That Fly is a Fairy

Felix rescues a fly which turns out to be a Fairy in disguise and offers him any wish that he may make. After some consideration he wishes to be in Fairyland, and Presto, there he is!

That sums up Felix in Fairyland, a 1923 release by the Winkler Studio with some very inventive settings (in shades of grey), punctuation that appears on screen, words that dissolve and our hero morphing.

Anyway, here are a few drawings of the fly turning into a beautiful woman.



There’s no animation credit, just “M.J. Winkler presents a Pat Sullivan comic.” The creative hand of Otto Messmer gets no mention on screen. Felix would become a little more rounded in his design a year later.