That Felix is a Character

The silent era Felix the Cat can morph into all kinds of things, and he has a unique evolution in Japanicky (1928).

In his haste to hide from an angry traditional Japanese lord, he grabs a pictogram from a sign and turns himself into a character.

Felix wanders sideways, as a pictogram, to the lord and changes himself back.

There are some very nice settings in this cartoon and a neat literal gag where Felix gets some tea from a tree. The tea is the letter ‘T.’

Like all the Jacques Kopfstein Felixes, when sound was added, Felix indistinguished jabbers through the whole cartoon.