Alice Solves The Puzzle

Alice, at the beach with her cat, tries to solve a crossword puzzle when Bootleg Pete- a ruthless collector of rare crossword puzzles- sees that Alice's one is missing in his collection. But while trying to steal it, he does not include Alice's cat Julius in his calculation...

Alice, Bootleg Pete, Julius

Silent cartoon/live-action combination; this series combined a live-action girl with cartoon characters and backgrounds.

Bootleg Pete was a predecessor of Mickey's nemeses, Black Pete and Pegleg Pete. This was his first appearance.

This is the only silent cartoon known to have been officially censored. Scenes missing from prints in the United States: 1) A pelican pulls a mean-looking bear in a rowboat across the ocean. A customs inspector stops him, looks at the boat and lets him pass. The bear later makes the bird open its mouth and extracts a bottle of bootleg whiskey. 2) Alice's cat Julius drinks liquor. 3) Julius becomes too drunk to help rescue Alice from the bear. When the film was released in 1925, the Pennsylvania Censorship Board asked that these scenes be deleted.