Trip for Tat
Trip For Tat | |
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Directed by | Friz Freleng |
Story by | Michael Maltese[1] |
Produced by | John W. Burton |
Starring | Mel Blanc June Foray (uncredited) |
Music by | Milt Franklyn |
Animation by | Gerry Chiniquy Tom Ray Virgil Ross |
Layouts by | Hawley Pratt |
Backgrounds by | Tom O'Loughlin |
Color process | Technicolor |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Release date | October 29, 1960 (US premiere) |
Running time | 6 min (one reel) |
Language | English |
Trip For Tat is a 1960 Merrie Melodies animated short starring Looney Tunes characters Sylvester, Tweety, and Granny.[2]
Although it contains a new plot, wherein Granny and Tweety travel to various locations (Paris, Swiss Alps, Japan, and Italy) while Sylvester tries to catch Tweety in every one, the cartoon is mostly made up of footage from previous cartoons. Here are the cartoons which the short borrows animation from, in order of appearance:
- Tweety's S.O.S. (1951): The entire boat sequence where Tweety tricked Sylvester into getting seasick and the piece of pork, further inducing the malady.
- Snow Business (1953): The sequence where Sylvester tries to catch Tweety on skis, but crashed into a tree.
- Tree Cornered Tweety (1956): The sequence where Sylvester is chasing Tweety right to the bridge scene, but when he sawed open a hole, he and the cut floorboard fall down from a great height and into a fisherman's boat in the river (with the American fisherman changed to a stereotypical Japanese fisherman).
- Tweet Tweet Tweety (1951): The sequence where Sylvester swings towards Tweety on a balcony while barely avoiding a construction pillar several times until he eventually got flattened.
- A Pizza Tweety Pie (1958): The final sequence where Sylvester eats spaghetti in the restaurant.
The only new animation in the short is at the beginning when the world tour is described to Granny, the finger painting sequence, when Sylvester is first in The Alps and Japan, and an alternate look of Tweety watching Sylvester sawing a hole on the bridge.
References
- ^ Beck, Jerry (1991). I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat: Fifty Years of Sylvester and Tweety. New York: Henry Holt and Co. p. 146. 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. 328. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
Categories:
- 1960 films
- Merrie Melodies short films
- American films
- English-language films
- 1960 short films
- 1960s American animated films
- 1960 animated films
- American animated short films
- Animated films about cats
- Animated films about birds
- Short films directed by Friz Freleng
- Films scored by Milt Franklyn
- Films set in Paris
- Films set in Switzerland
- Films set in Japan
- Films set in Italy
- Japan in non-Japanese culture
- Warner Bros. animated short films, 1960s
- Merrie Melodies stubs