Color Classics
Fleischer's competition to the Disney studios Silly Symphonies series. This was Fleischer Studios' first series of color cartoons. Betty Boop appeared in the first short, Poor Cinderella, probably to give a boost to the fledgling series.
Cartoons
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Poor Cinderella
Betty Boop plays Cinderella in this retelling of the classic tale. Cinderella lives with her mean stepsisters, who treat her miserably. They refuse to allow her to attend the prince's ball.…
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Little Dutch Mill
The scene painted on a Dutch plate sitting in a china cabinet comes to life. It's a simple tale of a Dutch Hans(el) and Gretel and their pet duck, who play around a mill inhabited by the to…
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An Elephant Never Forgets
Animal children ship off to school in their daily routine, then go through their lessons in a musical review led by their duck teacher. Everyone remembers the routine but the elephant. Mayh…
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The Song Of The Birds
A flock of robins is teaching their young ones to fly. Meanwhile, a boy with an air rifle is shooting at everything in the house. He goes out into the garden and shoots at a nest, then at o…
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The Kids In The Shoe
The old lady who lives in a shoe has a bit of trouble with her gaggle of children. The old woman feeds her kids for breakfast while the cat laps up the spillage on the floor under the table…
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Dancing On The Moon
Various animal newlyweds take a rocket ship to the moon, where they dance the night away to "Dancing on the Moon (With You In My Arms)."
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Time For Love
When a swan returns after making the wrong choice in love, she finds that all is forgiven, and her true love wins out.
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Musical Memories
An elderly couple reminisce before a fire. The old man gets out their photo album. Through an old stereo viewer, they revisit their shared past, beginning as toddlers in the 1870s and leadi…
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Somewhere In Dreamland
A poignant story of two poor children who are out collecting firewood when they pass by a toy store, market and finally a bakery. They drool over the wares in the bakery window but walk awa…
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The Little Stranger
A twist on the classic "Ugly Duckling" story, as a baby chick accidentally gets hatched by a mother duck.
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The Cobweb Hotel
Mr. Spider runs the Cobweb Hotel (where flies check in, but don't check out) in an abandoned writing desk. When newlyweds Mr. and Mrs. Fly arrive on their honeymoon, they discover that the…
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Greedy Humpty Dumpty
Humpty Dumpty- seen here as a greedy and abusive monarch- wants to acquire the gold from the sun. He forces his subjects to build his palace's golden walls higher, so that he can reach the…
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Hawaiian Birds
A young female bird takes off with a 1930s swing jazz band (the Big City Orioles) to New York from her serene Hawaiian environment. The cartoon turns into a bleak depiction of the Depressio…
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Play Safe
A small boy is playing with his toy trains in the yard, guarded by his faithful dog, who is tied to a nearby tree. He's obviously mad for trains, and when a real train goes by outside, he r…
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Christmas Comes But Once A Year
At an orphanage, a group of lonely kids are given broken toys, leaving these sad youngsters without a Merry Christmas. Professor Grampy, traveling in his self-propelled sled, sees the unhap…
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Bunny Mooning
It's the wedding of Jack and Jill Rabbit built around the song "Everybody's Getting Ready for the Wedding."
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Chicken A La King
An Arabian rooster has a harem of chickens. But life is a bore until Ducky Wucky (a Mae West-styled duck) pays him a call. She's a wise quackin' gal who can be your pal!
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A Car-Tune Portrait
A tale about the animator's hand that is drawing the pictures of some crazy animals playing music. Although the opening is in the mode of the Out Of The Inkwell films, the cartoon character…
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Peeping Penguins
Four curious baby penguins wander off from their mother and enter a hunter's empty cabin in the frozen north. Their curiosity to explore all the strange things inside only gets them into tr…
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Educated Fish
In an underwater school for fish, bad boy Tommy Cod would rather play pinball in his desk than recite the daily lesson about hooks, fishing poles, and lines so strong. Tommy is locked out o…
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Little Lamby
A scheming fox comes to a happy valley of animals and their babies. He stages a phony baby contest to see which baby animal appeals to his appetite. Finally, he decides on lamb for dinner,…
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The Tears Of An Onion
None of the other vegetable children will have anything to do with the Little Onion, except for the cute Little Peach who has a cold. Suddenly, a Crow invades the garden and steals the Litt…
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Hold It!
When the lights of the city go dim, all of the kitties are let outdoors to prowl. Holding a meeting, they come up with a plan to rid themselves of a neighboring dog. The cats proceed to tor…
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Hunky And Spunky
Hunky and Spunky, a mother burro and her child, have adventures in the Wild West. Trouble lurks as a miner is looking for a pack animal and tries to abduct Spunky.
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All's Fair At The Fair
A cartoon look at the World's Fair in its glory. These fairs were monster events that highlighted new technology and electromechanical innovations. A classic look into the future from 50 ye…
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The Playful Polar Bears
A group of polar bears are playing with their cubs in the ice and snow. One of the cubs has a little trouble sliding and swimming. An exploration ship happens along, and a group of greedy h…
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Always Kickin'
Mother donkey Hunky tries to teach her son Spunky how to exercise his back kicks to kick like a "man," but he doesn't take it seriously. All that Spunky wants to do is sing along with his l…
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Small Fry
A small catfish tries to grow up in a hurry, but after he is initiated as a member in the Big Fry Club, he gets scared and runs home to his mother.
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The Barnyard Brat
Spunky is a bratty nuisance around the farm, and Hunky is reluctant to punish Spunky until the last straw breaks her back.
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The Fresh Vegetable Mystery
The setting of this cartoon is a kitchen inhabited by living vegetables. A mysterious figure kidnaps some carrot babies and several Irish potato police officers commence an investigation. T…
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Little Lambkins
A curly-headed moppet enjoys playing with animal friends in the suburbs. Father and mother move to a modern apartment in the city. The boy sabotages the place until they return to the count…
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Ants In The Plants
A classic about an anteater who makes life rough for a colony of ants. In the ant community, the queen spreads warnings of their greatest enemy, the Anteater. "He's a menace, he's a brute,…
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A Kick In Time
Spunky the donkey is grabbed and sold to a cruel, overbearing owner. Just wait till his pal comes to save the day.
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Snubbed By A Snob
The two burros, Hunky and Spunky, try to socialize with a pair of thoroughbred racehorses. Spunky is royally snubbed by the two, one of whom is a prissy horse with curlers. When little Spun…
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You Can't Shoe A Horse Fly
Spunky the little donkey is being annoyed by a horsefly. His mother Hunky finally gets rid of the little pest by smashing him with her tail.
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Vitamin Hay
Spunky would rather eat junk than his hay. He accidentally swallows a bulb horn, which honks every time that he hiccups. This offends a pair of lovey-dovey geese, and Spunky learns his less…
