Max Fleischer Movies

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.

The Clown (yet to be named KoKo) holds a contest, offering 100 dollars to whomever can ride “Dynamite” the trick mule for five minutes....

Popeye and Bluto fight for the love of Olive Oyl in their debut short, featuring Betty Boop.

Popeye gives Olive a parrot that he's trained. Bluto sets the bird free and then tries to kill it.

The Fleischer's Talkartoon short that debuted Betty Boop.

Ko-Ko the Inkwell Clown and a baby get caught in a hurricane.

Classic holiday tale about a flying reindeer who helps Santa Claus. An interpretation of Robert L. May's 1939 Christmas poem, this animated short was...

An "Out of the Inkwell" cartoon featuring Ko-Ko the Clown.

Sun bonneted Betty Boop takes a train to "Rudy Valley" where she gains weight and Rudy Vallee performs the title song with Bouncing Ball.

Koko the clown is sent to the nut house by Max.

Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput and attempts to prevent war between that tiny kingdom and its equally-miniscule rival, Blefiscu, as well as smooth...

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

Popeye's elderly father, Pappy, wants to go out at night. Popeye wants him to sleep.

Max has a toothache, and it's up to The Clown and a bespectacled rabbit to pull out the aching tooth.

Betty drudges in the kitchen alone until her friends (including Bimbo and Koko) hold a surprise birthday party for her… which gets rowdy.

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...

An Out of the Inkwell short.

An initially realistic chess game becomes a chaotic, animated quest for the favors of Betty Boop (the black queen) by Bimbo (white king) and others,...

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

A comedic take on the Sleeping Beauty tale featuring KoKo the Clown.