Feature Films

1939 – 1941 2 cartoons

The only animation studio to take on Disney on Disney's turf, Fleischer was the second US studio to release a feature animated film. While Gulliver's Travels was well received critically, the film only did moderately well at the box office. The financial failure of their second feature film all but broke the studio, which was dissolved by the end of that year.

Cartoons

  1. Gulliver's Travels

    December 22, 1939 Theatrical Fleischer Studios

    Shipwrecked by a storm at sea, normal-sized Lemuel Gulliver washes up on the shore of Lilliput, where the citizens are no larger than Gulliver's thumb. Discovered by excitable town crier (a…

  2. Mr. Bug Goes To Town

    December 4, 1941 Theatrical Fleischer Studios

    Hoppity the grasshopper finds that all is not well when he returns home to Bugville, a vacant lot just 45 inches from Broadway. A skyscraper is scheduled to be built on the site, throwing a…