How the Telephone Talks

How the Telephone Talks 1919

1

"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.

1919

The Circus

The Circus 1920

7.10

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

1920

The Chinaman

The Chinaman 1920

7.00

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.

1920

The Clown's Little Brother

The Clown's Little Brother 1920

6.00

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

1920

Dinky Doodle in the Arctic

Dinky Doodle in the Arctic 1926

1

We are introduced to the cartoon characters in the studio and the artist looking over a land map and the artist advises Dinky that he has purchased some land in Florida. Dinky volunteers to locate the property and the artist draws an imaginary airship in which Dinky and his sidekick, Weakheart, go exploring. They finally find the lot which the artist bought under the North Pole and they bring the pole back as evidence of its' location. The Eskimo Cop, who has been guarding the pole sneaks into it and comes along and in a terrific encounter between the cop and the artist, the artist is vanquished and the cop vanishes into thin air.

1926

A Sorority Mixup

A Sorority Mixup 1927

1

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

1927

The Ouija Board

The Ouija Board 1920

6.30

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.

1920

Even Up

Even Up 1927

1

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.

1927

The Tantalizing Fly

The Tantalizing Fly 1919

6.40

A film in the “Out of the Inkwell” series, an early animated short from Max Fleischer.

1919

The Tail of the Monkey

The Tail of the Monkey 1926

4.70

After an organ grinder's monkey grabs a little girl's lollipop with his tail, the musician explains why monkeys are so clever with their tails.

1926

The Pied Piper

The Pied Piper 1924

6.00

By Bray Productions and Walter Waltz, Dinky Doodle in The Pied Piper.

1924

The Cuckoo

The Cuckoo 1920

1

A silent ornithology film from Bray Studios

1920

Punches and Perfume

Punches and Perfume 1926

1

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.

1926

Jerry on the Job: The Bomb Idea

Jerry on the Job: The Bomb Idea 1920

5.80

A man reads in the newspaper that Bolsheviks are on the loose and that the public should beware of odd acting strangers. He spots a pipe smoking man holding what he believes is a bomb, and thinks he must be one of the Bolsheviks. He tries to get away from the stranger, but the stranger seems to be following him, polishing his bomb and getting ready to light it. But that round bomb ends up having a more recreational use of a different type of explosion.

1920

Colonel Heeza Liar's African Hunt

Colonel Heeza Liar's African Hunt 1914

7.00

Mistaking a tiger's tail for a snake, Colonel Heeza Liar puts himself in wrong with a big tiger, who gives him a very bad quarter of an hour, until the matchless courage and ingenuity of our hero overcomes him. Next our friend mistakes a bear's ears for a butterfly, and tries to net them, with the result that soon he is up a tree only a breath or two in advance of the bear. Things look very dark for him, especially as the bear energetically tries to shake the colonel from his perch like a ripe apple, but again his resourcefulness finds a victory. As a final grand windup he makes the biggest bag of game, all at one shot that anyone ever secured under similar circumstances.

1914

The Ruby of Razmataz

The Ruby of Razmataz 1917

1

Animated short originally presented as part of the Paramount Bray-Pictograph program.

1917