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Max torments the Inkwell Clown with shadow puppet animals.
Ko-Ko the Inkwell Clown and a baby get caught in a hurricane.
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 alarmingly end up inside a Gas Chamber.
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.
A documentary about the Fleischer brothers and how they revolutionized animation.
Part of Max Fleischer's "Out of the Inkwell" series.
Ko-Ko the Inkwell Clown spends a vacation at a rubbery amusement park.
The Inkwell Clown goes for a balloon ride. Later, Max's studio is filled with so many balloons that it floats away.
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 popular icon since the 1930s.
An "Out of the Inkwell" short featuring Ko-Ko the Clown, this time as a fireman.
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 projectionist gets oil onto Ko-Ko's soon-to-be bride, melting her.
Koko the Clown's little brother comes to visit and wreaks havoc in Max Fleischer's studio.
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 the night," says the real-life somewhat nasty cartoonist to his subject. The cartoon really gets wild from that point with guest appearances from Mutt and Jeff, and other "stars" of the day as Koko experiences one adventure after another from the "Cave Of The Winds" to Goliath chasing him all over.
Part of the 'Inkwell Imps' series.
Max helps the Inkwell Clown prepare for a family reunion.
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 has a toothache, and it's up to The Clown and a bespectacled rabbit to pull out the aching tooth.
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 is haunted by ghosts and inanimate objects, and escapes into the real-world studio.
Koko the Clown is antagonized by flying insects.
Max Fleischer
Max Fleischer (July 19, 1883 – September 11, 1972) was a Polish Jewish American animator, inventor, film director and producer. Fleischer was a pioneer in the development of the animated cartoon and served as the head of Fleischer Studios. He brought such animated characters as Betty Boop, Koko the Clown, Popeye and Superman to the movie screen and was responsible for a number of technological innovations including the Rotoscope. (Wikipedia)
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