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.
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.
Max draws Koko on the drawing board. He then receives a call and leaves. Koko leaves after but not before taking some money from Max's wallet that he left behind. Max arrives to his date then comes back to his office to get his wallet. After recovering it, he drives with his date to get twelve gallons of gas. Koko arrives just as the pump is going and mischievously takes the hose from the car as the hose falls to the ground unknowingly to anyone else. Just as the wasted twelve gallons are up, Koko puts it back in the car before Max retrieves it! He gets his wallet and finds his money gone so he excuses himself.
Bobby Bumps and Fido call up their creator Earl Hurd on the telephone and get invited over for the day.
Part of Max Fleischer's "Out of the Inkwell" series.
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.
Bobby Bumps invited his black neighbor to join his "lodge." But first he has to be initiated. The neighbor cleverly avoids getting rammed in the behind by Bobby's goat, but as he's running away, finds himself in a precarious position with a wild bear. Bobby saved his friend, but quickly he finds himself in an even worse situation with the bear and needs the friend to return the favor. They both agree to be initiated together, and the final joke is on Bobby's poor goat.
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.
A film in the “Out of the Inkwell” series, an early animated short from Max Fleischer.
A little boy and his beloved puppy find themselves in and out of mischief.
Colonel Heeza Liar jumps off the drawing board and into the real world to track down a stolen rooster.
Mischievous schoolboy Bobby disobeys his teacher and swings on a dangerous giant school bell.
This one is amusing in its early use of the rubber tire school of animation as Mr. Givny informs Jerry that they are out of coal for the train. The passengers who appear behave amusingly and when the train itself takes on anthropomorphic life, it makes its own sense -- outrageous for the day, even if slightly banal for fans of "Thomas the Engine".
Directed by Dave Fleischer.
Wallace Carlson walks viewers through the production of an animated short at Bray Studios.
A black man walks into a bar. Or at least a white man with blackface on, and hilarity occurs.
Koko the Clown's little brother comes to visit and wreaks havoc in Max Fleischer's studio.
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.
A rich boy gets his well-deserved punishment.
