Movies: J R Bray Studios

"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....

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

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....

Based on the Buster Brown comic by R.F. Outcault....

Directed by Dave Fleischer....

Dinky Doodle and his dog are supposed to look after a foundling, which is more trouble than they expected....

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

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

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

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....

Krazy Kat gets falsely arrested for cheese burglaries....

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

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 ...

A silent ornithology film from Bray Studios...

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....

Dud imagines the glory to be derived from killing a lot of animals....

A rare spoof. With the success of the 1925 film, The Lost World, it is common that when something is popular and successful, it is bound to be a subject for parodies and cash-in attempts. One of them was The Lost Whirl. This film featured stop-motion...

Despite the bombs which he suffers from at the war front, war correspondent, Col. Heeza Liar succeeds to foil the enemy lines....

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

Dud is a disappointment to his parents....