Lost Adventures of The House of the Seven Cats
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Felix also became the subject of several popular songs of the day, such as "Felix Kept Walking" by Paul Whiteman. The cover art of Felix playing a banjo was done by Otto Messmer [19]. Most of the early Felix cartoons mirrored American attitudes of the " Roaring Twenties ".
Ethnic stereotypes appeared in such shorts as Felix Goes Hungry Flappers were caricatured in Felix Strikes It Rich He also became involved in union organizing with Felix Revolts also In some shorts, Felix even performed a rendition of the Charleston. In , Educational ceased releasing the Felix cartoons, and several were reissued by First National Pictures.
Copley Pictures distributed them from to Sullivan did most of the marketing for the character in the s. Given the character's unprecedented popularity and the fact that his name was partially derived from the Latin word for "happy", some rather notable individuals and organizations adopted Felix as a mascot. Felix, who first opened his showroom in The three-sided neon sign of Felix Chevrolet, [20] [21] with its giant, smiling images of the character, is today one of LA's better-known landmarks, standing watch over both Figueroa Street and the Harbor Freeway.
Others who adopted Felix included the New York Yankees and pilot and actress Ruth Elder , who took a Felix doll with her in an attempt to become the first woman to duplicate Charles Lindbergh 's transatlantic crossing to Paris. In the late s, the U. After the world war a U. Navy fighter squadron currently designated VFA replaced its winged meat-cleaver logo with the same insignia after the original Felix squadron had been disbanded.
The carrier-based night-fighter squadron, nicknamed the "Tomcatters", remained active under various designations continuing to the present day, and Felix still appears on both the squadron's cloth jacket patches and aircraft, carrying his bomb with its fuse burning. Felix is also the oldest high school mascot in the state of Indiana , chosen in after a Logansport High School player brought his plush Felix to a basketball game.
When the team came from behind and won that night, Felix became the mascot of all the Logansport High School sports teams. Nearly a century after his first debut on screen in , he still makes occasional appearances in pop culture. The pop punk band The Queers also use Felix as a mascot, often drawn to reflect punk sensibilities and attributes such as scowling, smoking, or playing the guitar.
Felix also appears in the music video for the single "Don't Back Down". Besides appearing on the covers and liner notes of various albums, the iconic cat also appears in merchandise such as T-shirts and buttons. In an interview with bassist B-Face, he asserts that Lookout! Records is responsible for the use of Felix as a mascot. Pat Sullivan began a syndicated comic strip in distributed by King Features Syndicate. Messmer himself pursued the Sunday Felix comic strips until their discontinuance in , when he began eleven years of writing and drawing Felix comic books for Dell Comics that were released every other month.
Jack Mendelsohn was the ghostwriter of the Felix strip from to The strip concluded in With the advent of synchronized sound in The Jazz Singer in , Educational Pictures, who distributed the Felix shorts at the time, urged Pat Sullivan to make the leap to " talkie " cartoons, but Sullivan refused. Further disputes led to a break between Educational and Sullivan. He managed to secure a contract with First National Pictures in However, for reasons unknown, this did not last, so Sullivan sought out Jacques Kopfstein and Copley Pictures to distribute his new sound Felix cartoons.
On 16 October , an advertisement appeared in Film Daily with Felix announcing, Jolson -like, "You ain't heard nothin' yet! Unfortunately, Felix's transition to sound was not a smooth one. Sullivan did not carefully prepare for Felix's transition to sound and added sound effects into the sound cartoons as a post-animation process. More than ever, it seemed as though Disney's mouse was drawing audiences away from Sullivan's silent star. Not even entries such as the Fleischer-style off-beat Felix Woos Whoopee or the Silly Symphony -esque April Maze both could regain the franchise's audience.
Kopfstein finally canceled Sullivan's contract. Subsequently, he announced plans to start a new studio in California, but such ideas never materialized.
Things went from bad to worse when Sullivan's wife, Marjorie, died in March After this, Sullivan completely fell apart. He slumped into an alcoholic depression, his health rapidly declined, and his memory began to fade. He could not even cash checks to Messmer because his signature was reduced to a mere scribble. He died in Messmer recalled, "He left everything a mess, no books, no nothing. So when he died the place had to close down, at the height of popularity, when everybody, RKO and all of them, for years they tried to get hold of Felix I didn't have that permission [to continue the character] 'cause I didn't have legal ownership of it".
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However, Messmer declined his offer and instead recommended Burt Gillett , a former Sullivan staffer who was now heading the Van Beuren staff. So, in , Van Beuren obtained approval from Sullivan's brother to license Felix to his studio with the intention of producing new shorts both in color and with sound. With Gillett at the helm, now with a heavy Disney influence, he did away with Felix's established personality, rendering him a stock funny-animal character of the type popular in the day.
The new shorts were unsuccessful, and after only three outings Van Beuren discontinued the series, leaving a fourth in the storyboard stages. In , Official Films purchased the Sullivan—Messmer shorts, added soundtracks to them, and distributed them to the home movie and television markets. Otto Messmer's assistant Joe Oriolo , who had taken over the Felix comic strip, struck a deal with Felix's new owner, Pat Sullivan's nephew, to begin a new series of Felix cartoons on television.
Oriolo went on to star Felix in television cartoons produced by Famous Studios which was renamed to Paramount Cartoon Studios , and distributed by Trans-Lux beginning in The show did away with Felix's previous supporting cast and introduced many new characters , all of which were performed by voice actor Jack Mercer. Oriolo's plots revolve around the unsuccessful attempts of the antagonists to steal Felix's Magic Bag, though in an unusual twist, these antagonists are occasionally depicted as Felix's friends as well.
The cartoons proved popular, but critics have dismissed them as paling in comparison to the earlier Sullivan—Messmer works, especially since Oriolo aimed the cartoons at children. Limited animation required due to budgetary restraints and simplistic storylines did nothing to diminish the series' popularity.
In , Oriolo gained complete control of the Felix character and continues to promote the character to this day.
In the late s, after his father's death, Don Oriolo teamed up with European animators to work on the character's first feature film, Felix the Cat: The parents' guide to what's in this movie. Meant to entertain rather than educate. Sometimes you have to stand your ground. A male cat tells a female cat that he loves her.
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Roosevelt for several days in a secure anchorage. This meeting resulted in the declaration of the Atlantic Charter , but as Churchill prepared to step off Prince of Wales , Blackie approached. Churchill stooped to bid farewell to Blackie, and the moment was photographed and reported in the world media.
In honour of the success of the visit, Blackie was renamed Churchill. He could not be found when Singapore was evacuated the following year and his fate is unknown. He was known for chasing enemy tracer rounds across the deck. Chibley was the ship's cat aboard the tall ship Barque Picton Castle.
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She was rescued from an animal shelter and circumnavigated the world five times. Chibley died on November 10, , in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
She had sailed over , miles at sea. Convoy was the ship's cat aboard HMS Hermione. He was so named because of the number of times he accompanied the ship on convoy escort duties. Convoy was listed in the ship's book and provided with a full kit, including a tiny hammock in which he slept. He was killed along with 87 of his crew mates when Hermione was torpedoed and sunk on 16 June by German submarine U She was an orange tabby cat who never missed a voyage.
However, on 28 May , Emmy jumped ship while in port in Quebec City. The crew returned her to the ship, but she left again, leaving her kittens behind.
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The Empress of Ireland left without her, which was regarded as a terrible omen. Lawrence River and rapidly sank, killing over 1, people. He was given his own life jacket and once suffered a broken paw after a mishap. The paw was set by the ship's doctor.
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The cat and the rest of the crew marched in a New York ticker tape parade and toured the East Coast that summer. He was eventually adopted by the cabin boy's girlfriend, Ann Berry, and settled in Waltham, Massachusetts. Halifax was the name given to Alvah and Diana Simon's ship's cat who was found in the port of Halifax, on their way to winter at Tay Bay in , on Roger Henry.
The cat spent all of the time iced in on the boat with Alvah, when Diana had to leave for family purposes. Alvah's book North To The Night [18] describes his adventure in the ice with Halifax the cat, who ended up losing half an ear to frostbite. Jenny was the name of the ship's cat aboard Titanic and was mentioned in the accounts of several of the crew members who survived the ocean liner's fateful maiden voyage.
She was transferred from Titanic ' s sister ship Olympic and gave birth in the week before Titanic left Southampton. The galley is where Jenny and her kittens normally lived, cared for by the victualling staff who fed them kitchen scraps.
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Kiddo seemed to have stowed away on the airship America , when she left from Atlantic City, New Jersey , in an attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean in Kiddo was upset at first by the experience, but settled in and evidently, was better at predicting bad weather than the barometer. The airship's engines failed, and the small crew and Kiddo abandoned the America for lifeboats when they sighted the Royal Mail steamship Trent , near Bermuda.
Kiddo then was retired from being a ship's cat and was taken care of by Edith Wellman Ainsworth, the daughter of the American journalist , explorer , and aviator , Walter Wellman , who made the daring attempt. When the ship was lost, having become trapped and eventually crushed in pack ice, Shackleton ordered the sled dogs and Mrs Chippy shot, as Shackleton had decided that the animals could not be kept during the arduous journey ahead. Nansen was the ship's cat on Belgica , which was used for the Belgian Antarctic Expedition. He was brought on board by cabin boy Johan Koren, and was named after Fridtjof Nansen.
He died on 22 June , [23] and was buried in the Antarctic. Another cat who became a favourite of the ship's crew, he was known to be particularly intelligent and would shake the hands of strangers when they entered the wardroom. When the surviving crew realized that their beloved ship's cat was not on board the lifeboat, they rowed around in the night until they finally heard a pitiful "miauu" in the distance.
He soon recovered and resumed killing rats and keeping up the crew's morale. He was appointed to the rank of 'Able Seacat' Simon and became a celebrity after the ship escaped the Yangtze and returned to Britain.