Max Fleischer
Birthday: 1883-07-19
Place of Birth: Krakau, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland]
Biography: Max Fleischer (July 19, 1883 – September 11, 1972) was a Polish Jewish American animator, inventor, film director and producer. Fleischer was a pioneer in the development of the animated cartoon and served as the head of Fleischer Studios. He brought such animated characters as Betty Boop, Koko the Clown, Popeye and Superman to the movie screen and was responsible for a number of technological innovations including the Rotoscope. (Wikipedia)
Movies
Out of the Inkwell
Max Fleischer draws the upper and lower halves of the Clown's body, which dance around separately be...
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Ko-Ko the Barber
In this 1925 Out of the Inkwell short, Ko-Ko the Clown becomes a barber. As usual, he eventually esc...
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Ko-Ko at the Circus
Max draws a circus poster featuring Ko-Ko the Clown and Fitz the dog, but the circus owner wants the...
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Surprise
Koko is trying to rescue his sweetheart, who is trapped atop a rugged mountain. However, when Max Fl...
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KoKo's Klock
Max asks Ko-Ko to act as his alarm clock before going to sleep. While Max sleeps, Ko-Ko goes to work...
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Fleischer Studios Behind The Scenes
This fascinating and informative 1938 film, part of Paramount's Popular Science series, offers a tou...
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Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
From the A&E "Biography" series, a review of the birth, development and cinematic history of Betty B...
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Koko Celebrates the Fourth
Ko-Ko and Fitz celebrate the Fouth of July with fireworks and end up rocketed to an island inhabited...
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Ko-Ko's Tattoo
Max draws a tattoo of a cat on his coworker, and Fitz chases the cat around when the tattoo comes to...
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The Fortune Teller
Max and Koko get mixed up with a live action gypsy fortune teller and then caught up with ghosts and...
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Balloons
The Inkwell Clown goes for a balloon ride. Later, Max's studio is filled with so many balloons that ...
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Betty Boop's Rise to Fame
A reporter interviews Max Fleischer about his creation, and Betty illustrates with excerpts from thr...
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Modeling
The Clown causes trouble for the Cartoonist, and a sculptor using the studio, when he escapes from h...
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Koko the Hot Shot
Max creates a penny arcade with a shooting gallery, much to the detriment of Ko-Ko and Fitz the Dog....
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Trip to Mars
Max sends Ko-Ko on a rocket toward the moon, but Ko-Ko crash lands on Mars, where he encounters biza...
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The Chinaman
Max Fleischer considers hiring a new cartoonist. While the new guy draws Max's portrait, Koko gets i...
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The Tantalizing Fly
A film in the “Out of the Inkwell” series, an early animated short from Max Fleischer....
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Thanksgiving
Koko likes to join Max and his friends for Thanksgiving dinner. He can, under the condition of scree...
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The Clown's Pup
Max Fleischer draws a clown, who comes alive on the page. The clown doesn't like the way he is drawn...
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Big Chief Koko
When a Native American artist sells a selection of his background drawings and original characters t...
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Koko's Paradise
Max Fleischer is going to a shooting gallery, so he practices on Koko and Fitz, sending them both to...
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Koko's Toot Toot
Max is taking a railroad trip and pulls out his pen to draw Koko, Fitz and a railroad. Maybe the tri...
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The Ouija Board
Max Fleischer draws Koko and a haunted house, while his colleague and the janitor mess around with a...
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The Clown's Little Brother
Koko the Clown's little brother comes to visit and wreaks havoc in Max Fleischer's studio....
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Fishing
Max is too rushed to do a thorough job of drawing Koko this morning. Max is going fishing. However, ...
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Jumping Beans
Max tricks Koko with a jumping bean. Koko finds a way to duplicate himself to get his revenge....
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Bed Time
First, Max, in his pyjamas, gets back up and draws an isolated mountain area and puts Koko on top of...
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Trapped
Ko-Ko is chased by a cartoony spider while Max deals with a mouse in his office....
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False Alarm
An "Out of the Inkwell" short featuring Ko-Ko the Clown, this time as a fireman....
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Invisible Ink
Koko The Clown continually interrupts an animator, who turns his attention to trapping the clown....
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The Dresden Doll
In this one, Max has run low on ink, so Ko-Ko finishes drawing himself and then heads over to the ca...
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The Cure
Max has a toothache, and it's up to The Clown and a bespectacled rabbit to pull out the aching tooth...
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Koko Trains 'Em
Max is inspired by a cute puppy, and gives Ko-Ko a trained dog to show off in a circus ring. The dog...
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Fadeaway
This fascinating series features Max himself, filmed in live action, sitting at a drawing board and ...
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Koko Back Tracks
Ko-Ko and Fitz find that everything in their cartoon world is moving backwards. After entering the r...
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More Pep
In a return to the Out of the Inkwell format, Betty Boop invents a pep formula to speed up lazy Pudg...
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Koko's Field Daze
Ko-Ko is up to his usual mischief as Max prepares to run a track race....
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Just a Gigolo
Irene Bordoni sings the title song in French and English with a Bouncing Ball. Cartoon sequences: Be...
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The Puzzle
Koko the Clown and his creator, Max Fleischer, go on a strange journey to Puzzle Town....
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Ko-Ko's Haunted House
A friend of KoKo's animator draws a haunted house, and KoKo and his dog Fitz go inside. There, they ...
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Koko in Toyland
In this Christmas season release, Max assembles a toy train track while Ko-Ko the Clown visits a car...
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Koko Packs 'Em
Max is moving out of his studio, so Ko-Ko the Inkwell Clown packs up everything in sight (even using...
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Cartoon Madness: The Fantastic Max Fleischer Cartoons
Leonard Maltin tells about the Fleischer Studio between featuring assorted cartoons from the Fleisch...
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Ko-Ko's Hot Dog
Max and Dave Fliescher are eating hot dogs in their animation studio and begin drawing. The hot dog...
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Out of the Inkwell: The Fleischer Story
A documentary about the Fleischer brothers and how they revolutionized animation....
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The Restaurant
After being told by Max to stay put in the studio, KoKo springs the coop (or inkwell, if you will) t...
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Ko-Ko's Germ Jam
The boss has got a microscope, but it might as well be another canvas for Koko, as he delves deep in...
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The Automobile Ride
Max draws Koko on the drawing board. He then receives a call and leaves. Koko leaves after but not b...
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