Otto Messmer Movies

Felix walks to England.

Winter in his hometown is too cold for Felix, especially after having to put up with a bothersome snowball-throwing boy and his dog...

Felix tricks his father into thinking that he's practicing the piano, then escapes to play golf with Skidoo the mouse. After raising the ire of the...

A hungry Felix fails at trying to catch a mouse, a chicken and a jumping bean, so decides to eat a shoe, which gives him weird and scary...

Cartoon Carnival tells the story of the pioneering early days of the animated art-form and chronicles one film preservationist's quest to rescue...

Felix is hungry, but his owner won't feed him until he's finished his crossword puzzle! Only one word left -- a 7-letter "chiefly found in Russia."...

Felix is reading a book about Fairyland, and decides that it must be a wonderful place to be. Suddenly he hears a cry for help, and finds a fly stuck...

Willie, Felix's owner, gets an assignment to find out why the moon shines. Felix decides to help him get the answer, but winds up getting involved...

Felix winds up walking into a picture and dealing with various armored knights.

Felix's wife demands he stop his lazing and get a job. Off runs Felix to help a barber, a farmer, and a homeless saxophonist (for a price, of course).

Felix can't afford to get in to the theatre so he makes a hole in the wall to peep through. There are two wrestlers. A small Japanese mans overthrows...

Romantic fantasies of a man who wants his girlfriend to be thinner.

Felix's owner, a hunter, gets lost in the jungle and the animals capture him and his supplies. A nosy ostrich swallows the hunter's rifle....

Felix wants to know the future, so he first goes to see a Gypsy who tells him that misfortune is going to happen, Felix doesn't believe her one...

Oceantics starts with Felix walking while whistling. He sees a monkey playing a harmonica. After finishing, the monkey gets showered with coins....

Felix goes to the county fair and falls for Marie, the dancing cat.

A persnickety chicken steals the master's jewels (by eating them). Framed for the theft, Felix decides to find them himself. Felix takes after the...

An early trickfilm created by Otto Messmer.

After partying at the local nightclub, Felix heads home, but falls asleep along the way. He dreams that he meets a doctor who has a new youth tonic....

Felix helps Willie do his chores.