John Randolph Bray

A "Hot Dog" Cartoon

A rich boy gets his well-deserved punishment.

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.

A "Unnatural History" cartoon

A Sunkist Comedy

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 with corkscrew tails. In the live action, animator Walter Lantz, as he finishes the story, is being led away by the keeper of the local insane asylum.

Animated-live action short. An artist is quietly painting landscapes of the countryside when he wanders into an abandoned house which Dinky tries to fool him into thinking it's haunted.

Short documentary about a couple who adopts a bear cub.

Dud imagines the glory to be derived from killing a lot of animals.

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.

Max Fleischer considers hiring a new cartoonist. While the new guy draws Max's portrait, Koko gets into a fight with a cartoon Chinese stereotype.

The Inkwell Clown battles a boxing kangaroo.

Dud is a disappointment to his parents.

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

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

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.

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

"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.

Directed by Dave Fleischer.

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

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

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

Bobby works at his father's office; there is some question of payment, however.

Colonel Heeza Liar is a character a bit like Baron Munchausen. Many wild things occur to him in the cartoons and they are meant to be silly entertainment. Here, he gets into a fight with a kangaroo. On the verge of death, he's saved by a quack doctor--who gives him a transfusion of donkey blood! And, as a result, there is a funny lingering after-effect.

In this story he comes to the rescue of a baseball team and becomes the star pitcher and hitter.

Despite the bombs which he suffers from at the war front, war correspondent, Col. Heeza Liar succeeds to foil the enemy lines.

In this latest exploit of the inimitable little colonel, he goes upon a ghost hunt – but the hunter becomes the hunted.

In this latest exploit of the inimitable little colonel, he goes upon a ghost hunt – but the hunter becomes the hunted.

In this latest exploit of the inimitable little colonel, he goes upon a ghost hunt – but the hunter becomes the hunted.

In this latest exploit of the inimitable little colonel, he goes upon a ghost hunt – but the hunter becomes the hunted.

A clever pictorial comedy is this cartoon, which graphically describes the tender love-tale of Julio, a masculine feline, and Romiet, the object of his affections.

A plagiarised version of Winsor McCay's short from 1914

A plagiarised version of Winsor McCay's short from 1914

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.

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.

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.

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.

Colonel Heeza Liar goes to Africa hoping to outdo Teddy Roosevelt; there he encounters various jungle animals.

An animator's dog gets the better of him

An animated dachshund fools his live-action creator by eating the sausages he has drawn.

An animated dachshund fools his live-action creator by eating the sausages he has drawn.

An animated dachshund fools his live-action creator by eating the sausages he has drawn.