Uncle Tom's Crabbin' (1927)

UNCLE TOM'S CRABBIN'  (1927)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Otto Messmer
A Felix the Cat cartoon in which Felix goes down South, where happy black folks play music and dance and a villainous white guy with a whip tries to lay down the law. As an exercise in racial stereotyping, it's not a product of its time as much as a throwback to the previous century, but at least Felix comes down on the side of the characters making the music and not the guy with the whip. And being a Felix the Cat cartoon, it's surreal. Watch the way a frying pan morphs into a banjo and then a unicycle and then a longbow and then a tennis racket, all in a couple of minutes. And LSD hadn't even been invented back then.