Max Fleischer Movies

Two artists fight with each other, as their drawn characters wage war in the studio.

A lost Screen Songs cartoon.

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

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

Series of animated vignettes linked by a disembodied hand which appears to be drawing the illustrations.

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

An Out of the Inkwell short.

The first Screen Songs cartoon.

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 revives the sick car with a dose of Texaco Motor Oil.

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 offering.

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 mechanical dancing Dresden doll with whom he falls in love and a couple of automaton musicians. He gets rid of the musicians, but, alas, the...

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

The boss has got a microscope, but it might as well be another canvas for Koko, as he delves deep into the world of germs.

An educational short

Lost film that introduces Max Fleischer's rotoscope animation to the public with the fluid movement of the Clown character. The Clown is animated over live-action reference footage of his brother Dave Fleischer who worked as a clown.

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

An animated hair cartoon short.

An Out of the Inkwell short.

An Out of the Inkwell short.