Movies: Rotoscoping

The Inkwell Clown goes for a balloon ride. Later, Max's studio is filled with so many balloons that it floats away....

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

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

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....

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

During a very hot summer, Emma (15) is doomed to boredom at her grandparents's house. She's dying for something to happen. At the edge of a pond, she hides to observe The Young Man. She develops a brief but intense obsession for this fantasized stran...

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....

An "Out of the Inkwell" short featuring Ko-Ko the Clown, this time as a fireman....

An animated short about recycling....

A community of strawberries under the influence of illegal pesticides plans to exterminate humanity....

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 g...

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 just get it started....

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....

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

Black and white drawings blended with photographic images depict an old man, with various tiny gadgets, trying to find the anatomy of the wings of an angel....

Inspired by Rachel Moseley-Wood’s essay “The Other Jamaica”, Damian Marley’s controversial song “Welcome to Jamrock”, and juxtaposed views of Jamaica via tourism and marginalized Jamaicans. This short animation uses found film of Jamaica in the 1930s...

During COVID-19 lockdown, a young man tries to stop smoking surrounded by anxiety and paranoia without knowing that he´s being watched....

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 store clerk whose vision is formed by the movies he sees and hears....