Short Movie Cartoon
Felix the Cat Trifles with Time
- [writer unknown], directed by Otto Messmer
- (at movie theaters, USA, 23 August 1925)
Perhaps the first time travel in a theatrically released cartoon is Felix in “Trifles with Time,” where the silent, surreal cat negotiates with Father Time for a trip to a better age. After appropriate payment, Father Time obliges and Felix goes back to a stone age with dinosaurs. —Michael Main
A cat can’t live nowadays—turn me back to a better age, just for a day.
