Underground Favorites Mirroring the Impact of The Adventures of Felix: Cult Guide

Dir: Otto Messmer

A wife throws her husband out of the house, telling him not to return unless he brings her a fur coat. Deciding that the only way he'll get one is to make his own, he grabs his rifle and goes hunting. All his efforts fail, though, until he meets Felix, who offers to help him shoot rabbits, and impresses the man with his marksmanship skills. However, it turns out that shooting the rabbits isn't quite as easy as they thought it would be.

Dir: Otto Messmer

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Felix Minds the Kid perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

After 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.

Dir: Otto Messmer

After 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.

Dir: Otto Messmer

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

Felix the Cat becomes a soldier when the rats declare war on the cats.

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: Otto Messmer

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Felix Turns the Tide perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Felix comes upon a caveman and his girlfriend. The girlfriend is crying, and when the caveman asks her what she wants, she points to Felix. The caveman chases Felix, who escapes by using the tails of some friendly monkeys to make his way down a steep cliff. Later he makes friends with a baby monkey, but winds up getting in a fight with a huge gorilla.

Dir: Otto Messmer

Felix goes to the county fair and falls for Marie, the dancing cat and the fair's star performer. However, he gets on the bad side of Razoo the snakecharmer. He schemes to find a way to convince Marie to leave the circus and marry him.

Dir: Otto Messmer

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

Felix 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.

Dir: Otto Messmer

Felix goes after a butcher's sausages and captures them, but the butcher catches him and sends him to the Arctic to get rid of him.

Dir: Otto Messmer

Felix 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.