Movies: J R Bray Studios

Directed by Dave Fleischer....

A "Unnatural History" cartoon...

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....

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

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....

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

This one is amusing in its early use of the rubber tire school of animation as Mr. Givny informs Jerry that they are out of coal for the train. The passengers who appear behave amusingly and when the train itself takes on anthropomorphic life, it mak...

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

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

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....

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

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

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

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

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

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....

"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....

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 airshi...

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

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...