Saturday Evening Puss
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Saturday Evening Puss is a 1950
one-reel animated cartoon
and is the 48th Tom and Jerry
short directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera who created the cat and mouse duo ten years earlier. The cartoon was produced by Fred Quimby
, scored by Scott Bradley
and animated by Ed Barge, Kenneth Muse, Irven Spence and Ray Patterson.
music. Also, Tom gives sandwiches to Lightning and Topsy and pie for Butch.
But the noise has disrupted Jerry from getting his beauty sleep. Unsurprisingly, his complaints to Tom fall upon unsympathetic ears and meet with no success. Jerry's being outmaneuvered by the four cats, so he attempts to disrupt the proceedings personally. Unfortunately, now the cats do not appreciate Jerry's desperate acts and go on the warpath.
The party soon starts up again after Jerry flees into his mouse hole (and after Tom then turns the recorder back on) before Jerry pulls the plug on the phonograph
and Topsy begins the chase again, trying to flatten Jerry but instead getting four taunting caricatures of Jerry imprinted on the trash can lid. Jerry sees the other cats approaching and flees through an open 2-section door, closing the top section such that all three cats run into it.
Jerry runs into Topsy coming from the other direction as he rounds a corner, so he hides behind the curtain and steals the lid. Topsy then runs back the other way, but runs into his own lid. The chase then resumes again, eventually leading Jerry into Tom's trap which causes Jerry to be squished and Tom proceeds to tie him up with the windowsill string before he and the other ally cats start to play the loud jazz music once again. Jerry has had enough, so he swings down to the nearest table and uses the telephone to report Tom's activities to Mammy Two Shoes.
Mammy is seen playing bridge with her friends when Jerry calls and tells her about Tom's party. She races back home and crashes through the wall. When Tom opens the door and sees Mammy and points at him "Thomas!", the cats run away, but unfortunately for Tom, Mammy grabs his tail and throws the cats into a street wall, forming a totem pole
. Mammy is upset over the fact that the cats ruined her entire evening. But to Jerry's dismay, she decides to relax by playing the same jazz recording that the cats were playing, leaving Jerry no better than before.
1950 in film
The year 1950 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* February 15 - Walt Disney Studios' animated film Cinderella debuts.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :Academy Awards:*Ambush...
one-reel animated cartoon
Animated cartoon
An animated cartoon is a short, hand-drawn film for the cinema, television or computer screen, featuring some kind of story or plot...
and is the 48th Tom and Jerry
Tom and Jerry
Tom and Jerry are the cat and mouse cartoon characters that were evolved starting in 1939.Tom and Jerry also may refer to:Cartoon works featuring the cat and mouse so named:* The Tom and Jerry Show...
short directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera who created the cat and mouse duo ten years earlier. The cartoon was produced by Fred Quimby
Fred Quimby
Frederick C. "Fred" Quimby was an American cartoon producer, best known as a producer of Tom and Jerry cartoons, for which he won seven Academy Awards...
, scored by Scott Bradley
Scott Bradley
Scott Bradley was an American composer, pianist and conductor.Bradley is best remembered for scoring the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer theatrical cartoons, including those starring Tom and Jerry , Droopy , Barney Bear , and the many one-shot cartoons.Bradley was a...
and animated by Ed Barge, Kenneth Muse, Irven Spence and Ray Patterson.
Plot
Mammy dresses up before preparing to leave for the Lucky Seven Saturday Night Bridge Club. As she leaves, Tom was very happy and rushes to the living room window. He whistles to Butch, Lightning and Topsy to get their attention and rush in when Tom gives them the all-clear by showing them a sign reading O.K. FOR THE PARTY and start to play loud jazzJazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
music. Also, Tom gives sandwiches to Lightning and Topsy and pie for Butch.
The party soon starts up again after Jerry flees into his mouse hole (and after Tom then turns the recorder back on) before Jerry pulls the plug on the phonograph
Phonograph
The phonograph record player, or gramophone is a device introduced in 1877 that has had continued common use for reproducing sound recordings, although when first developed, the phonograph was used to both record and reproduce sounds...
and Topsy begins the chase again, trying to flatten Jerry but instead getting four taunting caricatures of Jerry imprinted on the trash can lid. Jerry sees the other cats approaching and flees through an open 2-section door, closing the top section such that all three cats run into it.
Jerry runs into Topsy coming from the other direction as he rounds a corner, so he hides behind the curtain and steals the lid. Topsy then runs back the other way, but runs into his own lid. The chase then resumes again, eventually leading Jerry into Tom's trap which causes Jerry to be squished and Tom proceeds to tie him up with the windowsill string before he and the other ally cats start to play the loud jazz music once again. Jerry has had enough, so he swings down to the nearest table and uses the telephone to report Tom's activities to Mammy Two Shoes.
Mammy is seen playing bridge with her friends when Jerry calls and tells her about Tom's party. She races back home and crashes through the wall. When Tom opens the door and sees Mammy and points at him "Thomas!", the cats run away, but unfortunately for Tom, Mammy grabs his tail and throws the cats into a street wall, forming a totem pole
Totem pole
Totem poles are monumental sculptures carved from large trees, mostly Western Red Cedar, by cultures of the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America...
. Mammy is upset over the fact that the cats ruined her entire evening. But to Jerry's dismay, she decides to relax by playing the same jazz recording that the cats were playing, leaving Jerry no better than before.
Voice cast
- Lillian RandolphLillian RandolphLillian Randolph was an American actress and singer, a veteran of radio, film, and television. An African American, she worked in entertainment from the 1930s well into the 1970s, appearing in hundreds of radio shows, motion pictures, short subjects, and television shows.-Early years:Born...
as Mammy Two Shoes (original version) (uncredited) - June ForayJune ForayJune Foray is an American voice actress, best known as the voice of many animated characters...
as Thin White Lady (re-animated version) (uncredited) - Thea VidaleThea VidaleThea Vidale , is an American stand-up comedian and actress.She began her career doing stand-up comedy in comic clubs in Washington, D.C., New York City, and Los Angeles...
as Mammy Two Shoes (redubbed version) (uncredited) - William HannaWilliam HannaWilliam Denby Hanna was an American animator, director, producer, and cartoon artist, whose film and television cartoon characters entertained millions of people for much of the 20th century. When he was a young child, Hanna's family moved frequently, but they settled in Compton, California, by...
as Jerry (uncredited)
Censorship
- When this cartoon aired on CBSCBSCBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
, Mammy Two Shoes is replaced by a white woman. Chuck JonesChuck JonesCharles Martin "Chuck" Jones was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio...
remarked that at the time MGM still had most of its old animation artwork on file, so it was essentially just a matter of retracing and repainting the original pencil animation and photographing it against recreated backgrounds. Footage featuring the white woman was then cut into dupe negatives of the cartoons in question to replace the original Mammy Two Shoes footage. Voice actress June ForayJune ForayJune Foray is an American voice actress, best known as the voice of many animated characters...
was brought in to redub the soundtracks. - Also, when Jerry gets irritated of the music, he tells this to Tom but his voice has been muted in the re-animated version where in the original version his voice was heard.