Photos
Dave Fleischer
- Pool Player
- (uncredited)
Max Fleischer
- Cartoonist
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Featured review
What Have I Got in My Pockets?
Max Fleischer and brother David are playing pool when Ko-ko and Fitz force their way out of the ink bottle. They want to play pool too, so Max obligingly draws a table for their use. However, it's not what Max draws that makes trouble for them -- it's the parts he did not.
The Ko-ko cartoons were neck and neck with Felix the Cat for best cartoon series in the silent era. the reasons for the excellence of the Ko-ko series -- and this one -- are many. It's the sense of interaction with the real world -- originally an economy measure -- and the solid and often surprising logic behind the cartoon universe and its mutability.
Here that ability to change is evident not so much in objects transforming into something else -- even though there is a startling example or two here as in the sense that by drawing a pool table, Max has called into existence pool hall loungers and a world outside that drawn room. That sort of "it makes sense after the fact" logic is what makes this one a winner.
The Ko-ko cartoons were neck and neck with Felix the Cat for best cartoon series in the silent era. the reasons for the excellence of the Ko-ko series -- and this one -- are many. It's the sense of interaction with the real world -- originally an economy measure -- and the solid and often surprising logic behind the cartoon universe and its mutability.
Here that ability to change is evident not so much in objects transforming into something else -- even though there is a startling example or two here as in the sense that by drawing a pool table, Max has called into existence pool hall loungers and a world outside that drawn room. That sort of "it makes sense after the fact" logic is what makes this one a winner.
helpful•10
- boblipton
- Jan 1, 2014
Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Koko Plays Pool
- Production company
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
- Runtime7 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
Contribute to this page
Suggest an edit or add missing content