Fleischer Studios

So this was like keeping this tradition going.

But Woody and Ben had both worked for the Fleischer Studios when they were younger.

And every now and then in meetings, I'd see Ben draw a little Popeye in the corner of his head and then wink at me.

Right, right, right.

There are little snippets of fake cartoons.

These are kind of old school 1930s, you know, Fleischer Studios or old Mickey Mouse, Disney cartoon style cartoons.

Inspired.

Inspired snippets with their own original characters.

You see bats and ghosts flying.

Very...

Swing all you sinners or sing all you sinners, Fleischer cartoon, very old school Minnie the Moocher vibes.

Yeah.

It's super fun to see Weezy and Bogdanov and Kessel and Gromit back doing stuff.

Modern John Bogdanov, he has slipped even further into a part Fleischer Brothers, part comic strip-inspired Golden Age style.

It is weird and

awesome.

I don't know.

I think that's, that's maybe up for debate, but we're going to move over to the Fleischer studios for a film from the following year, 1930.

This was released September 29th, 1930.

So right in the right timeframe for Halloween, we're going to look at swing.

There are several well-known animators at work on this one.

If you look at the Wikipedia listing, you'll see names like Ted Sears, Seamus Culhane, Seymour Knedel, and several others.

But, you know, one of the things that I love about the Fleischer Studios is that anything goes.

That's kind of the phrase that I associate with Fleischer, is just that anything is possible.

Also, this was made during a very particular period of Goofy in the Disney company, which is to say, after falling out with Walt Disney, Goofy's normal voice actor, Pinto Colvig, did not work for the Disney studio between 1939 and 1943.

He was offered a job with Fleischer Studios, then planning to produce a competing feature-length animated film in the wake of Disney's success with Snow White.

And we know that that turned out to be really a great film.

Pinto Colvig voiced the main annoying little guy, everyone's favorite character, who I definitely remember the name of.

Unfortunately, when I got out of college, which was around 1968, the animation business was dying out.

You know, Disney was in debt and they were very confused and Warner Brothers had stopped making animation, Fleischer Brothers stopped making animation, so all my heroes were gone.

And so consequently I moved to New York to become an illustrator.

And for about 15 years I was an illustrator in New York And then I finally got the opportunity in 1983 to make an animated film.

you're but you're a busy woman yes betty boop yeah creating starring just tell folks about that it's a feature film

it's a feature film it's incredible us along with Fleischer Studios, my production company, Fifth Chance with Fleischer Studios, who created Betty Boop, are creating a really incredible movie.

We are in process right now.

So I can't wait to be able to give so much more information.

If I'm being hopeful and be like, oh, you know what? Maybe we'll get Popeye.

Maybe we'll get... you know, more Fleischer stuff, like anything that was in that little weird, is it Paramount? Is it Warner Brothers kind of territory? I think that's all going to be cleaned up and we'll get that as consumers and fans.

So that is a win.

Now, Warner Brothers Pictures Animation, that's the next time we're going to see Looney Tunes.