Rotoscoping Movies

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...

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

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.

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...

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...

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...

Directed by Dave Fleischer.

This animated short film portrays a man's commute into the city. Director Michael Patterson employs a combination of pencils and rotoscoping, similar...

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

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

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.

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.

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.

A non-binary folk watches the handover of the first non-binary ID in the history of Chile. As they try to do the paperwork, they will face the...

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

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.

An animated short about recycling.