Feline Follies (1919) | First Felix The Cat Appearance
Channel: Screen Prism
Date: 2024-04-06

FELINE FOLLIES is an American animated short film, distributed by Paramount Pictures. It marked the first appearance of the character Felix the Cat, one of the most famous cartoon characters from the silent film era. In the first two cartoons, he is known as "Master Tom."

While the cat is away, the mice will play and get the cat into trouble.

The creation of Felix has been disputed and both Pat Sullivan and Otto Messmer are credited as Felix’s creators. Messmer was an American cartoonist and the lead animator at Sullivan’s studio, which produced the Felix cartoons.

This film is in the public domain meaning it has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Corporations lobbied Congress to get U.S. copyright laws extended by 20 years, twice! Because of that, it allows published works to be under copyright for almost a century and corporations to squeeze every last ounce of profit from them even long after the profitability has past. It keeps people from enjoying art, which is the purpose of art.

Chapters
0:00 - Intro
0:18 - Felix The Cat
4:11 - The End

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