Movies: Rotoscoping

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...

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....

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...

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....

This animated short film portrays a man's commute into the city. Director Michael Patterson employs a combination of pencils and rotoscoping, similar to his work in the music video "Take On Me."...

An animated short about recycling....

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

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

Directed by Dave 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....

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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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....

Meet 5000 space aliens in 5000 seconds in this bonkers animated film....