Felix the Cat

[helenwyler]

MrW is a great fan of Felix the Cat.

This is apparently one of the earliest cartoons ever made...a bit blurred but is brilliantly surreal, and uses lots of techniques still used today...I love his expressions in the bottle.

ENJOY! (If the link works!)

http://uk.video.yahoo.com/video/play...2&fr=yfp-t-501

[karia]

MrW is a great fan of Felix the Cat.

This is apparently one of the earliest cartoons ever made...a bit blurred but is brilliantly surreal, and uses lots of techniques still used today...I love his expressions in the bottle

ENJOY! (If the link works)

http://uk.video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=207192&fr=yfp-t-501

Great Link Helen,

I love the fact that there's always a cliff to jump!

My favourite bits involved the 'helpful ?'...and the 10 mile sign...!

Brilliant stuff,.. OH likens it to the early 'Tom and Jerry', which he thinks works better silent....mind you he says that about me too!

Kariax

[helenwyler]

Thanks karia...glad you enjoyed it

When Felix goes very wee, it reminded me of Jeid's avatar too!

Don't listen to OH...you're 'silent' to us anyway!

helen

[floyed]

My son just got a Felix the cat dvd from Tesco's, first time we both had seen it and its not been off for the last 4 days he loves it

[scorrie]

Brilliant stuff,.. OH likens it to the early 'Tom and Jerry', which he thinks works better silent
Kariax

Tom and Jerry were the business but the sound was essential. I watched a documentary about them a good few years ago and I think it was Scott Bradley who wrote the excellent musical scores for the series. Terrific cartoon violence and some racial overtones that would not be allowed today. There was a kick-back about T&J and others in the early 70's, with talk of banning them on the grounds of encouraging violent behaviour. I think that those in power realised that there was not a huge upswing in mice being put through mangles or cats turning up at the Vets with frying pan shaped faces and common sense prevailed. This was the same era that saw Chuck Berry get into trouble for singing about "My Ding-a-Ling". You can only wonder what those crusading bastions of morality would make of today's world?

[George Brims]

My son just got a Felix the cat dvd from Tesco's, first time we both had seen it and its not been off for the last 4 days he loves it

Parents beware. Do not by mistake buy "Fritz the Cat" - it was the first X-rated cartoon. Not X rated as in today's pornography, but pretty lewd (and hilarious) all the same.

[George Brims]

There was a kick-back about T&J and others in the early 70's, with talk of banning them on the grounds of encouraging violent behaviour.

It's a sort of urban legend in the USA that T&J are banned in various other countries. I have lost count of the number of times I have read or heard that they are "Banned in England" (England being that legendary place they think Britain is called).

[tommy1979]

My son just got a Felix the cat dvd from Tesco's, first time we both had seen it and its not been off for the last 4 days he loves it

Meh - its Fritz the Cat he should be watching chap!!!

[floyed]

Tommy1979 at's terrible lol

[tommy1979]

Tommy1979 at's terrible lol

he can borrow my copy if he wants?

[scorrie]

It's a sort of urban legend in the USA that T&J are banned in various other countries. I have lost count of the number of times I have read or heard that they are "Banned in England" (England being that legendary place they think Britain is called).

Aye, I have encountered the England=Britain thinking many a time in my dealings with Americans. One wifie even sent me a parcel marked Wick, England AFTER I had informed her I lived in Scotland.

Tom and Jerry are alive and well here, although I have noticed different versions of cartoons I had seen before, being aired with certain "racially insensitive" sections being changed or deleted.