Max Fleischer Signed Business Card

Dec 11, 2009
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Max Fleischer Signed Business Card
by: Bill

That's a nice find. Something like that will usually pay for a box lot and then some. A Max Fleischer signature is worth at retail about $150. The signature on the business card will probably bump that figure up another $50.

Here is some information on Fleischer:

Fleischer Studios, Inc. was an animation studio founded in 1921 as Inkwell Studios (or Out of the Inkwell Films) by brothers Max Fleischer and Dave Fleischer. During the 1920's and 1930's, its closest competitor was Walt Disney Productions. The three Fleischer cartoon characters that are most remembered and most enjoyed today are Betty Boop, Popeye and animated Superman.

In the 1930's Popeye was more popular than Mickey Mouse. Betty Boop was the first female cartoon star. In 1994, members of the animation field voted the first Superman series #33 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time.

Max Fleischer was toying with animation before Disney. His invention, the rotoscope is a device for transferring live-action footage into animation., and it is still in use today. Fleischer produced the first sound cartoon. It was Fleischer that came up with bouncing ball idea for sing-alongs. Fleischer came up with concept of in-betweeners (animators who draw in-between major cartoon moments, so that the action becomes fluid).

Fleischer Studios left a legacy that will survive most animation being produced today.

The copyright status of Fleischer cartoons is very complicated and much of the library as been relegated to the public domain.

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