Movies: Rotoscoping

On a South Sea isle, Bimbo meets Betty in the guise of a hula dancer....

Max Fleischer draws the upper and lower halves of the Clown's body, which dance around separately before coming together. Max interacts with his creation before ultimately washing the Clown off the page with water....

There are 5002 space aliens currently on our planet. This is the only known footage of all of them. Please put on your anti-alien glasses now and memorize all 5002 space aliens....

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

A non-binary folk watches the handover of the first non-binary ID in the history of Chile. As they try to do the paperwork, they will face the bureaucracy of the legal proceeding....

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....

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 community of strawberries under the influence of illegal pesticides plans to exterminate humanity....

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

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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....

Faced with his inability to finish a film, an author is forced to seek the advice of a mysterious voice in order to complete his story....

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....

Synchronize is a tribute to the powerful effect movies can have on our imagination. This short film takes the viewer through the dream of a video store clerk whose vision is formed by the movies he sees and hears....

What happens when thoughts won't stop? Telling yourself "try not to think." The exhaustion of thinking and thinking, an attempt to recapitulate unnecessary thoughts that consume you and cloud your vision....

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

As she starts seventh grade, Amelia (12) faces new insecurities and social norms. To fit in, she tears away parts of herself, until they take shape as a creature that forces her to confront everything she tried to leave behind....

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...