Movies: J R 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....

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....

Mischievous schoolboy Bobby disobeys his teacher and swings on a dangerous giant school bell....

Two pigs steal the snobby Mrs. Hippo's new Ford and, while being pursued by the police, they hit a stone wall, fly into the air and land in a laundry. They get involved with a clothes-wringer, their tails are caught in the rollers, and they come out ...

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....

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

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

A black man walks into a bar. Or at least a white man with blackface on, and hilarity occurs....

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

A silent ornithology film from Bray Studios...

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

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

When a journeyman boxer's gal is attacked by a rival boxer, his manager says he is not ready--so he comes up with a plan to get revenge on the bully....

When Mr. Givney says business at the railroad station is "too slow" to let him take vacation time, Jerry has an idea to increase ticket sales....

A "Unnatural History" cartoon...

Dud is a disappointment to his parents....

Girls’ school hazing leads to human and animal drag. (MoMA)...

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...

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One of the series of Bobby Bumps silent animated shorts made at Bray Studios....