Il Berretto Magico - Max Fleischer's Color Classics

https://www.neptube.io/videos/watch/3f6ff135-5038-42b2-a1e3-fd748d5f25ea

Caleidoscopio - Max Fleischer's Color Classic

https://www.neptube.io/videos/watch/103ffeef-d2e6-4d04-a3a8-16465bddec57

And finally, b/c I don’t like to see y’all off to bed without some levity after all of that Clown-based horror: The 1925 Max Fleischer cartoon “Koko’s Haunted Hat” (https://youtu.be/xVB-4wuAhRE?si=8DLLsYW0HsZOklSj).
#SilentFlickerSunday #KokosHauntedHat #MaxFleischer #SilentFilm #animation

I love #BehindTheScenes of the #filmrestauration of #movies. This one is (for me at least) an especially interesting piece about the #restauration of #MaxFleischer #cartoons.

https://youtu.be/rIOgaMnwRrQ

A naive young puppet, watching some cartoons that just went public domain: "What the actual fudge?!"

Emotional Support Human: "Oh yeah, I forgot, the past was suuuuuper racist."

#PublicDomainDay #MaxFleischer #Cartoons

Eclipse of the Sun, explained in animation by Max Fleischer for Bray Studios. This film short was created in 1918; the initial title cards seen here were changed for reissue in 1923.

https://youtu.be/QvaxmWlqEUI

#SilentFilm #Eclipse #MaxFleischer #Animation #1910s #1920s

The Museum of Modern Art is showing Popeye, Betty Boop and other classic cartoons by the Fleischer Brothers. Details here https://bit.ly/3Tq0UrE

#animation #FleischerBrothers #cartoons #KokotheClown #popeye #art #bettyboop #Superman #MaxFleischer #MoMA @MuseumModernArt #NYC

FLEISCHER SCREENSONG "Any Little Girl" Paramount 1931

https://music.freediverse.com/videos/watch/f3a4e1ef-dab1-41fc-8daa-7923be2bebb7

Gary Lucas' Fleischerei [featuring Sarah Stiles] - "The Broken Record" https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/track/the-broken-record #GaryLucas #CaptainBeefheartguitarist #SarahStiles #MaxFleischer #BettyBoop #bandcamp #music

To the Max 💪🏼

Fleischer, that is.

#MaxFleischer 🥳
#immigrants
(We Get the Job Done)
#animation #movies
#Superman
https://youtu.be/VxEOhCVQ1Xw

Chances are, if you're seen Max Fleischer's highly influential #Superman animations from the 1940s, you've seen poor digital copies.

If you've seen them recently, they're probably severely degraded by AI enlargement and color "correction."

In this post, I compare (with screenshots) what’s available on ad-supported services like Plex to @davextreme's fan restoration project, then his version to the stunning new Blu-ray release.

https://jacobtender.net/blog/max-fleischers-superman-shorts-restored/ #MaxFleischer #DC #DCcomics #comics

#science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #FTW #SFFTW #film #movie #spaceflight #future #rocket #MaxFleischer #BettyBoop #Popeye #moon #cartoon #animation

Retro SciFi Film of the Week…

Dancing on the Moon (1935)

This is the first animated film I’ve had for the Retro SciFi Film of the Week. It was produced by Max Fleischer, who was a leading animated film producer during the first half of the 20th century. Fleischer created Betty Boop and Popeye the Sailor and was very active at inventing new techniques for animation. He is the inventor of the rotoscope, which was used throughout the 20th century for producing graphic special effects in most live action films as well cartoons.

I’ve mentioned before that there was a lot of innovation during this time, including the development of rockets by Goddard and others, and the idea of using rockets for space travel was beginning to look like a reality.

Also happening at this time was a lot of class conflict and labor unrest. The Ludlow Massacre happened just two decades prior to the making of this film. Right after this film was released animators in Fleischer’s studio, who were working in poor conditions (as many workers at the time were), staged a major strike that crippled the studio.

This short film is about a tour company that specializes in honeymoon vacations on the moon. The technique and artistry of this short film surpasses many cartoons made even today.

Bimbo’s Initiation and the weird history of fraternal orders: #animation #MaxFleischer #FleischerStudios #cartoons #fraternalOrders #initiation
http://comedyforanimators.com/2022/03/04/initiation-gags/

"Kelley began working in the industry doing menial jobs like washing film cells, but she worked her way up and Johnson said she was eventually "working elbow to elbow with #MaxFleischer, #PaulTerry and #WalterLantz, animators who were household names."

Her work as a pioneering animator was lost to history — until now | #BessieMaeKelley #Animation #HistoryOfAnimation #WomenInAnimation | NPR
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/24/1145092476/bessie-mae-kelley-first-woman-animator

" The Fabulous Fleischer Cartoons Restored team is dedicated to preserving
#MaxFleischer's films by restoring them from original prints and negatives. #AdamSavage's Tested visited the #BlackhawkFilms scanning facility in California and spoke with restoration expert Steve Stanchfield about the process of bringing these classic #cartoon films back to life."

Watch the fully restored Fleischer film Christmas Comes But Once a Year (1936) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dfeokaw2xc

https://boingboing.net/2022/12/22/the-painstaking-task-of-restoring-the-antique-animations-of-max-fleischer.html

Restoring Max Fleischer cartoons

#animation #cartoons #maxfleischer #filmhistory #filmrestauration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIOgaMnwRrQ

The #rotoscope, invented by #MaxFleischer in 1915, gave animators the ability to trace directly over film footage. This, in turn, allowed them to translate the movements of a real person into that an animated character. One favorite rotoscope performer was the great #CabCalloway, whose amazing dance moves were captured in a number of early animations.

https://youtu.be/IS1hCSsmH1E