Eskimotive (1928) Online

One of the Felix bits is to be doing something and end up in a totally foreign land. Chasing a bubble he has blown with Felix, Jr. in it, causes them to end up in a frozen land with polar bears, seals, and other snowy creatures. He is chased and he chases and nothing seems to get to him. He does some of the surreal stuff at times, always looking to his surroundings. Not the best but not bad.

When the cartoon begins, Felix and Felix Jr. are blowing bubbles. However, one of the bubbles is huge and Jr. gets caught inside. The bubble is blown away and ends up some place near the North Pole. Felix soon arrives and the pair have a variety of adventures being chased by polar bears and seals. In the end, Felix manages to make a few bucks off the seals...and its implications are a bit gruesome.

This is a reasonably enjoyable later Felix cartoon. The humor is pretty weird and enjoyable. However, it should be noted that the sound was all added much later as this was actually a silent cartoon originally. Because of that, the sound effects aren't great...though they were added a bit better than in some Felix cartoons (such as in "Indore Outdoor", also made in 1928).

Felix and his lady love are blowing bubbles. She gets trapped in one that floats off and Felix pursues it and her to the far north.

Unusually for Felix, the background art work is very important and far more ornate than usual, with ornately drawn frozen landscapes and watery depths. Both are played with by use of blackouts, in which only Felix' eyes are a black blob of undersea life is visible. The usual transformations are also handled in a different manner, as the bubbles freeze in the far north and become impenetrably hard. Although not among the best of the Felix the Cat cartoons, the gags are, as usual imaginative and unexpected, rendering this a typically fine effort from the Sullivan studio.