Kitty Foiled
| Kitty Foiled | |
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| Tom and Jerry series | |
Kitty Foiled reissue title card.
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| Directed by |
William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Produced by | Fred Quimby |
| Story by | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Music by | Scott Bradley |
| Animation by |
Irven Spence Kenneth Muse Irving Levine Ed Barge |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 7:22 |
| Language | Not language specific |
| Preceded by | The Invisible Mouse |
| Followed by | The Truce Hurts |
Kitty Foiled is a 1948 one-reel animated cartoon, and it's the 34th in the Tom and Jerry series, created in 1947, and released in 1948. The cartoon was produced by Fred Quimby and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, with animation by Irven Spence, Kenneth Muse, Irving Levine (animating his only Tom and Jerry cartoon) and Ed Barge. The music was scored by Scott Bradley (making extensive use of The Barber of Seville musical number).
The title is a play on the novel Kitty Foyle and film.
The cartoon starts with a canary named Cuckoo in his Birdcage, watching the chase. Sounds of breaking glass and other fighting are heard throughout.
Tom can now be seen, attempting to smash Jerry with a broom, but instead repeatedly breaking lamps and glasses. Jerry hides in the one unbroken glass and runs away, but Tom picks up the glass and waits for Jerry to emerge from it. When he does, his heart starts pounding and extending out of his chest. Before Tom can club the mouse with the broken end of the broom handle, Cuckoo escapes from his cage by unlatching the base of the cage, which falls onto Tom, flattening his head with a cymbal noise. Tom pursues Jerry, chasing him into his mousehole, into which Tom's face gets caught, elongating his nose. Tom then spots Cuckoo, chasing it into his cage. The cat leaps for him, but instead gets himself caught inside the cage, which he then seals with the base. He flies onto a table and then runs away as Tom pursues him, but instead Tom pokes himself through the center of the table and swallows Cuckoo. Fortunately for him, the everpresent "cuckoo...cuckoo...cuckoo" gag allows the bird to escape. Tom runs after Cuckoo, and then rises into the air, beating his deltoids to stay afloat in the same matter as Cuckoo. Tom grins at Cuckoo until he runs into the wall and three potted plants hit him on the head. The cat recovers and sees Cuckoo pacing away under a fourth pot. He covers the pot and pokes his eye through the hole, and Cuckoo's heart extends out in the same manner as Jerry's. As Tom reaches under the pot to grab Cuckoo, Jerry inserts Tom's tail into the windowsill and snaps the cord. Tom untangles himself and storms after the mouse, and the canary dives down and gives him a lift. They enter the hole, and Tom's nose is once again elongated, but this time, he has swallowed the duo. The mouse and Cuckoo squeeze out and take sanctuary in the mousehole, where the two introduce each other with and handshake.
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