Movies: Rotoscoping

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

Directed by Dave Fleischer....

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

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....

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....

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....

During a very hot summer, Emma (15) is doomed to boredom at her grandparents's house. She's dying for something to happen. At the edge of a pond, she hides to observe The Young Man. She develops a brief but intense obsession for this fantasized stran...

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

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

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....

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...

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 store clerk whose vision is formed by the movies he sees and hears....

An animated short about recycling....

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 mechanical dancing Dresden doll with whom he falls in love and a couple of automaton musicians. He g...

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

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