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drawing pictures of everything in the world, what’s more; and his nights
 

He spent his days drawing pictures of everything in the world except me, and his nights puttering around with a machine. And I, who had been a famous jester at ancient courts and the head clown in many a traveling circus, had to sit in his head and twirl my thumbs waiting for that machine of his to start working.
 

ex “The Confessions of a Clown; Koko comes ‘Out of the Inkwell’ and tells the Sad Story of His Life to Hortense Schorr,” in
Motion Picture Magazine 30:3 (October 1925) : 61, 112
U Michigan copy/scan (via hathitrust) : link
 

initial landing at google preview snippet (shown above, with copyright watermark) : link
 

1. the story concerns Max Fleischer and his creation Koko the Clown
   wikipedia : link
   by means of his “machine” (the rotoscope)
   wikipedia : link

2. US Patent 1,242,674 (October 9, 1917), M. Fleischer, “Method of Producing Moving Picture Cartoons”
   Google Patents : link
   same (via espacenet) : link
3. Hortense Schorr (1900-1978? *) was a publicist for Columbia, where she would be involved in publicity planning for Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove
   see Peter Krämer, “To prevent the present heat from dissipating”: Stanley Kubrick and the Marketing of Dr. Strangelove (1964), InMedia (March 2013) : link

   Schorr also did a witty series of promotional “Screen Snapshots” of Columbia film releases; see the Louise Brooks Society blog (January 13, 2016) : link
    

9 October 2024