Underplayed Gems

Feather Duster (1925)

Feather Duster poster
Directed by
Bill Nolan
Genre
silent film
Country
United States
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The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This is a silent animated short featuring Krazy Kat. The character gets into a series of comic misadventures.

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What happens

The Feather Pushers is a short animated film featuring Krazy Kat, appearing in January of 1926. It is one of the few Krazy films directed by Bill Nolan who started the third season after the character had two runs previously. It has occasionally been mis-cited as Feather Duster for 1925, but no film by that name appears in the 1925 film magazines or in books about Krazy Kat, but The Feather Pushers appears in January. The release date is also sometimes written as April, but Motion Picture News announced it as a January release. It is not known whether the name is a sendup of a popular boxing series beginning in 1922, The Leather Pushers. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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