Alice's Egg Plant

In this 1925 avant-garde marriage of live-action and hand-drawn cel animation, Alice and her feline overseer, Julius, orchestrate a frantic industrial poultry operation. The narrative takes a sharp turn into socio-political satire when an agitator from the Soviet Union, the formidable 'Little Red Henski,' infiltrates the flock. Representing the I.W.W., she galvanizes the avian proletariat into a full-scale industrial strike, demanding concessions that threaten the factory's output. Faced with a looming deadline and a barren production line, Alice and Julius pivot from manufacturing to entertainment, staging a gladiatorial rooster bout to extract the necessary eggs as admission fees. The film concludes on a nihilistic note: despite their tactical success in gathering the tribute, a mechanical failure results in the total destruction of their fragile cargo, rendering the entire capitalist endeavor a tragic, yolk-stained futility.