Krazy Kat Goes A-Wooing (1916)

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Krazy Kat is romantically in love with Ignatz the mouse. He flies a plane to court the dangerous mouse. There is an ongoing routine of Ignatz throwing bricks at Krazy Kat. After an extended serenade, our hero ends up at the bottom of a pile of said bricks. This is basically a curiosity. We aren't let in on any of the motivations for the actions. I've never even been sure of the sexes of the pair. This is a presentation of the Library of Congress. It is in remarkable condition. Once again the stark nature of these cartoons allows the animators to focus on small parts of the setting. Ignatz, once again, is pretty much a line drawing.

Krazy Kat Goes A-Wooing (1916) *** (out of 4) Silent animated short has Krazy Kat jumping into his plane and flying to his girlfriend's house but he has a surprise coming to him. This runs a very quick two-minutes so you can't expect too much of a story but the entire film is just a set up for the final act, which I found to be quite funny. The entire film has a cute element to it and I also found the animation to be quite nice. Those seeking a historic element will probably find this more entertaining than your normal animation fans but you can look at this and see a connection to future cat films like Felix and Tom and Jerry.

This is sort of amazing in that it's about as primitive a cartoon as you are likely to find. Made in 1916 with no music or sound-effects - pure silence - we see Krazy Kat flying his little airplane (with the propeller in back, which I've never seen before on any flying machine) - over to his girlfriend's house. Her name is "Ignatz." There are bubbles that give us some dialog, as in a comic strip you'd read in the newspaper or comic book. Dig this first "bubble" "This is my darlink Ignatz's house."Krazy Kat serenades her but gets no response. "Ignatiz, I am waitink," he says. I won't spoil the surprise ending except to say that "Ignatz" is a mouse. A cat serenading a mouse? Only in the cartoons!Actually, this cartoon which looks like it is out of the stone age, has a funny ending and is pretty clever. This was the best of three bonus "out of the vault" extras on disc one of the Popeye The Sailor Man 19433-1938 Volume One DVD.

Since the previous reviewer summed up what happens in this 2-minute cartoon, I'll just mention that Krazy also has some kind of flying contraption which he uses to fly to where he mistakenly thinks is Ignatz' house and he takes a guitar where you see visual notes whenever he plays some music. And in many of the word balloons, many of the words end with "ink" like "darlink". Since Zsa Zsa Gabor speaks like that, I half wonder if she learned English after moving from Hungary with her sisters by seeing films like this! Nothing much more to say except this film has a primitive charm that could interest animation history buffs. If you are interested in seeing this, it's easily available on YouTube (at least it was when I found it there).