Notes

- Felix the Cat is a funny animal cartoon character created in the silent film era
- Felix is one of the most recognized cartoon characters in film history.
- Felix was the first character from animation to attain a level of popularity sufficient to draw movie audiences during the early 1920s.
- He became an icon of the jazz age in America, the Roaring 20s, 1920-1929.
- These early Felix cartoons were imaginative examples of surrealism in filmmaking, representing a child's sense of wonder; creating the fantastic when it was not there; and taking it in stride when it was.
- Felix was revived in 1950, mid 1990s, 1920s.
- On November 9, 1919, Master Tom, a prototype of Felix, debuted in a Paramount Pictures short entitled Feline Follies.
- Produced by the New York City-based animation studio owned by Pat Sullivan.
- The cartoon was directed by cartoonist and animator Otto Messmer.
- Sullivan is believed to have created Felix.
- After his wife died in 1932, Sullivan fell apart. He slumped into an alcoholic depression, his health rapidly declined, and his memory began to fade. He died in 1933 leaving the studio in debt and it had to be closed.