Krazy Kat - Ratskin (1929) Opening Title & Closing (Tom and Jerry Vol.15)

A Columbia Cartoon Release On August 15, 1929

The 1963 Krazy Kat series was closer to Herriman's comic(1913-1944)but how many cartoon viewers then knew anything about the comic strip. Personally, the 1963 cartoons gave me a foundation when I found and read many old and new Krazy Kat collections in my later years.

The International Film Service and Bray Krazy Kat cartoons were good however once Bill Nolan began directing them in 1925 they started to feel like ripoffs of Felix cartoons the Krazy Kat cartoons began to dig their own grave the dug their grave more when Ben Harrison and Manny Gould started directing them in 1927 and then dug their grave even more when the series switched to sound in 1929 Krazy started to have a Mickey-ish personality when the series switched to sound the series eventually just became a big mess until 1936 when Screen Gems finally started to notice that nobody liked the cartoons and decide to make a Krazy Kat cartoon like the Herriman comic strip however the cartoon was hated and went back to the cartoons with Krazy having a Mickey-ish personality with the only Screen Gems Krazy Kat cartoon that was actually like Herriman’s strip being “Lil’ Ainjil” (1936) the Krazy series ended in 1939 the last Krazy Kat cartoon was “Krazy’s Shoe Shop” (1939) and the last short featuring him was “The Mouse Exterminator” (1940) which was part of the Phantasy series the Krazy Kat comic strip ended in 1944 the same year as Herriman’s death the Krazy Kat cartoons eventually restarted in 1962 for TV by Gene Deitch and when Deitch started making Krazy Kat cartoons the Krazy Kat cartoons undug their grave as they started to return to Herriman’s format the series ended in 1964

@No-hd4cg The Krazy Kat cartoons by Bill Nolan are also very good, even if they are not at all faithful to the comic book. And the 1929 Krazy Kat's are definitely not Mickey Mouse imitations, the character design is unique and totally different from what Disney did and Krazy Kat is much more violent than Mickey. Krazy Kat's cartoons did not begin to imitate Disney until the Mintz studio moved to California in February 1930, at which time a permanent girlfriend was added even though Krazy did not have one originally. From that point on, Mintz's cartoons became bland plagiarisms of Disney.

Yeah, annoying people on the screen!

mitchell aben is that joke they made?

@@UnitheCatbird Not sure! -_-

@@UnitheCatbird This was actually a private screening of the cartoon. That scene wasn't meant as a joke.

@@rourou4408 ah!

107 years old! Krazy Kat debuts as a five-panel daily vertical strip which runs down the side of a full comics page. This remains its daily format until sometime in 1920.

@@MitchellAben No no no, I'm saying was is he a kid or a teen or a adult in this cartoon

@@MitchellAben Like This Is What I'm Saying, How Old Were They When The Comic Stripts Began (1913) My Geuss: Comics - 13 Or 14 Cartoons - 10 Or 12

Jade1Jade Hmm... idk!

@@MitchellAben what r ur geuss?

Exactly on many Columbia cartoon shorts.

@@MitchellAben i just want to if krazy kat a boy?

@@jollymixels4258 He is too.

In the original comics I’m told Krazy Kat doesn’t have a gender 😅

@@Selbarm whaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Charles Mintz became indebted to Columbia and sold the studio to them just before he passed away. Columbia already had an stake of ownership of the studio before the sale.

No one asked.

Krazy's older (first appearance was in 1910, and officially in 1913)