It was 89 years ago today that Betty Boop made her debut in this Fleischer Studios Talkartoon, DIZZY DISHES.
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Happy 133rd Birthday, Max Fleischer!
Today marks the 133rd birthday of animator Max Fleischer, who, along with his brother Dave, was responsible for creating Betty Boop, the first Popeye the Sailor Man cartoons, and the beautifully rendered Superman cartoons of the 1940s.
In the 1940s, Fleischer was the head of animation for The Jam Handy Organization, an industrial film company. This lighthearted newsreel from that outfit, illustrated by Fleischer, shows how versatile an illustrator he was.
Happy birthday, Max Fleischer, wherever you may be!
Fun facts
Did you know that Bud Collyer, who served from 1956 to 1968 as the host of TV’s To Tell the Truth, was also, from 1940 through 1949, the voice of Superman (and, of course, Clark Kent) on the radio? He also voiced the Man of Steel in Max Fleischer‘s animated Superman shorts of that era.