His nightmares take over, sending him into the sky over New York City on his bed. Messmer was one of the first animators to use inner thoughts and physical movements to develop a character's personality. In this typical mid-twenties example, Felix, hungry for salmon, ends up in Alaska. Winsor McCay, a cartoonist for the New York American, made in 1909 what is the first animated cartoon of consequence. One of the first American motion pictures to tell a story, and years ahead of its time in cinematic story development.
Amusing microbes do tricks, fascinating a bewildered scientist.
Blanch Sweet plays the telegraph operator who outwits a pair of robbers attempting to hold up the railroad station. With Del Henderson. With this film, D.W. Griffith gives us the first mean-street film and the forerunner of the gangster genre. Mary's fancy hat causes small-town gossips' tongues to wag when it is revealed that the young local minister bought it for her. A silent cartoon with Koko the Clown.