Ko-Ko Gets Egg-Cited

In this 1926 Fleischer classic, the boundary between the animator's desk and the animated world dissolves once again. Ko-Ko the Clown is summoned from the inkwell to a hand-drawn farmstead where his primary objective is the collection of eggs. While Max Fleischer, appearing in live-action, busies himself with the construction and operation of a mechanical incubator, Ko-Ko deals with the biological unpredictability of poultry. The narrative tension hinges on the contrast between Max's industrial approach to life and Ko-Ko's chaotic, slapstick struggle with the physical world. As the incubator reaches its limit, the short culminates in a frantic display of mechanical failure and surrealist animation that challenges the laws of physics and the patience of the creator.