19-07-1883
Birthday
Cancer
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66
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Also known as (male)
Krakau, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland]
Place of Birth
19-07-1883
Birthday
Cancer
Zodiac Sign
-
Genres
66
Total Films
Max Fleicher
Also Known As (male)
Krakau, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland]
Place of Birth
actor
66 Works
producer
241 Works
director
296 Works
writer
19 Works
other
11 Works
Out of the Inkwell: The Fleischer Story
A documentary about the Fleischer brothers and how they revolutionized animation.Year:
2008
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
From the A&E "Biography" series, a review of the birth, development and cinematic history of Betty Boop, the flapper cartoon character who has been a popular icon since the 1930s.Year:
1995
Cartoon Madness: The Fantastic Max Fleischer Cartoons
Leonard Maltin tells about the Fleischer Studio between featuring assorted cartoons from the Fleischers.Year:
1992
Fleischer Studios Behind The Scenes
This fascinating and informative 1938 film, part of Paramount's Popular Science series, offers a tour through Fleischer Studios’ newly-built Miami studio during the making of the classic Popeye film Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp.Year:
1938
More Pep
In a return to the Out of the Inkwell format, Betty Boop invents a pep formula to speed up lazy Pudgy, but it escapes into the real world with rapid results.Year:
1936
Betty Boop's Rise to Fame
A reporter interviews Max Fleischer about his creation, and Betty illustrates with excerpts from three prior cartoons.Year:
1934
Just a Gigolo
Irene Bordoni sings the title song in French and English with a Bouncing Ball. Cartoon sequences: Betty Boop as a cabaret emcee and cigarette girl; a romantic tom-cat gigolo.Year:
1932
Koko's Field Daze
Ko-Ko is up to his usual mischief as Max prepares to run a track race.Year:
1928
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 encounter frightening hallways where every door leads to a new spook.Year:
1928
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 life.Year:
1928
Ko-Ko's Hot Dog
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.Year:
1928
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 into the world of germs.Year:
1928
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 dressing Max for the next day and replacing his surroundings so he'll be ready to go when the alarm clock rings in the morning.Year:
1927
KoKo the Kop
Part of the 'Inkwell Imps' series.Year:
1927
Koko Needles the Boss
Ko-Ko the Clown is brought to life with a needle and thread.Year:
1927
Ko-Ko Makes 'Em Laugh
Ko-Ko and Fitz try to make a humorless Indian laugh.Year:
1927
Koko Back Tracks
Ko-Ko and Fitz find that everything in their cartoon world is moving backwards. After entering the real world, they go inside a clock and move the hands backward, causing life all around the city to run in reverse.Year:
1927
Koko Gets Egg-Cited
Ko-Ko gathers eggs on a farm while Max works on an incubator.Year:
1926
Koko Kidnapped
An Out of the Inkwell short.Year:
1926
Fadeaway
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.Year:
1926
Koko's Toot Toot
Max is taking a railroad trip and pulls out his pen to draw Koko, Fitz and a railroad. Maybe the trip is too bumpy, because nothing works as it is supposed to.Year:
1926
Koko at the Circus
Max draws a circus poster featuring Ko-Ko the Clown and Fitz the dog, but the circus owner wants them replaced with a giant. On the poster, Ko-Ko and Fitz find ways to take on their oversized rival.Year:
1926
Koko's Paradise
Max Fleischer is going to a shooting gallery, so he practices on Koko and Fitz, sending them both to Paradise in this slightly erratic but funny cartoon.Year:
1926
Ko-Ko in Thanksgiving
Koko likes to join Max and his friends for Thanksgiving dinner. He can, under the condition of screening his films.Year:
1925
Koko Eats
An Out of the Inkwell short.Year:
1925
Koko Packs 'Em
Max is moving out of his studio, so Ko-Ko the Inkwell Clown packs up everything in sight (even using a super-charged vacuum cleaner that sucks up the furniture and the moving men).Year:
1925
Koko Nuts
Koko the clown is sent to the nut house by Max.Year:
1925
Ko-Ko on the Run
Ko-Ko competes against a rival clown in a race.Year:
1925
Koko Celebrates the Fourth
Ko-Ko and Fitz celebrate the Fouth of July with fireworks and end up rocketed to an island inhabited by cannibals.Year:
1925
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 performs a variety of tricks, but things get out of hand once Ko-Ko's trained fleas are let loose into the crowd.Year:
1925
Big Chief Koko
When a Native American artist sells a selection of his background drawings and original characters to Fleischer, Koko gives the new arrivals a cold reception.Year:
1925
Ko-Ko the Barber
In this 1925 Out of the Inkwell short, Ko-Ko the Clown becomes a barber. As usual, he eventually escapes the animated world for the "real." He hides in a shaving mug and when Max tries to lather up.Year:
1925
Koko in Toyland
In this Christmas season release, Max assembles a toy train track while Ko-Ko the Clown visits a cartoon toyland, playing cops and robbers and rescuing a doll in distress.Year:
1925
Koko the Hot Shot
Max creates a penny arcade with a shooting gallery, much to the detriment of Ko-Ko and Fitz the Dog.Year:
1925
The Storm
Ko-Ko the Inkwell Clown and a baby get caught in a hurricane.Year:
1924
The Cure
Max has a toothache, and it's up to The Clown and a bespectacled rabbit to pull out the aching tooth.Year:
1924
Vacation
Ko-Ko the Inkwell Clown spends a vacation at a rubbery amusement park.Year:
1924
Trip to Mars
Max sends Ko-Ko on a rocket toward the moon, but Ko-Ko crash lands on Mars, where he encounters bizarre creatures and contraptions. Meanwhile, Max himself is blasted into outer space.Year:
1924
Cartoon Factory
Koko the Clown discovers a machine that can make cartoons.Year:
1924
Koko's Big Catch
A Stuart reissue of the title 'Trapped' from 1923.Year:
1924
Shadows
Max torments the Inkwell Clown with shadow puppet animals.Year:
1923
The Fortune Teller
Max and Koko get mixed up with a live action gypsy fortune teller and then caught up with ghosts and monsters in this, as usual, delightful OUT OF THE INKWELL offering.Year:
1923
Balloons
The Inkwell Clown goes for a balloon ride. Later, Max's studio is filled with so many balloons that it floats away.Year:
1923
False Alarm
An "Out of the Inkwell" short featuring Ko-Ko the Clown, this time as a fireman.Year:
1923
Trapped
Ko-Ko is chased by a cartoony spider while Max deals with a mouse in his office.Year:
1923
The Puzzle
Koko the Clown and his creator, Max Fleischer, go on a strange journey to Puzzle Town.Year:
1923
Surprise
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?Year:
1923
Bed Time
First, Max, in his pyjamas, gets back up and draws an isolated mountain area and puts Koko on top of a steep mountain. "That will keep you busy for the night," says the real-life somewhat nasty cartoonist to his subject. The cartoon really gets wild from that point with guest appearances from Mutt and Jeff, and other "stars" of the day as Koko experiences one adventure after another from the "Cave Of The Winds" to Goliath chasing him all over.Year:
1923
Jumping Beans
Max tricks Koko with a jumping bean. Koko finds a way to duplicate himself to get his revenge.Year:
1922
The Reunion
Max helps the Inkwell Clown prepare for a family reunion.Year:
1922
Flies
Koko the Clown is antagonized by flying insects.Year:
1922
Bubbles
Max and Koko The Clown bet who can blow the biggest soap bubble.Year:
1922
Birthday
A birthday celebration with Max Fleischer's Inkwell Clown.Year:
1922
The Dresden Doll
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 gets rid of the musicians, but, alas, the projectionist gets oil onto Ko-Ko's soon-to-be bride, melting her.Year:
1922
Invisible Ink
Koko The Clown continually interrupts an animator, who turns his attention to trapping the clown.Year:
1921
Fishing
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.Year:
1921
Modeling
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.Year:
1921
The Restaurant
An Out of the Inkwell short.Year:
1920
Perpetual Motion
Part of Max Fleischer's "Out of the Inkwell" series.Year:
1920
The Clown's Little Brother
Koko the Clown's little brother comes to visit and wreaks havoc in Max Fleischer's studio.Year:
1920
The Ouija Board
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.Year:
1920
The Chinaman
Max Fleischer considers hiring a new cartoonist. While the new guy draws Max's portrait, Koko gets into a fight with a cartoon Chinese man.Year:
1920
The Boxing Kangaroo
The Inkwell Clown battles a boxing kangaroo.Year:
1920
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 and demonstrates his own artistic abilities.Year:
1919
Out of the Inkwell
Directed by Dave Fleischer.Year:
1919
The Tantalizing Fly
A film in the “Out of the Inkwell” series, an early animated short from Max Fleischer.Year:
1919
