Movies: Rotoscoping

Directed by Dave Fleischer....

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

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

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....

An animated short about recycling....

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...

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....

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

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

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

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

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

The Clown causes trouble for the Cartoonist, and a sculptor using the studio, when he escapes from his backdrop and hides in the wet clay of a bust....

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

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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...

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...

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."...