- 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 (1924). The first produced was My Old Kentucky Home (1926).
- Fleischer animated the five minute short "Let's 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.
- He has directed three films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Snow-White (1933), Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936) and Let's All Go to the Lobby (1957).
- Co-founded (with brother Max Fleischer) Inkwell Studios, an animation production company, in 1927.
- He joined ASCAP in 1959, and his popular-song compositions include "Did Anyone Call?", "Try Imagination", "Raggedy Ann" and "Calico Millionaire".
- Survived by his widow, Mae, and two daughters; and a brother, Lou.
- Brother of Max Fleischer and Lou Fleischer.
- Uncle-in-law of Seymour Kneitel.
- Uncle of Richard Fleischer and Ruth Fleischer.
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