Walt Disney's main screen animation competitor in the 1930s and the creator, with brother Dave (1894-1979), of cartoon luminaries such as Betty Boop, Koko the Clown, and Popeye. The brothers also made the famous silent "Out of the Inkwell" series which combined live actors with animation, and breathed life into features such as "Gulliver's Travels" (1939) and instructional films like "The Einstein Theory of Relativity" (1923) and "Darwin's Theory of Evolution" (1925). Fleischer made a significant contribution to animation technology with the Rotoscope, a machine which projects live-action film
milestones
Year
Milestone
1887
Family moved to New York City
1913
Worked as errand boy for Brooklyn "Daily Eagle" and Boston photengraver (date approxcimate)
1914
Joined Crouse-Hands as commercial artist and "Popular Science Monthly" as art editor
1915
Invented the Rotoscope
1916
Hired by John Randolph Bray at Paramount, to produce animation sequences for "Bray Pictograph" series
