O-Solar Meow
| O-Solar-Meow | |
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| Tom and Jerry series | |
O-Solar-Meow title card
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| Directed by |
Abe Levitow Title director: Chuck Jones (uncredited) |
| Produced by | Chuck Jones |
| Story by | John W. Dunn |
| Voices by |
Mel Blanc (uncredited) June Foray (uncredited) |
| Music by | Eugene Poddany |
| Animation by |
Ben Washam Ken Harris Don Towsley Dick Thompson Tom Ray |
| Studio | Sib Tower 12 Productions |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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| Color process | Metrocolor |
| Running time | 6:46 |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Cat and Dupli-cat |
| Followed by | Guided Mouse-ille |
O-Solar-Meow is a 1967 cartoon featuring Tom and Jerry. It was the first of three outer space-related shorts to be released in the Chuck Jones era (though the second of the three to be produced, according to the MPAA code seen in the opening credits). Also according to the MPAA code and not episode number, this Tom and Jerry cartoon is the last one to feature music from Eugene Poddany (both regarding in its entirety, and regarding the Sib Tower 12/Chuck Jones Tom and Jerry cartoons). The cartoon was produced by Chuck Jones and directed by Abe Levitow. The animation was supplied by Ken Harris, Don Towsley, Tom Ray, Dick Thompson and Ben Washam. The cartoon title is a play-on-words of the popular Italian song "'O Sole Mio."
A (comparatively) small white ball labeled Supply Satellite No.1 is hit with a very strong spring and shot into space. It falls into a groove running along the outer edge of Space Station No.1 and moves around like a ball in a roulette wheel, after which the station appears to be designed, until at last it comes to rest on bay number 36. Immediately, "baggage" is deposited out of a machine and one of the packages is a large hunk of cheese, which attracts Jerry. He gets in his Space Age vehicle and goes after what he saw on his monitor, but soon breaks a beam without even noticing. This beam sets off a rocket, which then sets off a Rube_Goldberg_machine in order to alert the resident cat on duty: Tom. Tom is thrown into his work chair in front of his surveillance monitor and woken up with a stream of water. Tom wakes up, and seeing Jerry in his cheese-vehicle, signals his robot cat Mechano to go after it.
The robot cat chases Jerry and attempts to chomp on Jerry's vehicle, but Jerry leaves a stream of exhaust in the robot's mouth causing it to cough repeatedly. Jerry speeds past Tom and Tom moves his chair to the left, but is soon dragged along on the chase by his robot. Tom remotely stops the robot and cruises along the floor without even paying any attention to what is in front of him. He runs into a nearby wall and is temporarily knocked out. Tom then runs up to his robot, turns it around, and kicks it. As a result, all three of Tom's right toes swell red and Tom is left to clutch his foot and hop around in pain.
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