Cartoon Roots: Otto Messmer's Feline Follies
Contents of the 2020 Blu-ray/DVD from Cartoons On Film.
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- DirectorOtto MessmerStill cartoon drawings accompany humorous text in a series of short (often language-based) jokes.
- DirectorPat SullivanCharlie Chaplin, in animated cartoon form, visits the beach, has some fun at the expense of a female bather and gets into trouble with Mike the candy cane-loving cop.
- DirectorOtto Messmer
- DirectorOtto MessmerMaster Tom is lured away from his job of protecting the house from mice by the charms of "Miss Kitty". While he's gone, the mice trash the house. Complications ensue.
- DirectorOtto MessmerStarsMarjorie SullivanWhile 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.
- DirectorOtto MessmerWhile 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.
- DirectorOtto MessmerAfter 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.
- DirectorOtto MessmerAfter 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.
- DirectorOtto MessmerFelix the Cat becomes a soldier when the rats declare war on the cats.
- DirectorOtto MessmerTrudging 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.
- DirectorOtto MessmerFelix befriends a hobo who's thrown off a train. They agree that Felix will gather food stolen from homes in the neighborhood and they will split the food fifty-fifty.
- DirectorOtto MessmerBored 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.
- DirectorOtto MessmerFelix 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.
- DirectorOtto MessmerAfter enduring various indignities by the human population in town, including getting beaten up by the fish market owner and forced to eat hot mustard by a customer in a restaurant, Felix finally breaks when he hears the mayor give a speech vowing to drive all cats out of town. Felix gathers his feline friends and stages a revolution to restore cats to their rightful place in society.
- DirectorOtto MessmerFelix 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 before he "does him in", but at the last moment an unexpected event results in Felix avoiding his death sentence.