A Charles Mintz Yarn

Margie is sitting on the front steps doing needlepoint in the Columbia/Charles Mintz cartoon Showing Off (1931). I don’t think the cat in this cartoon has a name but it does what you might expect from a cat in real life.

When it sees a ball of yarn, it looks at it, jumps back frightened, then bats it around and rolls around with it.



Unlike your average cat, this one swallows the whole ball. Cut to a close-up of Margie stitching her needlepoint, and the cat’s head comes through the fabric when Margie pulls the needle through.



The usual bunch—Dick Huemer, Art Davis, Sid Marcus and musical director Joe De Nat—appear in the opening credits of this Scrappy cartoon.