American animation film director and film producer
Brother of Max Fleischer and Lou Fleischer.
He joined ASCAP in 1959, and his popular-song compositions include "Did Anyone Call?", "Try Imagination", "Raggedy Ann" and "Calico Millionaire".
Uncle-in-law of Seymour Kneitel.
Uncle of Richard Fleischer and Ruth Fleischer.
Walt Disney is often erroneously given credit for producing and releasing the first sound cartoon, Steamboat Willie starring Mickey Mouse. This is not true. It was Dave Fleischer and his brother Max Fleischer , who produced animated cartoons as early as 1924.
Dave Fleischer and his brother Max Fleischer both released and produced the first sound cartoons. The first released was Come Take a Trip in My Airship . The first produced was My Old Kentucky Home (1926) .
Co-founded (with brother Max Fleischer ) Inkwell Studios, an animation production company, in 1927.
Fleischer animated the five minute short "Lets All Go to the Lobby," a promotional film for movie-house concession stands that was a ubiquitous part of the American movie-going experience beginning in the Fifties.
Survived by his widow, Mae, and two daughters; and a brother, Lou.
