1939 Newsreel - behind the scenes of Fleischer Studios

[Davenport]

Cool enough to share, roughly 5 and a half minutes viewing time.

(apologies if it's been previously posted)

 

 

[John R]

Cool video! It's incredible the amount of artists it took to make a cartoon. Thanks Davenport.

[MrBedrock]

That really is cool. The attention to detail is one reason Fleischer made some of the best cartoons ever. It would be doubly cool to see the same type newsreel with a Superman cartoon

[Prince Namor]

+1

 

[mrmyst]

Absolutely the coolest, thank you for sharing this. And all those sweet young ladies working on the production line too. Who knew?

[MrBedrock]

And all those sweet young ladies working on the production line...

...are great grandmothers now

[mrmyst]

And all those sweet young ladies working on the production line...

...are great grandmothers now

I wish I was 19 in 1939. But then again, I'd be dead now, so never mind.

[MrBedrock]

And all those sweet young ladies working on the production line...

...are great grandmothers now

I wish I was 19 in 1939. But then again, I'd be dead now, so never mind.

If you knew then what you know now your family would be really set up.

[mrmyst]

And all those sweet young ladies working on the production line...

...are great grandmothers now

I wish I was 19 in 1939. But then again, I'd be dead now, so never mind.

If you knew then what you know now your family would be really set up.

God if only.

[Davenport]

It would be doubly cool to see the same type newsreel with a Superman cartoon

Oh man, that would be sweet.

There are some cool Fleischer Superman 'model sheets' on the net. Probably about as close as we'll get to 'behind the scenes' for Superman.

 

[kdoginohio]

the Fleischer Studios turned out some of the most beeyootiful animated films.

[Senormac]

the Fleischer Studios turned out some of the most beeyootiful animated films.

 

+1 I have a video of old Fleischer Superman cartoons, and they are pretty amazing

[Tsimanga]

Thanks for sharing - I love old-time movie production. So hands on and personal.

[esquirecomics]

Amazing how much work went into making a short cartoon back in the day.

 

Great video!

[RockMyAmadeus]

[Maccai3]

the Fleischer Studios turned out some of the most beeyootiful animated films.

 

+1 I have a video of old Fleischer Superman cartoons, and they are pretty amazing

 

i like the undersell on the "this looks like a job for Superman" line too, nowadays it'd have over the top emphasis on the first syllable of Superman

[zosocane]

Thanks for posting the video.

 

The narrator mentioned the studio was in Miami. So I checked Google, and sure enough, the facility still stands today. The facility is currently a City of Miami police station. It was well located in the 1940s and 1950s, very close to Wilcox Field (what is today known as Miami Int'l Airport). I'm sure the facility flew a lot of cartoonists and executives back-and-forth from New York and LA at the time.

 

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/cartoon-culture/fleischer-studio-in-miami-now-a-police-station-20042.html