Despite being a fan of the feature film work that his son Richard did,I have somehow never seen a Max Fleischer cartoon.Taking a look at posts on IMDbs Classic Film board,I was delighted to spot that someone had posted a link to an early Max Fleischer title,which led to me getting ready to try and catch the fly.
The plot:
Drawing a cartoon featuring a clown,a fly suddenly lands on the paper.Seeing Max Fleischer fail to kill the fly,the carton clown comes to life,and tries to swat the fly out of his movie.
View on the film:
Crossing live action with animation,writer/director/actor Max Fleischer shows an extraordinary skill in cross both mediums seamlessly,thanks to Fleischer matching the lively,impressively crisp,fluid animation with excellent lashings of live action slap- stick Comedy,as Fleischer & the clown, (an early version of Koko the Clown,who was based on his performing clown brother Dave!)find the idea of killing the fly to become very tantalising.
The plot:
Drawing a cartoon featuring a clown,a fly suddenly lands on the paper.Seeing Max Fleischer fail to kill the fly,the carton clown comes to life,and tries to swat the fly out of his movie.
View on the film:
Crossing live action with animation,writer/director/actor Max Fleischer shows an extraordinary skill in cross both mediums seamlessly,thanks to Fleischer matching the lively,impressively crisp,fluid animation with excellent lashings of live action slap- stick Comedy,as Fleischer & the clown, (an early version of Koko the Clown,who was based on his performing clown brother Dave!)find the idea of killing the fly to become very tantalising.