| Catch as Cats Can | |
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| Directed by | Arthur Davis |
| Story by | Dave Monahan |
| Produced by | Edward Selzer (unc.) |
| Starring | Mel Blanc Dave Barry (unc) |
| Music by | Carl Stalling |
| Animation by | Basil Davidovich J.C. Melendez Don Williams Herman Cohen Manny Gould (unc.) John Carey (unc.) A. C. Gamer (Effects)[1] |
| Layouts by | Don Smith |
| Backgrounds by | Philip DeGuard |
| Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 7 mins |
| Language | English |
Catch as Cats Can is a 1947Warner Bros.Merrie Melodies animated cartoon directed byArthur Davis.[2] The short was released on December 6, 1947, and starsSylvester.[3]
An emaciated canary, singing likeFrank Sinatra and attracting the attention of all the admiring chicks, is getting on the nerves of a pipe-puffing parrot, who speaks likeBing Crosby. The parrot spotsSylvester (who in this cartoon speaks differently in a more dopey voice and without a lisp while speaking), foraging through the trash. Telling Sylvester he needs morevitamins (which the canary has been swallowing in bulk), he lures Sylvester inside to snare the canary.
The straightforward approach fails (the canary hits him in the left eye turning it violet). Helped by the parrot's encouragement, he carves a female canary from soap and lures Frankie there; the birds slide down a greased counter, into the sink, and down the drain, but only the soap bird goes through the pipe and down Sylvester's throat. A trail of birdseed into the garage seems to work, but Frankie jacks the cat's mouth open. Sylvester laces the vitamins withbuckshot, but the magnet attracts everything metal in sight except his prey. The canary turns Sylvester's vacuum cleaner against him, with a crash in the fireplace giving Sylvester a hot-stomach; as he buries his head in the sink, the bird addsFoamo-Seltzer to the water; the cat rockets off, crashing into a wall.
Sylvester finally realizes the portly parrot is a better meal; he is later shown sitting on the parrot's perch, imitating his mannerisms.
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