That’s the standard line, anyway. Disney’s animation was happy and Fleischer’s was hallucinatory. Frankly, when I was a kid early animation freaked me out. Only when I was older did I appreciate what innovators both these men were – and by then my dad had stopped grousing about Walt, possibly because he (Disney) was long dead.
Here’s Mr. Disney showing Max Fleischer around the Disney Studio, Max is accompanied by his son, Richard (a film producer), on the far right – 1956.
Fleischer:
Okay, I’m glad you said what you did, because I have always been slightly freaked out about the size of Betty Boop’s head, hah!
I think Betty morphed into the sexy flapper – originally she was a cartoon dog with big floppy ears – perhaps even more freaky!
That was the first time I ever saw Cab Calloway on the Saturday Morning Cartoons!