Cat Tail For Spring

The only real puzzle in Alice Solves the Puzzle (1925) is why did the cartoon have a superfluous diving scene in the middle of it?

Bootleg Pete wants Alice’s half-completed crossword puzzle and chases her up a lighthouse. Julius comes up with a rescue idea. He’ll use his tail as a spring to vault himself to the top of the lighthouse.



There’s a fight for Alice’s honour. Or her crossword puzzle. Anyway, Henry, uh, Felix, uh, Julius, knocks the bear into the sky. Being a Disney cartoon, there is naturally a butt impaling gag.



Alice actually does solve the puzzle in a cute little ending that was switched a bit in The Major Lied ‘Til Dawn at Warners about a dozen years later.