Ain't She Tweet
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Directed by | I. Freleng |
Story by | Warren Foster[1] |
Produced by | Eddie Selzer |
Starring | Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet |
Music by | Carl Stalling |
Animation by | Ken Champin Manuel Perez Arthur Davis Virgil Ross |
Layouts by | Hawley Pratt |
Backgrounds by | Irv Wyner |
Color process | Technicolor |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Release date | June 21, 1952 |
Running time | 7:09 |
Language | English |
Ain't She Tweet is a 1952 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Friz Freleng.[2] The short was released on June 21, 1952, and stars Sylvester and Tweety Bird.[3]
The title is a play on the song "Ain't She Sweet."
Plot[]
Sylvester stands outside a pet store window, watching Tweety (singing "Fiddle-De-Di") in the display area. Tweety angers Sylvester who throws a brick at the window, after the bird goes over to a mouse and they laugh at him. However, upon seeing a cop walk up behind Sylvester, the would-be feline vandal runs in front of the brick and absorbs the blow.
As Sylvester is planning to cut through the glass window with a glass cutter, a deliveryman takes Tweety away, to be delivered to Granny's house. Sylvester follows the deliveryman and rushes into the yard, only to discover a whole army of bulldogs.
The rest of the cartoon contains Sylvester's attempts (all unsuccessful) to get at Tweety:
- Sylvester uses a stick with an imitation cat on it, but the bulldogs clobber it. Then he paces to think up another plan.
- Walking across a tree branch that extends from the outside to the house. Tweety saws the branch off and Sylvester waves goodbye and falls from the tree and Tweety starts laughing. (Tweety: "That puddy tat's got a pink skin under his fur coat!"). And Sylvester closed the gate, bruised, battered and lost most of his fur from the attack.
- Using stilts to walk harmlessly above the dogs. Tweety gives the dogs some tools to cut the stilts down to size; Sylvester tries a hasty retreat but ends up just short of the gate.
- Building a rocket, which simply sets the cat's fur on fire.
- Riding a bucket attached to a wire that he connected from a telephone pole to the edge of Granny's house. Unfortunately, Sylvester's weight is too heavy for the bucket's support, and the added weight lowers the bucket down to the horde of dogs, where they wait to beat Sylvester up.
- Waiting until the yard is empty and then walking unannounced to the house. The dogs run outside and tackle the cat. This time, Sylvester gets away, but before he can catch his breath, a kindly old man - thinking the puddy had simply wandered outside his home - throws him back into the yard (seemingly oblivious to the "Beware of Dogs" sign), where the dogs beat the cat up some more.
- Hiding in a package intended for Granny. The original contents are dog food, which has the dogs so eager. Granny does not take the package in to unwrap (as Sylvester had expected), instead she throws it to the dogs. As she watches the dogs tear open the package to get at their "food," Granny compliments on how hungry they were that she didn't have the chance to unwrap the package.
Finally, Sylvester decides to wait until the early morning to tip-toe silently through the yard. The alarm clock goes off at 4 a.m., awakening the dogs and pummeling the cat one last time.
References[]
- ^ Beck, Jerry (1991). I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat: Fifty Years of Sylvester and Tweety. New York: Henry Holt and Co. p. 110. ISBN 0-8050-1644-9.
- ^ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 237. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
- ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 151–152. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
External links[]
- Ain't She Tweet at IMDb
- Nuance and Suggestion in the Tweety and Sylvester Series - Written by Kevin McCorry
- English-language films
- 1952 films
- 1952 short films
- 1952 comedy films
- 1952 animated films
- 1950s American animated films
- 1950s animated short films
- 1950s English-language films
- 1950s Warner Bros. animated short films
- American films
- American animated short films
- American slapstick comedy films
- Looney Tunes shorts
- Films featuring Sylvester the Cat
- Animated films about birds
- Animated films about dogs
- Films about mice and rats
- Animated films set in the United States
- Short films directed by Friz Freleng
- Films scored by Carl Stalling
- Warner Bros. Cartoons animated short films