Otto Messmer

Otto Messmer

Birth : 1892-08-16, Union City, New Jersey, USA

Death : 1983-10-28

History

American animator, best known for his work on the Felix the Cat cartoons and comic strip produced by the Pat Sullivan studio. The extent of Messmer's role in the creation and popularity of Felix is a matter of ongoing dispute, particularly as he only laid his claim to the character after the death of Sullivan, who until that time had received the credit. However, most prominent comics and animation historians support Messmer's claim, as do the veterans of the Sullivan studio. (Wikipedia)

Profile

Otto Messmer

Movies

100 Years of Felix the Cat
Himself
The 100 year anniversary of the animated character Felix The Cat. His stories is told by three animators who created him: Otto Messmer, Joe Oriolo and Don Oriolo. Along with them, there are interviews with well known animation historians and clips and stills.
Otto Messmer and Felix the Cat
Himself
Documentary short on cartoonist Otto Messmer, co-creator of Felix the Cat
Musica-Lulu
Story
Lulu is put on trial by talking musical instruments for neglecting her violin.
Rocket to Mars
Story
Popeye and Olive are touring a museum when they accidentally launch a rocketship to Mars. Olive escapes, but Popeye gets to Mars, where he is attacked (by a group led by Bluto) that was preparing to invade Earth. Fortunately, Popeye has a can of spinach handy, so he can save the Earth (turning most of the Martian war apparatus into amusement park rides).
Peep in the Deep
Story
Olive has a map to a sunken treasure, but Bluto stowed away and is determined to beat Popeye to it.
Bargain Counter Attack
Story
Lulu goes to a department store to exchange her doll for something else. While looking for a new item Lulu manages to terrorize the section manager, ski down the escalators, and cause a noahic flood in the store.
The Friendly Ghost
Adaptation
Casper struggles to find friends who won't run away scared when they meet him.
Times Square Animation
Director
Otto Messmer [Felix The Cat] animation that was originally shown as animated lights in Times Square.
Tee Time
Director
Felix tricks his father into thinking that he's practicing the piano, then escapes to play golf with Skidoo the mouse. After raising the ire of the local fire department, he's shot overseas on a jet of water and lands in Africa, where jungle cannibals try to devour him.
Skulls and Sculls
Director
Felix the Cat is walking along when he is abruptly blindfolded and subjected to an elaborate ordeal which turns out to be (as the title hints) a fraternal initiation.
Oceantics
Director
Oceantics starts with Felix walking while whistling. He sees a monkey playing a harmonica. After finishing, the monkey gets showered with coins. Felix then comes upon a billboard of a player piano.
Forty Winks
Director
There's no real plot here: just a string of gags on the theme of sleep, or trying to get to sleep. First, Felix and a quartet of feline Felix clones are yowling while a man is trying to sleep; then Felix encounters various obstacles in his own attempts to tryst with Morpheus.
False Vases
Director
When Felix's piano-playing causes Kitty's Ming vase to break.
One Good Turn
Director
After singing all night, Felix decides to save a fox from hunters.
Felix the Cat as Romeeow
Director
Felix is in love with a fair maiden. When serenading her, his rival spots him and tries anything he can come up with to get his girl back.
Astronomeous
Director
Felix (as a candidate for 'cat president', apparently) promising to find a better place for cats--and courtesy of his bow and arrow, establishes a rope climb straight to Mars!
Futuritzy
Director
Felix wants to know the future, so he first goes to see a Gypsy who tells him that misfortune is going to happen, Felix doesn't believe her one little bit, so he goes to the local astrologer, Professor Whoozit...
Outdoor Indore
Director
Felix tries to join the circus.
Arabiantics
Director
Here we have Felix the Cat in Arabia ... so, roll on the usual Arabian clichés. We get gags involving a flying carpet, a hubble-bubble and a camel.
Eskimotive
Director
Felix & his friend have fun playing at blowing bubbles. Felix gets inside one and is blown away. The bubble lands on a snowy mountain and turns...
Sure-Locked Homes
Director
Night falls on the light daytime sky in viscous, fat drops that darken the world. That's only the first gag, but it sure sets the stage.
Comicalamities
Director
Comicalamities' starts with a hand drawing an incomplete Felix the cat. Felix is not satisfied with the result so he goes to a man who can fix him (finish his body and give him his black color).
Polly-tics
Director
Felix is homeless so he has to provide for himself if he wants to eat. He finds some milk sitting out on someone's doorstep, when he decides to snatch it. When he does, he encounters a group of mice who are after the same thing.
Japanicky
Director
Felix can't afford to get in to the theatre so he makes a hole in the wall to peep through. There are two wrestlers. A small Japanese mans overthrows an enormous opponent. Inspired, Felix ties a know in a lamppost and is chased by a policeman. He tries to karate a goat who head butts him. He lands in a Japanese garden where two Geishas are kneeling. Inside a hut another Geisha kneels.
The Oily Bird
Director
A persnickety chicken steals the master's jewels (by eating them). Framed for the theft, Felix decides to find them himself. Felix takes after the bird and ends up striking oil!
Draggin' the Dragon
Director
Felix the Cat Short
The Smoke Scream
Director
An old man is smoking a pipe. His wife hates the smoke and throws the pipe away. Felix fills the gramophone horn with coal so that he can smoke that instead. Smelling the fumes, his wife goes into a mad rage and throws the new pipe away. The old man falls asleep. The sun shines on his spectacles and starts a fire in his beard. The smoke alerts his wife who angrily fights with him for smoking again. Felix empties the goldfish bowl on him to douse the flames.
Woos Whoopee
Director
One of Otto Messmer's most unusual Felix cartoons. It portrays Felix as an inebriated feline being chased by all kinds of demons only to be welcomed by the greatest demon of all, the angry wife.
Felix the Cat Hits the Deck
Director
Felix learns card tricks, and the cards come to life and chase him into a bizarre land of playing cards.
Whys and Otherwise
Director
Felix the Cat comes home late after a night of drunken revelry at a nightclub. He tells his rolling pin-wielding wife three ludicrous tales to explain himself.
Uncle Tom's Crabbin'
Director
A Yeti in the snow. Felix with knapsack journeying through the snow. He arrives amongst sunny fields of sunflowers. Uncle Tom is playing the banjo and his child is dancing. Felix joins in. The music wakes an angry man (dressed like a ring master). He uses his whip to break the banjo and threaten uncle Tom. Mammy is cooking pancakes. Felix turns her frying pan into a banjo using his whiskers as strings. The family dance again. The angry man chases them and Felix turns the banjo into a unicycle to escape.
Daze and Knights
Director
Felix winds up walking into a picture and dealing with various armored knights.
No Fuelin'
Director
It's snowing and the thermometer is dropping well below freezing. Felix is cold. In his house a statue puts on a blanket, an alarm clock puts gloves on its hands, and a man in a painting puts on a hat and scarf. Another cat is shivering in the bath - the water has turned to an ice block. There's no wood for the stove. Felix tries to cut a tree trunk but it turns out to be an elephants trunk.
Felix the Cat, Jack of All Trades
Director
A Felix the Cat cartoon from Otto Messmer.
Felix the Cat Switches Witches
Director
On Halloween, Felix is both victim and victor in mischievous and bizarre jokes. A feline witch promises Felix a romance to lure him into a trap.
Flim Flam Films
Director
Felix and his three kittens sneak into a movie theater to watch "Daddy" on-screen. Upon being kicked out of the show, Felix decides to make his own movies... but the kits film him kissing a bathing beauty, then show the scene to Felix's wife.
The Non-Stop Fright
Director
Felix goes to Timbuctoo to win 50,000 buckaroos. Little does he know, his DIY airplane is about to be hi-jacked by terrorist fish. He finds a way out though, as usual. He also undresses an elephant in order to produce a balloon to escape from the hungry Timbuctoo residents. Again, an elephant.
Felix the Cat Ducks His Duty
Director
Felix the Cat discovers that war is only heck; it's marriage that's hell.
Sax Appeal
Director
Felix's owner's sax playing is driving Felix crazy, so he turns on the radio, but all he hears is more sax playing. After destroying the radio he steals his owner's sax and buries it in the garden, but a mole finds it and starts playing it, driving Felix to even more violence.
Germ Mania
Director
Felix, working in a laboratory, inspects test tubes and finds Golf germs and Love germs, who are annoyed at his interrupting their romantic endeavors.
Pedigreedy
Director
Felix tries to get into a snooty nightclub, and is told that only people of "unquestioned lineage" are allowed in. Felix then relates his family history, including how his ancestors taught the Egyptian pharaohs how to do the Charleston and another one who showed Columbus that the world was round. In the end, Felix brings his family tree--literally--into the club to prove his lineage.
Felix the Cat Dines and Pines
Director
A hungry Felix fails at trying to catch a mouse, a chicken and a jumping bean, so decides to eat a shoe, which gives him weird and scary hallucinations.
Felix the Cat Busts a Bubble
Director
Felix's girlfriend decides to stop taking care of him and go to Hollywood to be a movie star. Felix follows her there in order to sabotage her screen tests and make her go back home with him.
Land O'Fancy
Director
Felix sees a smoke ring rising from a cigar, and wonders where they go. He finds out that they wind up in the clouds, home to a race of giants. He steals a giant bottle of milk and is chased back to Earth by the giants.
Felix the Cat Hunts the Hunter
Director
Felix's owner, a hunter, gets lost in the jungle and the animals capture him and his supplies. A nosy ostrich swallows the hunter's rifle. Complications ensue.
Felix the Cat Shatters the Sheik
Director
Felix lands a job as a mascot for an umbrella salesman, and travels to the Arabian desert. They have a hard time selling umbrellas in the desert, until Felix makes a deal with a bird concerning a cloud above a convention of desert sheiks.
Two-Lip Time
Director
Felix chases a mouse onto a ship, gets seasick, and eventually finds himself in Holland. He flirts with a local Dutch girl and angers a local man who hits him in the head with a wooden shoe...
Felix the Cat Misses His Swiss
Director
Felix The Cat gets a job protecting a cheese shop from three industrious mice. When he foils their plans, they head off for Switzerland in search of bigger and better cheeses - but Felix is in pursuit.
Felix the Cat Weathers the Weather
Director
Felix disappoints his kittens because he promised to take them on a picnic but couldn't because of bad weather. He flies to the clouds to see Jupiter Pluvius' weather-making machine, which he blames for his predicament. He manages to get the machine to work for his advantage while getting back at Jupiter in the process.
Felix the Cat in Blunderland
Director
A cop gives Felix directions to Wonderland. Felix follows Alice, but misses the exit and instead winds up in Blunderland, where he manages to irritate Old King Cole and fails to find Little Bo Peep's sheep.
Felix the Cat Flirts with Fate
Director
Felix feels lonely, seeing all the other animals finding love. At last, he spots the perfect mate ... unfortunately, she's on Mars.
Felix the Cat Kept On Walking
Director
Felix walks to England.
Eats Are West
Director
Felix the Cat enters the Old West and battles cruel gunmen and savage Indians.
Felix the Cat Trips Thru Toyland
Director
Felix stumbles upon a world of toys
Felix Busts Into Business
Director
Felix works as an animal doctor in Africa.
Felix Trifles with Time
Director
Felix the Cat can't find anything to eat, so he bribes Father Time to send him back to when life was easier. However, the Stone Age turns out to have its own problems. (IMDb)
Felix Dopes It Out
Director
Felix's friend has a big red nose, and it causes him no end of problems, the least of which being with women...
The Cat and the Kit
Director
Felix the Cat is driving to his wedding with a broken headlamp and narrowly avoids a collision. He replaces them with regular lights that soon burn out. When he reaches the church someone else has run off with his bride. He then replaces them with Mazda lights and is able to track down and reclaim his bride.
Felix Gets the Can
Director
Felix the Cat is fishing, but has not caught anything. He goes into a restaurant and tries to steal a fish, but the owner sees him and throws a can at him. Felix looks at the can, which says that Alaska is rich in fish, so Felix treks to the great white north to feed himself.
Felix Cops the Prize
Director
A tramp enters stray cat Felix in a local pet show, hoping to win money and buy food.
Felix Monkeys with Magic
Director
Felix's master, a magician, plays tricks on Felix with magic. Felix tricks him into transforming into a mouse, then knocks him out and steals his book of magic. After practicing some tricks, Felix winds up being transported into a painting, where he fights a lion, a stork and a hippo.
Felix Outwits Cupid
Director
Cartoon short.
Felix Full o' Fight
Director
Felix goes on a dangerous treasure hunt to prove his bravery.
Felix Gets His Fill
Director
Felix, hungry and looking for a meal, hears that food is plentiful down south, and decides to check it out...
Felix Rests in Peace
Director
Cartoon short.
Felix Follows the Swallows
Director
Winter in his hometown is too cold for Felix, especially after having to put up with a bothersome snowball-throwing boy and his dog...
Felix All Puzzled
Director
Felix is hungry, but his owner won't feed him until he's finished his crossword puzzle! Only one word left -- a 7-letter "chiefly found in Russia." Felix goes all the way to Russia to find the answer, but he's immediately accused of spying and has to run for his life.
Felix Wins and Loses
Director
Felix steals some sausages
Felix Minds His Business
Director
Cartoon short.
Felix Finishes First
Director
Cartoon short.
Felix Goes Hungry
Director
Starving, Felix steals a hat pin and pawns it for some money to buy food, but a thieving mouse steals the money from him. Felix must get the money back from the mouse or go hungry.
Felix Fairy Tales
Director
Cartoon short.
Felix Brings Home the Bacon
Director
Felix is turned down by a female cat he's after because he doesn't have the latest fashion style--a bobbed tail. In order to please her, he gets a bird to "bob" his tail by biting most of it off, but by the time he gets back to the girl, the fashion style has changed and long tails are back "in" again. Depressed, Felix is about to end it all when he stops a frog from eating a bug, who turns out to be a fairy princess who takes him to Fairyland, where further adventures await him.
Felix Finds Out
Director
Willie, Felix's owner, gets an assignment to find out why the moon shines. Felix decides to help him get the answer, but winds up getting involved with bootleggers who are making "moonshine".
Felix Grabs His Grub
Director
Trying to rustle up some breakfast, Felix tries to steal milk, chases a chicken to get her eggs and finally winds up fighting such sea creatures as a turtle, an octopus and a shark for food.
Felix Cashes In
Director
Cartoon short.
Felix Goes West
Director
Felix gets into trouble with a tribe of Indians out west, and is chased by a bear.
Felix All Balled Up
Director
Felix's owner goes to a golf course and brings along a new "club"--Felix in disguise. While trying to teach his owner how to play golf..
Baffled by Banjos
Director
Felix is sick of hearing banjo music.
Felix Finds ’Em Fickle
Animation
Felix’s girlfriend desires a particular flower and wants Felix to get it for her. The only problem is that it’s on top of a 40,000-foot mountain.
Felix Finds ’Em Fickle
Director
Felix’s girlfriend desires a particular flower and wants Felix to get it for her. The only problem is that it’s on top of a 40,000-foot mountain.
A Friend In Need
Director
Cartoon short.
Felix Puts It Over
Director
Cartoon short.
Felix Pinches the Pole
Director
Seeing a man about to eat a roast chicken, Felix uses pepper to make him sneeze it out of the house--but it's then grabbed by a snake. A kindly barber feeds Felix, though, and in gratitude Felix promises to replace the man's stolen barber pole. And he knows just where to get one--the North Pole.
Felix Doubles for Darwin
Director
A famished Felix reads an advertisement telling of a large reward for anyone that can give proof for the theory of evolution. He hurries to South Africa via Transatlantic Cable and interacts with the local animals. He angers a troop of monkeys by telling them why he's there (they're offended he would suggest they could be related to humans) and they chase him back through the cable to America.
Felix Out of Luck
Director
Felix tries to catch Skiddoo.
Felix Tries to Rest
Director
Felix tries to nap dog kennel...
Felix Crosses the Crooks
Director
Felix helps the police catch a bank robber by hiding inside a money sack and leading the robber on a chase. He next helps nab a thief stealing sponges from a store by the imaginative use of a friendly elephant.
Felix 'Hyps' the Hippo
Director
Felix tries to capture an escaped hippopotamus.
Felix Loses Out
Director
Felix builds a soapbox derby.
Felix Goes A-Hunting
Director
A wife throws her husband out of the house, telling him not to return unless he brings her a fur coat. Deciding that the only way he'll get one is to make his own, he grabs his rifle and goes hunting. All his efforts fail, though, until he meets Felix, who offers to help him shoot rabbits, and impresses the man with his marksmanship skills. However, it turns out that shooting the rabbits isn't quite as easy as they thought it would be.
Felix the Goat Getter
Director
Felix helps Willie do his chores.
Felix Fills a Shortage
Director
Felix travels to Banana Island.
Felix Laughs Last
Director
Felix has problems with mice.
Felix in Fairyland
Director
Felix is reading a book about Fairyland, and decides that it must be a wonderful place to be. Suddenly he hears a cry for help, and finds a fly stuck on a piece of flypaper. He rescues the insect, only to have it turn into a beautiful fairy princess who, in gratitude for his help, grants him one wish. He wishes he were in Fairyland, and is immediately transported there.
Felix in Hollywood
Director
A starving actor, reduced to trying his luck in the movies, travels to Hollywood. His cat, Felix, poses as a travel bag and comes along.
Felix Strikes It Rich
Director
Felix organizes a dance contest for hens, but runs afoul of the chicken farmer because the hens aren't meeting their egg quotas. The farmer captures Felix and makes him dig his own grave.
Felix and the Radio
Director
Cartoon short.
Felix Gets Broadcasted
Director
Felix spots a fisherman on his way to his fishing spot, and figures he can follow the guy and grab a quick lunch by stealing his catch. Although he successfully nabs a few fish, the angler catches on and finally captures Felix. To get his revenge, he sends Felix through the telephone wires ("broadcasted") to Egypt, and Felix finds out that the Egyptians don't want him there, either.
Felix the Globe Trotter
Director
Felix goes to Australia.
Felix Calms His Conscience
Director
Felix thinks better of his plan to kill a rival.
Felix Tries for Treasure
Director
Felix and his friend little Sammy Johnson are playing baseball when they discover a map that leads to the undersea treasure of Lizzie the Pirate Queen. Building their own submarine, they slip beneath the waves in search of the treasure, and meet up with a variety of undersea creatures, including the most dangerous of all--the loan shark.
Felix Win's Out
Director
Bored with life in town, Felix sees an opportunity for some excitement when a traveling circus passes through, so he joins up. One day he overhears the Skeleton Man propose to the Fat Lady, then change his mind because she's too fat. Felix decides to help her lose weight so the Skeleton Man will marry her, but this results in the ringmaster getting angry with Felix and firing him. Felix comes up with a plan to force the circus to re-hire him.
Felix the Ghost Breaker
Director
Felix is trying to get some sleep in a graveyard, but keeps getting bothered by a ghost. He follows the ghost to the house of an old farmer, and the ghost proceeds to terrorize the old man, and when the farmer calls for help from the police, the ghost terrorizes them, too. Felix, however, suspects something fishy is going on, and with the help of the farmer's donkey, gets to the bottom of things.
Felix in the Bone Age
Director
Felix comes upon a caveman and his girlfriend. The girlfriend is crying, and when the caveman asks her what she wants...
Felix Gets Left
Director
Felix fends for himself.
Felix Lends a Hand
Director
Trudging through the snow in his hometown, Felix sees a billboard advertising sunny Egypt, and says that he'd give four of his nine lives to be there rather than freezing in the snow. He then hears crying coming from his friend Abdul's carpet shop, and it turns out that Abdul's girlfriend has been kidnapped by an Egyptian sheik. Felix promises to rescue her, and hops on a magic carpet Abdul has lying around the shop, says the magic word and flies off to Egypt to keep his promise.
Felix on the Trail
Director
Felix vs. Kentucky bootleggers.
Felix Fifty-Fifty
Director
Felix and his pal go on an adventure.
Felix Turns the Tide
Director
Felix the Cat becomes a soldier when the rats declare war on the cats.
Felix Minds the Kid
Director
After unsuccessfully trying to steal food from a fish market, Felix is promised by a man that if he watches the man's child, he will be fed a great meal. Unfortunately, the baby swallows a balloon and floats out the window, and Felix has to find him and bring him back before the man gets home.
Felix Wakes Up
Director
After partying at the local nightclub, Felix heads home, but falls asleep along the way. He dreams that he meets a doctor who has a new youth tonic. Felix tries it, and soon believes that he's capable of doing anything, so he heads for the African jungle to capture a lion.
Felix Gets Revenge
Director
Felix strikes up a friendship with a small boy, but the boy's father won't let him keep Felix as a pet. Every time Felix tries to sneak into the house, the father throws him out, finally chasing him out with a shotgun. To get his revenge, Felix plants some very old cheese in the house, then waits for all the mice to smell it and swarm into the house.
Felix Finds a Way
Director
Felix tries to help run a farm.
Felix in the Swim
Director
A grateful mouse promises Felix "if there's anything I can do for you, just call on me" after Felix lets him go from a mousetrap. Felix then goes over to Willie Brown's house, whistles for the kid to come down from his bedroom and go "to the 'ole swimming hole" but Willie's mom spots him and tells the boy to go back inside and "practise his piano lessons."
Felix in Love
Director
While serenading Kitty, Felix is knocked off the fence by a lamp that is thrown at him. It turns out to be a magic lamp, and when the genie of the lamp appears and grants Felix a wish, he decides to make a trip to Africa, which he believes will make Kitty love him even more.
Felix All at Sea
Director
Felix is picked up by a rum-running ship.
Felix Makes Good
Director
While stealing some bones, Felix loses his tail. However, he goes to the tail shop to get a new one. He is then adopted by a rich woman who gives him as a mouser. The mice, though, have their own plans for Felix, which include framing him as a food thief in order to get the owner to kick him out.
Felix at the Fair
Director
Felix goes to the county fair and falls for Marie, the dancing cat.
Felix Comes Back
Director
Felix goes after a butcher's sausages and captures them, but the butcher catches him and sends him to the Arctic to get rid of him.
Felix Saves the Day
Director
Boys playing back alley baseball improbably hold their afternoon game at the Polo Grounds. Felix the Cat takes action when his favored team seems poised to lose.
Felix Left at Home
Director
Felix tries to catch a fish without getting wet.
The Love Punch
Director
Felix learns to fight.
Felix Out of Luck
Director
Felix tries to commit suicide.
Felix Goes on Strike
Director
Felix pickets his owner's house.
Free Lunch
Director
Felix discovers there's no such thing as a free lunch.
The Hypnotist
Director
After becoming hypnotised Felix decides to try hypnotism himself. After he is successful a couple of times he decides to hypnotise his wife. The plan backfires and Felix is kicked out of his house again.
Down on the Farm
Director
Cartoon short.
Felix the Gay Dog
Director
Felix goes to a burlesque show.
Felix's Fish Story
Director
Cartoon short.
My Hero
Director
Cartoon short.
Felix Frolics at the Circus
Animation
Felix Frolics at the Circus is an American animated short film featuring Felix the Cat and released on September 26, 1920.
Felix Frolics at the Circus
Director
Felix Frolics at the Circus is an American animated short film featuring Felix the Cat and released on September 26, 1920.
Felix the Landlord
Director
After being evicted, Felix sets up two tents in the woods and rents them to bears and a stork.
Nifty Nurse
Director
Felix gets a babysitting job.
Felix and the Feed Bag
Director
Felix goes looking for food.
The Great Cheese Robbery
Director
Rats steal Felix's cheese.
A Hungry Hoodoo
Director
Felix hunts for food on Friday the 13th.
Foxy Felix
Director
Felix and a dog fight over a bone.
Felix the Pinch Hitter
Director
Felix and Willie want to play ball.
Felix the Food Controller
Director
Felix tries to find food.
Wrecking a Romeo
Director
Felix and Kitty tangle with a bad cat.
Felix the Big Game Hunter
Director
Felix attempts to trap a mouse.
A Frolic With Felix
Director
Cartoon short.
Felix Hits the North Pole
Director
Newsreel segment on the popularity of cartoon character Felix the Cat.
The Adventures of Felix
Director
Felix and friends go fishing and camping.
Musical Mews
Director
A boy skips his piano lesson to go swimming.
Feline Follies
Director
The first appearance of Felix the Cat (as Master Tom). Tom falls in love with a lady cat, and while they're out courting at night, the mice ransack the kitchen.
Charley Out West
Animation
Animated Charlie Chaplin encounters several obstacles on the way to rescuing a distressed damsel held as captive by indigenous Indians.
Charley Out West
Director
Animated Charlie Chaplin encounters several obstacles on the way to rescuing a distressed damsel held as captive by indigenous Indians.
The Love Affair of Ima Knut
Director
Romantic fantasies of a man who wants his girlfriend to be thinner.
Chestnuts
Director
An early trickfilm created by Otto Messmer.
My Boy's Kid
Director
Charlie Chaplin cartoon short
Felix Through the Years
(self, archive footage)
A documentary about Felix the Cat from the bonus features of the “Felix the Cat Saves Christmas” DVD.
Presenting Felix the Cat: The Otto Messmer Classics 1919 - 1924
Director
Felix the Cat is a rarity--a cartoon character so classic, so beloved, that he's stayed in the public eye for more than seventy-five years. Now Image Entertainment brings you the DVD that's the cat's meow--a collection of sixteen vintage Felix cartoons from 1919-1924, restored to their original projection speed with Dave Wickerham's rich new organ scores. The DVD contains the following cartoons: Paramount Magazine (including Felix's debut in "Feline Follies," as well as Earl Hurd's Bobby Bumps in "Their Master's Voice" and Frank Moser's Bud and Susie in "Down the Mississippi"), "Felix Saves the Day," "Felix in the Swim," "Felix Turns the Tide," "Felix Lends a Hand," "Felix Minds the Kid," "Felix in the Stone Age," "Felix the Ghost Breaker," "Felix Wins Out," "Felix Revolts," "Felix Gets Broadcasted," "Felix in Hollywood," "Felix in Fairyland," "Felix Out of Luck," "Felix Goes A-Hunting," "Felix Finds 'Em Fickle."