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 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 which the short borrows animation from, in order of appearance:

- In the Alps, the sequence where Sylvester tries to catch Tweety (wearing spoons for snowshoes) on skis, but then crashed into a tree.

- In Japan, 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).

Notes

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.

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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. 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 ]
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