Early Silent Cartoons- Original Katzenjammer Kids in «Policy and pie» (1918) As well as showing the development of animation, these films also reveal the social attitudes of early twentieth-century America. The Captain gets a life insurance policy and gives it to his wife. In gratitude she makes him a pie. The Katzenjammer Kids play a trick on the Captain and sneak toads into his pie so that he would think his wife is trying to poison him. La Cava, Gregory, 1892-1952, direction, animation.