Max Fleischer

The Inkwell Clown battles a boxing kangaroo.

Max helps the Inkwell Clown prepare for a family reunion.

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

Directed by Dave Fleischer.

Part of Max Fleischer's "Out of the Inkwell" series.

Ko-Ko gathers eggs on a farm while Max works on an incubator.

In this 1925 Out of the Inkwell short, Ko-Ko the Clown becomes a barber. As usual, he eventually escapes the animated world for the "real." He hides...

Max draws a circus poster featuring Ko-Ko the Clown and Fitz the dog, but the circus owner wants them replaced with a giant. On the poster, Ko-Ko and...

Koko is trying to rescue his sweetheart, who is trapped atop a rugged mountain. However, when Max Fleischer runs out of ink, how will he draw the...

Max asks Ko-Ko to act as his alarm clock before going to sleep. While Max sleeps, Ko-Ko goes to work dressing Max for the next day and replacing his...

This fascinating and informative 1938 film, part of Paramount's Popular Science series, offers a tour through Fleischer Studios’ newly-built...

From the A&E "Biography" series, a review of the birth, development and cinematic history of Betty Boop, the flapper cartoon character who has been a...

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

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

Max and Koko get mixed up with a live action gypsy fortune teller and then caught up with ghosts and monsters in this, as usual, delightful OUT OF...

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

Ko-Ko and Fitz try to make a humorless Indian laugh.

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

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...

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

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

Dave Fleischer sends Koko to Mars.

Max Fleischer considers hiring a new cartoonist. While the new guy draws Max's portrait, Koko gets into a fight with a cartoon Chinese man.

Max torments the Inkwell Clown with shadow puppet animals.

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

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

Max Fleischer draws a clown, who comes alive on the page. The clown doesn't like the way he is drawn and demonstrates his own artistic abilities.

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

Max Fleischer is going to a shooting gallery, so he practices on Koko and Fitz, sending them both to Paradise in this slightly erratic but funny...

Max is taking a railroad trip and pulls out his pen to draw Koko, Fitz and a railroad. Maybe the trip is too bumpy, because nothing works as it is...

Part of the 'Inkwell Imps' series.

Koko the Clown discovers a machine that can make cartoons.

Max Fleischer draws Koko and a haunted house, while his colleague and the janitor mess around with a Ouija board. When Max goes over to take a look,...

Koko the Clown's little brother comes to visit and wreaks havoc in Max Fleischer's studio.

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...

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.

First, Max, in his pyjamas, gets back up and draws an isolated mountain area and puts Koko on top of a steep mountain. "That will keep you busy for...

In 'Trapped', we see the cartoonist's hands as still photograph cut-outs, manipulated in front of the camera to look like live-action movie footage....

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

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

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...

Max has a toothache, and it's up to The Clown and a bespectacled rabbit to pull out the aching tooth.

Max Fleischer and his wife or girlfriend have a cute little dog with them at the studio. Max decides to draw the dog but every time he does, the...

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

This fascinating series features Max himself, filmed in live action, sitting at a drawing board and concocting adventures for his star performer...

Artist Max Fleischer draws a spool of thread and a needle. The needle then penetrates a blank canvas and, stitch by stitch, we see Koko the Clown...

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...

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

Ko-Ko is up to his usual mischief as Max prepares to run a track race.

Irene Bordoni sings the title song in French and English with a Bouncing Ball. Cartoon sequences: Betty Boop as a cabaret emcee and cigarette girl; a...

Koko the Clown is antagonized by flying insects.

Koko the Clown and his creator, Max Fleischer, go on a strange journey to Puzzle Town.

A friend of KoKo's animator draws a haunted house, and KoKo and his dog Fitz go inside. There, they encounter frightening hallways where every door...

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...

Max is moving out of his studio, so Ko-Ko the Inkwell Clown packs up everything in sight (even using a super-charged vacuum cleaner that sucks up the...

Leonard Maltin tells about the Fleischer Studio between featuring assorted cartoons from the Fleischers.

A birthday celebration with Max Fleischer's Inkwell 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...