Perpetual Motion
- Studio
- Bray Studios
- Distributor
- Goldwyn-Bray Pictographs
Synopsis
The Clown soon becomes befuddled as he contends with a magnet.
Characters
The Clown.
Live-Action Characters: Max Fleischer
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Max Fleischer
Producing
- Producer
- J. R. Bray
Writing
- Writer
- Max Fleischer
Animation
- Animator
- Max Fleischer, Roland Crandall
Production notes
Silent cartoon.
A combination live action and animated series created by Max Fleischer, it proved to be one of the most popular silent cartoons. The various mis-adventures of a cartoon clown in a real world. The shorts usully started off with The Clown (who would eventually become Ko-Ko) antagonizing the animator (Max Fleischer) before the adventure began.
A combination live action and animated series created by Max Fleischer, it proved to be one of the most popular silent cartoons. The various mis-adventures of a cartoon clown in a real world. The shorts usully started off with The Clown (who would eventually become Ko-Ko) antagonizing the animator (Max Fleischer) before the adventure began.
Reviews
Perpetual Motion
Max Fleischer and Roland Crandal are in the artists' room, drawing table arranged in a line like school desks. They laugh at an excentric old man tinkering with a device he claims will produce "perpetual motion." The clown goes into the device to help it along, and is takes off spinning wildly. Thinking that there might be something in this, Max has second thoughts, and offers to buy the machine for a small amount of money only to find it won't work without the clown's help. There is something to be said about cheating an honest man here. This film again cleverly combines cartoon action with moving live action of the perpetual motion machine.