Movies: Rotoscoping

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....

CHERRY AND VIRGIN—a 'nervous romance' about Ryou, a 32-year-old erotic manga artist who has no experience with women, and Ami, a 28-year-old fujoshi who has a bad impression of real men....

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....

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

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....

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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....

Faced with his inability to finish a film, an author is forced to seek the advice of a mysterious voice in order to complete his story....

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

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....

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

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....

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

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 just get it started....

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

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 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...

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