Ko-Ko's Earth Control

1928
6m

IMDb RATING

7.2/10

515

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Slapstick Animation Comedy Family Fantasy Sci-Fi Short

Koko the Clown and his dog Fitz walk into a building where levers that control various aspects of the Earth are located. After Fitz presses a particular lever, the world goes topsy-turvy and... Read allKoko the Clown and his dog Fitz walk into a building where levers that control various aspects of the Earth are located. After Fitz presses a particular lever, the world goes topsy-turvy and out-of-control.Koko the Clown and his dog Fitz walk into a building where levers that control various aspects of the Earth are located. After Fitz presses a particular lever, the world goes topsy-turvy and out-of-control.

Director
- Dave Fleischer

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IMDb RATING

7.2/10

515

YOUR RATING

Director
- Dave Fleischer

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
One of many Max Fleischer/Out of the Inkwell silent cartoons to be repackaged with soundtracks and distributed for television in the 1950s by Stuart Productions, Inc.

Alternate versions
The 1950 Stuart Productions television release features an added soundtrack.

Connections
Featured in Liquid Television: Episode #2.7 (1992)

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10/10

Ko-Ko and Fitz arrive to the Earth Control Center and Ko-Ko's dog pull down a lever that makes world go out of control

A very imaginative cartoon from the silent era,produced by the most influential cartoon pioneer of all times, Max Fleischer, and directed by his talented brother Dave.The perfect mixture of different techniques and visual tricks ( ink drawing, stop-motion animation(animation frame by frame ),abstract images painted over glass, animated paper figures, crazy camera movements, the use of archive footage and transparencies ); the intelligent use of animation and living-action and the bizarre and surreal gags and logical and sarcastic invention places it as one of my favorites in cartoon history. The action succeed in calculated crescendo and the scene of the holocaust is a happy lesson of how to get an efficient film without expensive stuff.This cartoon was produced in 1928 by Fleishers' independent studio, and connects with the European vanguards sensibility like dadaism or surrealism in its revolt against social conventions and its interest for experimentation, technique and the suggestions of dreams .