Felix The Cat - Japanicky (1920-1929)

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Animation. One in the series of "Adventures of Felix the Cat" cartoons by Pat Sullivan.
FELIX THE CAT - JAPANICKY
Felix can't afford to get in to the theatre so he makes a hole in the wall to peep through. There are two wrestlers. A small Japanese mans overthrows an enormous opponent. Inspired, Felix ties a know in a lampost and is chased by a policeman. He tries to karate a goat who head butts him. He lands in a Japanese garden where two Geishas are kneeling. Inside a hut another Geisha kneels. Felix takes a '4' from the calendar and makes a chair for her. He laughs 'Ha Ha Ha' and makes chairs for everyone by using the letter 'h'. An oriental man is angry that everyone everyone is using chairs. He chases Felix who uses an Japanese fan to blow him away. Felix hides by turning himself into Japanese lettering. The man chases him up the tower of a pagoda and they fall off onto a man carrying baskets over a Japanese bridge. Felix uses the obi from a traditional kimono to turn it into a propeller to lift the man into the air. He then places a large nail behind a man in a kimono who sits on it. He angrily turns on Felix who produces a chair. He sits happily. Felix makes him a table and they both sit happily drinking tea.
FILM ID:2941.07
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[@legendship5092]

中国ぽいけど、でも嬉しい。 100年前かぁ感慨深い…

[@Cartoonicus]

Man, watching a Felix the Cat cartoon is like watching the playthrough of a Point and Click Adventure. Going around, attempting to solve one unusual problem at a time, and you never know what kind of silly cartoonish solution is waiting to resolve it.

[@boogtoons4630]

Why why is there... not a felix the cat adventure game?

[@Cartoonicus]

@@boogtoons4630 I would totally play that. Imagine how many things you could do with the bag of tricks. Although, if someone wanted to tackle it, nowadays, Felix IS in the public domain. Just not the bag, yet.

[@juniojay]

​@@Cartoonicus Yeah you could just use this tail as that, Is what the bag is a replacement for Since Robert hose was becoming less popular at the time But people probably wouldn't care today.

[@Retrospector04backup]

@@boogtoons4630 I would love to see a point game click and cuphead style game too Felix the cat

[@LazyQueen]

7:16 I didn't expect the "T" joke to actually get me 😂 Clever little joke I just love it

[@TheTrippersMindTrip]

So beautiful! An absolute gem of an animation. Thanks for preserving this.

[@r-giireactions2235]

Watching Felix the Cat so I can learn more about his personality for my Public Domain based Mickey book.

[@outerspec3192]

based

[@usmale4915]

Great. Thanks for the upload!

[@akeleven]

Surreal. Love the art

[@rfletch62]

With that ability to alter reality, WTF does the '50's magic bag really do?

[@mariabrizarrkurasor4937]

5:17 He has turned to kanji similar to "猫" (A cat). How a interested

[@ぴるぐりむ-c2w]

これ漢字の猫だったんだ 全然分からなかった

[@Rockmanbalboa]

This short gives an interesting glimpse of how the west on the figure of the Americans probably think was Japan and it's culture at the time(or at least the creators of the shorts), kinda of a mix of asian cultures, mostly Chinese, it interest me if the prejudice in the cartoon, comes from how fast information could be received and how much easy was it access, or even pre conceived notions from maybe, magazines or books and other medium, very interesting.

[@Based_Face]

I'm sure all of those things played a factor in how Asian culture was portrayed in this cartoon, the hairstyles and kimono are clearly Japanese, i think they knew the target audience would be children so they refrained from making it historically accurate.

[@FerinitheBloodHusky]

@@Based_Face i thought this was still made when these were for adults

[@ぴるぐりむ-c2w]

@@Based_Face髪型も着物も全然日本的じゃない

[@Mr.Glaube]

Ah yes, felix the chair salesman

[@Muscimologram]

Better fight than marvel movies

[@RubykonCubes3668]

That was some mildly chaotic slapstick 😆

[@johnvicaireiii5537]

Felix is pretty much like a trickster spirit or something.

[@r-giireactions2235]

I'm watching these to see how Felix differs from early Mickey, and I think a major difference is Felix is clever, usually plans out his moves, while Mickey is more spontaneous, going with whatever shows up at the moment.

[@okamijubei]

You mean like a tanuki or kitsune?

[@number13burger]

That gave me an idea

[@PlayzRanRan]

I love this cat so much!!

[@miyak6135]

As a Japanese, I always think that Westerners' image of the Japanese has always been mixed with that of China. I have never seen images from that time that genuinely reflect Japan. Not all Japanese have bucktooths.

[@fuchion15]

? Most Chinese people don’t either? What a weird statement.

[@cyceans]

Betty Boop in Japan was pretty ok and more accurate all things considered

[@cyceans]

​@urbanyouthsthere were influences but that doesn't make it the same. Other east asian counties like Vietnam and Korea were also received sino influence, they're still different cultures.

[@michaelbullen3104]

It’s only really depictions pre-2010 that get this rep. Almost everything back then was depicted wrong in some way, but luckily this type of depiction is almost non existent now

[@Olga-AssOlka]

So wonderful! 👍👍👍

[@attosottokotto]

Hmmm. .. Clothes and accessories are from China. It's a little different from what it looks like in Japan

[@boogerbrains138]

You should probably dig up the creators and yell at them

[@vukandtheoldyears1.234]

Yup! Hint: They dead fool.

[@JeffersonTheGenius]

because the creator lives in australia, bro.

[@karpetemas]

okay we're in 1920

[@Retrospector04backup]

@@karpetemas yep this is the 1920s

[@やしろかいと]

日本と中国のイメージがごたまぜだったんやな 当時は

[@GaryQuirozsandoval]

Es muy divertido el Gato felix 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@照山モミジ]

日本の表現が忠実か否かは置いておいて、現代では失われた昔のアニメーションならではの自由度と発想があるね。覗き穴を壁にひょいっと持ってくる所とか自由過ぎて面白すぎる。ディズニーの初期アニメはこれに影響受けた事がよくわかるね。

[@ChadCarney-hu3du]

he brought chairs to Japan😭😭😭 so funny

[@Retrospector04backup]

I love Felix the cat it’s my dads childhood I love this man

[@vampir-7748]

At least he is making them happy!

[@imlylathemsmfansaveukraine6530]

In this episode, it is also the 1st time that this cat ever laughed. Check out 3:25.

[@gregmartell1235]

Felix The Cat popular in Japan. 😎❤⛩

[@bangkitnyaagamaadatnusantara]

Doraemon & hello Kitty annecstor

[@パッキン-i4z]

中国と日本のミックスって感じw😂

[@pablohernndz]

Jajajajaja. A pesar de no haber diálogos o voces, solo ruido de fondo, eran muy buenas las caricaturas de la época.

[@PoshLifeforME]

Once, in the long long ago, there was a cat.

[@keithblevinsgraphics]

4:41 Bro just turned into a tengu (idk if this was intentional or not since a lot of this is confused with China but it would be a cool reference if the creators of this intentionally put a nod to Japanese folklore.)

[@luckeyster3720]

ちょっと解釈違いだけど、まあ嬉しい

[@IAmBlueCreeper5]

I'm Guessing That Otto Messmer Didn't Like The Idea Of Felix Committing Suicide So I'm Guessing That Pat Sullivan Made A Whole Cartoon Series Of Felix The Cat In The 1920s

[@Anonymous-oh4xw]

Feline Follies was originally a one-shot cartoon, but following the popularity, more cartoons starring the character were made.

[@Miksy51]

Felix the cat is the best Yo-kai (or Yōkai) of all time!

[@okamijubei]

Except he has one tail instead of a split two tail.

[@kingofnerds1841]

​@@okamijubeiI was wondering when someone was going to bring that up.

[@pinksoft39]

Damn, Felix is s savage

[@Akrafena]

Felix the Cat is my favorite anime

[@chowdren445]

あの偉い人は大正天皇かな？

[@bigvis497]

Felix the Cat - MMA fighter

[@kaiaxelmorgan6782]

This is the first time when Felix visits Japan.

[@eascec8374]

March 4, 1928

[@Jrworld808]

He made chairs but made it from 4s

[@takakof.1593]

This is China, not Japan😅

[@BrilliantHandle]

@urbanyouthsYes, one example. Not the “whole” culture.

[@kingofnerds1841]

In the creator's defense, there probably weren't too many experts on Japanese culture available at the time to consult.

[@johnvicaireiii5537]

Felix Is pretty strong,

[@Mat7920H]

Meiji Restoration in a nutshell:

[@fukushimatravel]

日本と中国の文化がごっちゃになってるの時代を感じる

[@Cindy-c1i]

2:02 HOW DID HE GET KICKED ALL THE WAY TO JAPAN!? 😨

[@sandman5522]

Surprisingly not as racist as I'd thought it would be.......

[@deandupont5503]

What truly lurks inside the mind of a weaboo....

[@Retrospector04backup]

Heck yeah, I love this in anime

[@gutersteinker]

This is 100 year old

[@billcipher3635]

Félix buen uso del T

[@felixrojas6216]

Fact Jiut Jitsu is actually from Brazil, not Japan, Japan have the Karate and judo.

[@スコブル-u9n]

Jiu Jitsu→JUDO→BJJ Jiu Jitsuは何百年も前から存在します。19世紀に近代化してJUDOとなり、JUDOからSAMBOやKOSEN JUDOやBJJが派生しました。 なお世界的には、20世紀以降もまだJiu Jitsuの呼び名が一般的でした。 だから前田光世もJiu Jitsuと名乗ったし、この映画もそう書いてる。

[@yurimiguelpereirasimao4987]

Felix The Cat is better than Mickey Mouse and Oswald Lucky Rabbit?

[@TheChompChamp7650]

Found it

[@billmitchell4749]

Later on Hong Kong Phooie hit the Scene, Joe Jitsu tio.

[@Londeton]

Feliz el occidentalizador

[@klove3368]

This doesn't seem to racist..

[@hussien04]

Who said it's racist?

[@albertocarlosbustos9892]

R3t4rds say it's racist

[@klove3368]

@@hussien04 I guess myself..I just assumed it would be racist because, well, it was made in the 1920s, and it's cartoon about Japanese people that was created by white people, and most of the American cartoons at the time depicted Japanese people as being idiots, this one's a bit different, though..Inleast they don't have buck teeth or slim eyes, or silly names, and at least they don't sound like idiots.

[@goojo173]

⁠@@klove3368 Because WWII hadn’t hit yet. The reason Americans depicted the Japanese so unflatteringly was due to propaganda efforts to get the American public to buy war bonds. People back then weren’t going around being extremely racist all the time when they didn’t need to, and not everyone was racist. People weren’t very different back then. See the Krazy Kat comic for proof of that. Non-binary characters and potentially gay relationships in a comic from 1917. Say what you will about overaceptance today, weird people, racism, anti-racism, sexual weirdness, and cultural revisionist bullshit has always existed.

[@radiokunio3738]

​​​@urbanyouths As of recent it seems people are losing their ability to distinguish between ignorance and genuine hatred. Even Japanese animation copied blackface from early American cartoons, like characters such as Mr Popo. Most Japanese people even today likely don't know or have even met a Black person in their entire lives. But i guess we can just assume, that Japanese animators have a strong hatred for a group that they knew about from old cartoons. Are we really expecting for Pat to understand the fine details of Japanese culture in 1920's America?

[@joeybean2024]

This looks like an unusual cartoon, It's actually very useless and expensive.

[@kenzietownsend6644]

Kind of wished the British Pathe or its parent company Reuters at least added a disclaimer. Black-face. Cultural appropriation. Mild racism. Cultural mocking. Inappropriate stereotypes. A little bit of everything.

[@darthtyrionpicard7794]

Oh shut up.

[@goojo173]

What was so bad about this cartoon?

[@kenzietownsend6644]

@@goojo173 We appear to be on different sides and you just want a response. So. Here.

[@DE-bs9cf]

Maybe. But when you're watching 1920's cartoons with a 21st century sensitivity it's like walking through a minefield.

[@猫ねこ-e7h]

男性の衣装と建物の背景は中国、清の時代かな。 日本でもアメリカとヨーロッパ諸国の文化が同一視されてたわ