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Trip for Tat

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Trip For Tat
Directed byFriz Freleng
Story byMichael Maltese[1]
StarringMel Blanc
(all other voices)
June Foray (Granny)[2]
Edited byTreg Brown
Music byMilt Franklyn
Animation byGerry Chiniquy
Tom Ray
Virgil Ross
Layouts byHawley Pratt
Backgrounds byTom O'Loughlin
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byWarner 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] This is the only cartoon where both Tweety and Sylvester win in the end, even though the latter fails to catch Tweety.

Summary

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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:

  • Tweety's S.O.S. (1951): The entire boat sequence where Tweety tricked Sylvester into getting seasick and the piece of pork, further inducing the malady.
  • Tree Cornered Tweety (1956): The following two:
    • In the Alps, the sequence is where Sylvester tries to catch Tweety (wearing spoons for snowshoes) on skis but then crashes into a tree.
    • In Japan, the sequence where Sylvester is chasing Tweety right to the bridge scene, but when he saws open a hole, he and the cut floorboard fall from a great height and into a fisherman's boat in the river (with the American fisherman changed to a stereotypically Japanese fisherman).
  • Tweet Tweet Tweety (1951): The sequence where Sylvester swings towards Tweety on a balcony while barely avoiding a construction pillar several times until he eventually gets flattened.
  • A Pizza Tweety-Pie (1958): The final sequence where Sylvester eats spaghetti in the restaurant after he vows to keep birds off his dietary list.

References

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  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. ^ a b c 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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