Felix the Cat Switches Witches

Felix the Cat goes in search of a pretty cat on a Halloween evening and instead encounters a hideous witch.

This cartoon plays, as do so many of the Felix cartoons, with transformations. This was a typical gag of 1920s and early 1930s cartoons and it was facilitated by the rubber tube style of animation Certainly, the association of Halloween with creepy goings-on like turning toads into frogs or taking the back end of a horse and attaching it to a bicycle's front wheel plays with the concept in a novel and frightening, Frankensteinian theme in a silly fashion. Ideas like this and their offhanded execution where among the many reasons that Felix was the leading cartoon star of the 1920s.