Movies: Out Of The Inkwell Films

Koko The Clown continually interrupts an animator, who turns his attention to trapping the clown....

Max and Dave Fliescher are eating hot dogs in their animation studio and begin drawing. The hot dog becomes a "real" dog, and it and Ko-Ko the Clown alarmingly end up inside a Gas Chamber....

Koko the Clown discovers a machine that can make cartoons....

Max is too rushed to do a thorough job of drawing Koko this morning. Max is going fishing. However, to amuse the clown, he draws a fishing pole and a pond before he goes....

A man with a huge hooked nose enters the Fleischer studios to have his bust sculpted. Meanwhile, across the studio, Max is animating Koko. When he's called over to consult on the too-accurate bust, Koko gets mischievous and creates his own drawings. ...

Koko the clown is sent to the nut house by Max....

Dave Fleischer sends Koko to Mars....

Max and Koko The Clown bet who can blow the biggest soap bubble....

Max tricks Koko with a jumping bean. Koko finds a way to duplicate himself to get his revenge....

Koko likes to join Max and his friends for Thanksgiving dinner. He can, under the condition of screening his films....

A Dave Fleischer Cartoon...

The Fleischer Studio's ever popular Follow-the-Bouncing-Ball series began in the early 1920s when studio boss Max Fleischer was approached by songwriter Charles K. Harris (best known for "After the Ball") who wondered whether audiences could be inspi...

“Tramp, Tramp, Tramp the Boys Are Marching” features a song that dates back to the Civil War, one which was still familiar to audiences of the 1920s. The cartoon begins as Koko the Clown emerges from an inkwell-- an iconic image for animation buffs -...

"The Einstein Theory of Relativity" is the short version (587 m) of the lost American long version (1219 m) of Hanns Walter Kornblum's original German feature "Die Grundlagen der Einsteinschen Relativitäts-Theorie" from 1922 that is also lost....

An "Out of the Inkwell" short featuring Ko-Ko the Clown, this time as a fireman....

Follow the bouncing ball sing-along...

Out of the Inkwell Films delivers the song "Margie"....

Lighting Sketches of US Presidents and world locations....

When a Native American artist sells a selection of his background drawings and original characters to Fleischer, Koko gives the new arrivals a cold reception....

In this one, Max has run low on ink, so Ko-Ko finishes drawing himself and then heads over to the camera room, where he creates his own characters, a mechanical dancing Dresden doll with whom he falls in love and a couple of automaton musicians. He g...