krazy kat and ignatz mouse at the circus (1916)

[1fairportconvention]

I was listening to Ignatz when watching this.

[avalanchesuperstar]

It seems a bit too heavily sexual orientated. Krazy is seducing Ignatz by waving it's tail at him.

[halnwheels]

Never saw one from this period. Couldn't stop watching! (sigh)

[pauletteking]

i understand the technique wasn't as great til the 20s but why people never say this stuff started before the is is crazy. no pun intended. no one gives early krazy and felix cartoons a recoginition. they say in the 20s and 30s bleh my ass. i like from krazy's 1st episode til the last mutherfruckin one by mickey. meaning krazy and other characters after him made by and other companies. black and white forever. eeeeeehhhhh or not. good night everybody

[sitwosaints]

Really doesn't look like Herriman, krazys tail doesn't wave in the strips f'rinstance. It's always rigid.

[MrSeberi]

Either the woman at the end is a huge giant, or she is trapped in a really small house.

[draven26]

I do love watching these, very charming indeed :)

[EyMeng]

older sibling to Felix

[ssm3141]

Wow, the things you can find on Youtube. 1916? This is incredible, early film footage. I am impressed.

[Barbarelaviento]

PUKA GRANDMOTHER

[macsnafu]

What's great about this cartoon is that they used word balloons, like a comic. Much more elegant than interspersing text shots like a regular silent movie. Remember this was still the time of silent pictures--sound wasn't added until about 1929 or 1930.

[hoolsverne]

"As one of the pioneers in the cartoon business, his contributions to it were so numerous that they may well never be estimated. His unique style of drawing and his amazing gallery of characters not only brought a new type of humor to the American public but made him a source of inspiration to thousands of artists"

--Walt Disney referring to George Herriman in a letter to his daughter Mabel after his passing.

[NOKIEROTOMARSOPA]

ayyy, el raton era pequeñisimooo!!! 0_0

[draven26]

The great grandparents of Tom and jerry and Itchy and Scratchy

[SariaMew456]

"SPOOF!"

I'm totally stealing that and making it my catch phrase. XD

[bedlam6666]

It is amazing this has somehow survived...imagine how the world was in 1916...

[mrbeligos]

itchy and scratchy's grand parents???

[tinchomusolino]

ajajjajaj increible.. que buena epoca

ahi pasaron las mejores cosas del cine

porter, griffith, eisenstein,vertov ............

[palmetadon]

funnyyear than all woerld

[joeocho88]

This is nearly 100 years old. Amazing how far animation has come since then!

Must have seemed like a miracle to them to see this back then, It was just after World War I. Rather sexist but it was so long ago. All those animators are dead. Wonder what they would think if they could come back today?

[Hoobtastic]

Wonderful! Immediately favourited! Isn't it great to think how cutting edge this would have been when it first came out? Kind of makes a lot of other cartoons make more sense watching this. Go eat a pair of pants, Windsor McCay!

[pulum40]

hahhahahahaha

[booshybuttonz]

Paula... Loves This Video. Shes my freind...

We watched it in our lecture about cartoons. :-)

[pi314too]

Krazy Kat!!!! Love it.

[usedtobe803]

interesting. it is strange the dialogue they use, with all of the slang.

[00THEONEWITHNONAME00]

GREAT! 8D

[SunnyShawFilms]

1916 cartoon, Is it worlds first cartoon

[Bigfaec]

I believe that honor goes to Winsor McCay's "Gerty the Dinosaur (1914)"

[golzog]

nope. there was Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (1906) and Little Nemo (also by windsor mccay, 1911)

[Bigfaec]

Man, this is one time I'm glad to be wrong. I got some viewing to do.

[somethingyettocome]

and there was also a guy called Emile Cohl, who did the first "Animation Series" in the US. Based on a newspaper cartoon by Georg Mc Manus. It was called "The Newlyweds" and started running In the USA at the beginning of 1913. That guy was really important. His work also influenced Mc Cay...Check out the Wikipedia piece about him..It´s excellent, and I think very credible (It s based on a biography on Emile Cohl)

[misukiyuki]

Wrong the first cartoon was invented in 1914.

[itchyweasel62]

herriman is a god

[SLACKER614]

they were posted in US newspapers from 1913-1944..hearst loved the strips, but they were never commercially viable

[slobomotion]

At the time this came out, German was receding as America's second language, but was still present, and Yiddish was big. This is a great clip. Tanx! Mit schlag from Franxreich!

[SLACKER614]

krazy kat was of indeterminate sex..referred to as he and she..

[sugoishojo]

I think its a she.

[SLACKER614]

i think u r rite...

[sugoishojo]

i think i am too, see the bow on her neck?

[iheartfamke]

my lit teacher told us herriman never reveals his/her gender

sometimes he's a boy, sometimes she's a girl

[sugoishojo]

orly? that's interesting (o o)

[iheartfamke]

ya rly!

just to be sure i checked on wikipedia (i know, really credible) and it also said that

[stravinskyrocks]

@SLACKER614 He was a tranny! (or is it "She was a tranny!" ?)

[FoxCasting]

Krazy Kat Is A Girl Cat!!

She's in Love w/ Ignatz

that's why he always throws

Bricks at Her!!Because he

wants no girl trouble...

[DantBelmont]

ok.....krazy kat is a guy...and ignatz is a guy, too. They're gay ??? o.o

[Shalomi]

yeah because affection can only be exchanged between sexual partners.

Dumbass.

[Pagali24]

You talks about the 60's adaption of this comic by Herriman (or was it Herryman?). It's the same I growed up with. I liked the show a lot.

[joeljack1]

I was growing up a child in the 60's and I would watch Krazy Kat cartoons. However, they had sound. I remember Ignatz, Officer Pup and Mrs. Quack Quack. I would love to see them again. Anyone know where to find them?

[hoekjrabbit]

I don't care what they say

i'm a KK n Ignatz Fan.

thanks for sharing this hidden

Golden treasures from the past.

[frackle]

Holy shit @ 2:18

[MurrayWeenr]

Hahahahahahahaahahahahahahahah­ah peeping tom mice

[SonicPsycho]

That was pretty random, almost krazy...

[firstpeter31822]

I love that cartoon! It's the oldest I've ever seen. I would love to find more like that.

[GOTHMIDNIGHTMERMAID]

Another old rare silent b/w cartoon short from the early 1910's! Cool...

[Reniercruzbaca]

Such a jewel!. I also want these in my pc

[rafikcc]

These are GREAT! Thanks for posting.

[ToonTownTerrorist]

Where can I find these? Seeing as how I appreciate them so much, I'd like to get these krazy Kat cartoons on my comp