Flim Flam Films
About Flim Flam Films
Felix cannot get his three kittens, Inky, Winky, and Dinky, to nap, so he takes them to the movies. They are thrown out, squeeze back in through a hole in the wall, and find a picture starring Felix. When a lion attacks the Felix on the screen, the kittens rush the screen and start a row in the house. Thrown out again, Felix decides to shoot his own film. He records a dancer, a band, a balloon, and a woman swimming. The kittens film him kissing the swimmer and, that night, run the scene for his wife.
Cast & crew
More about Flim Flam Films
Otto Messmer directed the Felix the Cat short. Pat Sullivan produced it, by arrangement with Bijou Films, and E. W. Hammons presented it. Educational Films Corporation of America released it through Educational Film Exchanges on 18 September 1927 as a one-reel Pat Sullivan Cartoon.
Themes
Making
Messmer's unit at Pat Sullivan's shop made the short for Educational's one-reel cartoon release. The joke is a film inside the film: the kittens' reel is the one that gets Felix in trouble.
Preservation
Silent Era lists a surviving print. The film is in the public domain in the United States.
Notes
- Silent Era lists the release as 18 September 1927 and the length as one reel.
- On the theater screen Felix pulls off his tail and uses it as a cane, in a Chaplin pose, just before the lion jumps him.
- The kittens keep the camera on Felix and the swimmer without his knowing.
- The wife sees the kiss only when they project the reel at home that night.
Scenes
- The kittens attack the screen when a lion jumps the Felix in the picture.
- They film Felix kissing the swimmer and project that shot for his wife.
