Starring: Ginger and Garlic Directed by: Rishi Chandna Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A short subject documentary about a rooster living with the Bharde family in their Mumbai apartment. Featured Felines: The father of the family, Nusrat Bharde, explains how he bought a baby chick […]
Category Archives: Short Film
The Witch’s Cat (1929)
Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Snap the Gingerbread Man meets up with a witch and her black cat. Cartoon Cat: The black cat appears from a hole inside the witch’s tree and spies Snap standing outside. The cat loves gingerbread and bites Snap’s leg. Snap […]
So You Want to Play the Piano? (1955)
Directed by: Richard L. Bare Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: One of the Joe McDoakes Behind the Eight Ball series finds Joe (George O’Hanlon) trying to learn the piano. Kitty Cameo: While Joe is learning to play, several people come and go such as the […]
Catty Comments (1939)
British Pathé Synopsis: Newsreel footage features cats and kittens at the Paddington Cat Show in London. Reality Cats: The segment starts with some blue Persian kittens in a basket trying to climb out. A variety of cats are shown in close up. A Siamese cat struggles in its owner’s arms as the narrator says, “A […]
Nix on Hypnotricks (1941)
Directed by: Dave Fleischer Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Popeye has to rescue Olive Oyl before she falls into the clutches of a crazed hypnotist. Cartoon Cats: Prof. I Stare is first scene in his apartment trying to hypnotize a goldfish. Painted as part of […]
Hope (2018)
Directed by: Vishnu Viswanathan Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A little boy catches a fish and places it in a bucket where it longs for freedom. Featured Felines: A ginger tabby kitten appears and approaches the bucket. The kitten eyes the fish and tries to […]
Social-Sex Attitudes in Adolescence (1953)
Synopsis: From the Adolescent Development series of educational films, this short offer a look at the sexual development of a girl and a boy growing up in two different households. Cat Burglars (Scene Stealers): The boy is named Bob and his mother, a widow, is open and honest with Bob about the subject of sex, […]
Film Star Animals (1963)
British Pathé Synopsis: Newsreel footage showcases performing animals at the Cats’ and Dogs’ Drama School (F.A.C.T.S.) in Benson, Oxfordshire, England. Reality Cats: Many different animals are seen being trained. A fox cub is eating from a dish of food with a long-haired white cat with tabby markings. A black cat is sitting next to a […]
Odor-able Kitty (1945)
Directed by: Charles M. Jones Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A cat (voiced by Mel Blanc) disguises himself to avoid persecution and finds himself the focus of an amorous skunk. Cartoon Cat: The orange cat is first seen outside a butcher shop looking lovingly at […]
Derevo I Koshka (1983)
English Title: The Tree and the Cat Directed by: Evgeniy Sivokon Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A solitary tree is happy with its life and offers to teach a cat how to be the same. Cartoon Cat: The cat is thrown out of a wagon […]