Animation Movies

A reporter interviews Max Fleischer about his creation, and Betty illustrates with excerpts from three prior cartoons.

The Big Bad Wolf torments Little Red Riding Hood and the Three Little Pigs.

Popeye comes to ask Olive out, but finds she’s gone off with the title character. Popeye goes to the circus (ringmaster Wimpy) looking for her, to find she’s part of…

As in the classic fable, the grasshopper plays his fiddle and lives for the moment, while the industrious ants squirrel away massive amounts of food for the winter. With his…

While at the park, a group of birds engage in a swimming contest. Another cartoon by Warner Brothers promoting a song from its movie “Gold Diggers of 1933”.

A wicked giant attempts to steal all of the instruments from a small town.

Popeye and Olive, adrift on a raft, land on what apparently is Africa, and are immediately battling elephants and gorillas (also a moose!). Popeye eventually battles an entire menagerie at…

Popeye skates over to Olive’s house to give her a Christmas present: ice skates of her own. While he’s teaching her, Bluto skates up and gets fresh; of course, Popeye…

Betty Boop hosts a Hallowe’en party with a few uninvited guests.

Mussorgsky’s composition is the soundtrack for this pin-screen animated take on night and wild things. A scarecrow blows down, clouds move by quickly. Beings take shape; a town appears, animals…

Popeye, Olive Oyl and Wimpy are shipwrecked on an island of hostile Indians

Blackout gags and music, including the title song originated in the movie musical Gold Diggers of 1933. Hollywood figures caricatured include Tallulah Bankhead, Joan Blondell, James Cagney, Bing Crosby, Guy…

After the last human has left the department store, the toys proceed to the music department where they start performing the Warren/Dubin song “We’re in the money”. The money soon…

Popeye and Bluto fight for the love of Olive Oyl in their debut short, featuring Betty Boop.

The two pigs building houses of hay and sticks scoff at their brother, building the brick house. But when the wolf comes around and blows their houses down (after trickery…

Betty and Bimbo, as Queen and King of the May, host a giant outdoor party that gets sprayed with rubber. Koko appears briefly.

Betty drudges in the kitchen alone until her friends (including Bimbo and Koko) hold a surprise birthday party for her… which gets rowdy.

The princess is to wed the Prince against her wishes. When she refuses, the king locks her in the tower. Minstrel Mickey sees her and rescues her, making a rope…

While Bimbo and Koko admire Betty, their experiment becomes a monster.

Koko is recruiting customers for a 50 cent sightseeing tour of the museum. Betty is Koko’s only passenger. Betty gets locked inside by accident. The skeletons from the displays come…

Santa’s little helpers must hurry to finish the toys before Christmas Day.

Two Dutch children stumble on a clearing in the woods where gnomes are going about their business. The gnomes are friendly to the children. A witch comes and takes them…

A mannequin in the city dump improvises a working piano from junk, then plays and sings the title song. Various discarded items join in with song or dance.

Betty’s campaign tries to appeal to everyone. Real candidates are parodied, but campaign promises are a bit bizarre.

On a South Sea isle, Bimbo meets Betty in the guise of a hula dancer.

Betty, Koko and Bimbo sell a weird concoction in their medicine show.

An initially realistic chess game becomes a chaotic, animated quest for the favors of Betty Boop (the black queen) by Bimbo (white king) and others, with elements of bowling and…

A love story set to a baroque score, HARLEQUIN is a delicate black-and-white ballet rendered through exquisitely detailed silhouettes.

During the Great War, Bosko and a fearsome beast are in a dogfight. Bosko loses, but that’s only the first battle.

Early Japanese anime. A stop-motion papercraft animation set to a song sung by Kikoku Inoue

Waffles the Cat and Don Dog find themselves at the mercy of animate skeletons inside an Egyptian tomb.

During the late Kamakura period, there lived a famous swordsmith known as Masamune whose renown as a swordsmith was so great that even long after his passing the term “Masamune”…

In the last of the Silly Symphonies season cycle, bears hibernate (or try to), raccoons sneeze, moose swim, and pretty much everyone ice skates. Everyone gathers around the groundhog to…

Mickey comes onstage to the applause of an unseen audience and plays various classical tunes on the violin, after some minor mishaps. During a sad song, he is overcome with…

Mickey Mouse, piloting a steamboat, delights his passenger, Minnie, by making musical instruments out of the menagerie on deck.

Oswald goes big game hunting in Africa.

Taken from The Arabian Nights, the film tells the story of a wicked sorcerer who tricks Prince Achmed into mounting a magical flying horse and sends the rider off on…

An abstract animation by Walter Ruttmann.

An abstract animation from Walter Ruttmann.

An abstract animation from Walter Ruttmann.