Trivia

Winsor McCay worked four years, made 4000 drawings and hand-colored the 35mm frames.

This is the oldest animated short film to be preserved at the National Film Registry.

Released as a split reel along with the documentary Bob Sledding (1911).

This short contains rare surviving footage of rotund actor John Bunny, regarded as the cinema's first comedy superstar. He is almost forgotten today and even some books on silent comedy fail to even mention his name.