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Felix the Cat: Feline Follies (1919)

Name: Felix the Cat: Feline Follies
Genre: Animation
Released: 1919
Duration: 4 min

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Felix the Cat: Feline Follies (1919) is a 4-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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Featured in: Classic Cartoons for Kids: Felix, Early Disney & Fleischer

Synopsis

Feline Follies is a 1919 animated short silent film, distributed by Paramount Pictures. It marked the first appearance of the character Felix the Cat.

Felix (at this point known as "Master Tom"), a male black cat, meets a female white cat in Pussyville. He serenades his new love interest, and announces his intention to devote his nine lives to her. Felix's singing wakes up an entire neighborhood. Later, back at home, a group of mice proceeds to eat all the food in Felix's house. When his owner arrives a little while later and sees scraps of food everywhere, she throws Felix out of the house, not knowing it was the mice who did it.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article Feline Follies (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).

About Felix the Cat: Feline Follies (1919)

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, or a question mark floating over his head, into whatever tool he needs.

Feline Follies is a 1919 animated short silent film, distributed by Paramount Pictures. It marked the first appearance of the character Felix the Cat.

Quick facts

Year: 1919
Runtime: 4 minutes
Type: Cartoon · Animation
Series: Felix the Cat
Credits (Internet Archive record): Pat Sullivan
Sound: Silent film with a CC0 piano score

From the Wikipedia article on Feline Follies (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Silent Pictures - CH 12, Silent Film TV

Rights & source

Basis: Published before 1931 - U.S. copyright term expired
Evidence: First published 1919 (before 1931): US copyright term has expired.
License on source: creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain
Music: Silent film: this copy has an added soundtrack of unknown origin, so original audio is MUTED and a CC0 (Musopen) piano bed is played instead.
Underlying rights: Felix is a trademark - don't use in branding.
Source: Internet Archive

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