A cat, a harmonica monkey, and the weirdest get-rich-quick scheme in animation history.
Oceantics starts with Felix walking while whistling. He sees a monkey playing a harmonica. After finishing, the monkey gets showered with coins. Felix then comes upon a billboard of a player piano.
Sound
Early sync sound experiments that go gloriously wrong.
Director
Otto Messmer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Oceantics captures the bizarre optimism of early sound cartoons, where any object could sing and poverty was just a wacky inconvenience.
Otto Messmer rarely spoke about his work, making Felix one of animation's most mysterious icons — this short might be his most unhinged fever dream.
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