Movies - Tweetie Pie

Home > Listing Index > Movies > Tweetie Pie

	Movies - Tweetie Pie

Tweetie Pie is a 1947 Merrie Melodies
cartoon directed by Friz Freleng and produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, depicting the first pairing of Tweety and Sylvester.

When Tweety's creator, director Bob Clampett left the Warner Bros. studio in 1945, he was working on a fourth film starring Tweety, whom he was pairing with the Friz Freleng-created Sylvester, whom he had paired with Porky Pig in his cartoon Kitty Kornered
(released in 1946). Freleng picked up the Tweety project, and basically merged it with a project he was working on: a followup to his second Sylvester cartoon Peck Up Your Troubles, featuring Sylvester in persuit of a little woodpecker. When Freleng decided to replace the woodpecker with Tweety, producer Eddie Selzer objected, and Freleng threatened to quit. Selzer allowed Tweety to be used, and the resulting film went on to win Warner Brothers' first Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons).

Synopsis

As the cartoon begins, Thomas (as Sylvester is called in this film) captures Tweety, whom he finds cold outside in the snow. The cat's mistress saves the bird from being eaten by the cat, whom she promplty reprimands. Tweety is brought inside, and the mistress warns him not to bother the bird. Ignoring this command, Thomas initiates a series of failed attempts to get Tweety from his cage, each ending in a noisy crash bringing the lady of the house to hit Thomas with a broom, and then finally, throwing him out.

The cat tries to get back into the house and capture the bird, but he ends up causing the ceiling to collapse. The faux paux creates such a racket that Thomas is sure the mistress will come downstairs and wallop him, and he takes her broom and tosses it into the fire. This proves to be a bad move, as he finds himself walloped on the head repeatedly with a shovel...by Tweety.

Category:1947 films Category:Merrie Melodies shorts Category:Short Film Oscar

[ Visit the complete Wikipedia entry for Tweetie Pie ]

This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article Tweetie Pie; it is used under the GNU Free Documentation License. You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.

Searches on eBay