Eskimotive

1928 Animation Directed by Otto Messmer

About Eskimotive

Felix and a small black kitten blow bubbles. The kitten rides one that will not burst, and Felix chases it to the Arctic. He opens the bubble, then the two are separated in the dark. Felix blows lantern bubbles. A bear shoves his sheltering bubble into a hole in the ice. Eels crowd in. Felix slips out, carries the eel-filled bubble to a city seafood shop, sells them, and calls until the kitten finds him.

Cast & crew

More about Eskimotive

A Felix the Cat short from Pat Sullivan Studios, released 19 April 1928. It was silent at first. Copley Pictures later put sound on it and moved the production credit from E. W. Hammons to Jacques Kopstein, who supplied the music for the reissue.

Themes

Music

The first release was silent. Jacques Kopstein provided music for the Copley reissue.

Notes

  • The kitten asks Felix to blow a bubble big enough to ride in.
  • Felix sells the eels for a sack of cash, then remembers the kitten is still lost.

Scenes

  • The kitten floats off in a bubble Felix cannot burst.
  • A bear pushes Felix's bubble through a hole in the ice.
  • Felix sells a bubble full of eels at a seafood shop.