Dave Fleischer

David "Dave" Fleischer (born July 14, 1894 in New York City , † June 25, 1979 in Woodland Hills , California ) was an American animator , director and producer . Together with his brother Max Fleischer , he was the founder of the Fleischer Studios .

Life

Fleischer's parents had moved from Austria to the USA seven years before he was born. Dave Fleischer was born here as the fourth of five children. His talent for drawing was already evident in childhood and after finishing school he first became an advertising artist and joined Pathé Films in 1913 as an editor . In addition to his work at Pathé, he and his brother Max Fleischer, who wanted to gain a foothold in the animation industry, developed the rotoscope , which Max Fleischer had patented in 1915. For the first time, it made it possible to animate realistic sequences of movements in a short time. The first tests with the rotoscopy were recordings of Dave Fleischer in a clown costume, which were animated. The first successful butcher film series Koko the Clown finally emerged from the clown figure .

Fleischer served in Washington during World War I and was employed as an editor in the Medical Corps Film Unit, among other things. After the war, Max and Dave Fleischer found a producer in John Randolph Bray of JR Bray Studios to support their work. From 1918 onwards, the short film series Out of the Inkwell was made , which was published monthly by Paramount (until 1920) and Goldwyn (1921) in Bray Pictograph Screen Magazine. In 1921 Dave and Max Fleischer founded their first film production company, Out of the Inkwell Films, which later became Fleischer Studios . By 1927, other films in the series Out of the Inkwell and from 1924 to 1926 the series Inklings and Song Car-Tunes were made . While Dave Fleischer acted as a director, Max Fleischer was involved as a producer. In the years that followed, Dave Fleischer directed classics from the Fleischer Studio, including the Betty Boob films, the Popeye series and the Superman short animated films.

Dave and Max Fleischer split in a dispute in 1941, and Dave Fleischer was an animation producer in the animation department of Columbia Pictures from 1942 to 1944. Among other things, he briefly headed the Screen Gems film studio , which was part of Columbia. In 1944 he went to Universal, where he was responsible for animation sequences in feature films, including Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds , until his retirement at the end of the 1960s . Fleischer died in 1979 of a heart attack.

Filmography (selection)

• 1919: The Clown's Pup
• 1919: The Tantalizing Fly
• 1919: Slides
• 1920: The Boxing Kangaroo
• 1920: The Chinaman
• 1920: The Circus
• 1920: The Clown's Little Brother
• 1920: The Ouija Board
• 1920: Perpetual Motion
• 1920: Poker
• 1920: The Restaurant
• 1921: The Automobile Ride
• 1921: Cartoonland
• 1921: The First Man to the Moon
• 1921: Fishing
• 1921: Invisible Ink
• 1921: November
• 1921: The Sparring Partner
• 1922: Birthday
• 1922: Bubbles
• 1922: The Challenge
• 1922: The Dresden Doll
• 1922: The Hypnotist
• 1922: Jumping Beans
• 1922: Mosquito
• 1922: Pay Day
• 1922: Reunion
• 1922: The Show
• 1923: Balloons
• 1923: The Battle
• 1923: Bedtime
• 1923: The Contest
• 1923: False Alarm
• 1923: Flies
• 1923: The Fortune Teller
• 1923: Fun from the Press
• 1923: Laundry
• 1923: Modeling
• 1923: The Puzzle
• 1923: Shadows
• 1923: Surprise
• 1923: Trapped
• 1923: The Einstein Theory of Relativity
• 1924: The Cure
• 1924: Ko-Ko in 1999
• 1924: Ko-Ko the Hot Shot
• 1924: League of Nations
• 1924: The Masquerade
• 1924: The Runaway
• 1924: Vacation
• 1924: Vaudeville
• 1925: Big Chief Ko-Ko
• 1925: The Cartoon Factory
• 1925: Ko-Ko Celebrates the Fourth
• 1925: Ko-Ko Eats
• 1925: Ko-Ko in Toyland
• 1925: Ko-Ko Nuts
• 1925: Ko-Ko on the Run
• 1925: Ko-Ko Packs' em
• 1925: Ko-Ko Sees Spooks
• 1925: Ko-Ko's Thanksgiving
• 1925: Ko-Ko the Barber
• 1925: Ko-Ko Trains Animals
• 1925: Mother Goose Land
• 1925: The Storm
• 1926: Ko-Ko at the Circus
• 1926: Ko-Ko Baffles the Bulls
• 1926: Ko-Ko Gets Egg-cited
• 1926: Ko-Ko Hot After It
• 1926: Ko-Ko kidnapped
• 1926: Ko-Ko's Paradise
• 1926: Ko-Ko Steps Out
• 1926: Ko-Ko the Convict
• 1926: Toot! Toot!
• 1926: The Fadeaway
• 1926: It's the Cat's
• 1927: Inklings
• 1927: East Side, West Side
• 1927: Ko-Ko Back Tracks
• 1927: Ko-Ko Makes' em Laugh
• 1927: Ko-Ko Plays Pool
• 1927: Ko-Ko's Kane
• 1927: Ko-Ko the Knight
• 1927: Ko-Ko Hops Off
• 1927: Ko-Ko the Kop
• 1927: Ko-Ko Explores
• 1927: Ko-Ko Chops Suey
• 1927: Ko-Ko's Klock
• 1927: Ko-Ko kicks
• 1927: Ko-Ko's Quest
• 1927: Ko-Ko the Kid
• 1927: Ko-Ko Needles the Boss
• 1927: That Little Big Fellow
• 1928: Ko-Ko's Kink
• 1928: Ko-Ko's Kozy Korner
• 1928: Koko's Germ Jam
• 1928: Ko-Ko's Bawth
• 1928: Ko-Ko Smokes
• 1928: Ko-Ko's tattoo
• 1928: Ko-Ko's Earth Control
• 1928: Ko-Ko's Hot Dog
• 1928: Ko-Ko's Haunted House
• 1928: Ko-Ko Lamps Aladdin
• 1928: Ko-Ko Squeals
• 1928: Ko-Ko's Field Daze
• 1928: Ko-Ko Goes Over
• 1928: Ko-Ko's Catch
• 1928: Ko-Ko's War Dogs
• 1928: Ko-Ko's Chase
• 1928: Ko-Ko Heaves-Ho
• 1928: Ko-Ko's Big Pull
• 1928: Ko-Ko Cleans Up
• 1928: Ko-Ko's parade
• 1928: Ko-Ko's Dog-Gone
• 1928: telefilm
• 1928: Ko-Ko in the Rough
• 1928: Ko-Ko's Magic
• 1928: Ko-Ko on the Track
• 1928: Ko-Ko's Act
• 1928: Ko-Ko's Courtship
• 1929: No Eyes Today
• 1929: Noise Annoys Ko-Ko
• 1929: Ko-Ko Beats Time
• 1929: Ko-Ko's Reward
• 1929: Ko-Ko's Hot Ink
• 1929: Ko-Ko's Crib
• 1929: Ko-Ko's Saxaphonies
• 1929: Ko-Ko's knock-down
• 1929: Ko-Ko's signals
• 1929: Ko-Ko's Focus
• 1929: Ko-Ko's Conquest
• 1929: Ko-Ko's Harem-Scarem
• 1929: Ko-Ko's Big Sale
• 1929: Ko-Ko's Hypnotism
• 1929: Chemical Ko-Ko
• 1929: Noah's Lark
• 1930: Marriage Wows
• 1930: Radio Riot
• 1930: hot dog
• 1930: Fire Bugs
• 1930: Wise Flies
• 1930: The Grand Uproar
• 1930: Sky scraping
• 1930: Up to Mars
• 1931: Graduation Day in Bugland
• 1931: Suited to a T.
• 1931: Hurry Doctor
• 1931: In My Merry Oldsmobile
• 1931: Texas in 1999
• 1931: A Jolt for General Germ
• 1931: Teacher's Pest
• 1931: Tree Saps
• 1931: The Cow's Husband
• 1931: The Male Man
• 1931: Twenty Legs under the Sea
• 1931: Step on It
• 1931: The Herring Murder Case
• 1933: Snow White (Snow-White)
• 1934: Poor Cinderella
• 1934: Little Dutch Mill
• 1935: An Elephant Never Forgets
• 1935: The Song of the Birds
• 1935: The Kids in the Shoe
• 1935: Dancing on the Moon
• 1935: Time for Love
• 1935: Musical Memories
• 1936: Somewhere in Dream Land
• 1936: Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
• 1936: The Little Stranger
• 1936: The Cobweb Hotel
• 1936: Greedy Humpty Dumpty
• 1936: Hawaiian Birds
• 1936: Play Safe
• 1936: Christmas Comes But Once a Year
• 1937: Bunny mooning
• 1937: Chicken à la King
• 1937: A Car-Tune Portrait
• 1937: Peeping Penguins
• 1937: Educated Fish
• 1937: Little Lamby
• 1938: Hold It
• 1938: Hunky and Spunky
• 1938: All's Fair at the Fair
• 1938: The Playful Polar Bears
• 1938: The Tears of an Onion
• 1939: Always Kickin '
• 1939: Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
• 1939: Small Fry
• 1939: Barnyard Brat
• 1939: The Fresh Vegetable Mystery
• 1939: Gulliver's Travels (Gulliver's Travels)
• 1940: Little Lambkin
• 1940: Ants in the Plants
• 1940: Kick in Time
• 1940: Snubbed by a Snob
• 1940: You Can't Shoe a Horsefly
• 1940: The Dandy Lion
• 1940: King for a Day
• 1940: Sneak, Snoop and Snitch
• 1940: The Constable
• 1940: Mommy Loves Puppy
• 1940: Bring Himself Back Alive
• 1941: Hoppity comes back (Mr. Bug Goes to Town)
• 1941: All's Well
• 1941: Pop and Mom in Wild Oysters
• 1941: Two for the Zoo
• 1941: Zero, the Hound
• 1941: Twinkletoes Gets the Bird
• 1941: Raggedy Ann and Andy
• 1941: Swing Cleaning
• 1941: Sneak, Snoop and Snitch in Triple Trouble
• 1941: Fire Cheese
• 1941: Twinkletoes - Where He Goes Nobody Knows
• 1941: Copy Cat
• 1941: Gabby Goes Fishing
• 1941: The Wizard of Arts
• 1941: It's a hap-hap-happy day
• 1941: Vitamin Hay
• 1941: Twinkletoes in Hat Stuff
• 1941: Superman
• 1941: Superman in The Mechanical Monsters
• 1942: Superman in Billion Dollar Limited
• 1942: Superman in The Arctic Giant
• 1942: Superman in The Bulleteers
• 1942: The Raven
• 1942: Superman in The Magnetic Telescope
• 1942: Superman in Electric Earthquake
• 1942: Superman in Volcano
• 1942: Superman in Terror on the Midway
• 1943: Imagination

Awards

• 1944: Oscar nomination for Best Animated Short Film for Imagination
• 1972: Winsor McCay Award with brother Max Fleischer at the Annie Awards

literature

• David (Dave) Fleischer . In: Jeff Lenburg: Who's who in animated cartoons . Applause, New York 2006, pp. 86-88.

Web links

• Dave Fleischer in the Internet Movie Database (English)