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Using two special fake eyes, in this live-action segment a man uses them to hypnotise his dog into jumping in slow motion. He then gets an inkwell and, opening it, makes two drops of ink go on the drawing board and appear as Ko-Ko the Clown and his dog Fitz. He then turns Ko-Ko into a squirrel and Fitz into a nut as they give chase before the clown almost cracks the dog open with a nutcracker as their hypnotist laughs. He also turns them into two roosters fighting for a worm before turning them back and leaves. Ko-Ko and Fitz then encounter a haunted house where they're kicked by a lone shoe and bitten by dismembered teeth at the entrance before entering and finding a woman who teaches them hypnotism to get even on their boss. As they go back, they convince their tormentor to dive in the small fish bowl which gets stuck on his head as the clown and his dog go back in the inkwell...Among the gags I didn't mention: In order to teach Ko-Ko, the female hypnotist turns Fitz into a phonograph and her cat into a record which, when played, you hear what sounds like Cab Calloway singing as Ko-Ko dances. When the shoe kicks them and the teeth bites them, the clown and dog think they are kicking and biting each other and does likewise. And in the live-action at the end as the hypnotist prepares to dive in the fish bowl, he takes off his clothes except for shorts, puts a chair on his desk and jumps off it before his unfortunate end. Pretty amusing Inkwell Imps entry for Max Fleischer before sound made them mostly obsolete and Betty Boop would take over as the studio's main star. Oh, and the music that was added with sound effects and some voices as I watched this on YouTube was courtesy of Leroy Shield from the Hal Roach stock library as performed by The Beau Hunks from the last decade. Well worth seeing for Fleischer enthusiasts.