Tweet and Lovely
Tweet and Lovely | |
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Directed by | Friz Freleng |
Story by | Warren Foster[1] |
Produced by | John W. Burton, Sr. (uncredited) |
Starring | Mel Blanc |
Edited by | Treg Brown |
Music by | Milt Franklyn |
Animation by | Virgil Ross Gerry Chiniquy Art Davis Harry Love (effects animation, uncredited) |
Layouts by | Hawley Pratt |
Backgrounds by | Tom O'Loughlin |
Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
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Running time | 6 minutes |
Language | English |
Tweet and Lovely is a 1959 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng.[2] The short was released on July 18, 1959, and stars Tweety and Sylvester the Cat.[3]
Plot[]
Sylvester (who lives in an apartment building next to Tweety's yard) hears Tweety singing and looks through the window with his telescope. Tweety sees him, grabs a towel, exclaims "I taw I taw a peeking tom cat!", and shuts the door after saying "That nasty old peeking tom cat!".
Sylvester sees Spike the bulldog sleeping next to the pole that holds Tweety's birdhouse. He sneaks and climbs the pole. Hector awakens and pulls him down. Sylvester smiles and pushes Hector's straight face into a happy face, but Hector changes his face to furious and chases him back to his apartment.
Sylvester uses a grabber to grab Tweety. Tweety avoids it until Hector climbs up a ladder and uses the grabber to knock Sylvester repeatedly against the wall, while Tweety scolds Sylvester saying, "Bad Old Puddy Tat!".
Sylvester builds a robot dog, but it attacks him, so he destroys it with a baseball bat.
Sylvester makes a smoke bomb and dashes into the smoke-covered yard, bumping into Hector, who then pounds him before sending him out of the yard.
Sylvester uses a pogo stick to approach Tweety's birdhouse, passing Hector and grabs Tweety. As he is about to pogo away, Hector opens a manhole. Sylvester falls in and he nicely makes Tweety escape but, Hector drops the lid with 4 holes on Sylvester's head.
Sylvester makes a storm cloud formula to prevent Hector from coming, but he trips, creating a storm in his room instead.
Sylvester makes himself invisible using vanishing cream, hits Hector with a brick and grabs Tweety. As Sylvester climbs down the pole, Tweety wonders why he is floating. Hector sprays Sylvester with green paint, forces him to give him Tweety and punches the cat out of the yard.
On the night, In a final attempt to get ride of Hector, Sylvester makes a bomb camera, but the stairs are too dark as Sylvester trips down causing it to explode. Sylvester appears with angel wings, ripped up the blueprints saying "Hmph! It's a good thing pussycats have got 9 lives". Sylvester left the building. The End.
References[]
- ^ Beck, Jerry (1991). I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat: Fifty Years of Sylvester and Tweety. New York: Henry Holt and Co. p. 144. 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. 317. 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.
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- 1959 films
- English-language films
- 1959 short films
- 1959 comedy films
- 1959 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 fantasy-comedy films
- American slapstick comedy films
- Merrie Melodies short films
- Films featuring Sylvester the Cat
- Animated films about birds
- Animated films about dogs
- Films set in apartment buildings
- Short films directed by Friz Freleng
- Films scored by Milt Franklyn
- Warner Bros. Cartoons animated short films
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