Film Details

Here are seven of the greatest animated masterpieces from the almost 700 cartoons produced by the influential Max and Dave Fleischer between 1919 and 1942. Fleischer Studios animation was darker, more adult, and more urban than that of Disney (their main competitor); their slinky, surreal, always morphing short films featured characters seemingly made of elastic. This program includes four Betty Boop toons: Bimbo’s Initiation (1931), Minnie the Moocher (1932), Snow-White (1933), and The Old Man of the Mountain (1933); one Popeye: Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936); and two Supermans: The Mad Scientist (1941) and The Mechanical Monsters (1941). Cleveland revival premiere. DCP. Total 64 min.