Trip for Tat

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Trip For Tat
Directed by Friz Freleng
Story by Michael Maltese [1]
Produced by David H. DePatie
Starring Mel Blanc
(all other voices)
June Foray (Granny) [2]
Edited by Treg Brown
Music by Milt Franklyn
Animation by Gerry Chiniquy
Tom Ray
Virgil Ross
Layouts by Hawley Pratt
Backgrounds byTom O'Loughlin
Color process Technicolor
Production
company
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation [2]
Release date
  • October 29, 1960 (1960-10-29)(US premiere)
Running time
7 min (one reel) [2]
LanguageEnglish

Trip For Tat is a 1960 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies animated short cartoon film directed by Friz Freleng. The short was released on October 29, 1960, and stars Tweety and Sylvester. [3]

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Summary

Although it contains a new plot, wherein Granny and Tweety travel to various locations (Paris, Swiss Alps, Japan, and Italy) [4] while Sylvester tries to catch Tweety in every one, the cartoon is mostly made up of footage from previous cartoons. Here are the cartoons that the short borrows animation from, in order of appearance:

Notes

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. 146. ISBN   0-8050-1644-9.
  2. 1 2 3 Webb, Graham (2011). The Animated Film Encyclopedia: A Complete Guide to American Shorts, Features and Sequences (1900-1999). McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 366–67. ISBN   978-0-7864-4985-9.
  3. 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.
  4. BCDB [ dead link ]