Felix the Cat - Felix Revolts - 1923
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@flyroc64 True, once re-elected, with campaign funds from the mouse trap industry, he'll go back on his promise, once again get rid of cats, which will make him and his cronies rich selling the traps. Cats will attempt to organize a "flea party" but will fail as being branded too traditional. Taxes will be placed on all traps sold, and users will need to obtain permits and training, as well as being subjected to periodic inspections, assuring lots of patronage jobs for mayor.
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Still...the mayor should know that cats are an important mass in the city.
I bet the decree at the end of the story was a part a is electoral campaign promises, back then.
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@flyroc64 Got it backwards comrade, if a capitalist doesn't want a cat he doesn't buy one, if a socialist doesn't want a cat he outlaws them. Mayor obviously a proto-Stalin/proto-Hitler. Cats had a service, to keep parasitic rats from taking hard earned fruits of labor of producers. (Rats want something for nothing sort of like occupy Wall Street crowd.) Mayor probably figured he could make citizens more dependent on his government with failed rat control bureaucracy that he'll keep funding.
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This story probably resonated strongly with audiences at the time; it's amazing how sympathetic to the working classes the popular entertainment was back then.
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@RossEStern This is probably pretty close to what actually would have accompanied this cartoon in a typical larger movie theater at the time, ie one with an organ.
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0:46 LOL got caught like Solid Snake XD
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omg
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The music is over doing it a bit
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Ughhh. they're committing an occupy movement! lol
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I tell ya, no appreciation for the working cat...
A beautiful way to win against Capitalism.
Love these old black and white gems.
flyroc64 1 year ago 6
I love felix.
OmenNeko 3 years ago 6