J.R. Bray Studios

A new student at Washington College undergoes hazing, college football, dirty tricks by the rival team and a romance with a co-ed from Betsy Ross College.

Based on the Buster Brown comic by R.F. Outcault.

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.

Bobby Bumps and Fido call up their creator Earl Hurd on the telephone and get invited over for the day.

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.

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

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

After an organ grinder's monkey grabs a little girl's lollipop with his tail, the musician explains why monkeys are so clever with their tails.

Wallace Carlson walks viewers through the production of an animated short at Bray Studios.

Mischievous schoolboy Bobby disobeys his teacher and swings on a dangerous giant school bell.

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

Directed by Dave Fleischer.

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.

"All sounds travel in waves much the same as ripples in water." Educational film produced by Bray Studios New York, which was the dominant animation studio based in the United States in the years surrounding World War I.

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

Despite the bombs which he suffers from at the war front, war correspondent, Col. Heeza Liar succeeds to foil the enemy lines.

Girls’ school hazing leads to human and animal drag. (MoMA)

A young boy steals jam from his mother and his mother tells him the story of the pelican and the monkey who stole everything in sight. The monkey was punished by having to make little rock out of big one on the chain gang, and the pelican has his bill padlocked.

When a journeyman boxer's gal is attacked by a rival boxer, his manager says he is not ready--so he comes up with a plan to get revenge on the bully.

A black man walks into a bar. Or at least a white man with blackface on, and hilarity occurs.