The Ouija Board

The Ouija Board 1920

6.30

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.

1920

The Clown's Little Brother

The Clown's Little Brother 1920

6.00

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

1920

The Tantalizing Fly

The Tantalizing Fly 1919

6.40

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

1919

The Circus

The Circus 1920

7.10

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

1920

The Chinaman

The Chinaman 1920

7.00

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.

1920

Jerry on the Job: The Bomb Idea

Jerry on the Job: The Bomb Idea 1920

5.80

A man reads in the newspaper that Bolsheviks are on the loose and that the public should beware of odd acting strangers. He spots a pipe smoking man holding what he believes is a bomb, and thinks he must be one of the Bolsheviks. He tries to get away from the stranger, but the stranger seems to be following him, polishing his bomb and getting ready to light it. But that round bomb ends up having a more recreational use of a different type of explosion.

1920

Jerry on the Job: Cheating the Piper

Jerry on the Job: Cheating the Piper 1920

2.70

When the New Monia station is overrun with mice, Mr. Givney can only shoot them one at a time, but Jerry uses a flute to lure them out, "Pied Piper of Hamlin" style.

1920

Colonel Heeza Liar's Forbidden Fruit

Colonel Heeza Liar's Forbidden Fruit 1923

3.00

Forbidden Fruit begins with New York in the grip of a banana shortage. Residents sing (or scream) “Yes! We Have No Bananas,” the hit novelty song of 1923 (inspired by real-life banana shortages—the film also references current events by mentioning mobster Louis Cohen, arrested for murder the same year). The scene shifts to animator Walter Lantz strumming the song on his guitar, before a co-worker presents him with a banana that transmogrifies into Colonel Heeza Liar, who tells the tale of how he ended “the great banana famine in 1923.”

1923

The Clown's Pup

The Clown's Pup 1919

4.50

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.

1919

Custard's Last Stand

Custard's Last Stand 1927

1

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

1927

Jerry on the Job: Without Coal

Jerry on the Job: Without Coal 1920

1

Animated film based on the comic strip "Jerry on the Job" - a man on the station platform tells Jerry Flannigan and Mr. Givney that he knows how to run a train without coal.

1920

Oh Boy

Oh Boy 1927

1

A rich boy gets his well-deserved punishment.

1927

The Pied Piper

The Pied Piper 1924

6.00

When an artist's creativity is constantly interrupted by mice, he orders two cartoon characters to get ride of them or else they'll be the ones evicted. When all else fails, they use music to lead the mouse horde away.

1924

Dinky Doodle in Lost and Found

Dinky Doodle in Lost and Found 1926

7.30

The animator tries to lose Dinky Doodle and Weakheart in the countryside. But they're kidnapped and taken to the moon by a witch. They finally get back to earth to take their revenge against their creator.

1926

How the Telephone Talks

How the Telephone Talks 1919

1

"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.

1919

Even Up

Even Up 1927

1

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.

1927