Movies: J R Bray Studios

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

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

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....

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

"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....

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...

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

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....

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

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 ...

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

Directed by Dave Fleischer....

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

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 new student at Washington College undergoes hazing, college football, dirty tricks by the rival team and a romance with a co-ed from Betsy Ross College....

Colonel Heeza Liar jumps off the drawing board and into the real world to track down a stolen rooster....

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

Boxer Ignatz Mouse bets against himself in a match, then tries to lose the fight on purpose. But Ignatz's wife and Krazy Kat, both unaware of the bet, conspire to make sure Ignatz wins....

A silent ornithology film from Bray Studios...

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 recoveri...