Directed by: Chuck Jones Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Sniffles the mouse (voiced by Margaret Hill-Talbot) is recruited by his fellow rodents to place a bell on a cat’s neck. Cartoon Cat: The unnamed blue and white cat is chasing Sniffles and his friends (relatives?) […]
Directed by: Jason Lethcoe Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: An animated short set to the song That’s Love as sung by Janet Klein and her Parlor Boys. Cartoon Cats: A female kitty lies on her bed looking through romance magazines and wondering what is love. […]
Directed by: Stan Brakhage Synopsis: A silent experimental film in which footage of two men, two women and a gray cat are rapidly interspersed. Featured Feline: The cat, which is often seen out of focus, doesn’t do too much except sit around and occasionally be petted. The footage is interesting for its use of lighting, […]
Directed by: Del Lord Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains a spoiler for this film! Synopsis: The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard) try to get rich at the race track to help a homeless woman and her daughter. Kitty Cameo: The Stooges find the mother and daughter living […]
Gaumont British News Synopsis: Newsreel footage shows the latest fashions from America for women, cats and dogs. Reality Cats: After the segment showing off women’s fashions, the narrator explains that all this talk about fur is rather looked down on by those who wear their own fur coats and attend their own fashion shows, too. […]
Directed by: Walter Lanz Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: In this Bray Studios short, Dinky Doodle and his dog Weakheart sit with creator Walter Lanz to tune in to some fairy tale bed time stories on the radio. Cartoon Cat: Lanz takes the screen off […]
Synopsis: A Vitaphone short featuring oddities from across the United States. Kitty Cameo: One segment begins with a boy named Dickie McCollin of Salt Lake City holding a longhair tabby kitten in front of his face. This segues into a picture of a young lion named Rex. The boy, the son of lion tamer Ralph […]
Directed by: Dan Gordon Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: After sinking numerous enemy ships, Popeye is granted a month’s furlough which he hopes to spend at Olive Oyl’s house. But she takes off and leaves him with his nephews who are practicing their home defense […]
Directed by: T.R. Thumwood Synopsis: A promotional film for the Austin engine shows them being installed in a yacht which then takes a pleasure cruise along the Cornish coast. Reality Cats: While touring Mevagissey, two longhair black cats are sitting on the narrow street where the women are walking. Purr Blurs: Earlier in Polperro a […]
Directed by: Tex Avery Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A classic animated short rich in word play finds a hip guy (voiced by John Brown) trying to communicate with Noah Webster (also John Brown) to get into heaven. Cartoon Cats: As the hipster explains his […]