Out of the Inkwell Films

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.

Max helps the Inkwell Clown prepare for a family reunion.

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

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

Ko-Ko the Inkwell Clown and a baby get caught in a hurricane.

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

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

Koko the Clown discovers a machine that can make cartoons.

Ko-Ko the Inkwell Clown spends a vacation at a rubbery amusement park.

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

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

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.

Ko-Ko is chased by a cartoony spider while Max deals with a mouse in his office.

This fascinating series features Max himself, filmed in live action, sitting at a drawing board and concocting adventures for his star performer Ko-Ko the Clown. Max is supposedly the guy in charge, and he takes sadistic glee in putting Ko-Ko through various forms of hell, but the clown usually fights back and sometimes gets the best of his Uncle Max. FADEAWAY elevates this charged relationship to new heights (or depths?) of nightmarish surrealism; it's also one of the most enjoyable Inkwell cartoons I've seen to date, packing lots of imaginative, unpredictable twists and turns into an eight minute running time.

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

Ko-Ko Song Car-Tunes is a series of short three-minute animation films produced by Max Fleischer and Dave Fleischer between May 1924 and September 1927, pioneering the use of the "Follow the Bouncing Ball" device used to lead audiences in theater sing-alongs.

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 pond before he goes.

“Out of the Inkwell” cartoon by Fleischer Studios.

An early animated Song Car-Tune from the Fleischer Studios.

Koko is trying to rescue his sweetheart, who is trapped atop a rugged mountain. However, when Max Fleischer runs out of ink, how will he draw the ladder for Koko to climb?