The Cartoons of Max Fleischer: Halloween Party!
$15 General Admission
$10 Student/Child/Senior
$7 NWFF Member
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(Dave Fleischer, 1924-1939, United States, 78 min, in English)
NEWLY RESTORED IN 4K, THE CARTOONS OF MAX AND DAVE FLEISCHER ARE COMING TO THE FORUM!
Northwest Film Forum is thrilled to announce a screening of eleven classic and newly restored cartoons from the pioneering and immensely influential Max and Dave Fleischer in honor of our favorite night of the year: HALLOWEEN! Most well-known for their original cartoons and characters Betty Boop, Bimbo the Dog, and Koko the Clown, as well as their refreshing takes on popular characters like Popeye and Superman, the Fleischer Brothers created a wide breadth of work that reached far into the depths of the fantastic and absurd while maintaining a strong hold on a unique approach to humor.
This program is full of some of the heaviest hitters from the Fleischer catalog, as well as some of the scariest cartoons that were being made at the time. You’ll laugh, cry, shriek, and shiver, as some of Dave Fleischer’s craziest characters and ideas grace our screen in quality unseen until now!
Cartoons In This Program Include:
Betty Boop’s Halloween Party (1933, 6min)
Betty Boop hosts a Hallowe’en party with a few uninvited guests.
Bimbo’s Initiation (1931, 7min)
Bimbo finds himself surrounded by a mysterious group of robed figures who invite him to become a member of their secret organisation. When he refuses, they fling him through a nightmarish sequence of terror and torture devices. Will our hapless hero make it out alive?
The Cobweb Hotel (1936, 8min)
A spider runs a hotel for flies where he keeps his guests captive.
Herring Murder Case (1931, 7min)
The Herring is murdered, and detective Bimbo is trying to find his killer.
Is My Palm Read? (1933, 5min)
For customer Betty Boop, psychic reader Prof. Bimbo conjures up an adventure on a haunted tropical island in his crystal ball.
Koko’s Hauntd House (1928, 6min)
A friend of KoKo’s animator draws a haunted house, and KoKo and his dog Fitz go inside. There, they encounter frightening hallways where every door leads to a new scare.
Mysterious Mose (1930, 6min)
Betty Boop can’t sleep on a scary night, so she sings the title song and meets the gentleman in question…a surreal version of Bimbo.
Red Hot Mama (1934, 7min)
Betty Boop, sleepless on a freezing night, builds a nice hot fire which proves too much of a good thing; in a dream she visits Hell, sings “Hell’s Bells,” and makes Hell freeze over!
Swing You Sinners (1930, 9min)
Bimbo is seen late at night, trying to steal a chicken. He runs away from a policeman and enters a haunted cemetery. Various ghosts and monsters tell him that he will be punished for his sin.
The Runaway (1924, 12min)
The Inkwell Clown runs away from Max and winds up falling through a crack in the floorboards and into a fiery Hell.
Fresh Vegetable Mystery (1939, 7min)
Crime strikes the vegetable world when Mrs. Mama Carrot awakens and finds her children have been carrot-napped. She summons the Irish-Potato Police and they are soon on the trail of the culprit.
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