the shorts from 1922 to 1925, the year when Educational Pictures took over the distribution of the shorts. Sullivan promised them one new Felix short every two weeks. The combination of solid animation, skillful promotion, and widespread distribution brought Felix’s popularity to new heights.
References to alcoholism and Prohibition were also commonplace in many of the Felix shorts, particularly Felix Finds Out (1924), Whys and Other Whys (1927), Felix Woos Whoopee (1930) to name a few. In Felix Dopes It Out (1924), Felix tries to help his hobo friend who is plagued with a red nose. By the end of the short, the cat finds the cure for the condition: “Keep drinking, and it’ll turn blue.”
In addition, Felix was one of the first images ever broadcast by television when RCA chose a papier-mch Felix doll for a 1928 experiment via W2XBS New York in Van Cortlandt Park.