The Circus (Bray Studios, 1920) by Max Fleischer, with Koko the Clown

Here is an early entry in Max Fleischer's Out of the Inkwell series. At this time, Max was employed as a director at the Bray Studios, which was producing the Inkwell films for Fleischer. Max's clown character was fully rotoscoped in these early films, and known in trade journals as the "Goldwyn-Bray Clown." While Bray retained ownership of the films Max produced at their studio, Max was able to take his Out of the Inkwell concept and his clown character with him for later ventures, post-Bray. By the mid-1920s, the clown character had been redesigned with help from animator Dick Huemer—and had finally come to be called "Koko."

The print seen here is Bray Studios' own 16mm TV syndication version, prepared in the early 1950s. The film's intertitles were cut out, in favor of new narration.
Print courtesy of the Stathes Collection.

Cartoons On Film released a lightly restored version of this film several years ago, as part of our first 'Cartoon Roots' Blu-ray/DVD release. That version largely uses a 28mm print in the Stathes Collection, with far better picture quality than Bray's TV syndication print. The 'Cartoon Roots' collection can be purchased through Amazon.

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