1920s Animation Movies

Mickey Mouse, piloting a steamboat, delights his passenger, Minnie Mouse, by making musical instruments out of the menagerie on deck.

Mutt has been appointed the judge at a dog show. He persuades Jeff to dress in a dog costume and they will split the prize money.

In this silent Mutt and Jeff cartoon, Jeff puts some pep liquid instead of the usual syrup in the sodas that Mutt serves to the customers in the malt shop.

1925 Mutt and Jeff cartoon

A Aesop's Fables cartoon from Paul Terry.

Cowboys Mutt and Jeff tangle with a bull on the ranch where they work.

Mutt and Jeff go fishing and Mutt has adventures with some skunks. Later he meets a fair young bathing girl who intrigues his affections until a rival appears.

An Aesop’s Film Fables short.

On Strike is one of more than 300 animated ‘half-reelers’ produced between 1913 and 1926 starring the popular American comic-strip characters Mutt and Jeff—and is unusual in featuring live-action shots of its creator, Bud Fisher.

Mary and Eva are best friends, although they couldn't be more different. Armand, Mary's fiancee, falls in love with the seductive Eva, who is busy becoming a revue star. When Eva fails and loses her money, Armand tries to help her out.

The clock strikes midnight, the bats fly from the belfry, a dog howls at the full moon, and two black cats fight in the cemetery: a perfect time for four skeletons to come out and dance a bit.

An "Out of the Inkwell" short featuring Ko-Ko the Clown, this time as a fireman.

Koko the Clown is antagonized by flying insects.

Mutt and Jeff conduct a moving picture show in which they exhibit their patent process for making and distributing flap jacks on a wholesale basis. The subject is an amusing burlesque on the industrial films of which the public is so fond.

Taken from The Arabian Nights, a wicked sorcerer and the beautiful prince Achmed battle one against the other during a series of wondrous adventures.

A drunken gardener is challenged to a poker match by agents of the Devil; replete with location shots in Hades of the Devil giving orders to his agents on Earth.

The Inkwell Clown watches a mosquito land on Max's nose as the cartoonist tries to take a nap, and later finds himself battling a giant mosquito in his cartoon world.

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

Cartoon short.

An animated film exploring what it might take to communicate with Mars, using mirrors, huge flashing electric lights or gigantic strips of black cloth set out in the desert.

A Mutt and Jeff short.

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

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

Private eyes Mutt and Jeff are on the trail of the ghostly shape-shifting criminal, the Phantom.

Max tricks Koko with a jumping bean. Koko finds a way to duplicate himself to get his revenge.

Ko-Ko the Inkwell Clown and a baby get caught in a hurricane.

A series of animated short subjects created by Paul Terry and actor-turned-writer Howard Estabrook.

Koko the Clown discovers a machine that can make cartoons.

An "Out of the Inkwell" cartoon featuring Ko-Ko the Clown.

Koko The Clown continually interrupts an animator, who turns his attention to trapping the clown.

From the Fleischer Brothers, creators of Betty Boop, comes this "Screen Song." Screen Songs were early sound shorts designed for patrons to sing along with in the cinema.

An Aesop’s Film Fables cartoon.

Dinner Time is noted as the first sound cartoon short made after Warner Bros.' success with The Jazz Singer and produced even before Walt Disney's first sound cartoon, Steamboat Willie (though released after).

The Clown causes trouble for the Cartoonist, and a sculptor using the studio, when he escapes from his backdrop and hides in the wet clay of a bust.

Koko the clown is sent to the nut house by Max.

Mickey flirts with Minnie on the farm, but she spurns him - making him look bad in the eyes of his helper, Horace Horsecollar.

An Out of the Inkwell short.

Max helps the Inkwell Clown prepare for a family reunion.

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

Max has a toothache, and it's up to The Clown and a bespectacled rabbit to pull out the aching tooth.