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However, Sullivan was drawing cartoons for Paramount Magazine by 1919 and later when he signed a contract as an animator with Paramount Studios in March 1920, one of the subjects specified in his curriculum vitae was a black cat named Felix who had first appeared in Paramount Magazine as a character named "Master Tom" in a cartoon series named ...
Felix the Cat, Messmer's best-known work. Otto James Messmer (/ ˈ m ɛ z m ər /; August 16, 1892 – October 28, 1983) was an American animator known for his work on the Felix the Cat cartoons and comic strip produced by the Pat Sullivan studio.
Felix the Cat sheet music, with music by Pete Wendling and Max Kortlander and featuring lyrics by Alfred Bryan, was published in 1928 by Sam Fox Publishing Company. The cover art of Felix playing a banjo was done by Otto Messmer. [31] Most of the early Felix cartoons mirrored American attitudes of the "Roaring Twenties".
This is a list of catgirls and catboys — characters with cat traits, such as cat ears, a cat tail, or other feline characteristics on an otherwise human body. The list excludes anthropomorphic cats (e.g. Hello Kitty , Top Cat , The Cat in the Hat ), humans dressed in cat costumes , and characters that fully transform between cat and human and ...
Mickey Mouse was the first cartoon superstar who surpassed Felix the Cat's popularity, but soon dozens of cartoon superstars followed, many remaining popular for decades. Warner Bros. had a vast music library that could be used in cartoons, and inspired many cartoons as well, while Disney needed to create the music for every cartoon.
The word "dumpster", first used commercially in 1936, [5] came from the Dempster-Dumpster system of mechanically loading the contents of standardized containers onto garbage trucks, which was patented by Dempster Brothers in 1935. [6] [7] The containers were called Dumpsters, a blending of the company's name with the word dump. The Dempster ...
Edward Lowe. Edward Lowe (July 10, 1920 – October 4, 1995) was an American businessman and entrepreneur, noted for the invention of cat litter. [1] The Small Business School described him as "building a huge business from nothing", [2] and cites him as a textbook example of an individual who "created a product, brought it to marketplace, invented an industry and sold his business for ...
Bertha (stylised as bertha, with a larger lower case "b") is a 13-episode British stop motion-animated children's television series about a factory machine of that name that aired from 1985 to 1986. All the characters were designed by Ivor Wood , and the series was produced by his company, Woodland Animations .