The Zoot Cat Explained

The Zoot Cat
Director:Bill Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Animator:Ray Patterson
Ken Muse
Irven Spence
Pete Burness
Assisted by:
Tony Ligerra
Barney Posner[1]
Layout Artist:Harvey Eisenberg
Starring:Bill Hanna
Jerry Mann
Sara Berner
Music:Scott Bradley
Editing:Fred MacAlpin
Producer:Fred Quimby[2] (uncredited on original issue)
Studio:MGM Cartoons
Distributor:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Story:Jerry Mann
Released: (Premiere)
Color Process:Technicolor
Language:English

The Zoot Cat is a 1944 American Technicolor one-reel animated short and is the 13th Tom and Jerry short.[3] It was released to theatres on February 26, 1944 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.[4]

Plot

Tom prepares a Valentine's Day surprise for Toots, complete with a gift box containing a note from Jerry. Despite his efforts to impress her with music, dance, Toots rejects Tom's advances, calling him, "corny", and leaving him humiliated. After Tom hears from Toots' radio of the latest style, he dons a homemade zoot suit to impress her. Jerry, seizing the opportunity, teases Tom relentlessly, eventually outsmarting him and stealing the spotlight in the stylish suit.

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Censorship

Because of the United Kingdom's ban of TV characters smoking, Tom smoking a cigar and a cigarette and Jerry putting the cigarette on Tom's nose is faded out.[9]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Baxter . Devon . 6 December 2017 . Tom & Jerry in "The Zoot Cat" (1944) . 7 February 2020 . Cartoon Research.
  2. Book: Webb, Graham . The Animated Film Encyclopedia: A Complete Guide to American Shorts, Features and Sequences (1900–1999) . McFarland & Company Inc. . 2011 . 978-0-7864-4985-9 . 394. Second .
  3. Book: Lenburg, Jeff . The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons . 1999 . Checkmark Books . 0-8160-3831-7 . 149–150.
  4. Web site: The Zoot Cat (1944) . https://archive.today/20130619215527/http://www.bcdb.com/bcdb/cartoon.cgi?film=4971 . dead . June 19, 2013 . 7 February 2020 . Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB) . en.
  5. Web site: ..:: The Tom and Jerry Online :: An Unofficial Site : TOM AND JERRY DVD/VHS::.. . 7 February 2020 . www.tomandjerryonline.com . en.
  6. Web site: LaserDisc Database – Art of Tom & Jerry, The: Volume I [ML102682] ]. 7 February 2020 . www.lddb.com.
  7. Web site: Simon . Ben . 14 July 2003 . The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume One – Animated Views . 9 February 2020 . Animated Views.
  8. Web site: Tom and Jerry, Vol. 1 . 14 February 2020 . iTunes . 25 September 1965 . en-us.
  9. Web site: Films in Review » The Zoot Cat . 9 February 2020 . filmsinreview.lib.byu.edu.