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Oceantics starts with Felix walking while whistling. He sees a monkey playing a harmonica. After finishing, the monkey gets showered with coins. Felix then comes upon a billboard of a player piano. Across the street is a grocery. In the display window is swiss cheese. Felix takes a background door of a house far away and transfers it to a small wall under the big grocery window and uses the door to get the cheese! He then takes the cheese and, using a knife, slices it to resemble a piano sheet roll. While the music plays on the billboard piano, Felix dances and so does some clothes from a Chinese laundry. The laundry's proprietor does not like this so he chases Felix. The cat gets away and discovers a ship about to board. A goat is on it eating soup. He later entertains the sailors dancing just before an anchor does the same. Felix is, of course, the anchor. He then gets up the sail line and plays the lines like a harp. The goat is so jealous he cuts the pole that Felix is on. The goat then chases Felix through two portholes. Felix takes one of the portholes and throws it outside the ship! Felix goes through the outside porthole as the goat chases him from the one on the ship. After Felix comes out of the outside porthole he puts it back on the ship and repositions the other one so the goat will miss it coming out of the other one! This goes on for awhile. Felix is finally thrown off and when he lands back on the ground, two birds in imaginary clouds above his head chirp contentedly. Felix grabs those birds and gives them to the pet store where he gets some reward money. The short ends as it began with Felix whistling while walking. By this time, Mickey Mouse was already a phenomenon while Felix was fading. Still, this entry is pretty entertaining and music and sound effects synchronization is okay for the early sound era. Check this out if you're both a Felix or animation buff.