J R Bray Studios Movies

Max Fleischer draws the upper and lower halves of the Clown's body, which dance around separately before coming together. Max interacts with his...

Part of Max Fleischer's "Out of the Inkwell" series.

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

Based on the comic strip Happy Hooligan, this cartoon was packaged with the Hearst-Vitagraph News Pictorial and shown before the main features in...

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 draws Koko on the drawing board. He then receives a call and leaves. Koko leaves after but not before taking some money from Max's wallet that he...

A neighborhood group of mischievous kids open a makeshift, chaotic "animal catching" rescue business in their alleyway. True to the McDougall Alley...

Two henpecked men run off and pretend to be athletic trainers in order to get jobs in a weight loss club for women. The Sunkist Bathing Beauties are...

Silent Cartoon

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.

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

While sheik Fred Malatesta is in town shopping for a new wife, sailor-suited Victor Potel is seducing his current harem with with freshly popped corn...

The Eclipse of the Sun was a science film released in July 1918, one month after a solar eclipse visible across the United States. This film was...

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

The Inkwell Clown battles a boxing kangaroo.

A Popular Science Monthly film demonstrating how life on the moon would be different than life on Earth.

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,...