A Street Cat Named Sylvester

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A Street Cat Named Sylvester
Directed by I. Freleng
Story by Warren Foster [1]
Produced by Edward Selzer
(uncredited)
Starring Mel Blanc
Bea Benaderet (uncredited)
Music by Carl Stalling
Animation by Virgil Ross
Arthur Davis
Manuel Perez
Ken Champin
Layouts by Hawley Pratt
Backgrounds by Irv Wyner
Color process Technicolor
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date
September 5, 1953 (US)
Running time
6 minutes
LanguageEnglish

A Street Cat Named Sylvester is a 1953 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes animated short directed by Friz Freleng. [2] The short was released on September 5, 1953, and stars Tweety and Sylvester. [3]

Contents

The title is a play on A Streetcar Named Desire , a play later made into a film.

Plot

Tweety stumbles into Sylvester's house looking for shelter and Sylvester hesitates, wondering if he saw a tweety bird in the same manner Tweety wonders if he saw a 'Putty Tat'. Sylvester snatches him inside, but he has to hide Tweety in a vase covered by books when Granny appears. While Hector remains bedridden, having injured himself while chasing Sylvester, the cat causes whatever diversion he can to stop Granny from spotting Tweety, making Granny give multiple doses of medicine to him.

Despite the injury, Hector keeps getting in Sylvester's way from eating Tweety, saying he'll have to get him over his dead body. Sylvester tries to arrange that by dropping a refrigerator on top of Hector, but he miscalculates his aim and the fridge falls on him instead. Now, with Sylvester having injured himself from the refrigerator accident and being bedridden with Hector, Tweety spikes Hector's medicine resulting in Sylvester ingesting the disgusting stuff, leaving him in "awful predicament when that medicine kicks in".

Home media

The cartoon is available on the "Sylvester and Tweety's Tale Feathers" VHS.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. ↑ Beck, Jerry (1991). I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat: Fifty Years of Sylvester and Tweety. New York: Henry Holt and Co. p. 116. ISBN   0-8050-1644-9.
  2. ↑ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 252. ISBN   0-8050-0894-2.
  3. ↑ 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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