Best Animation Movies of 1916

A man draws Captain Grogg on a hot air balloon flight.

Alice in Wonderland meets the Garden of Eden in this surreal fable of a drunk rabbit, bowling dwarfs, and the two bewildered girls of the title.

A hungry man tries to get in an accident to collect on his insurance.

Kapten Groggs and his companion Kalle sail to foreign shores, encountering wild animals, stormy weather, and friendly villains.

Krazy Kat tries to serenade Ignatz Mouse.

Mr. Nobody Holme can't get his car to start because it's too cold. Perhaps he needs something really *hot* to get it going!

Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse go to the circus and have some fun at the expense of a spectator.

Workman Dennis O'Shay finds a woman's lost purse and returns it to her, hoping it may lead to a new romance.

Bobby Bumps invited his black neighbor to join his "lodge." But first he has to be initiated. The neighbor cleverly avoids getting rammed in the behind by Bobby's goat, but as he's running away, finds himself in a precarious position with a wild bear. Bobby saved his friend, but quickly he finds himself in an even worse situation with the bear and needs the friend to return the favor. They both agree to be initiated together, and the final joke is on Bobby's poor goat.

Krazy Kat and Ignatz set out for the wilds on Krazy's bike; Krazy's promises to teach Ignatz about bugology. After crashing the bike into a tree, they come upon a bee (Krazy says it's sleeping, Ignatz says it's dead) and an elephant. Krazy works his magic on one of them, Ignatz on the other.

The setting has Krazy doing the serving and the cooking at a diner, flipping pan-cakes as Ignatz enters to ask for "goose giblets 'n gravy." This leads Krazy to show off some of his characteristic fascination with "woids;" while proceeding to fix the meal of his "dolink," he points out how many names that begin with the letter - oh yes you guessed it - "G."

A cartoon based on Charlie Chaplin's "Little Tramp", with Chaplin himself supplying some gags.

An animated cartoon

Farmer Al Falfa goes to New York, money bag in hand. He is immediately spotted by a crook who dispatches a fetching lady to shake him down. At a restaurant, she gets him drunk and lays him out with knockout drops. But what's in the bag is not what she is expecting, and she flees. The now-drunken farmer has stepped dizzily outside to acquaint himself with a lamppost when another sharper steps up and hauls him into a crooked card game. While prospects do not look good for Farmer Al Falfa, he has more tricks up his sleeve than the city slickers realize.

A little boy and his beloved puppy find themselves in and out of mischief.

A little boy and his beloved puppy find themselves in and out of mischief.

A little boy and his beloved puppy find themselves in and out of mischief.

Restless young Bobby Bumps is forced by his dad to practice playing the piano. He astutely allows his pet dog to take over for him.

Bobby Bumps is up to his usual mischief, trying skates to his sleeping father's shoes and then tipping off a humble book agent to ring the doorbell.

A caveman falls victim to a prehistoric prankster, but he is avenged by his pet chicken.

In this early Mutt and Jeff cartoon, Jeff - hes the short one and his full name is Edgar Horace Jeff - is feeling rather ill. His pal Mutt - the tall one, whose full name is Augustus J. Mutt - attempts to comfort him with unlikely and primitively funny results.

Silent cartoon. Like Max Fleischer's "Out Of The lnkwell" series, this film features various interactions between cartoon characters and a human hand.

There is no discernible plot in this alluring early animated effort, just the title mutt; a cigar-chomping cop; a drunk named Piffle; a flirtatious dog;! and a hungry cat.

Sir Henry Bonehead is poaching Farmer Alfalfa's "game preserve", stunning animals with the scent of his pipe tobacco and shooting at what he imagines to be goats but which turn out to be Alfalfa himself. That's the standard of humor in this early Paul Terry cartoon for the Bray studio.

Two-minute excerpt from one of the World War One propaganda series by Dudley Buxton and Anson-Dyer, featuring a lightning sketch of Kaiser Wilhem receiving a telephone call.

One of the series of World War I propaganda films, number unknown, featuring stop-motion animation of the character John Bull spicing up a carnival attraction by adding enemy heads of state as targets for a carnival game.

An animated film of the adventures of Wee Rob Roy.

Stop-motion and lightning sketch animated propaganda short from World War One, notably featuring a caricature of Chaplin defeating a zeppelin.

Charlie Chaplin cartoon short

Krazy Kat cartoon short

Unofficial Charlie Chaplin cartoon produced for Movca Film by S. J. Sangretti and animated by John C. Terry, G. A. Bronstrup, and Hugh Shields.

An early trickfilm created by Otto Messmer.

An animated cartoon

An animated cartoon