* Two Max Fleischer features, Gulliver's Travels ( 1939 ) and Hoppity Goes to Town ( 1941 ) were previously sold to NTA along with a few independent productions released by Paramount like One Third of a Nation ( 1939 ), as well as some features acquired by the studio after their theatrical release, including The Bells of St. Mary's ( 1945 ) and Good Sam ( 1947 ) ( both originally distributed by RKO Radio Pictures ).

The version of Olive Oyl most widely familiar is the version from the theatrical animated cartoons, first created by Fleischer Studios, and then produced by Famous Studios.

Fleischer Studios adapted him the next year ( 1933 ), to be the recurring villain in their theatrical Popeye animated cartoon series.

After the theatrical Popeye cartoon series went out of production in 1957, Bluto's name was changed to Brutus because it was ( wrongly ) believed that Paramount Pictures, distributors of the Fleischer Studios ( later Famous Studios ) cartoons, owned the rights to the name Bluto.

The first short in the series, simply titled Superman, had a budget of $ 50, 000, the highest ever for a Fleischer theatrical short, and was nominated for an Academy Award.

Superman arrived on television in 1952 with a mythology established through comic books, a novel, a radio series, two theatrical serials, and several Max Fleischer animated shorts.

Gordon ’ s rewrites couldn ’ t save Gulliver, but Gordon was instrumental in the success of the Fleischer Studios ’ next hit: the 1940s Superman theatrical animated shorts.

A quick-witted yet diminutive adventurer, Castor Oyl continued to be an important character in Segar's Popeye strip, but played little ( most usually no ) role in the Popeye theatrical cartoons produced first by Fleischer Studios and then by Famous Studios.

In late 1941, Superman became the first superhero to be depicted in animation, The Superman series of groundbreaking theatrical cartoons was produced by Fleischer / Famous Studios from 1941 to 1943 and featured the famous " It's a bird, it's a plane " introduction.

Starting as an assistant animator for Fleischer Studios in New York City, Fago worked on Popeye, Betty Boop and Superman theatrical shorts and the features Gulliver's Travels ( 1939 ) and Mr. Bug Goes to Town ( 1941 ).

Also in 1928, Paramount began releasing Inkwell Imps animated cartoons produced by Max and Dave Fleischer's Fleischer Studios in New York City.

Paramount cartoons produced by Fleischer Studios continued to be successful, with characters such as Betty Boop and Popeye the Sailor becoming widely successful.

* Notably, this allowed Paramount to have some involvement in the Superman franchise for the first time since selling off the Fleischer / Famous cartoons.

Turner kept MGM's pre-May 1986 and pre-merger film and TV library, which included nearly all of MGM's material made before the merger, and a small portion of United Artists ' film and TV properties which included few UA pictures, the TV series Gilligan's Island, the U. S and Canadian distribution rights to RKO Radio Pictures library, and the pre-1950 Warner Bros. library and the Fleischer and Famous Studios Popeye cartoons that both were once the property of Associated Artists Productions, which merged with UA Television in 1958 ).

In 1992, the MGM library, which included Warner Brothers properties including the early Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies libraries and also the Fleischer Studios and Famous Studios Popeye cartoons, became the core of Cartoon Network.

also got the Fleischer Studios and Famous Studios Popeye cartoons originally from Paramount.

Despite a contract with MGM to distribute his cartoons, and the introduction of a new character named “ Flip the Frog ”, and later “ Willie Whopper ”, the Iwerks Studio was never a major commercial success and failed to rival either Disney or Fleischer Studios.

The appearance of a true character distinguished it from earlier animated " trick films ", such as those of Blackton and Cohl, and makes it the predecessor to later popular cartoons such as those by Walt Disney and Max Fleischer.

The trailer was animated by Dave Fleischer ( producer of Popeye cartoons ) and produced by Filmack Studios of Chicago, a company that specialized in snipes.

The use of budget-cutting animation measures in animation dates at least to the 1920s ; a handful of the Bosko cartoons in the early years of the Looney Tunes series used several visible tricks ( such as mirror images and repeated scenes ) to give the shorts the comparable appearance of the Disney shorts of the same era, even though they were produced on a budget of just over half of their Disney counterparts ( Disney himself was known to recycle animation in his early years as well ); meanwhile, Max Fleischer took the obvious shortcut of recording the entire soundtrack in one session after the animation was completed in his 1930's cartoons ; he also made frequent use of " mumbling " to avoid the need to synchronize animating mouths to voices.

Animation artist Max Fleischer introduced a series of sing-along short cartoons called Screen Songs, which invited audiences to sing along to popular songs by " following the bouncing ball ", which is similar to a modern karaoke machine.

This casting practice goes back to the early 1930s with actresses such as Mae Questel providing the voices of various male babies and children in Fleischer Studios cartoons, and continues with Elizabeth " E. G ." Daily as Tommy Pickles on Rugrats and All Grown Up!

One of Disney's main competitors was Max Fleischer, the head of Fleischer Studios, which produced cartoons for Paramount Pictures.

Fleischer Studios was a family-owned business, operated by Max Fleischer and his younger brother Dave Fleischer, who supervised the production of the cartoons.

A scene from the opening prologue to a Fleischer Studios Superman ( 1940s cartoons ) | Superman cartoon.

Shortly after the film's failure Dave Fleischer, still maintaining his position as co-chief of his studio, had left Fleischer Studios to run Columbia Pictures ' Screen Gems cartoons.

The departure of the Fleischers had an immediate effect on the studio: the Paramount cartoons of the war years continued to be entertaining and popular and still retained most of the Fleischer style and gloss.

However, none of these cartoons could come close to matching the success of Disney or Fleischer cartoons, and in 1933, MGM, Iwerks ' cartoon distributor since 1930, ended distribution of his cartoons in favor of distributing Harman and Ising cartoons, and Iwerks left after his contract expired in 1934.

Tashlin maintained his position until Columbia Pictures released him from the studio in favor of Dave Fleischer in 1942.

Warner Home Video has released all of the Fleischer Popeye cartoons in three volumes as part of the Popeye the Sailor DVD collection.

There have been some notable video releases for the Superman series, among the best reviewed of these was a 1991 VHS set produced by Bosko Video, titled The Complete Superman Collection: Golden Anniversary Edition-The Paramount Cartoon Classics of Max & Dave Fleischer released as two volumes which featured high-quality transfers from 35mm prints.

VCI Entertainment also released a DVD compilation of all the public domain Popeye cartoons ( both Fleischer and Famous ) entitled Popeye the Sailor Man Classic Cartoons: 75th Anniversary Collectors Edition in 2004.

After a few films with unsynchronized sound ( music and sound effects only ), Fleischer added synchronized sound to this series, with My Old Kentucky Home ( released April 13, 1926 ) with a dog-like character saying " Follow the ball, and join in, everybody.

At the time, it was also reported that the escalated war in Europe just three months before cut off Paramount's foreign release potential ; however, recent information indicates that the picture was released in Europe but the returns were not reported to Fleischer Studios ' accounting department.

A 1977 film version of the story, starring Oliver Reed as Miles Hendon, co-starring Rex Harrison as Duke of Norfolk, Mark Lester and Raquel Welch, and directed by Richard Fleischer, was released in the UK as The Prince and the Pauper but in the US under the title Crossed Swords.

She originally appeared in the Talkartoon and Betty Boop film series, which were produced by Fleischer Studios and released by Paramount Pictures.

My Old Kentucky Home ( 1926 ) is a short animation film originally released on 13 April 1926, by Max and Dave Fleischer of Fleischer Studios as one of the Song Car-Tunes series.

Using this device, Max Fleischer was able to secure a contract with the John R. Bray Studios, and in 1919 they began Out of the Inkwell as an entry in each monthly in the Bray Pictograph Screen Magazine released through Paramount ( 1919 – 1920 ), and later Goldwyn ( 1921 ).

Max Fleischer and J. D. Leventhal's positions as executive producers of the entertainment and technical branches of the studio were greatly strengthened, and the company was streamlined to work more like Goldwyn Picture Corporation, with two cartoons released a week.

The Fleischer & Famous Superman cartoons are a series of seventeen animated Technicolor short films released by Paramount Pictures and based upon the comic book character Superman.

Four volumes were released, where each volume contained 2 selected episodes of the classic 1950s TV series Adventures of Superman ( one black & white episode and one color episode ), plus a selected Max Fleischer Superman short ( marking the first " official " release of such as Warner holds the original film elements ).

Among the best reviewed of these various releases was a 1991 VHS set produced by Bosko Video, the somewhat incorrectly titled The Complete Superman Collection: Golden Anniversary Edition-The Paramount Cartoon Classics of Max & Dave Fleischer released as two VHS volumes which featured high-quality transfers from 35mm prints.

Another DVD was Superman: The Ultimate Max Fleischer Cartoon Collection from VCI Entertainment released on May 30, 2006, a month prior to the release of the film Superman Returns.

On April 7, 2009, yet another release was made, this time a collection of all the cartoons released by Warner Home Video as the first authorized collection from the original masters, titled Max Fleischer's Superman: 1941-1942 with a suggested price at $ 26. 99 ; the set included one new special feature in the form of " The Man, The Myth, Superman " featurette, along with an old special feature seen in the Superman II 2006 DVD release entitled " First Flight: The Fleischer Superman Series ".

In August 1931, Fleischer Studios released a short cartoon Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean as part of the Fleischer Screen Songs series.

The animation was strongly influenced by Fleischer Studios ( whose cartoons were released by Paramount ) and Terrytoons ( where Bakshi once worked, and whose Mighty Mouse character was also adapted into a series by Bakshi ).

This library includes the rights to all of the Paramount cartoons — Fleischer and Famous — released before October 1950 ( with the aforementioned exceptions ).

* The Fleischer brothers filmed this song in DeForest Phonofilm, part of their Song Car-Tunes series, released 15 September 1925, and notable as the first film to use the ‘ follow the bouncing ball ’ technique.

In June 2005, he released his memoirs of his father's career in Out of the Inkwell: Max Fleischer and the Animation Revolution.