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Out of the Inkwell: The Tantalizing Fly (1919)

Name: Out of the Inkwell: The Tantalizing Fly
Genre: Animation
Released: 1919
Duration: 3 min

19194 minAnimation✓ Verified rightsSilent · CC0 piano score

Out of the Inkwell: The Tantalizing Fly (1919) is a 4-minute animated cartoon that airs free on Starlite TV's Silent Pictures (CH 12) channel. It is a silent film, presented with a public-domain (CC0) piano score. It is in the U.S. public domain.

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About Out of the Inkwell: The Tantalizing Fly (1919)

Out of the Inkwell was Max and Dave Fleischer's silent series in which Koko the Clown climbs out of an ink bottle and into the real world of the animator's studio. The shorts mixed live action with animation and used the Fleischers' rotoscope, the device Max Fleischer patented for tracing filmed movement, to give Koko his fluid, lifelike motion.

A Max Fleischer cartoon in the "Out of the Inkwell" series for Bray Studios.

Quick facts

Year: 1919
Runtime: 4 minutes
Type: Cartoon · Animation
Series: Out of the Inkwell
Credits (Internet Archive record): Max Fleischer
Sound: Silent film with a CC0 piano score

Synopsis from the Internet Archive item page

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Silent Pictures - CH 12, Silent Film TV

Rights & source

Basis: Published before 1931 - U.S. copyright term expired
Evidence: First published 1919 (before 1931): US copyright term has expired.
License on source: creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain
Music: Silent film: this copy has an added soundtrack of unknown origin, so original audio is MUTED and a CC0 (Musopen) piano bed is played instead.
Underlying rights: Silent cartoon.
Source: Internet Archive

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