Max Fleischer

A film in the "Out of the Inkwell" series, an early animated short from Max Fleischer.

A reporter interviews Max Fleischer about his creation, and Betty illustrates with excerpts from three prior cartoons. (imdb)

In a return to the 'Out of the Inkwell' format, Betty Boop invents a 'pep' formula to speed up lazy Pudgy, but it escapes into the 'real world' with rapid results. (imdb)

Ko-Ko and his dog perform a vaudeville act before an audience of cats.

A kooky artist applies as a portrait artist. While looking at his samples, Max sets aside a cartoon drawing of a Chinese man. (youtube)

Max draws Koko on the drawing board. He then receives a call and leaves. Koko leaves after but not before taking some money from Max's wallet that he left behind. Max arrives to his date then comes back to his office to get his wallet. After recovering it, he drives with his date to get twelve gallons of gas. Koko arrives just as the pump is going and mischievously takes the hose from the car as the hose falls to the ground unknowingly to anyone else. (imdb)

This was another extremely clever silent cartoon by Max and Dave Fleischer. These cartoons were unique, unlike anything I've ever seen. In this one, artist Max and his drawn-character, "Koko The Clown," challenge each other on who can blow the biggest bubble. (imdb)

Animator Max Fleischer draws a series of faces, one of which ends up being Ko-Ko the Clown. Ko-Ko himself realizes that there's something not quite right about the way Max drew him, and he proceeds to fix himself. Next, the two negotiate into which scenario Max will draw him. Max wants to send Ko-Ko to Mars in a rocket ship, while Ko-Ko will have none of that. Ko-Ko tries to stop him, but Max, with the pen, has the final say. (imdb)

Thanks to Magic Ink, a live-action girl joins Koko in a haunted house. (imdb)

Koko the clown and his dog attempt a round-the-world flight. (imdb)

Koko the Clown seeks the Fountain of Youth. (imdb)

Koko the Clown and Fitz the dog escape into the live-action world. (imdb)

Drawn with steaming ink, Koko and Fitz try to cool off. (imdb)

One of the "Out of the Inkwell" series of silent short films featuring a combination of live action and hand-drawn animation.

A clown comes out of the inkwell.

In this Christmas season release, Max assembles a toy train track while Ko-Ko the Clown visits a cartoon toyland, playing cops and robbers and rescuing a doll in distress.

On Friday the 13th, Ko-Ko and his dog are chased by ghosts inside a haunted house.

Ko-Ko the Inkwell Clown spends a vacation at a rubbery amusement park. (imdb)

Max helps the Inkwell Clown prepare for a family reunion.

Ko-Ko the Inkwell Clown meets familiar nursery rhyme characters.

Koko and Fitz face surrealistic hijinks aboard their train in the cartoon world, before entering the real world and taking control of the train on which Max is a passenger.

Max draws a detective to track down Ko-Ko and Fitz, who are hiding from their "boss". Later, when Ko-Ko and Fitz believe Max has been kidnapped, they call a detective to help locate him.

With Max shooting target practice in his studio, KoKo and Fitz find themselves ascending to heaven and learning the ropes of angelhood. But they end up back on Earth, dodging bullets in Max's real-world duck-shooting gallery.

A birthday celebration with Max Fleischer's Inkwell Clown, Koko. (imdb)

The Inkwell Clown goes for a balloon ride. Later, Max's studio is filled with so many balloons that it floats away.

The Inkwell Clown tries to defend himself against a swarm of flies.

After waking a snoring Max, the Inkwell Clown battles the artist's avatar in a boxing match.

The Clown (yet to be named KoKo) holds a contest, offering 100 dollars to whomever can ride “Dynamite” the trick mule for five minutes. Once the crowd discovers the mule is mechanical, however, they chase the Clown in a fury. When they corner him, Max has to step in to stop the chaos.

Max dresses in a clown costume for a masquerade party, but ends up jumping into Ko-Ko's cartoon world, where Ko-Ko has his fun at Max's expense.

The Inkwell Clown runs away from Max and winds up falling through a crack in the floorboards and into a fiery Hell.

Ko-Ko the Inkwell Clown and a baby get caught in a hurricane.

Ko-Ko competes against a rival clown in a race.

Max creates a penny arcade with a shooting gallery, much to the detriment of Ko-Ko and Fitz the Dog.

Ko-Ko and Fitz celebrate the Fouth of July with fireworks and end up rocketed to an island inhabited by cannibals.

Ko-Ko wants to learn how chop suey is made, and Ko-Ko and Fitz have their fun with a caricatured Chinese character.

Fleischer “Out of the Inkwell” cartoon featuring Koko.

Max makes Ko-Ko a policeman, charged with guarding a bone. When Fitz steals the bone under Ko-Ko's watch, a surreal foot chase ensues. (imdb)

Max and Dave eat hot dogs in the studio. Dave plays a trick on Fitz and they continue to antagonize each other. When Fitz is caught by a dogcatcher, Ko-Ko transforms into a dog to rescue him, but they both end up locked in a gas chamber.

Max draws a tattoo of a cat on his coworker, and Fitz chases the cat around when the tattoo comes to life.

An animated film where Ko-Ko the clown becomes involved in a war.

The Inkwell Clown battles a boxing kangaroo.