Felix lets a mouse out of a mousetrap. The mouse then offers to do Felix a favor--to help him sneak his friend out of the house so they can go swimming.
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Ink, empathy, and the first splash of cartoon modernism In the monochrome hush of 1922, when the cinematic world still flirted with flicker and flutter, Otto Messmer compressed a moral universe into four minutes of celluloid whimsy. Felix in the Swim is not merely an anecdote about a cat, a mouse, and a clandestine di...
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" Ink, empathy, and the first splash of cartoon modernism In the monochrome hush of 1922, when the cinematic world still flirted with flicker and flutter, Otto Messmer compressed a moral universe into four minutes of celluloid whimsy. Felix in the Swim is not merely an anecdote about a cat, a mouse, and a clandestine dip; it is a haiku of reciprocity, sketched in jittery ink lines that anticipate the graphic minimalism of mid-century modern art. Felix—tail like a calligraphic flourish—saunters ac..."
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