Sacramento California-1937: Felix The Cat – An Animation Clip

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Year1937
Decade1930s
LocationSacramento, California, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1937 Sacramento California

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Felix The Cat – An Animation Clip — 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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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.

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

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.

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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