This event is in the past.It took place on May 16, 2026 at Film Forum.
Animated Film
Animated FilmSoHo, New York
🎞️Rare 35mm prints from archive
🍿Arrive early for real peanut oil popcorn
Surrealist cartoons from the pre-Code era burst back to life on 35mm. Fleischer Studios' hallucinatory "Head" cartoons feature Betty Boop, early Popeye, and rubber-hose animation that bends reality in ways modern CGI never dared.
1920s-30s animation
Betty Boop
Popeye origins
pre-Code surrealism
Animated FilmAnimated FilmSoHo, New York
🎞️Rare 35mm prints from archive
🍿Arrive early for real peanut oil popcorn
Surrealist cartoons from the pre-Code era burst back to life on 35mm. Fleischer Studios' hallucinatory "Head" cartoons feature Betty Boop, early Popeye, and rubber-hose animation that bends reality in ways modern CGI never dared.
1920s-30s animation
Betty Boop
Popeye origins
pre-Code surrealism