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Alice's Auto Race
Movie

Alice's Auto Race

1927 • Unknown

Woke Score
1
out of 10

Plot

Alice, Julius and Peter enter a road race. Pete, of course, tries to cheat by pulling such stunts as switching road signs, but Julius is on to Pete's tricks.

Overall Series Review

Alice's Auto Race is a silent-era cartoon from 1927, primarily featuring a live-action girl, Alice, and her animated companion, Julius the Cat, competing in a madcap road race against the villainous Pete. The narrative is a simple morality tale focused on competition and fair play versus dishonesty. Pete's attempts to cheat by switching road signs are thwarted, and Julius ultimately wins through ingenuity. Due to the film's age and simple, slapstick plot, it contains no discernible themes related to modern identity politics, civilizational self-hatred, gender ideology, or anti-theism. The conflict revolves entirely around the personal merit of winning a race honestly against the vice of cheating.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics1/10

The film’s central conflict is a universal good-versus-evil trope, with Julius the Cat's honesty and skill pitted against Pete’s cheating. Character value is judged purely on merit and moral action. The film is from 1927 and contains no content related to race, intersectional hierarchy, or the vilification of any immutable characteristics.

Oikophobia1/10

The plot is entirely focused on a lighthearted local sporting competition and individual rivalry. It does not engage with any criticism of Western civilization, home culture, or ancestors. The simple world of the cartoon is a neutral setting for the race.

Feminism1/10

The female lead, Alice, is one of the racers, demonstrating competence, but the main heroic action and victory belong to Julius the Cat. The narrative contains no elements of female perfection, male emasculation, or anti-family/anti-natal messaging. Men and women are presented as distinct but equal competitors in the race.

LGBTQ+1/10

As a 1927 silent animated short about an auto race, the film contains no references to sexual ideology, alternative sexualities, gender theory, or the deconstruction of the nuclear family. The presentation is entirely normative.

Anti-Theism1/10

The film is a secular cartoon about a simple race. It features no commentary on religion or Christianity, but the central moral theme—that cheating is wrong and the honest competitor wins—affirms an objective moral truth against dishonesty. Faith is not a plot point, but there is no hostility toward it.