# Fiendishly obscure question: Identify this \[snip of a \] cartoon (1930s?, cats, skunks) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** cartoons-animation\ **Created:** [October 3, 2023, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fiendishly-obscure-question-identify-this-snip-of-a-cartoon-1930s-cats-skunks/991052 "2023-10-03T14:31:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2023, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fiendishly-obscure-question-identify-this-snip-of-a-cartoon-1930s-cats-skunks/991052/1 "2023-10-03T14:31:25Z")
From the “My Three Sons” episode [Tramp and the Prince](https://archive.org/details/my-three-sons-s-05-e-03-the-practical-shower/My+Three+Sons+++S05+++E31+++Tramp+And+The+Prince.mp4). You can see a snip of a cartoon starting at about 24:09. BTW: There is a website called “The Big Cartoon Database,” which had a forum for identifying half-remembered cartoons, and those experts were pretty good. I’ve been trying for years to re-enlist, but I can never get thru, so if anyone is a member of can access it, they might be a good resource. ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2023, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fiendishly-obscure-question-identify-this-snip-of-a-cartoon-1930s-cats-skunks/991052/2 "2023-10-03T14:47:16Z")
I almost want to say that’s an early depiction of Felix the cat, as a baby. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2023, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fiendishly-obscure-question-identify-this-snip-of-a-cartoon-1930s-cats-skunks/991052/3 "2023-10-03T16:38:00Z")
I did about 15 minutes of searching, and Felix the Cat is the closest thing I found to the cartoon depicted in the show. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2023, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fiendishly-obscure-question-identify-this-snip-of-a-cartoon-1930s-cats-skunks/991052/4 "2023-10-03T17:54:23Z")
I think the website is now _[Disneyshorts.org](http://Disneyshorts.org)_ It’s more than Disney made cartoons. I haven’t been there in awhile. I assume it’s still up. ETA: I just looked and it’s not available ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2023, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fiendishly-obscure-question-identify-this-snip-of-a-cartoon-1930s-cats-skunks/991052/5 "2023-10-03T17:58:12Z")
The cat in the skirt at the end looked like an [early version of Krazy Kat](https://www.hakes.com/Auction/ItemDetail/77956/KRAZY-KAT-C-1920s-RARE-CELLULOID-PIN-DEPICTING-THE-CHARACTER-IN-A-DRESS) to me. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2023, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fiendishly-obscure-question-identify-this-snip-of-a-cartoon-1930s-cats-skunks/991052/6 "2023-10-04T01:30:25Z")
Not a Disney cartoon. Unlikely to be Warner Brothers. That’s **not** a cat. The figure has a rag wrapped around it’s head. _Might be_ a racial stereotype, & a nasty one. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2023, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fiendishly-obscure-question-identify-this-snip-of-a-cartoon-1930s-cats-skunks/991052/7 "2023-10-04T12:55:36Z")
Consistency was not a feature of early Felix the Cat cartoons. These cats are drawn like him, the one sitting in the bleachers next to a duck in the second part of the clip looks very much like some depictions of Felix. This cartoon may have been drawn by Otto Messmer, Pat Sullivan or other animators working with them. A [sample cartoon in this wiki article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_the_Cat) shows the early style of Felix with more distinctive pointed ears. Racist depictions pervaded early Felix cartoons and much of animation at the time as Blackface had already cartoonized the faces of ‘Black’ people in culture.