932) Cobweb Hotel (1936) Way Back When A Triangle Had Its Points (1940) King For A Day (1940) Hold It (1938) The Raven (1942) Just when you thought the Fleischer cartoons couldn’t get any weirder. Animation Historian Jerry Beck will present a selection of cartoon goodies that stand out solely […]
Superman (1941) The Mechanical Monsters (1941) Billion Dollar Limited (1942) The Arctic Giant (1942) Bulleteers (1942) The Magnetic Telescope (1942) Terror on the Midway (1942) A number of firsts mark this series of incredible animated shorts. Superman […]
Superman (1941) The Mechanical Monsters (1941) Billion Dollar Limited (1942) The Arctic Giant (1942) Bulleteers (1942) The Magnetic Telescope (1942) Terror on the Midway (1942) A number of firsts mark this series of incredible animated shorts. Superman had taken the country by storm in 1938, the character himself begat the modern “superhero” and established comic books as a creative medium. A radio […]
In collaboration with FleischerToons and RockinPins, join us as we screen restored early animations from Fleischer and Disney, followed by a Q&A session with award-winning author and film historian Mindy Johnson, moderated by Eva Medrano-Frost! Exclusive merchandise from RockinPins will be available for purchase at the event.
Cartoon Factory (1924) The Adventures Of Popeye (1935) She Reminds Me Of You (1934) Chess Nuts (1932) Cobweb Hotel (1936) Way Back When A Triangle Had Its Points (1940) King For A Day (1940) Hold It (1938) The Raven (1942) Just when you thought the Fleischer cartoons couldn’t get any weirder. Animation Historian Jerry Beck will present a selection of cartoon goodies that stand out solely […]
Popeye the Sailor (1933) Brotherly Love (1936) A Dream Walking (1934) Proteck the Weakerist (1937) Hello How Am I? (1939) Goonland (1938) A Clean Shaven Man (1936) The Dance Contest (1934) Popeye Meets Sindbad (1936) A selection of some of Fleischer Studios’ exhilarating black & white (except for one) Popeye cartoons of the 1930s, co-starring Olive Oyl, Bluto, and hamburger-obsessed Wimp. Includes Popeye’s film […]
Popeye the Sailor (1933) Brotherly Love (1936) A Dream Walking (1934) Proteck the Weakerist (1937) Hello How Am I? (1939) Goonland (1938) A Clean Shaven Man (1936) The Dance Contest (1934) Popeye Meets Sindbad (1936) A selection of some of Fleischer Studios’ exhilarating black & white (except for one) Popeye cartoons of the 1930s, co-starring Olive Oyl, Bluto, and hamburger-obsessed Wimp. Includes Popeye’s film […]
Poor Cinderella (1934) Dancing on the Moon (1935) Kids in the Shoe (1935) Somewhere in Dreamland (1936) Small Fry (1939) Popeye Meets Ali Baba (1937) While keeping up with Disney as the ’30s progressed and color cartoons became the norm, the Fleischer studio was no less surreal in their gags and storytelling. In 1934, the studio introduced a third dimensional effect […]