Felix the Cat Busts a Bubble

In this 1924 silent animation, Felix the Cat faces a domestic crisis that propels him from the alleyways to the glitz of Tinseltown. When his longtime girlfriend decides she is tired of domesticity and heads to Hollywood to pursue a career as a screen star, Felix refuses to accept the breakup. Rather than moving on, he follows her across the country with a singular, malicious goal: to ensure her failure. Felix infiltrates the movie sets, systematically sabotaging her screen tests and ruining her takes to crush her dreams. His logic is as simple as it is cruel—if she fails in Hollywood, she will have no choice but to return to his side. It is a surrealist exploration of early 20th-century gender dynamics wrapped in the ink-and-paint absurdity of the jazz age.