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Sacramento California-1937: Felix the Cat Leaping Across Frame

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  • Year1937
  • Decade1930s
  • LocationSacramento, California, United States
  • Duration6s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1937 · Sacramento, California, United States
  • StatusDirect License

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Felix the Cat Leaping Across Frame — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1937, this vintage animation clip features Felix the Cat in a classic black-and-white silhouette style. A man in a top hat and coat sits on the floor as Felix leaps across the frame, interacting with a small object. The scene unfolds in a minimalist indoor setting with simple line-drawn furniture, showcasing the playful, slapstick humor characteristic of early 20th-century cartoons. The footage displays natural film grain and slight flicker, preserving the authentic look of a historic home movie.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format
8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details
Black & white
Resolution
4K restored master (MP4)
License
Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery
Instant Digital Download
Duration
6s
Price
$149 USD
Clip ID
127255249

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

  • People visible: No
  • Logos / trademarks: No
  • Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel
Reel record not linked for this clip
Date
1937 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence
Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location
Sacramento, California, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence
Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route
Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Topics & Keywords

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Useful for 1930s animation inserts, documentary cutaways, or editorial references to early cartoon exhibition captured on 8mm film.
Period detail
The frames show a black-and-white Felix the Cat cartoon style with sparse line-drawn furniture and a top-hatted figure, consistent with the supplied 1937 metadata.
Home-movie behavior
The value is in a home-movie record of filmed screen animation, showing what a private 8mm camera preserved from popular entertainment rather than a staged family scene.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include Felix the Cat, a top-hatted cartoon man, a small dark object, simple wall and floor lines, a door or fixture at left, and 8mm frame borders.
Film character
The clip carries a soft 8mm projection look with visible grain, flicker, mild exposure variation, dust, and contact-sheet frame spacing.
Edit role
An editor could use it as a brief cartoon insert, period entertainment cutaway, playful transition, or memory beat within a 1930s archival sequence.
Historical context
The footage documents an animated cartoon scene as preserved in a 1937 Sacramento home-movie context, but it should not be treated as proof of original cartoon release details.
Research note
No live people, likenesses, logos, or private property are visible, but cartoon copyright and underlying work rights should be reviewed separately from home-movie footage rights.
Research search match
Matches searches for 1937 8mm Felix the Cat animation, vintage cartoon home movie, 1930s black-and-white cartoon clip, and archival animated cat footage.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent frames from the same reel, then Sacramento or 1937 home-movie material, then other vintage animation or entertainment-screen recordings.

Still Frames From This Clip

1937 8mm frame from Sacramento metadata showing Felix the Cat jumping near a seated top-hatted cartoon man in a minimal line-drawn room.

Felix appears mid-leap behind a seated cartoon figure in a top hat.

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1937 Sacramento-linked 8mm frame showing the top-hatted cartoon man seated in profile with a small dark object on the floor nearby.

The cartoon figure sits while a small dark shape sits nearby on the floor.

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8mm frame from the 1937 Sacramento clip showing the cartoon man turned away from the viewer with a small dark object at right.

The figure turns away, with the small dark object still placed at the right side of the frame.

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Final visible 1937 Sacramento-linked frame showing the top-hatted cartoon man gesturing near the small dark object against a sparse drawn background.

The cartoon figure gestures toward the small dark object in a sparse interior setting.

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