Out of the Inkwell Films

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

"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...

Dave Fleischer sends Koko to Mars.

An "Out of the Inkwell" cartoon featuring Ko-Ko the Clown.

Koko the Clown discovers a machine that can make cartoons.

“Tramp, Tramp, Tramp the Boys Are Marching” features a song that dates back to the Civil War, one which was still familiar to audiences...

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...

Follow the bouncing ball sing-along

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

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....

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

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...

Neighborhood cats come to the tiny Ko-Ko Theatre to watch Ko-Ko and Fitz stage a variety of entertaining acts, from acrobatics to high-diving to...