The Non-Stop Fright is a 1927 animated short film by Pat Sullivan Studios featuring Felix the Cat.
Inside a house, Felix is lying flat on the floor and appears to be dead.
This is what the maid of the house thought as she sweeps Felix into a dust pan and dumps him in the trash bin just out the window.
In the paper, he reads an ad telling whoever could fly to Timbuktu shall be awarded a prize money of $50K.
Things were going smoothly until pesky birds and lightning storms force him to fly lower.