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INSPIRATIONS
Explore what helped to inspire Max Fleischer
and his art and innovations...
and his art and innovations...
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DON'T TAKE THAT BLACK BOTTOM AWAY
When Betty Boop was hauled into court in 1932, Fleischer composer Sammy Timberg scored her signature fight song - Don't Take My Boop-Oop-a-Doop Away. The song was a take-off on the 1926 hit Don't Take My Black Bottom Away.
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FLAPPERS OF THE ROARING TWENTIES
The rebellious Flapper Movement of the twenties was very influential to Max Fleischer's films of the 1920's and 1930's. The flapper was a common character in Fleischer films long before Betty Boop made her debut in 1932.
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IRVING BERLIN SONGBOOK
Irving Berlin was one of the greatest songwriters of all time. In the 1920's and 1930's, many of Berlin's songs were featured in Fleischer's Ko-Ko Car-Tunes series - the series that introduced the first cartoon with sound. Berlin's music was also featured in the Screen Songs series, as well as in films from the music-heavy Talkartoon and Betty Boop series'.
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SONGS OF SCOTLAND
The history of Scots in New York City goes back to the days of Dutch rule. In the mid-1920's Max Fleischer introduced his firstE song-based series Ko-Ko's Car-Tunes. Some of these early "music videos" were based on folk hits from the Scottish Highlands.
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STEPHEN FOSTER SONGBOOK
Stephen Foster is known as "The Father of American Music". He wrote more than 200 songs in mid-1800's - long before the days of recorded music. In the 1920's, Max Fleischer used some of Foster's old-time hits for the basis in some of his Ko-Ko Car-Tunes - his first music-based cartoon series.
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