Max Fleischer Movies

Plot kept under wraps

For customer Betty Boop, psychic reader Prof. Bimbo conjures up an adventure on a haunted tropical island in his crystal ball.

KoKo accidentally spills ink on Max’s letter. An irritated Max draws him an oversized sparring partner. Remarkably, KoKo somehow manages to...

This time he transforms some hard looking characters into the well known countenances. Snub Pollard's picture is changed into Jack Holt. Charles...

The Inkwell Clown battles a boxing kangaroo.

The courtship of two swans is interrupted by a third swan, who demonstrates his prowess at catching fish. The pen falls for him and leaves her mate,...

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

An Out of the Inkwell short.

“Out of the Inkwell” cartoon by Fleischer Studios.

Baseball: Bluto's Bears vs. Popeye's Pirates, and both Bluto and Popeye have girlfriends cheering them on.

A humanized dog comes from a bar and fights with his shadow in the dark just before a bouncing ball comes on and the singer warbles "I'm Afraid to...

Max Fleischer and brother David are playing pool when Koko and Fitz force their way out of the ink bottle. They want to play pool too, so Max...

A lost Screen Songs cartoon.

A cartoon in the Animated Antics series from the Fleischer Studios about Zero the Hound.

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...

Koko the Clown and his creator, Max Fleischer, go on a strange journey to Puzzle Town.

Humorous "sketches" of human interest stories by Max Fleischer, who headed Jam Handy's animation department in the mid 1940s and 1950s.

Popeye and Olive are at the premiere of Popeye's new movie. He gets a little too wrapped up in the movie, interacting with it at various points, and...

Ko-Ko and Fitz celebrate the Fouth of July with fireworks and end up rocketed to an island inhabited by cannibals.

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...