#cartoon #video compilation of Felix the Cat, including the public-domain “Felix the Cat Gets the Can”, from 01924; “Felix the Cat in Woos Whoopie” from 01930, “Felix the Cat in Sure-Locked Homes” from 01928, “Felix the Cat in Futuritzy”, and “Feline Follies”. These seem to nearly all be from the silent-film era; they are nearly all in black and white and frequently feature speech bubbles and occasionally intertitles. There is an obtrusive “8thmandvd.com Cartoon Classics!” logo overlaid. He’s supposedly one of the most famous examples of the #rubber-hose #animation style in #history, Bill Nolan having introduced the style when animating him, and these cartoons are exemplary of the style. The “Woos Whoopie” section starting around 2h18m has many sound effects (laughter, whimpers of fear, footsteps, car-engine sounds, cuckoos, horn blasts, etc., rather than just an orchestral score) but no spoken dialogue.
One exception is “Felix the Cat and the Goose that Laid the Golden Egg”, from 01936, in “Burt Gillett’s Rainbow Parade Cartoon in Technicolor”, at the very beginning, which also has both spoken and sung dialogue, and is notable for being a pirate cartoon from before the “Treasure Island” movie estabished the “pirate accent,” so Captain Kidd and the other pirates speak General American. The drawing style is also noticeably less rubber-hosey, with well-defined elbows. This is followed by “Felix the Cat in Neptune Nonsense”, also from 01936, also in color with spoken dialogue and elbows, as well as an orchestral score. And “Felix the Cat in Bold King Cole”.
Felix does not have his “bag of tricks” in this incarnation.
on 02026-08-25#video on #Sisyphus and the “illusion of help”, #cartoon #humor
on 02025-12-02