Freudy Cat
Freudy Cat | |
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Directed by | Robert McKimson |
Produced by | David H. DePatie (uncredited) |
Animation by | Ted Bonnicksen Warren Batchelder George Grandpré |
Layouts by | Robert Gribbroek |
Backgrounds by | Robert Gribbroek |
Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Running time | 7 minutes |
Freudy Cat is a 1964 Looney Tunes animated short starring Sylvester and Sylvester Jr.. A paranoid Sylvester flashes back to earlier cartoons such as Who's Kitten Who?, Cats A-Weigh!, and The Slap-Hoppy Mouse while describing to a psychiatrist that he thinks Hippety Hopper is out to get him.
Soundtrack Anomaly
The cartoon is unusual in that it mixes a new soundtrack by Bill Lava with music by Carl Stalling (while alive in 1964, he had retired six years earlier), which is heard during the original shorts that make up this cartoon. That results in a schizophrenic soundtrack (whether this was intentional, given the plot of a mentally unbalanced Sylvester visiting a psychiatrist, isn't known, but it is possible). Even more unusual is that certain prints of the cartoon contain stock music pieces by Philip Green that play over numerous areas of the cartoon without removing the old soundtrack, creating a rather dissonant, overbearing "new" soundtrack.
Notes
- This was the last theatrical appearance of both Hippety Hopper and Sylvester Jr.
- Looney Tunes shorts
- Warner Bros. Cartoons animated short films
- American short films
- American films
- 1964 films
- Films directed by Robert McKimson
- 1960s American animated films
- Films scored by Carl Stalling
- 1964 animated films
- American animated short films
- Films about animals
- Animated films about animals
- Films about cats
- Animated films about cats
- Films about kangaroos and wallabies
- Looney Tunes stubs
- Films scored by William Lava