Koko's Queen 1926

Production Company: Out of the Inkwell Films, Inc. Distribution Company: Red Seal Pictures Corp. Series: Out of the Inkwell. Koko the Clown was probably the first cartoon character created with a rotoscope, a transparent easel on which an animator could copy, frame by frame, projected live-action images. Dressed in a black clown suit that cast an easy-to-trace outline against white paper, Dave Fleischer played the clown and his brother Max did the drawing. The result was animation so fluid and apparently effortless that it seemed to be brought to life.