Forty Winks
About Forty Winks
Felix conducts four singing cats until a neighbor rolls a bowling ball at them and then sprays them with ether. At home, Felix's dwarf master cannot sleep, takes a toy cannon, and fires it into Felix's back. Felix tries a clothesline and a doghouse, and the dog's tears float the little house away. He lands where the plot calls the Dark Continent, fights a mountain lion until it turns into a pillow, and finally sleeps.
Cast & crew
More about Forty Winks
Otto Messmer is the director on the catalog and on Wikidata, and Wikipedia describes the short as a Pat Sullivan Studio Felix the Cat cartoon. The catalog year is 1931. The Wikipedia article is titled as a 1930 film, and Wikidata lists both 1930 and 1931.
Themes
Notes
- The Internet Archive identifier FelixFortyWinks1929 includes the year 1929.
- Felix offers the dwarf warm milk and then a clarinet tune that sets toy soldiers dancing.
- One soldier's cannonball punches a hole in a picture before the dwarf turns the cannon on Felix.
- Wikidata's genre label for the short is road movie.
Scenes
- The mountain lion is punched until it becomes the pillow Felix sleeps on.
Also available
- Internet Archive (FelixFortyWinks1929)