In Happy-Go-Luckies a pair of ukulele-strumming railroad hoboes fake their way into a dog show and make off with the prize loot. “Two heads are better than one” is the moral. To modern eyes, our trickster duo may look like two dogs—in the show they pretend to be one long dog—but audiences of the ’20s would have recognized a dog-and-cat team. The black body, white face, and sharp ears would have been most familiar from the greatest jazz-era trickster cat, Felix. Dogs and cats—much easier to animate than humans—were everywhere in silent cartoons. Terry, like most early film animators, had begun as a newspaper cartoonist, and his first strip, working with his brother as a teenager for the San Francisco Call, was about the adventures of a dog named Alonzo.

One of the "Out of the Inkwell" series of silent short films featuring a combination of live action ...

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A mysterious woman watches her house burn down and goes on a cathartic journey.

Taken from The Arabian Nights, a wicked sorcerer and the beautiful prince Achmed battle one against ...

When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno t...

I turned my gaze to the various events in daily life and made this filmic diary in a manner as if co...

Short animated silent film about a man drinking alcohol.

Two insects fight over the hand of a beautiful lady.
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Referred as the actual first Mickey Mouse short. Inspired by Lindbergh's flight from New York to Par...

Claire is composed of digital scans and blow-ups of a series of three ink-on-paper artworks created ...

Oswald would like to see Mlle. Zulu the Shimmy Queen but he's short on cash. Seeing the more stately...

Oswald is with his mates in a fox hunt, but he finds his horse is stubborn and won't let him ride at...

Oswald is riding along on his horse having a merry old time when the two of them fall down a hill, r...

Oswald is off to see his sweetheart when he is passed by a rival in a faster car. He takes the lead,...

Oswald the Rabbit enters an airplane race with a makeshift aircraft and ends up riding a dachshund l...

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Alice tries to make two rival newsboys friends by telling them a story of a cat and a mouse whose co...

Stop-motion animation of putty modeling itself into faces.