Character is slightly racist against the chinese. In his second appearance he refers to the Chinese antagonist as a Chink. But considering this was early 1900’s, this was acceptable back then.
Intro:
Out of the Inkwell, comes Koko the Clown. Let’s gather around, For Koko the Clown. Out of the Inkwell, comes Koko the Clown! He’s so gay, and he’s so jolly! He will make you laugh, By golly!
Outro:
Back to the Inkwell, Goes Koko the Clown! He’s the funniest man to ever come to town!
~~Character information~~
My parents and grandpa is still around. I have a big brother and a little brother, but I don’t get along very well with either of them…
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Koko the Clown originated when Max Fleischer invented the rotoscope, a device which allowed for animation to be more lifelike by tracing motion picture footage of human movement. To test out his new invention Fleischer photographed his brother Dave in a clown costume. After tracing the film footage amounting to 2,500 drawings and a year's work Koko the Clown was born and appeared in a cartoon series titled Out of the Inkwell from 1918-1929. Koko's last silent film was Chemical Koko. The Fleischer Studios launched a new series called Talkartoons featuring a majority of characters including Bimbo who not only replaced Koko’s silent dog friend Fitz, but also had adventures of his own and quickly became a star in his own right. It was in a Talkartoons film with Bimbo in the leading role that Betty Boop made her first appearance in 1930 and later became the Studios headliner. Koko was later merged into the Betty Boop series starting from 1931. In the Betty Boop series he is best friends with Bimbo the dog, and is usually paired up with him. In some cartoons Koko is sometimes romantically linked to Betty Boop as seen in Betty Boop's Penthouse where he envisions himself marrying her. In some of the cartoons Koko finds Betty attractive, whereas in some of his appearances he does not. In Betty Boop's Hollywood Mystery he has a crush on Lola DaVille. In some of the original Betty Boop cartoons, Koko is a background character.
According to a Fleischer Studios source from the 1920s, Koko the Clown seems to be dubbed the "New Yama Yama Clown" indicating that he is based on the The Yama Yama Man. Koko debuted as The Bray Clown, then the Inkwell Clown and finally Koko the Clown. Koko's face is painted white, he usually wears a black frilled all-in-one clown costume and black clown hat which both feature three pom-poms each. Koko also wears large clown shoes. When colored or in color, his palette is alternatively blue, red or pink. As seen in WFRR, he has can be seen wearing pink and yellow. Madame Upanova from Disney's Fantasia who is standing behind Koko makes it look like Koko has pink hair. The supposed hair mistaken by some, is actually in fact her feathers. Koko in that scene takes off his hat, making it look like Upanova's feathers are his hair.
Koko's best-known role was as back-up to Betty Boop in Snow White, which came out more than four years before the Disney version. In it, the Clown who has been turned into a ghost by the Wicked Queen lip-synchs to Cab Calloway's "Saint James Infirmary", while morphing into various objects mentioned in the song. Since Koko was mostly a silent star, it's one of the few classic-era cartoons in which he had any voice at all.
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