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Outdoor Indore is yet another disappointment from Felix's late era at the Pat Sullivan Studio. Felix tries to join the circus. He goes to the fire department and gets a hose, attachés it to the fire hydrant, and presents it to the ringmaster (Why, I don't know!). An angry fireman turns on the apparently stolen hose which douses Felix and sends him to India. He encounters a boy sucking on a huge peppermint stick. When Felix encounters him, the stick is now standing on the ground. The boy leaves and Felix grabs the stick which turns into a tiger's tail. The tiger chases Felix who turns into a cactus that the tiger passes. As the tiger stops, the cactus behind him turns back to Felix and takes the tiger's stripes which become a ladder! Felix climbs the ladder and with his glasses spots from afar a man playing a cornet which causes a snake to appear from his basket. Felix detaches his tail and plays it like a flute causing a snake each to appear in the two holes Felix is between. Felix jumps to a tree branch so that the snakes jump out of their holes to form a unicycle. On the unicycle, he sees a man driving a wagon with an exhausted elephant leading. Felix goes to the elephant to offer him a job at the circus where he will get adulation. The elephant accepts and he and Felix boards the next boat available. As the ship leaves, it leans heavily on the side the elephant and Felix are on making the captain on the other side furious. Felix tells the elephant to drink the water so he does. With all the seawater gone, they walk to the customs officer who is greeted by the elephant's seawater from his trunk! Felix and the elephant walk to the ringmaster who offers them a job. They are a hit with the audience as the film iris out. This might have been an attempt to make Felix more of a heartwarming character but it doesn't really work here. And the gags seem to have a "been there, done that" kind of feel, so lacking is the timing. Perhaps the sound era and Pat Sullivan's ailments are contributing factors to these disappointing last shorts. Certainly the competition from Disney and Fleischer couldn't have helped. After a few years, Felix would be gone but would be briefly revived by Van Buren and then fully revived by the late '50s on television for a new audience.

Felix finds himself in another foreign port; this time it appears to be India. There are the usual obligatory Indian stereotypes: snake charmers, elephants, tigers, et. al. Felix decides that a mistreated elephant will be his ticket to the big show, the circus. There are a couple of those bizarre visuals, like using the stripes from a tiger as a ladder, but most of this is pretty tired.

In the sound era, many silent cartoons had sound retroactively added to them and it's usually easy to tell because it was done so sloppily. This cartoon is about the worst example of one of these I can think of, as Felix the cat doesn't talk but jabbers almost non- stop in a very annoying manner. It really is terrible.

The film begins with Felix being blown across the ocean by a hose. He lands in an odd land with black people and tiger(??). Soon he sees an elephant being tormented by some jerk and Felix convinces the elephant to come back to America so he can be in the circus. Together the two make up a very impressive and strange act!

Apart from the terrible sound effects, there is a lot of eye rolling in this one...and I have no idea why. But the rest of the cartoon is quite clever and cute. I give this one a 5 and if you can either find one without sound OR turn off your TV volume, I'd give this one a 6 or 7!