Max Fleischer Movies

Olive's garden is being raided by some very persistent crows; she calls Popeye for help, and it takes him the rest of the cartoon to hit on the...

The Inkwell Clown watches a mosquito land on Max's nose as the cartoonist tries to take a nap, and later finds himself battling a giant mosquito in...

An Out of the Inkwell short.

The Eclipse of the Sun was a science film released in July 1918, one month after a solar eclipse visible across the United States. This film was...

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

The Clown (yet to be named KoKo) provokes Max, suggesting that he would win handily in a fight if they were the same size. Max obliges, drawing a...

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...

An animated hair cartoon short.

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

Betty and Bimbo, as Queen and King of the May, host a giant outdoor party that gets sprayed with rubber. Koko appears briefly.

An educational short.

Already running late to see his girl, Bimbo the dog finds that his car is seriously ill. Bimbo calls the doctor, who rushes over in his jalopy and...

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...

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

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...

Marcus of the New York Times continues his clever changing of character by moving about or adding bits of hair. These changes result in likenesses of...

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

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