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Max Fleischer News Sketches (ca. 1944 - 1945)

Humorous "sketches" of human interest stories by Max Fleischer, who headed Handy's animation department in the mid 1940s and 1950s.


This movie is part of the collection: Prelinger Archives

Production Company: Handy (Jam) Organization
Audio/Visual: sound, B&W
Keywords: need keyword

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: GE_Pretzel - - March 31, 2006
Subject: Unique style of presentation
In this short, Max Fleischer's sedulous drawing hand sketches cartoonish illustrations based on eccentric news stories that have been reported by the Associated Press. Instead of simply opting to present viewers with a set of complete drawings, Fleischer draws each illustration as the narrator provides the details. As one will see, this style is effective as it allows Fleischer to perform some very good comedic timing.

Reviewer: Spuzz - - November 29, 2003
Subject: Max does the news
Light fluffer stories as drawn (not really animated) by Mr. Betty Boop himself, max fleischer. These stories, which are 'drawn on the news wire' basically are human interest stories (aka, how you can marry while 2000 miles away, a clumsy gasoline attendant and some, uh, interesting ways to repel a shark attack) while Max Fleischer draws out a picture. 'Drawing' maybe to broad of a word though, as the pictures are totally oversimplified in the drawing. aka, Max draws a line, a whole box appears. LOVE the optical illusion of the Nevada though. For Fleischer fanatics mostly, but others will be amused as well.

Reviewer: cashel - - November 26, 2003
Subject: political cartoons
almost from dawn of movie animation,cartoons were used for propaganda and education . This film is by the legendary cartoonist, max fleisher and is the only film in this genere by him that I have seen. I found it witty and entertaining and giving glimpses of history..Therefore I recommend this 6 minutes of amusement from the year of 1943. approx.