Max Fleischer Color Classic - Hawaiian Birds (1936)

[Readhawk]

love the ending..

[Oxmarysox09]

I remember this was my 3rd favorite "Classic Cartoons" short when I was little. I always felt bad for the little boy bird being left behind.

[crystalwaterstylee]

AWW I felt so bad for the little guy!

[licoricesnocone]

I watched this cartoon over and over as a child. Now it just makes me realize my own failures when it comes to love.

[Beaumomtamoros]

This is terrible

[GooglFascists]

She got to the big city but wouldn't "put out" for the bandleader's gangster

buddies because she really WASN'T a slut. She'd only lay eggs for 1 guy;

her Hawaiian fiance. Quite a bit of drama packed into a 9-minute cartoon!

[MissGenius3847]

I remember how I felt watching this while it was snowing hard outside-thanks for the memories

[BeatrixRosier]

I had this on tape along with a story of a couple of rabbits that were getting married.

[hondadrvr3]

@BeatrixRosier Bunny Mooning! I have the same vhs tape lol.

[SparkyMK3]

@BeatrixRosier that short would be another Color Classic, "Bunny Mooning". Cute stuff!

[BeatrixRosier]

omg the last time I watched this i was 6 years old!

[HomeoftheGoodGuys]

I also have this on DVD along with the "Superman" cartoons on another disc, but it still has the NTA logo, because it got plastered over the Paramount logo with no copyright notice on it.

[oluham]

i was always amazed at the  fleisher multiplanr projection

[HellsAnkel]

I used to watch this whenever I went to my grandparents' house... So nostalgic to see it again!! <333 Thnx so much for uploading this!

[pretorious700]

Hawaii was a paradise in 1936. Didn't take long for people to screw it up.

[charmedspice50]

Thank you so much. I remember this from a vhs tape my family had when I was little.

[CdubZoobz]

I wonder why she got tossed outta the bar...

[GoblinXXX]

@CdubZoobz She was probably screwing around on her new musician boyfriend.

[yippy010]

tht cartoon made me cry everytime i saw it when i was little.....i had a bunch of max's cartoon's on tape :.(

[46388301]

awwwww (ke perri)

[CommodoreKulor]

They'll never make it.

[MissGenius3847]

I totally remember this from my childhood

[ThePuppyLoveChannel]

i have this on dvd, the quilaty looks better on my copy than this. but the color on my copy is 20% bleached out. still a good cartoon.

[barefootmarley]

one i have never seen. bravo. ( i am well versed in animation.)

[acla9000]

Very dainty and graceful. A less known Max Fleischer's work during the 30s. Thanks!

[hyejunghyejung]

LOL that girl bird is a slut

[racookster]

It would have been more poignant if it had ended with them holding each other in the snow, frozen to death. I think that's what really happened. Getting back to the cute little Hawaiian nest was just a dying hallucination, like in "Jacob's Ladder." The window blind came down, and lights out.

Their nest should've at least been occupied by a whole flock of crackhead honeycreepers while they were gone.

:-D

[6Dreality]

Has anyone found The "Wok Bird" cartoon done to Ravels Bolero? Very different

[artistandy77]

i would love to see some kind of feature about how the backrounds in many of these 30's cartoons move and turn with such realistic 3 dimensionality. it really is incredible.

[maeissin]

The brothers developed models on a turntable for the backgrounds. The cells were then photographed in front of the model which moved behind the cells to produce the 3-D effect. You can always tell when they go from the model to the hand drawn backgrounds, but the effect is so good the transition is not that obvious.

[artistandy77]

thanks. that always stumped me. i thought maybe they were using multi-layered tranparencies and moving them at slightly different rates- seemed like a lot of work for a short cartoon, but then these cartoons were labor-intensive.

[XNeSkUnX]

@artistandy77 max fleischer created for his studio the stereoptical camera or setback, this process was used in the color classic series and the popeye color features

[mehhamha160]

true love can't be forgotten. poor desperate little bird dude

[RyuichixCMZ]

I remember this cartoon. I once bought a VHS of these old cartoons when I was little and this cartoon was the last one on the VHS. LOVE it!

[mehhamha160]

same here.

the tape came out and i never got to see this again until now

[Luschan]

fucking... girls, man. if it happened once, it'll happen again.

[Jendozaster]

She could not even break up with him in person

[Salierethefish]

Incredibly depressing...so a woman who doesn't want to settle down to a quiet life will eventually end up trying to attempt suicide in the snows of New York, eh?

I'm not even going to get into the 'tempter' bird being so obviously black...

[marzipanthequeen]

It's a good job for her that the male bird showed such forgiveness. Or low self-esteem. Oh well.

[Gaarahinafan2]

Isn't Max Fleischer the creator of Betty Boop? That's what I keep hearing recently.

[Gaarahinafan2]

I remember seeing this cartoon when I was young. It's really cute!

[richartrod]

Aloha and mahalo for posting this cute cartoon.

The 3-D background effects are impressive; they were miniature sets the Flesichers built (not drawn) to give the cartoon a realistic look, epescially when the camera swoops down when the birds are flying over Hawaii and the Big City.

I don't like flighty broads either, but Mrs. Hawaiian Bird thankfully saw the error of her ways, her hubby's cranium breaking her fall knocked some sense into her, I guess. :)

Rich Rodriguez

West Covina, CA

[zjgameru]

Wow, the suicidal part of this film is truly heartwrenching.

I used to watch this when i was a kid, guess i didn't understand it back then.

[vante75]

did any of you guys watch that bugs bunny episode with those two guys who were cast away and reached an island? its hilarious especially wen bugs talks native.

[reed14567]

Hello Everyone, I am need of finding a older cartoon. It was not done by Max. done in the mid 70's, and was a story about a bear, two rabbits, and a wolf that play in the snow. then suddenly an elephant from far away crashes his hot air balloon in the woods. the rabbits and the bear become friends with the elephant and they all play, it was from either japan or germany. but translated to english. your knowledge of this cartoon would just make my day!!!

[TenchiFan1]

Holy cow! I remember this! I used to watch this with my little sister when I was little! Wow, brings back memories.

[tigerpower06]

I remember i had this video i'm 20 now but i was like 2 and i remember the whole song!!! I Still don't understand why she got kicked out!!

[Pokygirl2001]

It's your standard 'leave with another man you're not married to, and he'll soon kick you out' sort of moral play lol.

[viciaouou]

finally i found this cartoon.

i look everywhere.

thanks for uloading!

[Jal8919536]

Why was she thrown out of the nite club? Was it because her performance was a flop?

[pasfresh123]

she wouldn't go all the way...

[horarwgt]

A problem that plagued the Fleischer Studios for years was the fact that Disney had EXCLUSIVE rights to Technicolor for cartoons. That meant all other studios-- including the Fleischers -- had to use inferior two-strip non-Technicolor color until that agreement expired. Fortunately it did before the Fleischer Studio was hijacked by Paramount, but only just before. If you see either of the two-strip color Betty Boop cartoons -- which are in red/green hues -- you'll see what i mean.

[Jal8919536]

That's why the Fabulous Fleischer Folio was distributed by Walt Disney Home Video.

[LanakilaIesu]

Makes me miss Maui. I was only there for two weeks but it felt like a lifetime unto itself, lived in a different world. I haven't liked big cities for a long time but since then, a 4-story building seems like a cruel intrusion on the natural world to me. Kudos to both little birds for getting back to the land and spirit of aloha! :)

[GOTHMIDNIGHTMERMAID]

Cute bird house at the end.

[izikthemormon]

i always wished that cartoon became a movie so you know what happened during the husband's journey to find his wife.

[lylabean]

What a sad cartoon!

[izikthemormon]

the cartoon is sad because it's dramatic. my mom thought the cartoon was to dramatic for kids.

[Harrypotter360]

the music at the opening end closing made me want to cry :'(

but this is one of my personal favourites

[fromthesidelines]

This is the "NTA" TV print issued in the late '50s, reprocessed in an inferior color process {NOT "Technicolor"}, and eliminating Paramount's logos and copyright date. The animation, including Max's patented "3-D tabletop backgrounds", is still good!

[LoveTHYconan]

don'tcha hate flighty broads?

[helgaleenas]

That's funny, the cartoon footage looks restored, but the opening title doesn't.

[safrigirl]

true love never dies !!