Sunday, April 3, 2011

Felix The Cat Feline Follies 1919

Felix The Cat Feline Follies WMV 52.5 mb. Felix The Cat Feline Follies 512Kb MPEG4 15.8 mb. Felix The Cat Feline Follies OGV format 15.2 mb which is a free, open standard container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The OGV format is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia. animated gif, 9 frames

Felix the Cats first appearance as Master Tom.

FelineFollies, a Felix the Cat 1919 silent animated short by Pat Sullivan (February 2, 1887, Sydney, New South Wales – February 15, 1933, United States). Length 4 minutes 44 seconds. This version is a derivative of the Internet Archive OGV video with the sound removed by Sookietex on 2011-04-02. The sound added at a later date was most likely not in the public domain.


Mr. Sullivan was a pioneer animator, best known for producing the first Felix the Cat silent cartoons.

This media file is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, where Works published prior to 1978 were copyright protected for a maximum of 75 years. See Circular 1 "COPYRIGHT BASICS" PDF from the U.S. Copyright Office. Works published before 1923, in this case 1919 are now in the public domain.

This Media file is also in the public domain in countries that figure copyright from the date of death of the artist (post mortem auctoris) in this case Pat Sullivan (February 2, 1887 – February 15, 1933 and that most commonly runs for a period of 50 to 70 years from December 31st of that year.

This movie is part of the collection: Community Video
Producer: Pat Sullivan
Audio/Visual: silent
Keywords: Felix The Cat
Creative Commons license: Public Domain Mark 1.0

2 comments:

George said...

Great vintage animation. This is indeed a public domain treasure. Thanks for sharing this one. I really enjoyed it.

sookietex said...

Thanks George. The ending was a bit disconcerting for our editors but on the whole, a fun piece of cinema.

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