A Tale of Two Kitties
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A Tale of Two Kitties

A Tale of Two Kitties

6.8/ 10

TMDB Rating

49

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1942

Release Year

8 min

Runtime

Animation
Comedy

Overview

Two alley cats, Babbitt and Catsello, decide to make a meal out of Orson as he sleeps in his nest atop a telephone pole. The gullible (and loud) Catsello is repeatedly gulled into trying to "get the bird," earning a variety of thrashings from the casually murderous little canary. Catsello finally resorts to an air strike (with a pair of wooden boards for wings), but it's wartime, and Orson has the cat blasted out of the sky by anti-aircraft guns.

Keywords

hays code
cartoon
breaking the fourth wall
cartoon cat
homage
celebrity caricature
anvil
self-censorship
cartoon bird
film censorship
short film
wartime propaganda

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Reviews(1)

6.0avg rating
CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

April 4, 2022

6
6/10

"Babbit" and "Costello" try just about everything to catch "Tweety Pie" who is safely ensconced in his nest atop a tall tree. Dynamite, stilts, springs, water pistols and just about everything else are in their armoury but it doesn't look good for the "poor puddy cat". An anvil and a pitch fork ...

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