Movies: Rotoscoping

On a South Sea isle, Bimbo meets Betty in the guise of a hula dancer....

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....

Directed by Dave Fleischer....

An animated short about recycling....

A child is watching a music video on his television screen....

This animated short film portrays a man's commute into the city. Director Michael Patterson employs a combination of pencils and rotoscoping, similar to his work in the music video "Take On Me."...

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

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

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

During COVID-19 lockdown, a young man tries to stop smoking surrounded by anxiety and paranoia without knowing that he´s being watched....

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 angel....

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 g...

Inspired by Rachel Moseley-Wood’s essay “The Other Jamaica”, Damian Marley’s controversial song “Welcome to Jamrock”, and juxtaposed views of Jamaica via tourism and marginalized Jamaicans. This short animation uses found film of Jamaica in the 1930s...

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....

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

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

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

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