We’ve reached into our magic bag of tricks to bring you some excerpts from the original Felix the Cat cartoons.

Excerpt from an animated film featuring Felix the Cat titled Felix Revolts (1920).

Felix meets a penguin, seal, and polar bear at the North Pole.

This clip is an excerpt from the animated short by Pat Sullivan and Otto Messmer, Felix Turns The Tide (1922).

Using stop motion and two colourful, crocheted and endearing lead characters, directors Andrew Goldsmith and Bradley Slabe and producer Lucy Hayes spent four years making Lost and Found, w

In the early years of the 20th Century, Marconi revolutionised communication, Queen Victoria died, and Australia federated.

This is a clip from the multi-award winning, hand-drawn animation The Orchestra, by Mikey Hill.

Enjoy a comprehensive selection of Australian animated short films in our new curated collection.

This clip is from The Lost Thing, which started as a picture book written and illustrated by Shaun Tan.

There are over 1,000 Australian animated short films in the NFSA collection, with the earliest here dating back to the 1920s.