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The Cat That Hated People
Directed by	Tex Avery
Story by	Heck Allen
Produced by	Fred Quimby
Starring	Patrick McGeehan (Blackie, uncredited)^[1] Colleen Collins (woman, uncredited)^[1] Pinto Colvig (lips, uncredited)^[1] Harry E. Lang (Blackie's screech, uncredited)
Music by	Scott Bradley
Animation by	Walter Clinton Louie Schmitt William Shull Grant Simmons
Layouts by	Louie Schmitt (uncredited)
Backgrounds by	John Didrik Johnsen (uncredited)
Color process	Technicolor
Production company	MGM cartoon studio
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	November 20, 1948 (1948-11-20)
Running time	7 minutes
Language	English

The Cat That Hated People is a 1948 American animated short film directed by Tex Avery and produced by Fred Quimby, featuring Blackie the Cat.^[2] Blackie's voice was supplied by Patrick McGeehan in the style of Jimmy Durante;^[1] incidental music was directed by Scott Bradley. The film borrows elements from the Warner Bros.-produced Looney Tunes cartoons Porky in Wackyland and Tin Pan Alley Cats, both directed by Bob Clampett.

Plot

Blackie the Cat complains about his hatred towards people and how they make his life difficult in the city. Because of interference, he is unable to find easy food or deliver a proper serenade. He also doesn't get along with children, babies, housewives, or, with dogs, their owners. He complains about not being let out of the house, or allowed to elope with female cats.

Blackie continues to complain about people as he walks along a busy sidewalk, with people stepping on him. One person kicks him down the street as he declares that he wants to go to the Moon, before he notices that he is at the front of the "Moonbeam Rocket Company". He notices rockets to Mars, Venus, a miniature rocket to Palm Springs, and a "Moon Special," which he enters.

Blackie pushes the ignition, and takes off immediately. Buildings and stars duck out of the way and signs reading "NO VACANCY" appear on planets as he passes them. The rocket skywrites "Eat at Joe's" and punches a hole in the Big Dipper before the Little Dipper moves to catch the leakage. The rocket then bounces pinball-style from star to star (with points being displayed for each "bounce") until it registers "TILT" upon lunar impact.

After the crash, Blackie revels in his newfound solitude, but the silence is quickly cut short as he meets his noisy new neighbors. Realizing that his original home was much better in comparison to his new surroundings on the moon, Blackie pulls down a backdrop of a golf course, places himself on a tee and sends himself back to Earth with one swing of a golf club. He returns to the same sidewalk he left in "the good ol' U.S.A." and expresses his newfound appreciation of his home and people, who continue to walk all over him.

Availability

VHS/LaserDisc - Tex Avery's Screwball Classics^[3]^[4]
LaserDisc - The Compleat Tex Avery^[5]
DVD - Words and Music (USA 1995 Turner dubbed version)
Streaming - Boomerang App (USA 1995 Turner dubbed version)
Streaming - HBO Max
DVD/Blu-ray - Tex Avery Screwball Classics: Volume 2^[6]^[7] (remastered)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "AVERY…. Vol. 2??? WELL, IMAGINE THAT!". cartoonresearch.com. 7 December 2020. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 146–147. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7.
^ "Tex Avery Screwball Classics | VHSCollector.com". vhscollector.com. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
^ "LaserDisc Database - Tex Avery's Screwball Classics [ML101736]". www.lddb.com. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
^ "LaserDisc Database - Compleat Tex Avery, The [ML102681]". www.lddb.com. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
^ "Warner Archive". Warner Archive. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
^ Amidi, Amid (6 November 2020). "Warner Archive Is Releasing A Second Volume Of Tex Avery Shorts". Cartoon Brew. Retrieved 8 December 2020.

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