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One year after the release of Rhapsody Rabbit, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio (MGM) produced a comparable animated short titled The Cat Concerto, featuring Tom and Jerry series. This production portrays Tom encountering distractions caused by Jerry, the mouse, during a piano concert performance. [5]
The Cat Concerto is a 1947 American one-reel animated cartoon and the 29th Tom and Jerry short, released to theatres on April 26, 1947. [1] It was produced by Fred Quimby and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, with musical supervision by Scott Bradley, and animation by Kenneth Muse, Ed Barge and Irven Spence and uncredited animation by Don Patterson.
A Corny Concerto; I Taw a Putty Tat; Rhapsody Rabbit; Walky Talky Hawky; My Favorite Duck; Hair-Raising Hare; The Old Grey Hare; Directed by Larry Jackson. The only Looney Tunes compilation film with no new animation; bridging sequences are all live-action documentary. Only Looney Tunes film originally distributed by United Artists.
March 13: 19th Academy Awards: Hanna-Barbera's Tom and Jerry cartoon The Cat Concerto wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short. [3] Controversy arises, because Warner Brothers's Rhapsody Rabbit (directed by Friz Freleng) has a similar plot and is said to have been omitted from nomination because it was screened to the Academy jury after they had watched The Cat Concerto.
Rhapsody Rabbit: 1946 The Cat Concerto: 1947 Both cartoons center around a piano rendition of "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2", and both feature a mouse pestering the pianist. See also Rhapsody Rabbit § Plagiarism dispute. Alice au pays des Merveilles: 1949 Alice in Wonderland: 1951
This is the list of episodes of the American live-action/animated anthology comedy television series Toon In with Me.The show premiered on January 1, 2021, [1] on MeTV.Most shorts featured are from the Golden Age of American animation (mainly 1930s-1960s), though some from the Modern Era of American animation (1970s to 2000s) have also been included.
It is also the first appearance of "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2" by Franz Liszt in a cartoon, [2] and its use heavily influenced later cartoons including the Merrie Melodies short Rhapsody in Rivets (1941), Bugs Bunny's Rhapsody Rabbit (1946), Tom and Jerry's The Cat Concerto (1947) and Woody Woodpecker's Convict Concerto.
The first volume of the set, The Golden Age of Looney Tunes was released on December 11, 1991 on LaserDisc. Due to potentially offensive material in the cartoon Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips, later reprints were released with that short replaced by Racketeer Rabbit, which was also released on Volume 3.