I just had a near-religious experience!

[RetroMan]

Well, just tonight I got a hold of a couple of Fleischer cartoons and oh boy!
First I saw Snow White, with Betty Boop and it was well over my expectations! Very funny, altough it didn't have the original Paramount titles. Makes me wish I could do something like that sometime (including the dancing) and I can't believe it was animated by one person. Amazing!

Then I saw a Superman short - Electric Earthquake. I'd like to see a studio come up with something as good as that today! A very amazing film, and I must admit that I got chills with the "faster than a speeding bullet..." intro.

Whew! can't wait to see the other 17 Superman shorts.

[David Gates]

I hate to break it to you, but there just aren't very many shorts from any studio that measure up to Fleischer's "Snow White". Too bad you can't forget you ever saw it and watch it again for the first time. Get Betty Boop: The Definitive Collection if you can, it'll be worth it!

[frizfrelengfan]

I recently saw "Snow White" for the first time after reading about it in Leonard Maltin's Of Mice and Magic. It is amazing. You need to watch it several times before you see everything. Begins as a fairy tale, but "St. James Infirmary Blues" is not kid stuff.

Other Fleischer works may not be as great, but they are good nonetheless, especially the ones made before the Hays censorship code took effect in 1933. I saw "Chess Nuts" (animated by Shamus Culhane) for the first time yesterday. Weirdly funny. Fleischer had a unique brand of humor, and you don't see it all by watching just the Popeye cartoons, which are a bit formulaic.

Many of the early Fleischer cartoons are public domain, and some (including "Snow White") are downloadable from www.archive.org (http://www.archive.org). The archive.org stuff that I downloaded was of good quality, although it had UM&M TV titles.