In a semi-followup to my Krazy Kat post, I have also been given limited access to a few rare Felix the Cat cartoons from archival sources. Thankfully, unlike the Krazy Kats, both cartoons are actually quite good, one very much a highlight of the series. No photos like before, but feel free to ask any questions you may have about the two Felixes

The first was FELIX BRINGS HOME THE BACON, a classic Winkler entry with Bill Nolan animation all over. You may of seen this cartoon before on Youtube, but I was very lucky to see a complete copy. Interestingly enough, much of what's missing in the common cutdown has nothing to do with what circulates. We open with long tailed Felix waking up in a bin, and trying to flirt with long tailed Kitty, who gives him an icy look that freezes him completely. She tries to get with a classier cat with a short tail, who turns her down. Felix asks him why he didn't go out with the dame, he tells him its because she lacks a bobbed tail, the newest trend! Felix decides to cut his tail short to get into the trend, throwing his tail through a tree so a pelican-ish bird eats it, thinking it to be a worm. Felix then walks up to a old man sitting on a bench, reading the paper. Felix sees on the paper that long tails are already back in style, and he's so upset he decides to commit suicide! Felix walks off a cliff, but catches his question mark and hops back on when he hears a call for help. A bug is chased up a flower by a frog and asks Felix to save her, so Felix kicks away the frog. The bug is actually a winged fairy from Fairyland, similar to FELIX IN FAIRYLAND, and gives him the wish of a long tail again. And again, Felix accidentally asks to go to Fairyland, and ends up there.

From here its most of what's online, with two notable pieces removed in the cutdown during the rest of the action:
-The Wolf enters the house and a fight briefly ensues that we see from the outside
-The Dog kisses Felix, which Felix slobs off
Overall, very good stuff, and works better complete, even with a somewhat unrelated first half that pokes fun at new hair styles of the 20s

The second cartoon was AT THE RAINBOW'S END, an Educational Felix completely out of circulation. I felt this cartoon was a real highlight of the series, and will become an instant classic once it circulates. We open with Felix stuck in a heavy rainstorm, and a duck asks him "Isn't this lovely weather" with open arms. Felix kicks him in anger. Soon after, the storm ends and a rainbow appears. Felix remembers about pot of golds at the end of rainbows, and climbs a tree to reach the rainbow, walking down it to reach the gold. He ends up in Fairyland (I guess I have a theme with these Felixes?), and decides to explore the place with his gold. Along the way, several of the fairy tale girls (Cinderella, Jill, Red Riding Hood, etc) see Felix's gold and become smitten with him as gold diggers ("Money gets them all, even in fairyland"). Felix tells them he's woman proof, as an evil witch steals his pot. Felix upset, meets with a Chinese Aladdin (the story is Arabian though most early versions are set in China), who tells Felix he can use his lamp if he does one good deed. Felix then notices the woman in the shoe's house is full (like Fairyland), so he eventually defeats a giant with gum and uses his shoes as new homes for the family. With this, he uses the lamp to make the witch explode(?) and get back his gold, which is where it ends. Excellent and funny stuff