Best Animation Movies of 1924

Koko the Clown discovers a machine that can make cartoons. Note that there's a re-released version of this short from the 1930s with added music and voice-work.

Felix gets into trouble with a tribe of Indians out west, and is chased by a bear.

Felix tries to catch Skiddoo.

A famished Felix reads an advertisement telling of a large reward for anyone that can give proof for the theory of evolution. He hurries to South Africa via Transatlantic Cable and interacts with the local animals. He angers a troop of monkeys by telling them why he's there (they're offended he would suggest they could be related to humans) and they chase him back through the cable to America.

Alice and her friends put on a show.

When a ball is accidentally knocked through the window of a neighbourhood haunted house, Alice is the only one brave enough to go inside to retrieve it. While she's in there she falls and bumps her head, sending her to a cartoon dream-world in which she rescues a cat and battles some spirits in a ghost town.

Alice misbehaves in school and is forced to sit in the corner. She falls asleep and dreams, but schoolwork intrudes even into her dreams. Alice dreams of dancing dogs and donkeys until her fun is interrupted by three walking schoolbooks.

The rats are out of control in Hamlin; they've taken over the kitchen, but when they take over the King's bedroom, that's the last straw. He posts a $5 reward, which the rats change to $5,000. Alice and Julius accept the challenge; they play a tune and the rats gather around, but they won't fall for the old "follow me into the river" trick. Fortunately, a very powerful vacuum cleaner is nearby, and Alice and Julius suck all the rats into it. The king gives them their reward: $5.

The Three Bears are busy cooking when Baby Bear realises his recipe requires hops. Naturally his first inclination is to go find some frogs to provide for him his hops, so he runs off and pursues a frog at the local pond. In the meantime Alice and her cat stumble upon the Three Bears' house and sneak inside (Ma and Pa Bear are nowhere to be seen).

Alice presides over a secret club which proposes to rid the town of dog catchers and free the dogs!

Ko-Ko Song Car-Tunes, Song Car-Tunes, or (some sources erroneously say) Sound Car-Tunes, is a series of short three-minute animated films produced by Max Fleischer and Dave Fleischer between May 1924 and September 1927, pioneering the use of the "Follow the Bouncing Ball" device used to lead audiences in theater sing-alongs. The Song Car-Tunes also pioneered the application of sound film to animation.

Ko-Ko the Inkwell Clown spends a vacation at a rubbery amusement park.

Ko-Ko the Inkwell Clown and a baby get caught in a hurricane.

Felix’s girlfriend desires a particular flower and wants Felix to get it for her. The only problem is that it’s on top of a 40,000-foot mountain.

Seeing a man about to eat a roast chicken, Felix uses pepper to make him sneeze it out of the house--but it's then grabbed by a snake. A kindly barber feeds Felix, though, and in gratitude Felix promises to replace the man's stolen barber pole. And he knows just where to get one--the North Pole.

Felix tries to capture an escaped hippopotamus.

Felix is turned down by a female cat he's after because he doesn't have the latest fashion style--a bobbed tail. In order to please her, he gets a bird to "bob" his tail by biting most of it off, but by the time he gets back to the girl, the fashion style has changed and long tails are back "in" again. Depressed, Felix is about to end it all when he stops a frog from eating a bug, who turns out to be a fairy princess who takes him to Fairyland, where further adventures await him.

Aesop's Fables Studio version of the animal Olympics.

Felix builds a soapbox derby.

Felix tries to nap dog kennel...

Cartoon short.

Cartoon short.

Cartoon short.

Cartoon short.

Felix is sick of hearing banjo music.

Cartoon short.

Trying to rustle up some breakfast, Felix tries to steal milk, chases a chicken to get her eggs and finally winds up fighting such sea creatures as a turtle, an octopus and a shark for food.

Cartoon short.

Animals learn how to do tricks by concentrating. Eventually, Farmer Al Falfa wants to try.

Felix helps the police catch a bank robber by hiding inside a money sack and leading the robber on a chase. He next helps nab a thief stealing sponges from a store by the imaginative use of a friendly elephant.

An Aesop's Fables cartoon with monkeys monkeying around.

Starving, Felix steals a hat pin and pawns it for some money to buy food, but a thieving mouse steals the money from him. Felix must get the money back from the mouse or go hungry.