The Essential Watchlist that Capture the Essence of Francisca, la m...

Dir: Walt Hoban

Jerry's train encounters a cow on the railroad tracks and can't get it to budge.

Dir: Unknown Director

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Indoor Sports by Tad perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Vernon Stallings

An elephant cop is flirting with a Hippopotumus girl in the park. Nervy Ignatz stands up to him, and scares him off, impressing the girl. Meanwhile, the cop fortifies himself with "Beevo", and returns to stomp Ignatz. Krazy takes Iggy for dead, and serenades his memory, but he's still alive enough to throw bricks.

Dir: Dave Fleischer

Max and his colleague play a trick on an eccentric inventor by stealing the magnet from his perpetual motion machine. The Inkwell Clown has his own trouble with the magnet, and later helps power the inventor's device.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Love's Labor Lost perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Otto Messmer

Felix the Cat helps an animal trainer get back his circus elephant and catch the mouse that chased the animal away.

Dir: Walt Hoban

A man reads in the newspaper that Bolsheviks are on the loose and that the public should beware of odd acting strangers. He spots a pipe smoking man holding what he believes is a bomb, and thinks he must be one of the Bolsheviks. He tries to get away from the stranger, but the stranger seems to be following him, polishing his bomb and getting ready to light it. But that round bomb ends up having a more recreational use of a different type of explosion.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Perpetual Motion perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Dave Fleischer

Koko the Clown's little brother comes to visit and wreaks havoc in Max Fleischer's studio.

Dir: Max Fleischer

An animator and a janitor are playing with a Ouija Board and Koko is haunted by a bunch of ghosts.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Frolics at the Circus perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Bud Fisher

Mutt and Jeff go fishing and Mutt has adventures with some skunks. Later he meets a fair young bathing girl who intrigues his affections until a rival appears.

Dir: Wladyslaw Starewicz

Aurélie, the fly, lives in the countryside with her uncle Anatole, the beetle. One day, while stealing honey from the bee, she is surprised by it. Capricorn saves her and they become engaged.