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Happy 99th anniversary to one of my favorite Messmer-period Felix the Cat cartoons, Felix the Cat Dines and Pines, which released on this day in 1927!

The Sullivan studio’s Felix cartoons (who despite the studio's name, these shorts are generally agreed upon to largely be under the artistic directorship of Otto Messmer) have seen quite a few similar surreal sequences in them, but this short is without a doubt one of the finest instances of surrealism in the series, with many shockingly forward shot compositions for the time period!

It is so good, in fact, that it was one of the few shorts that the Felix newspaper strip loosely adapted:

It's really something you have to see to believe, which is why I'm going to link the short in question below - one of the fun things about discussing these older cartoons is not just that it gets people actively interested, but that as the years go on we will see more greats like this be widely accessible in some form!

«[…] But then, when we sat down and were served coffee (it all felt a bit like familiar Parisian life), I no longer cared so much that I was a Templar and he was an Assassin. If not for the garb of his order, we would have passed for a couple enjoying morning coffee. When he smiled, I saw the smile of the old Arno—the boy I grew up with and fell in love with. For a moment, I desperately wanted to forget everything and immerse myself in pleasant memories, pushing aside contradictions and a sense of duty.»

O. Bowden AC:Unity