Max Fleischer
notum enim: Production
dies natalis: 1883-07-19
Locus Natus: Krakau, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland]
Et ut: Max Fleicher
The Boxing Kangaroo
The Inkwell Clown battles a boxing kangaroo.
release : 1920.02.02popularis : 0.402
The Reunion
Max helps the Inkwell Clown prepare for a family reunion.
release : 1922.10.27popularis : 0.864
Vacation
Ko-Ko the Inkwell Clown spends a vacation at a rubbery amusement park.
release : 1924.07.23popularis : 0.324
Perpetual Motion
Part of Max Fleischer's "Out of the Inkwell" series.
release : 1920.10.02popularis : 0.678
Koko Gets Egg-Cited
Ko-Ko gathers eggs on a farm while Max works on an incubator.
release : 1926.12.01popularis : 0.112
Ko-Ko the Barber
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...
release : 1925.02.25popularis : 1.687
Koko at the Circus
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...
release : 1926.05.01popularis : 0.951
Surprise
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...
release : 1923.04.01popularis : 0.735
KoKo's Klock
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...
release : 1927.11.12popularis : 0.743
Fleischer Studios Behind The Scenes
This fascinating and informative 1938 film, part of Paramount's Popular Science series, offers a tour through Fleischer Studios’ newly-built...
release : 1938.12.01popularis : 0.445
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
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...
release : 1995.01.01popularis : 1.863
Koko Celebrates the Fourth
Ko-Ko and Fitz celebrate the Fouth of July with fireworks and end up rocketed to an island inhabited by cannibals.
release : 1925.07.15popularis : 0.332
Ko-Ko's Tattoo
Max draws a tattoo of a cat on his coworker, and Fitz chases the cat around when the tattoo comes to life.
release : 1928.03.17popularis : 0.559
The Fortune Teller
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...
release : 1923.10.01popularis : 1.209
Balloons
The Inkwell Clown goes for a balloon ride. Later, Max's studio is filled with so many balloons that it floats away.
release : 1923.09.01popularis : 1.393
Ko-Ko Makes 'Em Laugh
Ko-Ko and Fitz try to make a humorless Indian laugh.
release : 1927.02.10popularis : 0.427
Betty Boop's Rise to Fame
A reporter interviews Max Fleischer about his creation, and Betty illustrates with excerpts from three prior cartoons.
release : 1934.05.18popularis : 5.186
Modeling
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...
release : 1921.10.01popularis : 3.217
Koko the Hot Shot
Max creates a penny arcade with a shooting gallery, much to the detriment of Ko-Ko and Fitz the Dog.
release : 1925.01.01popularis : 0.743
Ko-Ko on the Run
Ko-Ko competes against a rival clown in a race.
release : 1925.09.15popularis : 1.141
Trip to Mars
Dave Fleischer sends Koko to Mars.
release : 1924.04.01popularis : 1.887
The Chinaman
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.
release : 1920.05.19popularis : 1.84
Shadows
Max torments the Inkwell Clown with shadow puppet animals.
release : 1923.11.01popularis : 1.189
The Tantalizing Fly
A film in the “Out of the Inkwell” series, an early animated short from Max Fleischer.
release : 1919.03.10popularis : 1.669
Ko-Ko in Thanksgiving
Koko likes to join Max and his friends for Thanksgiving dinner. He can, under the condition of screening his films.
release : 1925.11.21popularis : 0.577
The Clown's Pup
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.
release : 1919.08.30popularis : 1.645
Big Chief Koko
When a Native American artist sells a selection of his background drawings and original characters to Fleischer, Koko gives the new arrivals a cold...
release : 1925.05.15popularis : 0.997
Koko's Paradise
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...
release : 1926.02.27popularis : 1.456
Koko's Toot Toot
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...
release : 1926.06.05popularis : 0.303
Cartoon Factory
Koko the Clown discovers a machine that can make cartoons.
release : 1924.02.21popularis : 2.438
The Ouija Board
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,...
release : 1920.07.04popularis : 2.76
The Clown's Little Brother
Koko the Clown's little brother comes to visit and wreaks havoc in Max Fleischer's studio.
release : 1920.07.06popularis : 2.537
Fishing
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...
release : 1921.11.21popularis : 0.604
Bubbles
Max and Koko The Clown bet who can blow the biggest soap bubble.
release : 1922.04.20popularis : 2.274
Jumping Beans
Max tricks Koko with a jumping bean. Koko finds a way to duplicate himself to get his revenge.
release : 1922.12.15popularis : 1.499
Bed Time
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...
release : 1923.03.01popularis : 2.285
Trapped
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....
release : 1923.06.01popularis : 2.338
False Alarm
An "Out of the Inkwell" short featuring Ko-Ko the Clown, this time as a fireman.
release : 1923.08.01popularis : 1.948
Invisible Ink
Koko The Clown continually interrupts an animator, who turns his attention to trapping the clown.
release : 1921.12.03popularis : 3.314
The Dresden Doll
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...
release : 1922.02.07popularis : 0.781
The Cure
Max has a toothache, and it's up to The Clown and a bespectacled rabbit to pull out the aching tooth.
release : 1924.11.15popularis : 0.638
Koko Trains 'Em
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...
release : 1925.06.15popularis : 1.599
Koko Nuts
Koko the clown is sent to the nut house by Max.
release : 1925.10.15popularis : 0.586
Fadeaway
This fascinating series features Max himself, filmed in live action, sitting at a drawing board and concocting adventures for his star performer...
release : 1926.09.01popularis : 2.002
Koko Needles the Boss
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...
release : 1927.05.09popularis : 0.668
More Pep
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...
release : 1936.06.19popularis : 1.386
The Storm
Ko-Ko the Inkwell Clown and a baby get caught in a hurricane.
release : 1924.12.20popularis : 0.741
Koko's Field Daze
Ko-Ko is up to his usual mischief as Max prepares to run a track race.
release : 1928.06.09popularis : 1.317
Just a Gigolo
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...
release : 1932.09.08popularis : 1.712
Flies
Koko the Clown is antagonized by flying insects.
release : 1922.05.01popularis : 1.293
The Puzzle
Koko the Clown and his creator, Max Fleischer, go on a strange journey to Puzzle Town.
release : 1923.05.01popularis : 0.915
Ko-Ko's Haunted House
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...
release : 1928.04.28popularis : 0.6
Koko in Toyland
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...
release : 1925.01.20popularis : 0.587
Koko Packs 'Em
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...
release : 1925.10.17popularis : 0.145
Cartoon Madness: The Fantastic Max Fleischer Cartoons
Leonard Maltin tells about the Fleischer Studio between featuring assorted cartoons from the Fleischers.
release : 1992.10.27popularis : 0.678
Birthday
A birthday celebration with Max Fleischer's Inkwell Clown.
release : 1922.03.11popularis : 0.92