Max Fleischer
Also Known As: Max Fleicher
Biography: Max Fleischer (July 19, 1883 – September 11, 1972) was a Polish Jewish American animator, inventor, film director and producer. Fleischer was a pioneer in the development of the animated cartoon and served as the head of Fleischer Studios. He brought such animated characters as Betty Boop, Koko the Clown, Popeye and Superman to the movie screen and was responsible for a number of technological innovations including the Rotoscope. (Wikipedia)
Department: Production
Place of Birth: Krakau, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland]
Adult: No
Birthday: July 19, 1883
Age: 141 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 11, 1972
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The Reunion
Overview: Max helps the Inkwell Clown prepare for a family reunion.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-10-27
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Vacation
Overview: Ko-Ko the Inkwell Clown spends a vacation at a rubbery amusement park.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-07-23
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The Boxing Kangaroo
Overview: The Inkwell Clown battles a boxing kangaroo.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-02-02
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Out of the Inkwell
Overview: Directed by Dave Fleischer.
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-19
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Perpetual Motion
Overview: Part of Max Fleischer's "Out of the Inkwell" series.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-02
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Koko Gets Egg-Cited
Overview: Ko-Ko gathers eggs on a farm while Max works on an incubator.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-12-01
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Ko-Ko the Barber
Overview: 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.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-25
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Koko at the Circus
Overview: 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.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-05-01
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Surprise
Overview: 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?
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-01
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KoKo's Klock
Overview: 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.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-12
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Fleischer Studios Behind The Scenes
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-01
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Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Koko Celebrates the Fourth
Overview: Ko-Ko and Fitz celebrate the Fouth of July with fireworks and end up rocketed to an island inhabited by cannibals.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-15
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Ko-Ko's Tattoo
Overview: Max draws a tattoo of a cat on his coworker, and Fitz chases the cat around when the tattoo comes to life.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-17
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The Fortune Teller
Overview: 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.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-01
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Balloons
Overview: The Inkwell Clown goes for a balloon ride. Later, Max's studio is filled with so many balloons that it floats away.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-01
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Ko-Ko Makes 'Em Laugh
Overview: Ko-Ko and Fitz try to make a humorless Indian laugh.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-02-10
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Betty Boop's Rise to Fame
Overview: A reporter interviews Max Fleischer about his creation, and Betty illustrates with excerpts from three prior cartoons.
Genres: Animation Comedy Music Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-18
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Modeling
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-01
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Ko-Ko on the Run
Overview: Ko-Ko competes against a rival clown in a race.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-09-15
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Koko the Hot Shot
Overview: Max creates a penny arcade with a shooting gallery, much to the detriment of Ko-Ko and Fitz the Dog.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-01
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Trip to Mars
Overview: 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.
Genres: Science Fiction Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-04-01
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The Chinaman
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-05-19
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Shadows
Overview: Max torments the Inkwell Clown with shadow puppet animals.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-11-01
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The Tantalizing Fly
Overview: A film in the “Out of the Inkwell” series, an early animated short from Max Fleischer.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-03-10
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Ko-Ko in Thanksgiving
Overview: Koko likes to join Max and his friends for Thanksgiving dinner. He can, under the condition of screening his films.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-21
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The Clown's Pup
Overview: 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.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-08-30
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Big Chief Koko
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-05-15
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Koko's Paradise
Overview: 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.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-27
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Koko's Toot Toot
Overview: 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.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-05
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KoKo the Kop
Overview: Part of the 'Inkwell Imps' series.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-01
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The Clown's Little Brother
Overview: Koko the Clown's little brother comes to visit and wreaks havoc in Max Fleischer's studio.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-06
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The Ouija Board
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-07-04
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Koko Back Tracks
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-01
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Fishing
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-11-21
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Koko Trains 'Em
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-06-15
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Jumping Beans
Overview: Max tricks Koko with a jumping bean. Koko finds a way to duplicate himself to get his revenge.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-15
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Invisible Ink
Overview: Koko The Clown continually interrupts an animator, who turns his attention to trapping the clown.
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-12-03
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Cartoon Factory
Overview: Koko the Clown discovers a machine that can make cartoons.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-21
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False Alarm
Overview: An "Out of the Inkwell" short featuring Ko-Ko the Clown, this time as a fireman.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-01
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Trapped
Overview: Ko-Ko is chased by a cartoony spider while Max deals with a mouse in his office.
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-06-01
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Fadeaway
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-09-01
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The Dresden Doll
Overview: 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.
Genres: Romance Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-02-07
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Koko Nuts
Overview: Koko the clown is sent to the nut house by Max.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-15
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More Pep
Overview: 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.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-19
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Koko Needles the Boss
Overview: Ko-Ko the Clown is brought to life with a needle and thread.
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-05-09
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Bed Time
Overview: 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.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-01
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The Cure
Overview: Max has a toothache, and it's up to The Clown and a bespectacled rabbit to pull out the aching tooth.
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-11-15
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Bubbles
Overview: Max and Koko The Clown bet who can blow the biggest soap bubble.
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-20
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The Storm
Overview: Ko-Ko the Inkwell Clown and a baby get caught in a hurricane.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-20
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Koko's Field Daze
Overview: Ko-Ko is up to his usual mischief as Max prepares to run a track race.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-06-09
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Just a Gigolo
Overview: 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.
Genres: Music Documentary Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-08
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The Puzzle
Overview: Koko the Clown and his creator, Max Fleischer, go on a strange journey to Puzzle Town.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-01
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Flies
Overview: Koko the Clown is antagonized by flying insects.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-05-01
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Ko-Ko's Haunted House
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-28
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Koko in Toyland
Overview: 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.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-20
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Koko Packs 'Em
Overview: 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).
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-17
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Cartoon Madness: The Fantastic Max Fleischer Cartoons
Overview: Leonard Maltin tells about the Fleischer Studio between featuring assorted cartoons from the Fleischers.
Genres: Documentary Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-27
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Birthday
Overview: A birthday celebration with Max Fleischer's Inkwell Clown.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-03-11
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Ko-Ko's Hot Dog
Overview: 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.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-17
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Out of the Inkwell: The Fleischer Story
Overview: A documentary about the Fleischer brothers and how they revolutionized animation.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-16
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The Restaurant
Overview: An Out of the Inkwell short.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-06
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Koko Eats
Overview: An Out of the Inkwell short.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-15
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Koko's Big Catch
Overview: A Stuart reissue of the title 'Trapped' from 1923.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-01
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Koko Kidnapped
Overview: An Out of the Inkwell short.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-26
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Ko-Ko's Germ Jam
Overview: 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.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-04
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