Most Viewed From J.R. Bray Studios

A black man walks into a bar. Or at least a white man with blackface on, and hilarity occurs.

A rare spoof. With the success of the 1925 film, The Lost World, it is common that when something is popular and successful, it is bound to be a...

Pete on the farm.

The McDougall Kids play American Football.

Dud imagines the glory to be derived from killing a lot of animals.

Based on the comic strip Happy Hooligan, this cartoon was packaged with the Hearst-Vitagraph News Pictorial and shown before the main features in...

Forbidden Fruit begins with New York in the grip of a banana shortage. Residents sing (or scream) “Yes! We Have No Bananas,” the hit...

A silent ornithology film from Bray Studios

Based on the Buster Brown comic by R.F. Outcault.

Despite the bombs which he suffers from at the war front, war correspondent, Col. Heeza Liar succeeds to foil the enemy lines.

The McDougall Kids go to the park to play.

Colonel Heeza Liar is a character a bit like Baron Munchausen. Many wild things occur to him in the cartoons and they are meant to be silly...

An animated interpretation of a rocket voyage to the moon demonstrates the scientific principles at play in theoretical space travel (such as...

Bobby Bumps and Fido call up their creator Earl Hurd on the telephone and get invited over for the day.

A clever pictorial comedy is this cartoon, which graphically describes the tender love-tale of Julio, a masculine feline, and Romiet, the object of...

The Eclipse of the Sun was a science film released in July 1918, one month after a solar eclipse visible across the United States. This film was...

A rich boy gets his well-deserved punishment.

Max Fleischer draws Koko and a haunted house, while his colleague and the janitor mess around with a Ouija board. When Max goes over to take a look,...

Girls’ school hazing leads to human and animal drag. (MoMA)

Mistaking a tiger's tail for a snake, Colonel Heeza Liar puts himself in wrong with a big tiger, who gives him a very bad quarter of an hour, until...