Not-Felix the Cat is the star again. Alice shows up standing on the back of an elephant.

 

 

I wonder if this will make sense to anyone in 100 years. It barely makes sense now. You have to know that the cat's neck, in cartoons, is capable of going through a telescope, even if it utterly defeats the purpose of having a telescope.

 

 

Enter the smaller, clothed elephants.

 

 

Did you know celery grew in the jungle? It must:

 

 

That's right: the pernicious effect of celery on loose elastic, as demonstrated by the work of Art Frahm, makes the female elephant's underwear falls down.

 

 

 

The plot has completely forgot about Alice, you think: but no! She's bothered by a lion:

 

 

The cartoon plays with the conventions of the genre, with characters grabbing the question marks that appear over their heads, shattering words that do not exist except as stand-ins for vocalized expressions, and so on. I suspect this got old pretty quickly. It had to be done with novelty, with a clever twist.

This is not that. The lion is staring daggers at Not-Felix the Cat, and shoots a series of small knives from his eyeballs:

 

 

 

 

This is followed by a disturbing image: Not-Felix reaches into the lion's mouth and pulls him inside out.

 

 

 

 

Yeesh. But the other lions are angry, and give chase. What to do?

 

 

 

You'll note that Alice is in animated form again. The problem with these shorts: after a few examples, the novelty is gone, and there's not much they do with her. She stands on the back of animals, runs around, then jumps and down and claps, and that's about it. Technical limitations of the era being what they were, it's not an aesthetic criticism, but it might explain why few people, having seen these once, ever say "gosh, I feel like an Alice cartoon marathon tonight."