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Dave Fleischer
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Dave Fleischer and his brother
Max Fleischer
both released and produced the first sound cartoons. The first released was
Come Take a Trip in My Airship (1924)
. The first produced was
My Old Kentucky Home (1926)
.
Fleischer animated the five minute short "Let's All Go to the Lobby," a promotional film for movie-house concession stands that was a ubiquitous part of the American movie-going experience beginning in the Fifties.
He has directed three films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant:
Snow-White (1933)
,
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936)
and
Let's All Go to the Lobby (1957)
.
Co-founded (with brother
Max Fleischer
) Inkwell Studios, an animation production company, in 1927.
He joined ASCAP in 1959, and his popular-song compositions include "Did Anyone Call?", "Try Imagination", "Raggedy Ann" and "Calico Millionaire".
Survived by his widow, Mae, and two daughters; and a brother, Lou.
Brother of
Max Fleischer
and
Lou Fleischer
.
Uncle-in-law of
Seymour Kneitel
.
Uncle of
Richard Fleischer
and
Ruth Fleischer
.
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