Rotoscoping Movies

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

Directed by Dave Fleischer.

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...

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

The Clown causes trouble for the Cartoonist, and a sculptor using the studio, when he escapes from his backdrop and hides in the wet clay of a bust.

The Inkwell Clown goes for a balloon ride. Later, Max's studio is filled with so many balloons that it floats away.

Koko the Clown's little brother comes to visit and wreaks havoc in Max Fleischer's studio.

When you feel it, get it started / Even if you don’t, just somehow get it started / Whatever it may be, however it may be but / Anyhow let's...

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.

Synchronize is a tribute to the powerful effect movies can have on our imagination. This short film takes the viewer through the dream of a video...

A man walks around his empty home for the last time before his departure. Rooms come to life with memories of his past while he prepares to leave.

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

Black and white drawings blended with photographic images depict an old man, with various tiny gadgets, trying to find the anatomy of the wings of an...

Meet 5000 space aliens in 5000 seconds in this bonkers animated film.

Max and Koko The Clown bet who can blow the biggest soap bubble.

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...

Inspired by Rachel Moseley-Wood’s essay “The Other Jamaica”, Damian Marley’s controversial song “Welcome to...

A community of strawberries under the influence of illegal pesticides plans to exterminate humanity.

An animated short about recycling.