Movies: J R Bray Studios

  • 1917
    How the Cowboy Makes His Lariat

    How the Cowboy Makes His Lariat (1917)

    How the Cowboy Makes His Lariat

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    Wild West performer Pedro Leon is the highlight of this three-minute film that shows how cowboys make rope and various other items. Within the three-minutes we learn that horsehair is the best thing to use so we see a couple men, including Leon, put ...

    How the Cowboy Makes His Lariat
  • 1920
    Perpetual Motion

    Perpetual Motion (1920)

    Perpetual Motion

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    Part of Max Fleischer's "Out of the Inkwell" series....

    Perpetual Motion
  • 1920
    The Boxing Kangaroo

    The Boxing Kangaroo (1920)

    The Boxing Kangaroo

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    The Inkwell Clown battles a boxing kangaroo....

    The Boxing Kangaroo
  • 1920
    The Chinaman

    The Chinaman (1920)

    The Chinaman

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    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....

    The Chinaman
  • 1917
    Bobby Bumps Starts for School

    Bobby Bumps Starts for School (1917)

    Bobby Bumps Starts for School

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

    Bobby Bumps Starts for School
  • 1916
    Bobby Bumps at the Circus

    Bobby Bumps at the Circus (1916)

    Bobby Bumps at the Circus

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    A little boy and his beloved puppy find themselves in and out of mischief....

    Bobby Bumps at the Circus
  • 1919
    Dud, the Circus Performer

    Dud, the Circus Performer (1919)

    Dud, the Circus Performer

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    Dud imagines himself as a daring circus performer (which would certainly impress Mamie.)...

    Dud, the Circus Performer
  • 1927
    Even Up

    Even Up (1927)

    Even Up

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    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....

    Even Up
  • 1920
    The Ouija Board

    The Ouija Board (1920)

    The Ouija Board

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    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....

    The Ouija Board
  • 1921
    Bobby Bumps in Hunting and Fishing

    Bobby Bumps in Hunting and Fishing (1921)

    Bobby Bumps in Hunting and Fishing

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    A little boy and his beloved puppy find themselves in and out of mischief, this time hunting and fishing where they're not allowed....

    Bobby Bumps in Hunting and Fishing
  • 1926
    Punches and Perfume

    Punches and Perfume (1926)

    Punches and Perfume

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    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....

    Punches and Perfume
  • 1920
    All Aboard for the Moon

    All Aboard for the Moon (1920)

    All Aboard for the Moon

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    An animated interpretation of a rocket voyage to the moon demonstrates the scientific principles at play in theoretical space travel (such as gravity)....

    All Aboard for the Moon
  • 1919
    How the Telephone Talks

    How the Telephone Talks (1919)

    How the Telephone Talks

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    "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....

    How the Telephone Talks
  • 1927
    Custard's Last Stand

    Custard's Last Stand (1927)

    Custard's Last Stand

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

    Custard's Last Stand
  • 1926
    Monkeys Prefer Blondes

    Monkeys Prefer Blondes (1926)

    Monkeys Prefer Blondes

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    A Sunkist Comedy...

    Monkeys Prefer Blondes
  • 1919
    The Clown's Pup

    The Clown's Pup (1919)

    The Clown's Pup

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    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....

    The Clown's Pup
  • 1919
    Out of the Inkwell

    Out of the Inkwell (1919)

    Out of the Inkwell

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    Directed by Dave Fleischer....

    Out of the Inkwell
  • 1927
    Dumb-Belles

    Dumb-Belles (1927)

    Dumb-Belles

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    Two henpecked men run off and pretend to be athletic trainers in order to get jobs in a weight loss club for women. The Sunkist Bathing Beauties are featured performers....

    Dumb-Belles
  • 1923
    Colonel Heeza Liar, Detective

    Colonel Heeza Liar, Detective (1923)

    Colonel Heeza Liar, Detective

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    Colonel Heeza Liar jumps off the drawing board and into the real world to track down a stolen rooster....

    Colonel Heeza Liar, Detective
  • 1919
    How Animated Cartoons Are Made

    How Animated Cartoons Are Made (1919)

    How Animated Cartoons Are Made

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

    How Animated Cartoons Are Made