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Still from an Inkwell Imps cartoon featuring Koko the Clown and Fitz the Dog. Out of the Inkwell is an American animated film series of the silent era. It was produced by Max Fleischer from 1918 to 1929 and was called The Inkwell Imps at the end of that period. [1]
Koko's first color appearance was a cameo in the cartoon "Toys Will Be Toys" (1949), one of the revived Screen Songs series produced by Famous Studios.In 1958, Max Fleischer set out to revive Out of the Inkwell for television, and a series of 100 color episodes were produced in 1960–1961 by Hal Seeger using the voice talents of Larry Storch.
Out of the Inkwell is a 1938 Max Fleischer/Betty Boop live-action and animated short film. [1] The title and concept for the film were a tribute to the Out of the Inkwell series of films that Max Fleischer had produced during the 1920s.
Most of the silent Fleischer titles from the Out of the Inkwell/Inkwell Imps series have entered the public domain. An official Betty Boop VHS set, Betty Boop Confidential, was released by Republic Pictures in 1995, included several black-and-white Betty Boop cartoons as well as Betty's only color appearance, Poor Cinderella.
Mother, Mother, Mother Pin a Rose on Me is a film, produced by Out of the Inkwell Studios in the Phonofilm sound-on-film system, and released on March 1, 1925, as part of the Song Car-Tunes series. [1] Max Fleischer, Lee de Forest, Hugo Riesenfeld, and Edwin Miles Fadiman formed Red Seal Pictures to release the Song Car-Tunes series.
Bimbo is a fat, black and white cartoon pup created by Fleischer Studios. He is most well known for his role in the Betty Boop cartoon series, where he featured as Betty's main love interest. [2] A precursor design of Bimbo, [citation needed] originally named Fitz, first appeared in the Out of the Inkwell series.
In 1962, his studio produced and syndicated 100 new Out of the Inkwell cartoons, based on the Koko the Clown character, originally created by Fleischer Studios. [1] Seeger then took control of animating the opening & ending sequences for The Porky Pig Show in 1964. [3] [1]
Max obligingly draws Betty "out of the inkwell" and asks her to perform a couple of numbers. Song and dance numbers from Stopping the Show, Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle, and The Old Man of the Mountain are used. [3] In the end, Betty jumps back into the inkwell, accidentally splashing ink into the reporter's face.