Fleischer Cartoons: Matinee Program 2

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Held on Sun, Mar 10, 2024, 2:30 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T2, Theater 2

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2

Somewhere in Dreamland. 1939=5. Directed by Dave Fleischer, produced by Max Fleischer. Courtesy of FleischerToons.

Somewhere in Dreamland. 1936. DCP. 9 min.
A Clean Shaven Man. 1936. DCP. 6 min.
Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy. 1941. DCP. 17 min.
The Mechanical Monsters. 1941. DCP. 9 min.
Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions. 1933. DCP. 7 min.
Mother Goose Land. 1933. DCP. 7 min.

These family-friendlier cartoons demonstrate the Fleischers’ irrepressible creativity, but also carry telltale signs of the Great Depression that dovetailed with the studio’s glory days. A Clean Shaven Man sees Popeye and Bluto competing for Olive Oyl’s affections by dressing one another’s hair after their go-to guy Wimpy shuts down his shop with a sign that says “BARBER OUT GETTING A SHAVE.” Then there’s the Technicolor-rendered child poverty of Somewhere in Dreamland (which was recently made infamous all over again by the indie sensation Skinamarink). In Betty Boop’s Crazy Inventions, our heroine concocts an egg-fryer, a corn-rotator, and a self-threading sewing machine—but, as in other Fleischer tales, these game-changing innovations come at a costly price.

This film accompanies Fleischer Cartoons: The Art and Inventions of Max Fleischer.

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