Tweetie Pie

Infobox Hollywood cartoon
cartoon_name = Tweetie Pie
series = Merrie Melodies


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director = I. Freleng
story_artist = Warren Foster
animator = Virgil Ross
Gerry Chiniquy
Ken Champin
Manuel Perez
voice_actor = Mel Blanc
musician = Carl Stalling
producer = Warner Bros. Pictures
distributor = Warner Bros. Pictures
release_date = May 3, 1947
color_process = Technicolor
runtime =
movie_language = English
imdb_id = 0039923

"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 1946, he was working on a fourth film starring Tweety, whom he would pair with Friz Freleng’s Sylvester, who previously appeared with Porky Pig in his cartoon "Kitty Kornered" (released in 1946). Freleng adopted the Tweety project and merged it with a project he was working on—a follow-up to his second Sylvester cartoon, "Peck Up Your Troubles", featuring Sylvester in pursuit of a witty 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 WB's first Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons) which, ironically, Selzer accepted. After Selzer's death, the Oscar was passed on to Freleng. The cartoon would also go on to become a phenomenal success, and the duo, Sylvester & Tweety, would officially be paired together in all of their future cartoons together.Sperling, Millner, and Warner (1998), p. 187-188.]

This cartoon, like many from the period, was reissued in the 1950s as a "Blue Ribbon" release, with all titles and credits replaced. However, some a.a.p. prints are known to contain the original audio of the film, albeit with the Blue Ribbon titles (of note, this was only one of two Sylvester/Tweety pairings to be sold to a.a.p., the other being "I Taw a Putty Tat", which was named after one of Tweety's catchphrases - it too, was given a Blue Ribbon reissue).

ynopsis

As the cartoon begins, Thomas (as Sylvester is called in this film, presumably as a character role) captures Tweety, whom he finds cold outside in the snow. The cat's mistress- an unseen owner saves the bird from being eaten by the cat, whom she promptly reprimands. Tweety is brought inside, and the mistress warns Thomas 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 whack Thomas and then finally, throwing him out.

The cat tries to get back into the house through the chimney. Tweety puts wood in the fireplace, pours gasoline on it and lights it. The "phoom" sends Thomas flying right back up the chimney and into a bucket of frozen water.

However, Thomas gets back in the house via a window in the basement (or study) and creates a trap to capture Tweety, which of course, backfires.

Finally, Thomas tries to capture Tweety by running up to the attic and sawing a hole around Tweety's cage, but he ends up causing the entire inner ceiling to collapse (sans Tweety's cage, which is being held in place by a beam). The "faux pas" creates such a racket that Thomas is sure the mistress will come downstairs and wallop him, and so, he takes her broom, breaks it in half, and tosses the pieces into the fire. This proves to be a bad move, as he finds himself being walloped on the head repeatedly with a shovel....by Tweety.

References

External links

* [http://bloglarry.blogspot.com/2006/06/wb-cartoon-credit-weirdness.html Opening music to Tweetie Pie]