In fact, at one point Popeye was even more popular than Mickey Mouse!įleischer received another patent in the 1930s for his Stereotipical Process, a three-dimensional background effect. Popeye was an immediate hit and would remain in regular animation until 1957. He introduced the character in film in 1933 in a Betty Boop short titled, Popeye the Sailor. In the early 1930s, Fleischer acquired the rights to the popular comic strip character Popeye the Sailor.
Fleischer’s cartoons were sophisticated and surreal and featured dark humor and adult psychology. The following year her dog ears became hoop earrings and she became a human woman named Betty Boop, dubbed the “Queen of the Animated Screen.” She grew so popular, Talkartoons was eventually renamed Betty Boop Cartoons.īy this point, Fleischer was one of two leading animation producers, with the other being Walt Disney. In 1930 he introduced Bimbo’s girlfriend, a poodle-human hybrid.
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He created the Talkartoon series and its star dog, Bimbo, in the cartoon Hot Dog. In 1928, Fleischer joined the film industry in its transition to sound. Many of Fleischer’s cartoons also included popular jazz performers of the day, including Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong, and Don Redman. #3000k – From the 1995 Comic Strip Classics set.įleischer also produced educational shorts explaining Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity and Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution that used both animation and live action. This short introductory clip preceded Disney’s Steamboat Willie by two years. The first cartoon to synchronize sound with animation, My Old Kentucky Home (1926), included a cartoon dog telling viewers to sing along as the ball landed on each letter. In 1924, Fleischer introduced the now-famous “follow the bouncing ball” technique in his animated sing-along Song Car-Tunes series. During this time the Fleischers also joined with other businessmen to create the Red Seal Pictures Corporation, which owned 36 theaters along the East Coast. They continued the Out of the Inkwell series and renamed it Inkwell Imps in 1927.
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Then in 1921, Fleischer and his brothers Dave and Lou established Fleischer Studios to have full creative control of their own cartoons. Item #M11083 – Betty Boop starred in more than 100 cartoons. Fleischer patented the rotoscope in 1915 and used it extensively for his early animation series, Out of the Inkwell for Bray Studios. The character created by Max and Dave became Koko the Clown (sometimes spelled “Ko-ko”).
Fleischer first used rotoscoping to trace the movements of a man in a clown suit – with the man being his brother, Dave. In 1914, Fleischer invented “rotoscoping,” which was a method where animators traced out live-action movements captured on pictures to create cartoons. Soon Fleischer’s interests turned to animation. During this time he also wrote books, including Noah’s Shoes. He then worked as an errand boy and later cartoonist at The Brooklyn Daily Eagle.Īfter marrying his childhood sweetheart, Fleischer took a job as an illustrator for a Boston catalog company before returning to New York to serve as Art Editor of Popular Science magazine. Fleischer attended the Mechanics and Trademan’s School and trained in commercial art at Cooper Union (the site of Abraham Lincoln’s famed 1860 Cooper Union Address). The Fleischer family moved to Brooklyn, New York, in 1887. Happy Birthday Max Fleischer Item #M11082 – Collection of Betty Boop stamps.Īnimator, inventor, and film director Max Fleischer was born in Kraków, Poland, on July 19, 1883.įleischer was the second of six children born to an immigrant tailor.
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