The Non-Stop Fright
About The Non-Stop Fright
A maid thinks Felix the Cat is dead, sweeps him into a dustpan, and dumps him in the trash. He climbs out, finds a newspaper offering $50,000 to whoever flies to Timbuktu, and builds a plane from household scraps. Birds, lightning, and a school of fish that leaps into the cockpit force him down. At the destination nobody pays the prize; cannibals chase him, and he escapes on a balloon he inflates himself.
Cast & crew
More about The Non-Stop Fright
Otto Messmer directed and animated the short for Pat Sullivan Studios. E. W. Hammons produced it. Educational Pictures Corporation and Bijou Films distributed the silent release on August 21, 1927. Copley Pictures later reissued it with sound.
Themes
Making
Messmer was the principal Felix animator under Pat Sullivan's name. The silent negative was later fitted with a music-and-effects track for the Copley reissue.
Music
The 1927 release was silent. Jacques Kopstein is credited for music only on the later Copley Pictures sound reissue.
Preservation
The short survives both as the original silent cartoon and in a later sound reissue.
Notes
- The Wikipedia running time is 7 minutes 37 seconds.
- A maid throws Felix out with the trash before the flight begins.
- The prize advertised in the newspaper is $50,000 for a flight to Timbuktu.
- Jacques Kopstein's music belongs to the Copley sound reissue, not the 1927 silent release.
Scenes
- The maid sweeps a supposedly dead Felix into the trash bin.
- Fish leap out of the sea and pile into the cockpit.
- Felix inflates a balloon and lifts off the island.
