The Flying Cat

The Flying Cat
The Flying Cat
	File:The Flying Cat poster.jpg The poster of The Flying Cat
Directed by	William Hanna; Joseph Barbera
Produced by	Fred Quimby
Animation by	Kenneth Muse; Irven Spence; Ed Barge; Ray Patterson
Color process	Technicolor
Production; company	MGM Cartoons
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Running time	6:44

The Flying Cat is a 1952 one-reel animated cartoon and is the 63rd Tom and Jerry cartoon directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby. The cartoon's music was composed by Scott Bradley (with use of Grande valse brillante by Chopin), and the animation was by Kenneth Muse, Irven Spence, Ed Barge and Ray Patterson and released on January 12, 1952

Plot

Tom tries to capture a sleeping Cuckoo, but Jerry trips him up and the cage rolls into a tree, waking Cuckoo up. As Tom pursues Jerry, Cuckoo saves Jerry by tugging a drying line, which tangles Tom. Tom then chases Cuckoo with an axe, but misses and cut into pieces down a tree, which frequently bounces off Tom's head, propelling him. Cuckoo motions for Jerry to join him in his birdhouse; Tom comes behind, but Cuckoo gives him with a 2,000 lb weight to push him diving. As Jerry and Cuckoo shake hands, Tom uses a ladder to climb up again, but Cuckoo sets the ladder on fire to send Tom falling again. Tom uses a swing, but Jerry and Cuckoo leap onto his hands. Tom then tries to pole vault to the birdhouse, but Cuckoo uses a roller skate to project Tom smash into a nearby house, where he is hung up by a girdle. However, Tom then realizes he can use the girdle to fly, much to his delight, and decides to use it to get on an equal playing field against Jerry and Cuckoo.

After crashing into a mailbox, Tom learns to travel through the air, jumping off a house roof and flying around the birdhouse, much to Jerry's shock. Jerry wakes up Cuckoo, who declines to believe Jerry, but is also shocked to see Tom flying. Tom flies after Cuckoo, but they both hit a church bell. Cuckoo and Jerry then turn the roof of the birdhouse upside down, causing Tom to fly into nails and fall into a pond. Jerry goes to leave the birdhouse, but Tom catches him. Seeing this, Cuckoo unties Tom's wings and grabs Jerry, sending Tom falling through a tree. Cuckoo carries Jerry away as Tom chases them in hot pursuit, but a train suddenly comes out of a train tunnel and slams Tom onto a grade crossing signal. Tom becomes a wigwag for the train to allow it to pass through, where, on board, Jerry and Cuckoo shake hands again.

Production

Directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
Animation: Kenneth Muse, Irven Spence, Ed Barge and Ray Patterson
Story: William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
Layout: Dick Bickenbach
Music: Scott Bradley
Produced by Fred Quimby

Availability

Tom and Jerry's Greatest Chases, Vol. 3
Tom and Jerry Spotlight Collection Vol. 1, Disc Two

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