Krazy Kat Goes A-Wooing

1916 RomanceComedy 2 minutes

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About Krazy Kat Goes A-Wooing

Krazy Kat serenades Ignatz Mouse under a window. The answer is a barrage of bricks.

More about Krazy Kat Goes A-Wooing

Leon Searl animated it. George Herriman wrote the scenario from his comic strip. International Film Service copyrighted it on 29 February 1916 (MP557) and distributed it. William Randolph Hearst is credited as executive producer. A Library of Congress timing is 2 minutes 15 seconds at 22 frames per second.

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Background

A 1916 Hearst cartoon from George Herriman's Krazy Kat strip, built on the brick that always answers the serenade.

Preservation

A print survives. Copies are on the Internet Archive and Wikimedia Commons.

Notes

  • The Library of Congress times it at 2 minutes 15 seconds when run at 22 frames per second.
  • Silent Era lists it as possibly a split reel, issued with Hearst-Vitagraph News Pictorial.
  • Wikidata names Leon Searle as director. The Library of Congress credit is animator.

Scenes

  • Ignatz answers the song with bricks.

Influenced by

  • George Herriman's comic strip Krazy Kat

Also available

  • Internet Archive (silent-krazy-kat-goes-a-wooing)
  • Wikimedia Commons (Krazy Kat Goes A-Wooing.webm)