Back From The Ink: Restored Animated Shorts Intro UCLA Hammer Museum | Jillian Borders | Jerry Beck (Patreon)

Back From The Ink: Restored Animated Shorts Intro UCLA Hammer Museum | Jillian Borders | Jerry Beck

This program was presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive on Friday, April 11th 2025. Nine animated pictures from Max and Dave Fleischer, who created Betty Boop and Koko the Clown, are among the pieces that have been restored by UCLA through a collaboration between the Film Foundation, the Seth MacFarlane Foundation and Fabulous Fleischer Cartoons Restored. MacFarlane is a jazz music aficionado, so the Fleischer brothers’ noted use of jazz in their soundtracks, including collaborations with Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong and Don Redman, are a big reason why the Fleischers’ work is represented in this restoration collection. Also restored were two stop-motion animation shorts directed by George Pal, known for his charming “Puppetoons,” and a Terrytoon, The Three Bears, produced by Paul Terry. Animated Shorts Shown: Koko’s Tattoo (1928) An Elephant Never Forgets (1935) Two-Gun Rusty (1944) Little Nobody (1935) So Does an Automobile (1939) Wilbur the Lion (1947) Greedy Humpty Dumpty (1936) Peeping Penguins (1937) The Three Bears (1939) You Can’t Shoe a Horsefly (1940) The Little Stranger (1936) The Fresh Vegetable Mystery (1939) #fleischerstudios #bettyboop