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Felix Gets the Can (1924)

Name: Felix Gets the Can
Genre: Animation
Released: 1924
Duration: 10 min

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Felix Gets the Can (1924) is a 10-minute animated cartoon that airs free on Starlite TV's Silent Pictures (CH 12) channel. It is a silent film, presented with a public-domain (CC0) piano score. It is in the U.S. public domain.

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About Felix Gets the Can (1924)

Felix the Cat was the first cartoon superstar. Created at Pat Sullivan's studio, where Otto Messmer did most of the animating, the black cat with the wide grin starred in well over a hundred silent shorts in the 1920s, famous for surreal gags in which Felix turns his own tail into whatever tool he needs.

Felix has trouble catching fish on his own, so he tries to steal some. The shop owner throws a can at Felix and gives him an idea: go to Alaska, where the fish are plentiful and large, and try to catch some there.

Quick facts

Year: 1924
Runtime: 10 minutes
Type: Cartoon · Animation
Series: Felix the Cat
Credits (Internet Archive record): M.J. Winkler
Sound: Silent film with a CC0 piano score

Synopsis from the Internet Archive item page

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Airs on

Silent Pictures - CH 12, Silent Film TV

Rights & source

Basis: Published before 1931 - U.S. copyright term expired
Evidence: First published 1924 (before 1931): US copyright term has expired.
License on source: creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain
Music: Silent copy with no audio track; CC0 piano bed is played.
Underlying rights: Silent cartoon.
Source: Internet Archive

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