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{{Infobox film
{{Ref improve|date=April 2015}}
| name = Kit for Cat

| image = Kit4Cat TC.png
{{Infobox Hollywood cartoon
| director = [[Friz Freleng|I. Freleng]]
| cartoon_name = Kit for Cat
| story = [[Michael Maltese]]<br>[[Tedd Pierce]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Beck |first1=Jerry |title=I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat: Fifty Years of Sylvester and Tweety |date=1991 |publisher=Henry Holt and Co |location=New York |isbn=0-8050-1644-9 |page=95}}</ref>
| series = [[Looney Tunes]] ([[Elmer Fudd]]/[[Sylvester (Looney Tunes)|Sylvester]])
| animator = [[Gerry Chiniquy]]<br>Ken Champin<br>[[Manuel Perez (animator)|Manuel Perez]]<br>[[Virgil Ross]]<br>[[Pete Burness]] (uncredited)<br>A.C. Gamer (uncredited)
| image =
| layout_artist = [[Hawley Pratt]]
| caption =
| director = [[Friz Freleng|I. Freleng]]
| story_artist = [[Michael Maltese]] <br> [[Tedd Pierce]]
| animator = [[Gerry Chiniquy]]<br>Ken Champin<br>[[Manuel Perez (animator)|Manuel Perez]]<br>[[Virgil Walter Ross|Virgil Ross]]<br>[[Pete Burness]]<br>(uncredited))<br>[[Jack Bradbury]]<br>(uncredited)
| layout_artist = [[Hawley Pratt]]
| background_artist = [[Paul Julian (artist)|Paul Julian]]
| background_artist = [[Paul Julian (artist)|Paul Julian]]
| voice_actor = [[Mel Blanc]]<br>[[Arthur Q. Bryan]]<br>(uncredited)<br>[[Bea Benaderet]]<br>(uncredited)
| starring = [[Mel Blanc]]<br>[[Arthur Q. Bryan]] (uncredited)<br>[[Bea Benaderet]] (uncredited)
| editing = [[Treg Brown]] (uncredited)
| musician = [[Carl Stalling]]
| music = [[Carl W. Stalling|Carl Stalling]]
| producer =
| producer = [[Edward Selzer]] (uncredited)
| distributor = [[Warner Bros. Pictures]]
| studio = [[Warner Bros. Cartoons]]
| distributor = [[Warner Bros. Pictures]]
| studio = [[Warner Bros. Cartoons]]
| release_date = 1948 (original)<br>1956 (re-release sans original opening cards)
| color_process = [[Technicolor]]
| color_process = [[Technicolor]]
| released = {{Film date|1948|11|06}}
| runtime = 7:23
| runtime = {{duration|m=7|s=23}}
| movie_language = English
| country = United States
| language = English
}}
}}
'''''Kit for Cat''''' is a 1948 ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' cartoon directed by [[Friz Freleng]].<ref name=Beck>{{cite book |last1=Beck |first1=Jerry |last2=Friedwald |first2=Will |title=Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons |date=1989 |publisher=Henry Holt and Co |isbn=0-8050-0894-2 |page=191}}</ref> The short was released on November 6, 1948 and features [[Elmer Fudd]] and [[Sylvester the Cat|Sylvester]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |access-date=6 June 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312 |url-access=registration |pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/77 77]-79}}</ref>
'''''Kit for Cat''''' is a 1948 ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' cartoon starring the cat that would eventually be known as [[Sylvester (Looney Tunes)|Sylvester]], an unknown cat, and [[Elmer Fudd]]. This cartoon features Elmer Fudd without his hat or hunting clothes just like he does with others.

== Plot ==
{{story|section|date=April 2020}}
The cartoon begins with Sylvester in an alley, strolling past the line of trash cans as if he is at a buffet, trying to find bits of appetizing food; a kitten arrives and starts doing the same, Sylvester yells at him that this “side of the street” is his before he throws the kitten away. The weather is freezing and snowy; Sylvester finds a house and bangs on the door, begging for shelter "Please, save a frost-bitten feline from a frozen fate!", when Elmer Fudd answers the door. Elmer sits Sylvester in a comfortable chair near the fireplace and tells the cat to consider this his home. More banging on the door is revealed to be the kitten, who also falls down 'frozen' when Elmer opens the door. Elmer tells them that he would like to have a cat around the house but he cannot keep both of them. When Elmer shows more interest in the kitten, Sylvester tries to act like a baby, but Fudd is disappointed by Sylvester's way of acting when he's grown-up, labelling it "a widicuwous way for a gwown-up cat to behave," and tells him to "act your age". Elmer decides to sleep on it and, much to Sylvester's chagrin, choose in the morning which one gets to stay.

Sylvester then imagines ways to get rid of his competition; he decides to frame the kitten by pouring all the milk in the fridge on him and then dropping the bottle, making it look like the kitten did it. Elmer observes, "What's going on here? Did you do that?". Elmer thinks the kitten has done it by accident because he must be very hungry, and doles out a large meal to him while Sylvester bangs his head in frustration. Next, the kitten plays with a ball of string, but Sylvester has tied the end to a stack of glasses and dishes. Soon, the kitten pulls on the string so hard that the entire stack falls and breaks. The kitten quickly tries to glue them back together, but Sylvester breaks every one that is fixed. It's ''Sylvester'' who Elmer catches in the act, and he tells him that he is making it very easy for him to make up his mind which of them to keep.

Sylvester [[hypnosis|hypnotizes]] the kitten, leads him to Elmer's bedroom, provides the kitten with a baseball bat and instructs him to hit the sleeping Elmer on the head; the kitten misinterprets Sylvester's visual instruction and hits Sylvester instead, causing the dazed cat to climb into bed with Elmer. Elmer wakes up, throws Sylvester down the stairs and warns him he will be held responsible for the next disturbance. Sylvester sets a wind-up mouse toy loose and the kitten chases it, following it into a mouse hole. Sylvester nails a piece of wood to the mouse hole. From behind the walls, however, the kitten starts knocking out the nails holding up paintings and shelves hanging on walls. Sylvester, remembering Elmer's warning, tries to catch all of the falling objects as the kitten (still trapped in the walls) makes his way upstairs. The [[chandelier]] above Elmer's bed crashes to the floor before Sylvester can stop it. The noise wakes up Elmer, who issues a final ultimatum: if Sylvester so much as makes one more peep, he is out of the house for good.


The kitten, having overheard, takes advantage and starts making a huge racket. Sylvester places a pair of earmuffs on the sleeping Elmer, in an attempt to drown out the kitten's noise (which involves a shotgun, a parade drum, and a slamming door). Infuriated, Sylvester literally blows his top and begins chasing the kitten; panicking, the kitten turns the radio on full-blast, activates the coin-operated pianola and proceeds to make noise in a variety of other ways. The earmuffs fail, and Elmer runs down the stairs yelling that he has "made up [his] mind who's weaving these pwemises!"; however, he is interrupted by a knock at the door—Elmer's [[landlord]] serves him an [[eviction notice]], presumably due to the excess noise {"In other words '''GET OUT'''!"}. The cartoon ends with Sylvester, the kitten, and Elmer looking for food in the trash alley.
==Plot==
{{Plot|date=June 2014}}
The beginning starts with Sylvester in the trash alley trying to find food to eat. When a kitten comes by, Sylvester yells at the kitten that the alley is his. When a blizzard comes, Sylvester acts frozen and knocks on Elmer Fudd's door, begging for shelter. Elmer tries to warm up Sylvester by putting him on his sitting chair near the fire and tells Sylvester to consider his home as his own now. When the same kitten comes acting half frozen, Elmer is surprised by two cats and explains that he can't keep both of them. Elmer decides to sleep on it and decide which cat to keep in the morning, much to Sylvester's chagrin.


==Home media==
Sylvester then schemes on ways to get rid of his competition; he decides to frame the kitten by pouring all the milk in the fridge on him and then dropping the bottle to make it look like the kitten did it. Fudd thinks the kitten did it by accident and gives the kitten a large meal. Sylvester then throws a ball of string to the baby kitten to play with, but the other end of the string is tied to a stack of glasses and dishes. When the kitten plays with it, the stack falls and breaks. The kitten quickly tries to fix it all by gluing them back together, but Sylvester breaks every one he fixes. When Elmer sees Sylvester breaking his dishes, he says that he's making it very easy for him to make up his mind which of them to keep.
* VHS: ''Wideo Wabbit''
* DVD: ''[[Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1]]''; ''Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection" Volume 1''


== References ==
Sylvester then [[hypnosis|hypnotizes]] the kitten with a book of hypnosis to hit the sleeping Elmer on the head with a baseball bat; the kitten misinterprets Sylvester's visual instruction and hits Sylvester instead. Elmer, woken up, throws Sylvester back down the stairs, warning him not to wake him again. Sylvester then sets a wind-up mouse toy loose and the kitten chases it, following it into a mouse hole. Sylvester blocks up the mouse hole with wood and nails. The kitten, however, starts knocking out the nails holding up the paintings and shelves hanging on the wall. Sylvester, remembering Elmer's warning, tries to catch all of the falling objects, as the kitten (still trapped in the walls) makes his way upstairs. The [[chandelier]] above Fudd's head crashes to the floor before Sylvester can stop it, awakening Elmer, who issues a final ultimatum to Sylvester should he be disturbed yet again.
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Next, the kitten, overhearing Elmer's warning, makes a racket to get Sylvester thrown out. Sylvester puts a pair of earmuffs on the sleeping Elmer in an attempt to drown out the kitten's noise (who uses a shotgun, a parade drum, and slams doors). ; Sylvester loses his patience with the kitten and begins chasing him; panicking, the kitten turns on the radio full-blast and activates the coin-operated pianola before making even more loud noises. Eventually, all the noise becomes too loud for even the earmuffs on Elmer's head to block out; he stops them and says that he has made up his mind which cat to throw out, but is interrupted by a knock at the door--Elmer's landlord serves him an eviction notice. The cartoon ends with Sylvester, the kitten, and Elmer looking for food in the trash alley.
* {{IMDb title|0040514}}


{{Elmer Fudd in animation}}
==Availability==
{{Sylvester the Cat in animation}}
This cartoon is featured uncut and with the original opening titles restored (with the Blue Ribbon ending) on the [[Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1#Disc 4 - Looney Tunes All-Stars: Part 2|Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1, disc 4]]
{{Friz Freleng}}


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[[Category:Films scored by Carl Stalling]]
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Latest revision as of 02:38, 3 December 2024

Kit for Cat
Directed byI. Freleng
Story byMichael Maltese
Tedd Pierce[1]
Produced byEdward Selzer (uncredited)
StarringMel Blanc
Arthur Q. Bryan (uncredited)
Bea Benaderet (uncredited)
Edited byTreg Brown (uncredited)
Music byCarl Stalling
Animation byGerry Chiniquy
Ken Champin
Manuel Perez
Virgil Ross
Pete Burness (uncredited)
A.C. Gamer (uncredited)
Layouts byHawley Pratt
Backgrounds byPaul Julian
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • November 6, 1948 (1948-11-06)
Running time
7:23
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Kit for Cat is a 1948 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Friz Freleng.[2] The short was released on November 6, 1948 and features Elmer Fudd and Sylvester.[3]

Plot

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The cartoon begins with Sylvester in an alley, strolling past the line of trash cans as if he is at a buffet, trying to find bits of appetizing food; a kitten arrives and starts doing the same, Sylvester yells at him that this “side of the street” is his before he throws the kitten away. The weather is freezing and snowy; Sylvester finds a house and bangs on the door, begging for shelter "Please, save a frost-bitten feline from a frozen fate!", when Elmer Fudd answers the door. Elmer sits Sylvester in a comfortable chair near the fireplace and tells the cat to consider this his home. More banging on the door is revealed to be the kitten, who also falls down 'frozen' when Elmer opens the door. Elmer tells them that he would like to have a cat around the house but he cannot keep both of them. When Elmer shows more interest in the kitten, Sylvester tries to act like a baby, but Fudd is disappointed by Sylvester's way of acting when he's grown-up, labelling it "a widicuwous way for a gwown-up cat to behave," and tells him to "act your age". Elmer decides to sleep on it and, much to Sylvester's chagrin, choose in the morning which one gets to stay.

Sylvester then imagines ways to get rid of his competition; he decides to frame the kitten by pouring all the milk in the fridge on him and then dropping the bottle, making it look like the kitten did it. Elmer observes, "What's going on here? Did you do that?". Elmer thinks the kitten has done it by accident because he must be very hungry, and doles out a large meal to him while Sylvester bangs his head in frustration. Next, the kitten plays with a ball of string, but Sylvester has tied the end to a stack of glasses and dishes. Soon, the kitten pulls on the string so hard that the entire stack falls and breaks. The kitten quickly tries to glue them back together, but Sylvester breaks every one that is fixed. It's Sylvester who Elmer catches in the act, and he tells him that he is making it very easy for him to make up his mind which of them to keep.

Sylvester hypnotizes the kitten, leads him to Elmer's bedroom, provides the kitten with a baseball bat and instructs him to hit the sleeping Elmer on the head; the kitten misinterprets Sylvester's visual instruction and hits Sylvester instead, causing the dazed cat to climb into bed with Elmer. Elmer wakes up, throws Sylvester down the stairs and warns him he will be held responsible for the next disturbance. Sylvester sets a wind-up mouse toy loose and the kitten chases it, following it into a mouse hole. Sylvester nails a piece of wood to the mouse hole. From behind the walls, however, the kitten starts knocking out the nails holding up paintings and shelves hanging on walls. Sylvester, remembering Elmer's warning, tries to catch all of the falling objects as the kitten (still trapped in the walls) makes his way upstairs. The chandelier above Elmer's bed crashes to the floor before Sylvester can stop it. The noise wakes up Elmer, who issues a final ultimatum: if Sylvester so much as makes one more peep, he is out of the house for good.

The kitten, having overheard, takes advantage and starts making a huge racket. Sylvester places a pair of earmuffs on the sleeping Elmer, in an attempt to drown out the kitten's noise (which involves a shotgun, a parade drum, and a slamming door). Infuriated, Sylvester literally blows his top and begins chasing the kitten; panicking, the kitten turns the radio on full-blast, activates the coin-operated pianola and proceeds to make noise in a variety of other ways. The earmuffs fail, and Elmer runs down the stairs yelling that he has "made up [his] mind who's weaving these pwemises!"; however, he is interrupted by a knock at the door—Elmer's landlord serves him an eviction notice, presumably due to the excess noise {"In other words GET OUT!"}. The cartoon ends with Sylvester, the kitten, and Elmer looking for food in the trash alley.

Home media

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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. 95. ISBN 0-8050-1644-9.
  2. ^ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 191. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
  3. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 77-79. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
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