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- A starving actor, reduced to trying his luck in the movies, travels to Hollywood. His cat, Felix, poses as a travel bag and comes along.
- Alice visits an animation studio, where the animators show her various scenes on their drawing boards. A few of them: a cat dancing to a cat band; a mouse poking at a (live) cat until it moves; a couple mice boxing, while the animators crowd around cheering and acting as corner-men. That night, she dreams of taking a train to cartoon-land, where a red carpet reception awaits. She appears in live action. They have a welcoming parade, with Alice riding on an elephant. The cartoons dance for her, and she dances for them. Meanwhile, the lions break out of the zoo. The lions chase her into a hollow tree, then into a cave and down a rabbit hole. Finally, she jumps off a cliff and awakes back in her bed.
- Rhythm 23 (Rhythmus 23, 1923) is an extension of the same film but with more angles and overlays added, and adding lines rather than adhering to the squares of the original. It looks so similar that the academic argument that both "21" and "23" were made in 1923 looks rather likely. Richter himself at some exhibitions showed these two together as a single film called Un film de Hans Richter. The hand-colored Rhythm 25 (Rhythmus 25, 1925) was the final "chapter," but it does not survive."
- A partly-animated short film, a fairy-tale-like telling of why the nightingale only sings at night. A young girl who has caught a nightingale dreams about the nightingale and its mate, and comes to realize that birds are not made to be captive but free. In return for its freedom, the nightingale loans the child its voice for use in the daytime, which is why nightingales only sing at night.
- Max goes to bed, leaving Ko-Ko at the peak of a steep mountain. Ko-Ko doesn't stay perched for long, and soon finds himself battling strong winds and upsetting a giant, before entering the real world to exact his revenge on a sleeping Max.
- Felix is trying to get some sleep in a graveyard, but keeps getting bothered by a ghost. He follows the ghost to the house of an old farmer, and the ghost proceeds to terrorize the old man, and when the farmer calls for help from the police, the ghost terrorizes them, too. Felix, however, suspects something fishy is going on, and with the help of the farmer's donkey, gets to the bottom of things.
- After enduring various indignities by the human population in town, including getting beaten up by the fish market owner and forced to eat hot mustard by a customer in a restaurant, Felix finally breaks when he hears the mayor give a speech vowing to drive all cats out of town. Felix gathers his feline friends and stages a revolution to restore cats to their rightful place in society.
- Felix is reading a book about Fairyland, and decides that it must be a wonderful place to be. Suddenly he hears a cry for help, and finds a fly stuck on a piece of flypaper. He rescues the insect, only to have it turn into a beautiful fairy princess who, in gratitude for his help, grants him one wish. He wishes he were in Fairyland, and is immediately transported there.
- Ko-Ko is chased by a cartoony spider while Max deals with a mouse in his office.
- Felix spots a fisherman on his way to his fishing spot, and figures he can follow the guy and grab a quick lunch by stealing his catch. Although he successfully nabs a few fish, the angler catches on and finally captures Felix. To get his revenge, he sends Felix through the telephone wires ("broadcasted") to Egypt, and Felix finds out that the Egyptians don't want him there, either.
- Bored with life in town, Felix sees an opportunity for some excitement when a traveling circus passes through, so he joins up. One day he overhears the Skeleton Man propose to the Fat Lady, then change his mind because she's too fat. Felix decides to help her lose weight so the Skeleton Man will marry her, but this results in the ringmaster getting angry with Felix and firing him. Felix comes up with a plan to force the circus to re-hire him.
- Colonel Heeza Liar jumps off the drawing board and into the real world to track down a stolen rooster.
- An illustration of the basic principles of Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.
- A wife throws her husband out of the house, telling him not to return unless he brings her a fur coat. Deciding that the only way he'll get one is to make his own, he grabs his rifle and goes hunting. All his efforts fail, though, until he meets Felix, who offers to help him shoot rabbits, and impresses the man with his marksmanship skills. However, it turns out that shooting the rabbits isn't quite as easy as they thought it would be.
- Max tries to work on a jigsaw puzzle, but the Inkwell Clown is up to his usual mischief. Max follows the clown into the cartoon world and finds himself trapped in a tunnel and searching for an escape.
- Max tries to scare a fortune teller while she gives Ko-Ko a card reading. Ko-Ko is haunted by evil spirits in the cartoon world and escapes to cause some mischief in Max's house, but faces the fortune teller's curse.
- Harry Hippo spends every night at the pub, ignoring his wife and kids. When Harry finally staggers home, his angry wife doesn't want him anymore, driving him out with a rolling pin. Bill suggests that Harry's wife would take him back if he made her jealous... a plan that involves Bill posing as Harry's mistress. Uh-oh.
- The Inkwell Clown helps Max roll a cigarette, and then becomes a firefighter to put out a lit match. As a firefighter, the clown battles with his own equipment (and accidentally facilitates a prison break) in the line of duty.
- A sportive and elegant monkey with magical powers defends himself, and then with the help of a policeman, against the robber who assaults his house.
- Felix organizes a dance contest for hens, but runs afoul of the chicken farmer because the hens aren't meeting their egg quotas. The farmer captures Felix and makes him dig his own grave before he "does him in", but at the last moment an unexpected event results in Felix avoiding his death sentence.
- Walter Lantz is playing "Yes We Have No Bananas" on his guitar, before a co-worker presents him with a banana that transmogrifies into Colonel Heeza Liar, who tells how he ended "the great banana famine in 1923."
- The Inkwell Clown endeavors to reach his sweetheart at the top of a cliff, but the two must save each other when their cartoon landscape is flooded by an ink hose. Max wears a blindfold to meet a surprise visitor and wanders off the roof.
- Boy is drawing cartoons with live animal models. The chick is causing havoc. In the cartoon, firefighter Bobby Bumps with his dog Fido are called. There are various live-action animals. Bobby gets into trouble and goes to the hospital.
- Felix and his friend little Sammy Johnson are playing baseball when they discover a map that leads to the undersea treasure of Lizzie the Pirate Queen. Building their own submarine, they slip beneath the waves in search of the treasure, and meet up with a variety of undersea creatures, including the most dangerous of all--the loan shark.
- The Inkwell Clown goes for a balloon ride. Later, Max's studio is filled with so many balloons that it floats away.
- Lemuel Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput and attempts to prevent war between that tiny kingdom and its equally minuscule rival Blefuscu.
- A lanky traveling salesman enlists the acrobatic assistance of a cat and a mouse to trick Farmer Al Falfa into buying a headache remedy.
- A cat and mouse duo score an illicit bottle of booze, but their attempts to uncork it lead to misadventure.
- In a spoof of the 1920s mantra "every day in every way, I'm getting better and better", a cat goes around a farm with a self-help book preaching the mantra to animals with troubles -- a hen that won't lay eggs, a mouse with a plant that won't grow, a rabbit being chased by dogs, three lame mice, a wheelchair-bound monkey -- and cures them. But crotchety old Farmer Al Falfa, who's sick with the flu, rejects the cure -- at first.
- A mouse's girlfriend is kidnapped by a vicious cat. The boy mouse sets out to rescue his sweetheart from the clutches of the evil feline.