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Celebrate the holidays with Fleischer Studios, home of Betty Boop, Popeye, Bimbo, and a barbed, surrealist sense of humor. Featuring Modeling, in which Koko the Clown escapes Max Fleischer’s pen to run amok; Christmas Comes but Once a Year, in which Boop series regular Grampy has a solo outing saving Christmas for the residents of an orphanage; Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, an utterly charming visualization of Robert L. May’s 1939 poem of the same name; Thrills and Chills, in which Mme. Boop and her dog Pudgy find themselves in deep trouble while staying at a ski resort; Somewhere in Dreamland, the Fleischers’ first venture into three-strip Technicolor, in which two impoverished children of the Great Depression frolic through an imaginary land made of sweet comestibles; and Ker Choo, in which we witness a stock car race featuring La Boop, Koko, and Bimbo among the competitors.

Modeling (Dave Fleischer, 1921, 7 mins)

Christmas Comes But Once a Year (Dave Fleischer, Seymour Kneitel, 1936, 9 mins)

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Max Fleischer, 1948, 8 mins)

Thrills and Chills (Dave Fleischer, Roland Crandall, 1938, 6 mins)

Somewhere in Dreamland (Dave Fleischer, Seymour Kneitel, 1935, 9 mins)

Ker Choo (Dave Fleischer, Seymour Kneitel, 1933, 6 mins)

Snow-White (Dave Fleischer, Roland Crandall, 1933, 7 mins)

Seasin's Greetinks! (Dave Fleischer, Seymour Kneitel, 1933, 6 mins)