Felix the Cat is the newest cartoon character to appear on the movie screen in a 1919 film short called Feline Follies. Devised by Australian cartoonist Pat Sullivan, Felix is popular for several years through the silent film era, and then in a reincarnation on television in the fifties and sixties.

A revolutionary new school of art is formed in Germany by architect Walter Gropius. It is called The Bauhaus School, and its goal is to combine visual arts, crafts, and architecture to design a new artistic approach to design that is suitable for a new industrial age. A couple of examples of “Bauhaus architecture.”

In April 1919, New Orleans-style jazz music arrives in Europe as the Original Dixieland Jazz Band debuts in London. THe group had already enjoyed great success in New York City from 1917 on.