Doggone Cats
Encyclopedia
Doggone Cats is a 1947-released Warner Bros.
cartoon in the Merrie Melodies
series.
It stars Sylvester
and a dog named Wellington
and a Cat (unnamed). It was officially released in Cinecolor
, but was reissued in Technicolor.
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...
cartoon in the Merrie Melodies
Merrie Melodies
Merrie Melodies is the name of a series of animated cartoons distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures between 1931 and 1969.Originally produced by Harman-Ising Pictures, Merrie Melodies were produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions from 1933 to 1944. Schlesinger sold his studio to Warner Bros. in 1944,...
series.
It stars Sylvester
Sylvester
Sylvester is a name derived from the Latin adjective silvestris meaning "wooded" or "wild", which derives from the noun silva meaning "woodland". Classical Latin spells this with i. In Classical Latin y represented a separate sound distinct from i, not a native Latin sound but one used in...
and a dog named Wellington
Wellington
Wellington is the capital city and third most populous urban area of New Zealand, although it is likely to have surpassed Christchurch due to the exodus following the Canterbury Earthquake. It is at the southwestern tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range...
and a Cat (unnamed). It was officially released in Cinecolor
Cinecolor
Cinecolor was an early subtractive color-model two color film process, based upon the Prizma system of the 1910s and 1920s and the Multicolor system of the late 1920s and 1930s. It was developed by William T. Crispinel and Alan M...
, but was reissued in Technicolor.
Plot
Wellington the dog is given a package to deliver to Uncle Louie, with strict instructions not to let go of it. Sylvester and another cat that Wellington has been tormenting see this as their chance to get even. Besides repeatedly filching the package, at one point they drop a duplicate off a bridge. Wellington still manages to retrieve the package a few times, but never for long.Censorship
- On Cartoon Network and the former WB network, the scene of Wellington impersonating a Chinaman after a trash can lid lands on his head was cut http://web.archive.org/web/20000824152925/www.megalink.net/~cooke/looney/ltcutsd.htmlhttp://looney.goldenagecartoons.com/ltcuts/d/
External links
- http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=doggone+cats&aq=f