Margie
- Studio
- Inkwell Studios
- Distributor
- Red Seal Pictures, Inc.
Characters
Ko-Ko, Ko-Ko Kwartet
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Dick Huemer
Producing
- Producer
- Max Fleischer
Animation
- Animator
- Berny Wolf
- Drafting Room Supervisor
- Dave Fleischer
Production notes
Silent cartoon.
The Song Car-tunes were only three to four minutes in length. The sound versions consisted of stock animation footage of Ko-Ko jumping out of the ink bottle and going to a black board, where he drew the Ko-Ko Kwartet in chalk line. The Kwartet then became animated and entered a theater, where Ko-Ko would appear at a lectern on stage, holding up a sign. The new footage for the individual cartoon would begin with a pun or description pertaining to the featured song. These cartoons then featured the song lyrics on the screen, highlighted with a bouncing white ball. In addition to the ball bouncing over the lyrics, the repeated chorus would have words animated, or characters would animate over the words as puns. Various Fleischer characters (such as Ko-Ko the Clown or Fitz the Dog) would make an appearance.
The Song Car-tunes were only three to four minutes in length. The sound versions consisted of stock animation footage of Ko-Ko jumping out of the ink bottle and going to a black board, where he drew the Ko-Ko Kwartet in chalk line. The Kwartet then became animated and entered a theater, where Ko-Ko would appear at a lectern on stage, holding up a sign. The new footage for the individual cartoon would begin with a pun or description pertaining to the featured song. These cartoons then featured the song lyrics on the screen, highlighted with a bouncing white ball. In addition to the ball bouncing over the lyrics, the repeated chorus would have words animated, or characters would animate over the words as puns. Various Fleischer characters (such as Ko-Ko the Clown or Fitz the Dog) would make an appearance.
Reviews
Margie
An early production of the same period as WHEN THE MIDNIGHT CHOO-CHOO LEAVES FOR ALABAM'.
In these a larger white ball clumsily animates over the lyrics. This was to be improved upon when a live action techinque was later employed with Lou Fleischer actually bouncing a white disk at the end of a black baton. This and many others for this historic series can be seen in
KO-KO SONG CAR-TUNES, seen on the Inkwell Images
website: inkwellimagesink.com.